Major Additions - iTrader v2.8 - Powerful Rating System

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iTrader 2.8
Click here for a version for vBulletin 3


This modification offers you a rating system for trades which are made on your board. As it is an advantage of the rating system on ebay, this gives your users some secureness.

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NOTICE ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

I added vBulletin 4 support for this modification because Nexus (vbenhancer) announced that he won't do this in the next time. He gave me the permissions to release it here. Thank you!

Please do not contact vbenhancer for support! He is not responsible for this version.

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Installation
The installation is as easy as abc. You only have to upload the files and import the product in your vBulletin admincp.

Update
Also updating this modification (including this from vB3) isn't very difficult. Only overwrite all files and the product in your vBulletin admincp.

Screenshots
itrader_rateuser.png
Rate a trader/seller

itrader_user270.jpg
iTrader Profile

itrader_main270.jpg
iTrader Main Page

itrader_tab.png
iTrader Profile Tab

Known issues:
none

Feature requests:

- microCLASSIFIEDS/AUCTIONS integration (?)
- latest threads of a selected forum on itrader main page

* Implemented in upcoming release

Release History
Cick here

Translations:
- German by Andre31

Please DONATE for further releases!

[entertain]

Hello Baja,

i can reproduce both of your issues. I will try to fix them. I've already spent a lot of time in finding the reason for the second one, but i didn't find anything. I'll give it an other try!

And thank you for your very kind donation!

[NarutoFTW]

Originally Posted by entertain

Hello Baja,

i can reproduce both of your issues. I will try to fix them. I've already spent a lot of time in finding the reason for the second one, but i didn't find anything. I'll give it an other try!

And thank you for your very kind donation!

Entertain, the 'Deal Thread URL is invalid' with vBSEO url format was never fixed, juts letting you know.

[Guthatron]

VERY nice work on this mod!! Thank you so much

[R.Solutions]

is there a way to add a border around the itrader feedback score as well as bold certain part of the text. im stumped.

[Baja]

Originally Posted by entertain

Hello Baja,

i can reproduce both of your issues. I will try to fix them. I've already spent a lot of time in finding the reason for the second one, but i didn't find anything. I'll give it an other try!

Entertain, can you explain how to reproduce the blank white page? I recently copied the site to a new server and noticed the problem is not occurring on the new box. The db, phrases, templates, and files are all identical, so I was surprised the problem appears to have resolved itself. Three differences that come to mind are: APC, vBSEO, and Sphinx (digitalpoint plugin) have not been setup on the 2nd server yet.

[sevenmix]

It would be nice that in version no. 3, itrader could alter the usergroups like the promotions system of vbulletin.

[Baja]

Entertain, I figured out what's causing the blank white page -> Digital Point Sphinx Search v1.2.2 (Note: v1.2.1 works fine).


When the DP Sphinx v1.2.2 plugin is enabled, iTrader generates the following error when someone submits a feedback:

PHP Fatal error: Class 'vB' not found in /home/user/public_html/includes/class_dm_pm.php(706) : eval()'d code on line 1

Here is a list of changes in DP Sphinx v1.2.2:

• Fixed cosmetic issue with search results that have a title that contains unicode characters
• Better handling of non-standard latin characters (makes German, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian work without needing setting)
• Changed how delta indexes are threaded within distributed indexes
• Fixed issue where a specific server setup could cause delta indexing of article comments to fail
• Fixed rare issue where a delta index would be ignored as part of a distributed index
• Sorting threads or posts by number of views works properly
• Searching posts for all threads started by a user give correct results
• Override $search_core class if using vBulletin 4.1.5+ (better way to disable vBulletin's search result cache)
• Added setting to disable searching of private messages
• Better handling of distributed indexes for non-suite installations
• Added word stemming/morphology support (a search for "fly" will return "flies" and "flying" for example)
• Fixed issue when searching for threads started by a specific user within a specific forum

P.S. Not sure if it's related, but here's an old bug report mentioning the "Class 'vB' not found" error:
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proj...?issueid=32002

[entertain]

Originally Posted by Baja

Entertain, I figured out what's causing the blank white page -> Digital Point Sphinx Search v1.2.2 (Note: v1.2.1 works fine).


When the DP Sphinx v1.2.2 plugin is enabled, iTrader generates the following error when someone submits a feedback:



Here is a list of changes in DP Sphinx v1.2.2:



P.S. Not sure if it's related, but here's an old bug report mentioning the "Class 'vB' not found" error:
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proj...?issueid=32002

Please try to open itrader_feedback.php and change the following line:

$vbphrase['itrader_pm_message_x'] = construct_phrase($vbphrase['itrader_pm_message'], $itrader['phrase_rating'], $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], $vbulletin->options['bburl'], $userinfo['userid']);

into

$vbphrase['itrader_pm_message_x'] = construct_phrase($vbphrase['itrader_pm_message'], $itrader['phrase_rating'], $vbulletin->userinfo['username'], $this->registry->options['bburl'], $userinfo['userid']);

Fix is integrated in my current developement build.

[Baja]

Thanks for the quick reply! I tried the "$this->registry" tweak, but received the following error:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /home/user/public_html/itrader_feedback.php on line 292

However, Shawn with DigitalPoint mentioned some changes in 4.1.5:

I suspect vBulletin removed one of the places they were initializing the bootstrap framework (which is what also implements the class auto-load method). The bootstrap framework SHOULD be loaded always, but for some reason it's not and they instead load it in like 90 different places "as needed".

Vote for this to get it always loaded and you will make programmers happy.

http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/VBIV-8198

I'll wrap up an updated Sphinx package in the morning (it's 4am now, and I need to go to bed before I fall over) that just does what the test plug-in I had to make does... that way others don't run into the issue. Terribly annoying though if you ask me... shouldn't even need to happen. And terrible they decided to NOT load it in 4.1.5, but they were loading it in earlier versions.

The Sphinx hook that's conflicting (pmdata_postsave) contains the following code:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bootstrap_framework.php'); 
vB_Bootstrap_Framework::init(); 


^Adding that code to the "REQUIRE BACK-END" section of itrader_feedback.php resolves the problem:

FIND:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/itrader_global.php'); 


ADD BELOW:

PHP Code:

require_once(DIR . '/includes/class_bootstrap_framework.php'); 
vB_Bootstrap_Framework::init(); 


[entertain]

Okay, thanks, then I will not integrate this fix. Everyone who use this mod can embed it by himself.

I was able to fix this issue why error messages are not shown. Update is coming asap.