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]

Originally Posted by lafsunlmtd

hmmm.... it won't install on my master/slave server environ as is. it keeps trying to write to my slaves. I will try some other stuff and let you know if anything works.

do you have problems with other hacks or vbulletin not obeying this setting?

Originally Posted by Saviour

Not sure if this has been covered before...too many posts to search.

Anyway...

When purchasing raffle tickets, I noticed that you will receive an error if you hit the Enter key instead of clicking on Purchase. It causes a database error with the below message:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.3:
 
Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vb_credits_lottery WHERE lotteryid =;
 
MySQL Error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Request Date : Wednesday, July 8th 2009 @ 02:43:33 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, July 8th 2009 @ 02:43:34 PM
Script : http://xxxxxxxx.com/forums/credits.php?do=lottery
Referrer : http://xxxxxxxx.com/forums/credits.php?do=manage
IP Address : [removed]
Username : xxxxxx
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.67-log

Is this a bug? Is there a fix?

continued at support ticket

Originally Posted by bluecamosis

Hi, I have a question about this hack. I've successfully installed it on my forums and it's working perfectly fine. But I have a query.

Is there a way to calculate the total amount of credits for a particular user group? I have 4 different "teams" in my forum, and I'm thinking of displaying the total amount of credits each group has accumulated, but I'm not sure how to do that. Help will be greatly appreciated thanks! =)

this isnt implemented by vbcredits no, but if you were making something custom you can query the user table based on usergroupid for a sum of the credits column

[imported_silkroad]

FWIW: We don't get this dB error when someone purchases a lottery ticket by hitting the "Enter Key" versus the "Purchase Button". I just tried it and it works fine.

[bluecamosis]

ah ok, i think i know what you're saying, but i've never done such coding before. if there's a site or a tutorial on writing queries somewhere? i dont mind trying to write the code... better learn it now or never right, lol, yeah well. whatever help i can get is greatly appreciated.

(oh and i'm actually intending to show the accumulated sums on forumhome, i hope this query thing will work!!)

[pandoros]

Im confused, on my loan box it says

Amount must be between 200,000 and 1,000 Credits, and may be moderated. Minimum payments of 3.0% need to be paid back every 30 days to avoid late fees. Interest on outstanding balances is 19.5%. You may set up automatic payment plans. Your credibility rating may impact your interest rates or spending abilities.

now i dont know math well, but 1000 is smaller then 200,000.

How do I change the word credit, i went in global, but dont find it.
also what are "add-ons" for this addon?

Thanks

[Farman]

nice mod, I'll give it a try

[motorola]

I need to edit the files in the instalation.txt file?

[50calray]

Hello,

My name is Ray and I have recently installed vBcredits. I'm some what dumb when it comes to setting it up. I'm trying to figure out how to run a simple awards promotion based on points given for posting, starting threads, and referrals. I don't want to allow donations either. Do I simply set this up in "Manage Usergroup Awards" or do I need to change settings else were on the program?

Also, it say I can choose multiple groups in "Manage Usergroup Awards" but not sure how to choose multiples?

Thanks, and sorry for the noob question.

Ray

[Darkwaltz4]

Originally Posted by imported_silkroad

FWIW: We don't get this dB error when someone purchases a lottery ticket by hitting the "Enter Key" versus the "Purchase Button". I just tried it and it works fine.

ive been getting secondhand reports of this error for a long time and have never been able to reproduce it. this latest one went nowhere fast as well

Originally Posted by bluecamosis

ah ok, i think i know what you're saying, but i've never done such coding before. if there's a site or a tutorial on writing queries somewhere? i dont mind trying to write the code... better learn it now or never right, lol, yeah well. whatever help i can get is greatly appreciated.

(oh and i'm actually intending to show the accumulated sums on forumhome, i hope this query thing will work!!)

it would probably be a small job you would have to pay to make custom. the query part is pretty simple (stuff like: SELECT SUM(credits) FROM user WHERE usergroupid = X) but the actual arranging nicely on your homepage with templates and such is more in depth.

Originally Posted by pandoros

Im confused, on my loan box it says

now i dont know math well, but 1000 is smaller then 200,000.

How do I change the word credit, i went in global, but dont find it.
also what are "add-ons" for this addon?

Thanks

your usergroup loan limit is 1000 but your global loan minimum is 200k - fix one or the other to make a valid range otherwise any attempt to get a loan will fail.

In the very first global setting for vbcredits, look in the description and theres a direct link to it. (the setting to enable vbcredits)

Some addons are listed here: http://www.vbcredits.com/projects/vbcredits/ along the left sidebar. However theres plenty of other addons that have variable settings to configure to use with vbcredits, plus third party addons that may be using vbcredits but didnt have to notify me

Originally Posted by motorola

I need to edit the files in the instalation.txt file?

The templates it lists in the second half of the file.

Originally Posted by 50calray

Hello,

My name is Ray and I have recently installed vBcredits. I'm some what dumb when it comes to setting it up. I'm trying to figure out how to run a simple awards promotion based on points given for posting, starting threads, and referrals. I don't want to allow donations either. Do I simply set this up in "Manage Usergroup Awards" or do I need to change settings else were on the program?

Also, it say I can choose multiple groups in "Manage Usergroup Awards" but not sure how to choose multiples?


Thanks, and sorry for the noob question.

Ray

You can use that link yes, to choose multiple groups from that list hold down ctrl while you click additional groups.

[BlueChipEarth]

This is awesome! Thanks!

[motorola]

And what I should do with these,, The templates it lists in the second half of the file.'' ?