vB Affiliates v.2

vB Affiliates v.2

Author: Antonbomb22

Description:
Now add,manage,display all your communties/boards affiliates in a simple and organized fashion.

Features:
-Administration Panel
-multiple affilliates
-image button verification
-modules
-top listing
-types/categories
-reporting system
-rating system
-in and out clicking system
-redirects
-delay system
-disclaimers
-extremely customizeable
-display options
-pagination
-approval system
-usergroup permissions
-active system
-image buttons

Changes from Version 1:
-administration intergrated better
-added a delay system
-added a report system
-4 new modules
-display options
-pagination
-click in features with buttons so affiliates may link back
-cached templates
-quicked load speeds
-image button verification
-more options
-approval system
-usergroup permissions

Known Bugs:
-if an affiliates site goes down completely the verification/validation system will report errors

Some notes(usually rare):
-server load may increase a little bit if you have all modules active
-load time may a little bit increase if you have image validation on

Live Demo:
http://www.animationation.net/community/affiliate.php
http://www.game-realms.net/vb/affili...listaffiliates

Offical Support/Suggestion forum: http://www.animationation.net/commun...splay.php?f=58

plz click install

Enjoy

edit:
attachment updated, wrong queries for upgrade instruct.
updated zip file with new template edit
updated zip file with new affiliate.php
update zip file with new queries
Those who has alrdy downloaded follow the following links for file updates:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=491667
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=491675
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=496126
updated zip file with few fixes(4/14/04)

[joeychgo]

Originally Posted by AN-net

joey that means the delay feature is not working for u.

actually- its on one of your demo sites.........I havent installed this hack, that kept me from doing do.

[Bryan Ex]

I don't think the delay feature is set up quite right IMO. If you set a long delay it will certainly slow down the cheating but it affects all links... not just the one they just clicked on. This means that people have difficulty browsing several listings because they must wait between using each link. Click on a link that turns out to be not what you were looking for and you must wait to try the next one. Delay should only apply to visited links - not all links.

[AN-net]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

actually- its on one of your demo sites.........I havent installed this hack, that kept me from doing do.

ok well then it could be that the demo site had turned off the delay feature by setting it to 0

hmm i will try look into that bryan, thanks but im sorta busy right now

[Pseudomizer]

Hi,

i have a weird problem. My performance hack shows me that i have 1 template uncached called "AFFILIATE" and if i list the affiliates i have 7 uncached templates. I crosschecked the affialiates.php file and all templates are listed in the $globaltemplates.

Anyone knows why they are not cached ?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by AN-net

chris im not sure what the problem is because i dont know which line it is. um can you run each insert one singally.

joey that means the delay feature is not working for u.

With all respect but the delay feature is NOT the solution here. As soon as someone changes his IP adress or the delay has passed he will be able to vote again.

I changed this on my site. Because only members can see the affiliate site, i implemented a voting mechanism for members. It will be stored in the database accordingly to their userid. Some minor changes ( took me 6 hours to find the best way ) and members can only vote once per affiliate.

Hint: I would NOT recommend using this on a biiiiiiig VB site with more then 100.000 users. Otherwise your queries will destroy your performance.

But i am still waiting for an answer for my caching problem. Any ideas ?

Thanks for this hack so far. It works fine.

Cheers,

[SnowBot]

What are the queries to undo any table changes if we want to unistall ?

[AN-net]

uninstall version 2?

[JustAskJulie]

Is it possible to completely turn off the rating system? And do you have to show hits in/out?

I'm just wanting a basic links page tool, not a top sites list.

[Pseudomizer]

Originally Posted by JustAskJulie

Is it possible to completely turn off the rating system? And do you have to show hits in/out?

I'm just wanting a basic links page tool, not a top sites list.

Hi JustAskJulie,

not via ACP. But open the affialiates_list template and remove this line:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['rate']">
<td class="thead" align="center">Rate</td>
</if> 


and this in affiliate_listbits:

PHP Code:

<if condition="$show['rate']">
<td class="alt2" align="center"><form action="affiliate.php?do=vote" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="a" value="$affiliate[affiliate_id]"><select name="rating"><optgroup label="ratings">
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option>
</optgroup>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Rate" class="button">
</form>
</td>
</if> 


Cheers,

[JustAskJulie]

Thanks What would you edit to remove the hits in/out?