Major Additions - vBExperience 4

vBExperience 4.1 for vBulletin 4

Tested with all Version of vBulletin Forum and Suite 4.0.4 -> 4.1.11

Created by Marius Czyz aka Phalynx.

Triple Winner of the "Mod of the Month"-Award (March 2008, September 2009, July 2010) on vBulletin.org.

What is vBExperience?
vBExperience is your free feature packaged solution for motivating your users. vBExperience is an advanced and highly customizable level/promotion and activity measure system with awards, achievements, promotions and activities. It will calculate an activity and experience score for every user based on their activites on the forum. Now your users will see how their level is increasing by participating on your forum.

Communities are not only defined by post count, they need much more parameters: Are the postings the user creates helpful? Are his threads frequently read? Does the user participate on the community by posting pictures, attachments, leaving visitor messages, tagging threads? How can the user's activitiy be compared to others? All this can be answered with this mod. Additionally your users get awards and collect achievements for beeing active on your board.

vBExperience is fully translated to many languages. Beside english there are language files for german, french, italian, portuguese, spanish, swedish and chinese simplified. Polish, turkish, persian are not fully translated.

Comments, suggestions, translations, bugs, etc... are very welcome! Support is only given to people who have clicked "Mark as Installed":
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/vborg_mis...hreadid=245023


/***** Demo *****\
No Demosite currently available.


/***** INSTALLATION *****\
Please read the file readme_install_uninstall_upgrade.txt for detailed instructions!


/***** Primary Support *****\
As vBulletin.org does not offer any help managing modifications, espacially the complex one like vBExperience, I have to decided to open a site together with TheMayhem that is dedicated just for this.
It features a forum not just a single thread, a bug and feature tracker. And you also test our modifications over there.



/***** Featurelist *****\

*** Plugins ***
vBExperience can be easily extended by using it's custom data provider interface (CDP). With the CDP everyone is able to create plugins that integrates into vBExperience calculation process. There are already several plugins like Post Thanks Integration.
The plugins data can also be used to create achievements, awards and also promotions.


*** Insight Experience ***
The insight into your personal experience and what's going on on the community. Currently support basic services like activity and some featured achievements, there are plans to extend this with helpful hints on how progress, depending on users points. Also a statistics module is in work.


*** Awards ***
Motivate your users to be the best in a defined category! With the Awards you are able to reward users who collect the most points, f.e. by making new friends and leading a social group.
The awards are shown in Rankings and Profile. You can set them also to display in postbit near the username. There is a scheduled job running once a day (02:30h) to calculate them.
Via AdminCP they are completely customizeable and can also be assigned manually.

Currently there are six default awards: Most Popular, Activity Award, Posting Award, Community Award, Frequent Poster, Blog Award, Calendar Award, Discussion Ender, Master Tagger, User with most referrers, Downloads, Arm of Law, King of Publishing.
You can create as much awards as you like. Just select a title, choose from one of the 250 images and select the required points for it.


*** Achievements ***
Achievements are very similar to the awards a reward to the user. Unlike an award an achievement is not limited to a single user.
Similar to awards, you can create as much achievements as you like. Just select a title, choose from one of the over 500 images and create the required condition for it.


*** Promotion system ***
The promotion system enables you to move users to other usergroups, depending on their experience points. You can create conditions that have to be met to be promoted. Benefits and extended permissions will be shown automatically to the user. Promotions are showing also possible jumps from current to the next possible group with the required conditions.
Using this you can create multiple groups and assign additional features. Just an example: Usergroup 1 has no custom avatars and just a capacity of 20 private messages. With a condition of 1000 Experience points the user moves to Usergroup 2, where the user is able to upload his own avatar and store more private messages.


*** Rankings ***
Showing User, Level, Awards, Activity Points (experience, thread, post, user, misc) - sortable.


*** Social Groups Rankings ***
Starts the competition between social groups! This feature ranks the groups depending on their average user experience points.


*** Earn Points ***
This is an overview for the user on how points can be collected. It features also a possibility to compare own points to the community's average. All data is beeing pulled automatically from the database.


*** Give Away Points aka Point Donation ***
Users can donate their points to other community members. Choose the field which will be used for give away and select the amount that will be transferred. Admins can donate custom points to the user.


*** Statistics aka Leaderboards ***
The leaderboard is showing a Top-x list of the leading users. Usefull for optimizing points of the point provider. Only enabled point providers with results will be displayed.


*** Shop aka Market ***
vBExperience integrates easily with the Point Market System v3 by TheMayham (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=232676).
It features a virtual item store, username items, bank, gifts, gambling, lottery, and a lot more!
As of vBExperience 4.0, the vBExperience 3.8 Shop has been discontinued.



/***** Collecting Points *****\
vBExperience is collecting points for a user counting his actions in the community. The collected points can be used to reward users with awards, achievements and promotions - even if the collected data comes from a plugin.

Beside the automatic collection, the admin can manually donate custom points to the user, for example for a special reward. Of course you can use this also for awards, achievements and promotions.


Taken into calculation are these things:
Threads
- Creating threads and gaining additional points from views, replies, votes and ratings to this thread
- Creating thread tags
- Making a thread sticky
- Socialgroup Discussions (Discussions, Posts)

Posts
- Creating posts
- Views on attachments (needs "Who Downloaded This Attachment?" installed)

User
- Days since registration
- Average posts per Day (for users who are registered for at least seven days)
- Referrals
- Received infractions
- Given infractions ("Arm of Law")
- Reputation / Use of reputation system
- Visitor messages on profiles
- Creating social groups and getting members
- Uploading pictures
- Making friends
- Completing profile

Misc
- Doing calendar entries
- Writing vBulletin Blogs (vBulletin 4 Suite required)
- Publishing content with vBulletin CMS (vBulletin 4 Suite required)
- Manually assigned points

Additionally there is support for 3rd party modifications:
- Point Market System / Items Shop (included)
- Project Tools (plugin)
- Who Downloaded This Attachment? (plugin)
- DownloadsII v6 (included)
- LDM Links and Downloads Manager (included)
- Abe1 Post Thank You (plugin)
- DBTech Advanced Post Thanks/Like (Lite) (plugin)
- DBTech Advanced @UserTag (plugin)
- Helpful Answers (plugin)
- iTrader (plugin)
- ibProArcade (plugin)
- v3arcade Champions and Submissions (plugin)
- vB Tournaments and Ladders (plugin)
- Advanced Forum Points - set points independent for every forum (plugin)
- Consuming points by downloading attachments ("pay" for attachments) (plugin)
- IWT Time Spent Online (plugin)
- PhotoPost Pro 7 (plugin)
- PhotoPost vBGallery 3 (plugin)
- 8WR Media Library (plugin)
- vBSoccer (plugin)
- vBookie (plugin)
- vBookie Cash (plugin)
- Farcaster's Event Attendance (plugin)
- PhotoPlug (plugin)
- EasyForms (plugin)
- Triple Triad (plugin)
- AWCoding Donation System LITE (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Donation System PRO (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Subscription System PRO (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Credit Purchase System LITE (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Credit Purchase System PRO (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Pirate Poker PRO (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Pirate Poker Platinum (shipped within that product)
- AWCoding Product System PRO (shipped within that product)



You have to install these modifications for your own, vBExperience doesn't install nor touches these.
More addons will be published as soon as they are finished.



/***** Calculation of the activity *****\
The system calculates the activity (week, month and also a custom defined datespan, 60) by counting the actions a user has done. An action can be a post, a new thread, rating, download, etc... The activity bars will be filled during the first weeks. This has changed from earlier versions where just postings, visitor- and group messages have been counted.



/***** Settings *****\
You can control how many points are given to every calculation. For example you can give many points for creating new threads but only a few for views of that thread. Setting a value to 0 will disable a setting.
Many settings regarding the behaviour of vBExperience are making it easy to adjust it to your needs. You can select from 10 colors for the progress bars and also choose from around 250 icons.
Additionally, you can set ignore users (f.e. for bot users), forums (f.e. offtopic forums) and usergroup id's. Please keep in mind that out of the box the usergroupid 6 (Administrators) is beeing ignored.



/***** Performance, especially on Big Boards *****\
vBExperience has been tested on smaller and also on some bigger sites. I know from boards with around 120k users running this mod smoothly. More about this topic can be read in the file readme_optimization.txt



/***** Frequently asked questions *****\
Q: How do I change the name Experience to something new?
A: You can change the name via phrases. Just search and replace all phrases that contains the word "Experience".

Q: When installing vBExperience, does everyone start from scratch, or will it automatically configure everyone's points based on actions before the install?
A: If you recount, vBExperience will calculate ALL existing data since the beginning of the board. If you used vBCredits, vBActivity, uCash and similar systems - there is no need to convert the points.

Q: My conditions don't work correctly on achievements and promotions.
A: Conditions in achievements and promotions are calculated in POINTS, not in count of items.
If you create an achievement for reaching the first 10 Days, you must enter the points needed for this. If you reward 2 points for every day, you have to set 2 points for every day since registering. Calculation: 10 days * 2 points = 20 as condition. So you will have to set 20 as the condition.

Credits for images
- FAMFAMFAM, http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
- IconExperience



/***** History *****\

vBExperience 4.1.1

Please reinstall ALL plugins you are using from the ZIP\Plugins! Espacially if you get SQL Errors after reinstalling vBExperience.

- Fixed Plugin for 8WR_Media_Library
- Fixed Plugin for Advanced_Forum_Points
- Fixed Plugin for Attachment_Consumes_Points
- Fixed Plugin for EasyForms
- Fixed Plugin for Post_Thanks_Abe1
- Fixed border around boxes
- Fixed not correctly saving award images
- Extended character length for manual award assignment
- Several smaller fixes

vBExperience 4.1.0, 16th December 2011

- Introduced the feature to start the calculation by a defined date. By default all data will be considered for calculation. Please keep in mind that there are some data that cannot be filtered by date, like added friends. You need to re-install all plugins to have them obeying the new calculation limit. This feature has been sponsored by BryanB. Thanks!
- Fixed Discussion Ender, can be now disabled by setting value to 0
- Fixed Arm of Law, can be now disabled by setting value to 0
- Insight: Optimized layout
- Insight: Optimized colours for darker styles
- Achievement "Three Friends" renamed to "Social" (does not affect existing achievement)
- Renamed point descriptions so they can be identified better as point system (f.e. Days since registered -> Points for every day since registration)
- Added: Romanian Translation (thanks to Teascu Dorin)
- Custom Points can now have a category, can be used as entry point for other modifications using vBExperience points, eg. Market/Shop purchases
- Fixed several smaller issues

Changelog for other versions is in history.txt

[MySaltyreef]

Originally Posted by gamersplatoon

i have tried all this but nothing is gonna work

only way it so read how to kill it(uninstall readme) you will find it in the plugin folders
cause it resets the mysql tables which has the points

and install it again. "reconfigure"

thanks, gonna give it a bash now

[pantasd]

can someone help me with thoso 2 questions ?
http://www.vbaddict.net/showthread.p...-with-referals

[MySaltyreef]

Originally Posted by gamersplatoon

i have tried all this but nothing is gonna work

only way it so read how to kill it(uninstall readme) you will find it in the plugin folders
cause it resets the mysql tables which has the points

and install it again. "reconfigure"

didn't work for me

[Successfulsteps]

Originally Posted by GPOClan

Hey,

great mod, I'm using it almost a year now, but after updating it, I get a database error:

Datenbankfehler in vBulletin 4.0.8:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT
COUNT(fid) AS iresult
FROM formresults
WHERE userid=1
AND formresults.dateline > 315532800;

MySQL-Fehler : Unknown column 'formresults.dateline' in 'where clause'
Fehler-Nr. : 1054
Fehler-Zeit : Tuesday, 20.12.2011 @ 14:08:19
Datum : Tuesday, 20.12.2011 @ 14:08:19
Skript : http://gpo-clan.com/admincp/xperienc...min_recount_xp
Referrer : http://gpo-clan.com/admincp/xperienc...php?do=recount
IP-Adresse : ?.?.?.?
Benutzername : ?
Klassenname : vB_Database
MySQL-Version : 5.1.49-3~bpo50+1-log

IP-Adress and Username censored...
Could you help me? What's the problem here?

Thanks!

I am getting that same error on vbookie integration and when I disable the vbookie, the next mod in line seems to give an error. Also my experience page is coming up with a "page not found" error.

I had upgraded to 4.1.9 and vbSEO. It was working so perfectly before! My members are not happy their points are not updating. I completely reinstalled with new upgrade here, uploaded all files again, and all the integrated plug-ins.

Any help is greatly appreciated! I do not want to do away with this mod, it is far too loved by my members and myself! So, please help me find out what is wrong.

Thank you!

Edit: the db errors are occuring on the recount of points, first option: Admincp>Experience>Recount>Update Experience Points which is required after you update to a new level as well as upgrade in this mod. So I am just presently stuck!

[MySaltyreef]

Originally Posted by MySaltyreef

didn't work for me

okay its working, my bad on why i thought it wasn't, after you set the date to start it wont start your members at zero points, it takes into account of profile info, friends and alot more but if i set the date back to default you can see the huge difference in points on the members

kudo's to team, the vbekill does do the trick !

[nathl123]

i have installed vbexperience, now everytime i go to admincp/experience i get this 404 (Page Not Found) Error

[Successfulsteps]

Hi, I need help!

I am getting far too many db errors, and this mod has been through a bit. I used to have a partner on my forum who could never get it working. Well at the time I had no vbulletin knowledge. Now I have a little, and no partner. I got it working, but recently with the upgrade to 4.1.9 and vbSEO, there are far too many db errors. The strangest thing though is that if I do the recount after user 50 it works, before then while testing it on user 1 - 50, it stopped many times with db errors and all the same thing:

first the date on vbookie, then this Unknown column 'points_user_tso' in 'field list'

So I'd like to try and uninstall it completely and then do a fresh install but I do not completely understand the uninstall instructions. I do understand I must upload the kill file to the forum directory, but then it says to "run" it. How do I run it? I haven't attempted this as I want to insure I do it correctly.

Please someone give me these awesome kill instructions I am hearing about, so I can clear the db and reinstall this from scratch and hopefully fix all the problems I am having.

Thank you in advance for any assistance on instructions!

~Deb

[MySaltyreef]

i found it a bit difficult to but the instructions are actually quite easy, biggest pain in manually removing files via ftp but hey lifes not fun without any hicups only thingthey not clear on was where to put the kill_xperience.php, added a note for you in red !

/***** Uninstall *****\
- If you want to retain custom points or the shop and try a clean install you can just uninstall the product.
- To remove vBExperience completly, you will have to copy "ZIP\extras\Remove vBExperience\upload\admincp\kill_xperience.php" to AdminCP (put this in your admincp folder via ftp)and execute it. After a confirmation dialog all vBExperience tables will be completely removed. Afterwards you will have to remove the product and all files via FTP.

you'll execute the file the same way you run a upgrade to the board by typing this into your browser


http://www.1stdegreefreebies.com/for..._xperience.php ( delete this file when you done !)

follow the instructions then unistall the product via the product manager and manually remove files via ftp( not needed IMO if you gonna put it back) just make sure you upload the latest version

[Successfulsteps]

Originally Posted by MySaltyreef

i found it a bit difficult to but the instructions are actually quite easy, biggest pain in manually removing files via ftp but hey lifes not fun without any hicups only thingthey not clear on was where to put the kill_xperience.php, added a note for you in red !



you'll execute the file the same way you run a upgrade to the board by typing this into your browser


http://www.1stdegreefreebies.com/for..._xperience.php ( delete this file when you done !)

follow the instructions then unistall the product via the product manager and manually remove files via ftp( not needed IMO if you gonna put it back) just make sure you upload the latest version

Thanks so much! I was able to run that kill file. That's the part I was not understanding about putting that in my web browser. I hope not deleting the files will make a difference as I am just going to turn around and reinstall it. I'll know soon enough!

Again, thank you for you help, I really did appreciate it! It's always trying when you have several mods and they can interfere with each or conflict. But when your database somehow gets corrupted, it's often better to do a fresh install if its possible. I'll let you know if this worked to get my vbexperience running smoothly. I love the mod!


Edited: I reinstalled it. It still gives me db errors on vbookie, so I disabled that integration, and the rest ... NO DB ERRORS! I can live without the integration to vbookie, so I am happy! I hate db errors, and this way we stay error free! Thanks again!

[GPOClan]

OK, I killed and reinstalled the mod, the recount works now, but the activity is still at 0 %. Experience > Recount Activity shows no effect...

Could anyone help?