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

[[H]Dazz]

Wow! Looks great. Now only if someone would pick up where vbTrader has left off this would be excellent.

[PAINTBALLM]

I love you lol

It would be awsome to have the star system too... after 10 feedbacks it changes to yellow star, after 20, blue, etc. etc. etc. Maybe an About ME page too to let people create their own info page Heck, why not go all out and actually do an entire auction system to work for vbulletin. I'd pay

[r6xual]

I am still running into the same problem with it not showing up in the postbit, check out this thred http://www.gpfanatix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2.

The following is the code in my postbit_legacy. By looking at the code, it should show up under join date correct??

<if condition="$post['joindate']"><div>$vbphrase[join_date]: $post[joindate]</div></if>
<if condition="$post['userid']"><div>Trader Rating: (<a href="traderratings.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[ratetradetotal]</a>)</div></if>
<if condition="$post['field2']"><div>$vbphrase[location_perm]: $post[field2]</div></if>
<if condition="$post['age']"><div>$vbphrase[age]: $post[age]</div></if>

I really would like to get this up and running, if anyone has any ideas. Thanks

[drumsy]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Lastly, I'm just curious, if I put up a paypal donate button on the first post, do you think any of you guys would dontate anything? I know this brings a lot of commerce to your sites, and also long-term member loyalty. I usually wouldn't do something like this, however I'm currently unemployed and in what little free time I have I've been spending all of it working on coding this, and helping people get it installed (and tweaked a couple servers too... hehe).

Put it up! :thumbup:

[[H]Dazz]

Do a complete classifieds/buy/sell/auction + your rating system.... :drool: I'd be all over that nad even pay a pretty penny.

[lifesourcerec]

Yeah, the stat page would be great.

[eoc_Jason]

You need to edit your 'postbit' template and add it there for your current style.

postbit = userinfo above the post (new vB3 style)
postbit_legacy = userinfo to the left of the post (vB2 style)

That's why it's not showing up...

Originally Posted by r6xual

I am still running into the same problem with it not showing up in the postbit, check out this thred http://www.gpfanatix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2.

The following is the code in my postbit_legacy. By looking at the code, it should show up under join date correct??

I really would like to get this up and running, if anyone has any ideas. Thanks

[r6xual]

Pimp!!. Thanks a ton, got it working now!!

*clicky install*

[eoc_Jason]

Well, my long-term goal is to create a classifieds and auction add-in, and it will definitly integrate with these ratings. But that's a lot of code, and I'm still learning all the in's-and-out's of vB3, so this is a great primer. (Yes, it will be free too when I make it.)

In the mean time that's why I wanted to get a simple "transaction" button up that can be displayed on a per-forum basis. This will give some form of knowing who the buyer & seller are, and also tie it to a thread, then allow users to rate that "transaction". The shift from a thread to a classified/auction listing shouldn't be too difficult.

I got a paypal button up on the first page, thanks again guys for all your support. I try to keep the first post updated with stuff that I'm fixing/adding. I'm hoping to have 1.02 posted this weekend. Upgrading should be fairly quick and simply, it's really just changes in the PHP file, a DB modification, and maybe some phrases (so the upgrade should all be automated).

Thanks for the tip Yahhoon23, I wasn't sure if it could be a direct drop-in the members template or not, I'll have to check it out for myself.

PaintballM - lol, eBay is going to sue my poor arse! But stars should be easy enough to implement, and also an "about me" page. Also maybe grouping users based on their stars would be good for the stats page?

Another big thing I wanted to have was a selection for user location, in the same style that eBay does where it's just general-areas. I know a lot of my users just type random things like "in your closet" for the defailt location field. Maybe that can tie in with the "about me" page?

[PAINTBALLM]

For those who do not have full size layouts, and only using something around 750-755 pixels, the leave feedback page distorts the layout. I will write a fix for those of us who have smaller layouts in a little bit.