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

[Cyn]

What becomes of a member's ratings under his or her original username when a change in username is made?

[Telkman]

The ratings are stored under the member's id, not their username - a change of username on the same account wouldn't affect the ratings.

[ChrisBaktis]

Anyone know how to post the feedback rating on another page?

Using this code results in no feedback rating:

<tr>
    <td class="alt1">
Feedback Rating:</b> (<a href="traderratings.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[ratetradetotal]</a>)<b> 
    </td>
</tr>

This works in the postbit and memberinfo templates but not on another template I have created.

[Telkman]

It depends on the page you want to have the feedback on - the $post[] array wouldn't be in use on non post related pages for example, but you may be able to use $userinfo[ratetradetotal] if the $userinfo[] array is populated.

It seems unlikely that something wouldn't already have the appropriate field stored if there's anything to do with user details on the page in question - it just depends what you're trying to do.

[ChrisBaktis]

thanks a million!

[djjeffa]

I noticed a member recived 3 + feed backs but it only showes 2 in his profile
anybody have any ideal why?

EDIT: is it because the same member left 2 + feed backs? cause it only showes 2 in his postbit?

[Blootix]

Originally Posted by djjeffa

I noticed a member recived 3 + feed backs but it only showes 2 in his profile
anybody have any ideal why?


EDIT: is it because the same member left 2 + feed backs? cause it only showes 2 in his postbit?

If the same member gives two or more feedbacks, it will only count as one in their postbit / memberinfo. This is to prevent scamming... (I think).

Read this:

The only part that might confuse someone is that the Feedback Score is based only on UNIQUE members.

Anyway, a suggestion to a future release would be maybe to disable certain usergroups from using this Trader Rating System.

[Osiris2k]

Hi i installed this hack on 3.0.7 and it seems to work, except for one thing

The ratings is shown above the users name not where it should be. I included an img.

Anyway to fix it?

And also, is there a way to add a link to a userprofile which would forward to his/hers rating page.

edit: fixed
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...136#post632136

[Cyn]

Someone asked up in post #415 about increasing the max characters for the feedback comment field. I searched the thread but didn't see that answered. Anyone know how?

[Telkman]

Not had the chance to test this, so try it at your own risk...

In the tratings_feedback template, find

PHP Code:

        <input class="bginput" type="text" name="usercomments" size="45" maxlength="80" value="$trating[usercomments]"><br /> 


Change the maxlength parameter to the maximum you're after.

Then edit the user_rate_trade table... the usercomments field is a varchar with the same maximum length. It could feasibly be a lot larger than maxlength parameter for the input anyway, but as it's limited by the input there's not much point.

I'm at my office PC, so I've not been able to check/test the above, but after downloading the script it would seem to be all that affects the comments - being limited by the maxlength in the input, there's no need for any validation of the length, so this should work.