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

[Trana]

I am interested, will send a PM with my info.

[bada_bing]

Can someone tell me how I can display the Trader Rating button for registered members or logged on members and not for people just browsing the site and not logged in? Also what is the code and where do I place it..

[bada_bing]

Ok I have the trader ratings working so far but I want to get the is_member_of working and for the life if me I cant get it in the correct place without getting an error.

I have tried placing it in both postbit & postbit_legacy but I get an error listed below as discribed is what im trying to use. I can get the forum id code working but not the is_member_of ? Now can someone explain to me if I dont have the is_member_of code in there who can use the trader ratings feature by default?

This is what was in the templates.txt file but I cant get it to work

- Combining the two together:

<if condition="is_member_of($post, 11) && in_array($thread[forumid],array(200,201))">
(trader ratings row)
</if>

[bada_bing]

I cant believe no one has responded to this? Can someone please help?

[eoc_Jason]

Just an update for everyone on the 3.5.0 version. I've been having to track down a bug (not related to this addon) in vB, a couple of the developers even had to peel through my forum to verify it was happening because they couldn't replicate it on their test forum. Anyhow, the bug was finally found and fixed yesterday (*crosses fingers*, I haven't checked today), so I can get back to work on this now.

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Can someone tell me how I can display the Trader Rating button for registered members or logged on members and not for people just browsing the site and not logged in? Also what is the code and where do I place it..

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Can someone tell me how I can display the Trader Rating button for registered members or logged on members and not for people just browsing the site and not logged in? Also what is the code and where do I place it..

Can some one please answer this

[akoj]

Navbar--wherever you want it.

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="traderratings.php?$session[sessionurl]">Trader Ratings</a></td>

Just put whatever conditional you want around it.

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by akoj

akoj

Can you tell me how to add the condition and where to put it I am totally clueless sorry.
Basically I have it in my navbar but it shows the link to everyone and I just want it to be visable to only certain groups or anyone logged in

[hotwheels]

quick question, the Display ratings over time isn't updating. When you add a new buyer feedback, or what ever.......the membersinfo isn't updating next to his user name.

I have a user tp_cobra_95 that has 3 sells and 1 buy and next to his name, it only show's 2.

http://www.insanemustangs.com/forums...tinfo&userid=7

is there something i missed or something i need to change in order for the system to update?

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

Ok I have the trader ratings working so far but I want to get the is_member_of working and for the life if me I cant get it in the correct place without getting an error.

I have tried placing it in both postbit & postbit_legacy but I get an error listed below as discribed is what im trying to use. I can get the forum id code working but not the is_member_of ? Now can someone explain to me if I dont have the is_member_of code in there who can use the trader ratings feature by default?

This is what was in the templates.txt file but I cant get it to work

- Combining the two together:

<if condition="is_member_of($post, 11) && in_array($thread[forumid],array(200,201))">
(trader ratings row)
</if>

Same here, at the moment Guests or groups awaiting validation like Coppa and Guest who have registered by not validated there accounts can rate sales. I only want site members groups like "Members,Mods,S.Admin,Admin" to be able to rate only. And after reading the instructions. I really don't have a clue what I'm supposed to edit to achive this using the code at the bottom of the instructions. It's really unclear as to what you edit and were you place the code exactly

Also, if you don't use the postbit_legacy template, do you need to add the code to that template, or just the default postbit template only. Or both?