Trader Ratings v1.2.0

Trader Ratings - A user feedback hack
Copyright ?2004 Jason Rabel, All Rights Reserved.
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Latest TR Verson: 1.2.0
vB Versions: 3.0.0 - 3.0.9
Author: Jason Rabel
Contact: PM me here, I'll respond.
Site: EXTREME Overclocking
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Updates:
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1.2.0 - September 4, 2004
- Added Trader Ratings Stats Page (finally!)
- Added PM notification when someone receives feedback
- Changed how positive feedback percentage score is calculated (bugfix)
- Ability to "close" the Trader Ratings pages (for maintainence or whatever) - TRATING_CLOSED
- Ability to set the URL field when submitting feedback to required or optional - TRATING_REQ_URL

1.1.0 - June 7, 2004
- Added time-based user edit/delete abilities, set via TRATING_UEDIT constant in traderratings.php file
- Userdate field is now an int field to be consistent with vBulletin
- Userrating field changed to tinyint to save space
- Fixed timeframes for showing historical ratings
- Made some various code consolidation
- Added missing ".TABLE_PREFIX." statement
- Templates.txt file shows code for postbit & MEMBERINFO, with conditional examples
- All 3 templates changed heavily
- Added some more phrases & fixed missing phrases

1.0.1 - June 2, 2004
- Fixed a "divide by zero" display error
- Postbit template fixed so guests do not have a trader rating

1.0.0 - June 1, 2004
- Initial Public Release

Description:
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Trader Ratings has evolved from my vB2 Buy/Sell/Trade User Rating System. This is a rating system for when members buy / sell / trade items from each other (presumably on a FS section of your forum). It is based on the honor system since there is no way to truly tell if they did engage in a transaction. (But I'm working on a way to fix that.) Trader Ratings came about because it was a pain to try and maintain a single thread listing good / bad traders and so far has worked out quite well.

Features:
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? Rate another member: Positive / Negative / Neutral
? Specify Buyer, Seller, or Trade
? Leave comments about the deal
? Records date when rating created
? Specify a URL to the deal
? Display ratings over time
? Filter based on Buyer/Seller/Trade/or feedback they left for others
? Users can edit/delete ratings left for others (time based limitation)
? Admins & Mods can edit/delete anyone's ratings (just incase)
? Stats page showing best & worst rated members, and recent ratings
? PM notification when a person is rated

Basic Info:
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I haven't written a FAQ or any real documentation yet, but the way the system works is very simple. The only part that might confuse someone is that the Feedback Score is based only on UNIQUE members. Also, there are simple checks in place to make sure they actually do select proper info and enter a comment. A user is not able to rate themself (obviously). Permissions for viewing / rating are similar to standard forum viewing / posting permissions. Also it checks to make sure users exist and all that good stuff.

Installation Info:
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This hack is very simply to implement requiring only:
? 1 new file
? 5 new templates / 2-3 template changes (navbar, posbit/postbit_legacy, MEMBERINFO, memberlist_resultsbit)
? 52 new phrases
? 1 new DB table / 1 table DB change & index

An install/upgrade PHP file is included to do all the template/phrase/DB stuff, so basically you run that, upload the file, and edit your postbit template. BAM!

Screen Shots / Demos:
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See Screenshots below, or you can view them on my forums: My Trader Rating Page

Standard Disclaimer:
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BACKUP YOUR DATABASE & FILES BEFORE IMPLEMENTING THIS HACK!!!

Forums Using This Hack:
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EXTREME Overclocking Forums
i-Club -- Forums
Accord Tuner
NSX Prime
Honda-Acura.net
Guns Network
PimpRig

(PM me your forum if you want me to add you to the list)

Donations:
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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.


Plans For Future Releases:
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? rebuttal / followup comments
? item description (possibly instead of thread url)
? button on thread that buyer/seller clicks to tie the transaction to two people

[jellybaby]

Anyone?

[mod2000]

does the hack working unser vbb 3.0.8 and is a transision to 3.5.0 in future ?

[Dennis B]

It's working perfectly under 3.0.8.

[eoc_Jason]

Yes and Yes.

Originally Posted by mod2000

does the hack working unser vbb 3.0.8 and is a transision to 3.5.0 in future ?

[Kihon Kata]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Yes and Yes.

Will wait for a nice port up to 3.5

[Trana]

I'm sure this probably has been answered somewhere else, but I can't find it after several searches.

Is there a way to limit ratings to a specific user group or post count? I want to make sure only users who have a post count of 100+ can write a rating.

Thanks!

[digitalSite]

I installed this with no problems on vB 3.0.9. However, I have some questions:

1) Where is my admin control panel for this Trader Rating hack?

2) Right now, anyone can click on the link in the navbar and view everything. I only want registered, admin, mods, and supermods to access this. Can anyone help me with permissions on how to do this?

UPDATE: I got Question #2 fixed, but I don't think my Trader is complete. All I see is "Trader Ratings" link in my navbar. Where's the control panel, if it has one? I followed everything in the instructions, but can't figure out where the other stuff is. Please help!

Thank you!

[hydrostatic]

It doesn't have a control panel... Anyways I'll wait for a port to 3.5.

I do have one suggestion though: can you make a button to clear a user's trader ratings? For example, User A has 10 trader ratings. I want to delete all 10 without going to EDIT and check DELETE THIS RATING for all 10... it'd take forever. I want this mainly because some people liked to "scam" for ratings, and there were a bunch of users (like 20) who tried to do so. So I had to delete every single one they got by hand. A horrible nightmare.

[digitalSite]

So...no control panel, ok. So how do we use this then? If I click on Trader Ratings, all I see is a list of about 15 users with "0" next to their names and that's it. Is there any documentation on how to use this? There are a few screenshots at the beginning of the thread but I only get one of those screens, and that's after clicking on "Trader Rating" link.

Pleeeeaaase help! I would liek to get this going soon on my site. :nervous:

[eoc_Jason]

Trana:
- Read the templates.txt file.

digitalsite:
- Read the README.txt file.
- Read the templates.txt file.