Major Additions - vBCredits - Ultimate Points System

vBCredits is the ultimate points system for your vBulletin!
Click here for the vB3.6 compatible version

Yes, this also works for vB3.8!

Thank you to everyone who voted us MOTM

Features:

• Earning Credits
  • Twenty-Four Actions Eligible for Awards
    • Induction
      • Registration, Promotion, Subscription, etc
    • Referral
    • Paycheck
      • Definable Time Period
    • Activity
      • Definable Qualification
    • Birthday
    • Grant Reputation
      • Can Integrate with Rep Power
    • Receive Reputation
      • Can Multiply Reputation Points
    • Infraction
      • Can Multiply Infraction Points
    • New Thread
    • Rate Thread
      • Can Multiply Rating
    • Posting
    • Own Thread Posting
    • Post Size
      • Multiply Against Chars or Words
      • Can Strip BB Code Prior
      • Definable Maximum
    • Your Thread Viewed
      • Can Disable Guest Views
    • Your Thread Rated
    • Your Thread Replied
    • Your Profile Viewed
    • Poll Creation
    • Poll Vote
    • Upload Attachment
    • Sending PM
    • Calendar Event
    • Profile Picture
    • Profile Fields
      • Can Multiply Number of Fields
      • Can Set Minimum Fields
  • Decimal Settings for Credits and Percentages
  • Protocol for Negative Balances
  • Award Recalculation when Action Changes
  • Award Negation Multiplier
    • When Action Revoked Such As Post Deletion
  • Forum Overrides
    • Twelve Eligible Actions by Usergroup
    • ACP Tool to Configure Multiple at Once
    • Earning in Forums Can be Turned Off
• Displaying Credits
  • Everybody, Private, Nobody
    • Usergroup Permission to See All Private Amounts
  • Displays by Global, Usergroup, Forum
  • Lock Usergroups from Entire System
  • AJAX Navbar Amount Refresh
  • Display / Order by Savings, Checking, or Both
  • Richest User Listing
    • Can Exclude Usergroups From Listing
  • Display Credits in Memberlist
• Extensive Referral System
  • Validate by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Referee Credit Incentive
  • Number of Referrals per Referral Point
  • Maximum Referral Points
  • Referral Points Multiplied Against Additive Referral Bonus
  • ARB Increases ALL Other Action Award Amounts
• Post Award System
  • AJAX Through Thread or Profile
  • Can Spend From Central Board Account
    • Filled from Taxes, Fees, etc
  • Daily, User, Thread Limits
  • Can Disallow Negative Awards
  • Disable by Usergroup, Forum
  • Moderate by Usergroup, Forum
  • Can Publicly Display Awards in Thread
• Transaction Log
  • Displays All Donations, Awards, Payments, Winnings, etc
  • Can be Split into Pages
  • Usergroup Permission to View All Users' Logs
  • Specify Transaction Alerts via PM
  • Comments and Reasons Allow BB Code
• Donations
  • Support for Comments and Anonymous
  • Time Based User Limits
  • Donation Fee
  • Fee Handling Protocol
  • Moderate / Cancel Donations
• Drawings
  • Unlimited Concurrent Drawings
  • Raffle / Lottery Types
  • Static / Raising Jackpots
  • Per Drawing Ticket Cost
  • Maximum Active Tickets
  • Minimum / Maximum Tickets Sold for Drawings
  • Recurring Drawings
  • Usergroup Discounts
  • Configurable Title and Date
  • Exclude Usergroups
  • Optional Winner PHP
  • Allow Lottery Number Picking
  • Tax on Winnings
  • Archive Time Limit for Completed Drawings
  • Retry Period for Ineligible Drawings
• Savings Accounts
  • Validate Access by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Minimum Balance for Interest
  • Bank Transfer Fee
  • Pending Deposits
  • Early Withdrawal Fee
  • Interest Intervals
  • Maximum Savings per Usergroup
  • Configurable Usergroup Interest Rates
  • Moderate Deposits
• Loans
  • Moderate Loans
  • Maximum Total Loans and Amounts
  • Minimum Loan Amount
  • Minimum Payment by Due Date
  • Late Payment Fee
  • Automatic Recurring Payments
  • Accountability Rating for Loan Repayment
  • Good and Bad Rating Thresholds
  • Lock Spending Ability if Below Bad Rating
  • Transfer Usergroups when Threshold Passed
    • Reward or Punish Users with New Rates and Abilities
• Administrative Utilities
  • Mass Usergroup Updater
    • Select Template Usergroup to Copy Settings
    • Select Multiple Target Usergroups
    • Configure All Usergroup Settings and Awards
  • Mass Credit Updater
    • Retroactively Award Users Based on Settings
    • Can be Used to Award Static Amounts to All Users
    • Can be Used to Reset Entire Usergroups
    • Pick and Choose Usergroups and Awards to Calculate
  • Modify User Accounts by Criteria
    • First Search for Users Using Familiar Options
    • Can Search by Savings and Checking Amounts
    • Can Alter Resulting Users' Amounts Directly
    • Can Apply Easy-to-Use Custom Defined Formula
      • Use Simple Math, Numbers, and Variables
        • Days Registered
        • Post Count
        • Reputation
        • Infraction Points
        • Checking and Savings Amounts
• Overall Quality
  • Everything is Easily Disabled / Unlimited
  • Will Not Alter Environment for vB or Other Hacks
  • Fully Phrased
  • Complete Admin Help*
  • WOL Locations
  • Includes Hooks
  • Unique Plugin Optimization
  • Uses Bitfields and Datastore
  • Maintains Sessions
  • Includes TMS Support
  • No File Edits

and much more!

Just follow the directions carefully in the zip based on whether you are clean installing or upgrading


Fully integrated with vBulletin and easily integrated with third party scripts:
Many hacks allow you to specify a points system by entering the table and column for the points data. Use TABLE: user COLUMN: credits when integrating vBCredits with such hacks (note: you may need to include your table prefix with some hacks)! If you are unsure about integration - ask me!

Why is this version not the gold version yet?
vBCredits 1.4rc1 went through a long bugtesting process at the official site, and rc2 is largely bug free in its entirety. However, *it is missing most of the admin help and post/thread deletion actions are temporarily removed while I figure out how to fix them.

Footnotes:
Thank you for using vBCredits, I would be happy to hear your feedback and correct anything that comes up. For more tailored support, please indicate you have installed this hack, and if you like it you can nominate this for MOTM. Use of this free hack requires that you retain the copyright line at the bottom of the forum (PM me otherwise). If you do not agree with this, please do not use vBCredits - thank you for your understanding and support!

[Darkwaltz4]

Currently the last remaining issue that keeps vbcredits from being 1.4 gold is the broken post/thread negation awards. to allow you to at least complete the action without errors, the code was simply disabled. So, if you want to remove credits yourself i suggest allowing your moderators the use of the post award system, such that they can deduct credits as part of their regular maintenance, from right in the threads themselves.

[tom212]

Is there a way to install this mod into a test style in order to work out any kinks in it before releasing it to the general public? It's way to complex to release it without doing some testing on the board.

Thanks for the advice!

Tom

[Darkwaltz4]

Sure? You do the template edits

[tom212]

Great - thank you. When you install some mods they become instantly active. I just didn't want to do that here.

Can't wait to install it - thanks!

Tom

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Currently the last remaining issue that keeps vbcredits from being 1.4 gold is the broken post/thread negation awards. to allow you to at least complete the action without errors, the code was simply disabled. So, if you want to remove credits yourself i suggest allowing your moderators the use of the post award system, such that they can deduct credits as part of their regular maintenance, from right in the threads themselves.

I was just about to report this bug myself. Glad to know it is not just me then lol.

Have you found any hurdles with this action? Last I heard from a different coder is that a file edit is needed to make this work properly. Is that still the case?
This is the one thing that is stopping me installing it live on my site. I would pay to have it working, or at the least donate.

[Cobra-J82]

A live demo that doesnt need registration will be good.

[merk_aus]

you can see the points system working on that site without registering just click around rather than discredit this mod

[rob01]

you should join with vBExperience

[noorz]

<i>Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /-forumdirectory-/living_avatars/index.php on line 27</i>

I get this error when trying to integrate Living Avatars with VBCredits. It happens when I follow this line:

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File: living_avatars/index.php
================================
FIND:
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$points_remaining = $userinfo['points'] - $item[cost];
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ADD BELOW:
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$DB->query("UPDATE " . $GLOBALS['tableprefix'] . "user SET credits = " . $points_remaining . " WHERE userid = " . $userinfo['userid']);

How do I fix it? I put the query underneath this:

// ###################$points_remaining = $userinfo['points'] - $item[cost];############ LOAD LA CORE ################################

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

I was just about to report this bug myself. Glad to know it is not just me then lol.

Have you found any hurdles with this action? Last I heard from a different coder is that a file edit is needed to make this work properly. Is that still the case?
This is the one thing that is stopping me installing it live on my site. I would pay to have it working, or at the least donate.

Due to several intersecting awards that occur during posting (posting in your thread, someone else's thread, post size, someone posting in your thread, new thread, etc) and the fact that the collection of hooks for moderation activities doesnt sync up well (merging, copying, moving, moderating, invisible, etc) it gets extremely complicated to figure out how to undo potentially massive numbers of posts at once when something "simple" like that happens. So I left it alone for now - it hurts my brain.

Originally Posted by Cobra-J82

A live demo that doesnt need registration will be good.

vBCredits doesnt really have anything that guests can see or use... guests cant earn/manage/use credits. all you can do is look at someone else's credit amounts, sorry.

Originally Posted by rob01

you should join with vBExperience

I would prefer to remain separate

Originally Posted by noorz

Fatal error: Call to a member function query() on a non-object in /-forumdirectory-/living_avatars/index.php on line 27

I get this error when trying to integrate Living Avatars with VBCredits. It happens when I follow this line:

================================
File: living_avatars/index.php
================================
FIND:
--------------------------------
$points_remaining = $userinfo['points'] - $item[cost];
--------------------------------
ADD BELOW:
--------------------------------
$DB->query("UPDATE " . $GLOBALS['tableprefix'] . "user SET credits = " . $points_remaining . " WHERE userid = " . $userinfo['userid']);

How do I fix it? I put the query underneath this:

// ###################$points_remaining = $userinfo['points'] - $item[cost];############ LOAD LA CORE ################################

you messed up your file edit. I recommend sticking to exactly the code I put instead of adding your own. Try over with a fresh copy of that file.