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

[MR-2ZZ]

Go Jason!!!

[Areku]

Go Jason Go!

[eoc_Jason]

Good news people!

I have *finally* finished it! Woohoo!

I'm about to export it from my dev forum and import it into my real forum and run the update to convert all the old data.

If all goes well and my users don't report any serious bugs, then I will release an official 3.5.x update tomorrow!

[lanc3lot]

Thnx god he is alive

Waiting for this Jason, god bless ya

[dsotmoon]

thanks for the update Jason

[Chedy]

So it "should" work with 3.52 which seems to have changed some templates again?

Either way great news and I donated because of the great effort your putting in.

[orban]

<3

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[eoc_Jason]

I'm going to be updating my forum probably tomorrow morning to 3.5.2, however iTrader should not be affected. That's the whole point of the product / plugin system for 3.5.x

I did forget one little thing, the PM notifications. However that's mostly just copying some code, doing a couple checks, and adding a checkbox on the feedback & detail pages, so it will make it into the first release.

Originally Posted by Chedy

So it "should" work with 3.52 which seems to have changed some templates again?

The upgrade script to convert the data from the 3.0.x (Trader Ratings) to iTrader has worked like a charm. There is only 1 required step (the actual conversion & recalcualting of scores), but I added several addtional steps:

- Auto Link Deals
- Delete old phrases & templates
- Delete old table

[JulianD]

there is a working copy of iTrader on Jason's website. direct link: http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/itrader.php?u=1

Looks very cool!

[eoc_Jason]

Unfortunatly you can't really see most of the changes as a guest, as a lot is "behind the scenes", and also when you are rating someone.

One thing I added was the ability for an itrader admin to be able to add a comment in anyone's deal detail page. Also a person can leave a comment even if they haven't returned the rating yet (an example is when they are waiting for their package to arrive and they want to know what the heck is going on, but don't want to leave a pos/neg rating yet).