Major Additions - [DBTech] vBShop v3 (vB3)

vBShop is the most advanced shop mod to date. Giving you unprecedented control over what items you can sell, vBShop is the perfect mod to go along with virtually any points modification.
With features like overriding any usergroup permission, including those of custom modifications, vBShop raises the bar for what you will come to expect from a shop mod.

Why vBShop is the perfect shop mod

Most other shop modifications add support for overriding certain stock actions, like increased PM space, increased avatar size, super moderator permissions, etc...
vBShop takes this to the next level and offers you 100% control over every single usergroup permission conceivable, including those of modifications we've never even heard of!

Usergroup permissions is not all it can do, however. It can also let members buy styling for your user title like bold, italics and colors, user title changing, username changing, and immunity from these changes.

It also offers a simple points system that you can use if you do not wish to add a points modification to your forum.

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Main Features

Override any usergroup permission: No technical knowledge required, you can override any yes/no or value permissions (like PM space etc) with a simple interface.

Highly configurable points fields: Even if you wish to use an external points mod, vBShop places no limitations as to what table or field it's placed in.

Modular design for easy future-proofing: Our modern, scalable item design lets you easily add new item types that your forums' sexy tech admin created for you.

Per-Item Usergroup Permissions: Want to create some dangerous items that only your most trusted members can access? No problem.

Bank: Keep your hard-earned cash safe and sound with our Bank feature.

Lottery: Feelin' lucky? Well, do ya!? Bet on lotteries and watch your members' fingernails get chewed down as the draw time approaches.



Main Pro-Only Features

Member-to-member gifts: Your users are feeling generous? Let them buy items for other members!

Points Donations: Buying items isn't enough? They can also give away points themselves.

Purchase History: See a concise list of all purchases that affected you, neatly grouped by day.

Default Usergroup Permission: Choose between default to allow or default to deny access to items you create.

Bank Interest: Let your members gain a little extra on the side for entrusting you with their points.

Complete Lottery Control: Get unprecedented control over your lotteries with features like Daily / Monthly lotteries, variable number range, prizes based on ticket income, and custom lottery numbers to bet on.


Complete Feature List

Lite:

• Front-End
  • Purchases
    • Custom Item
    • Username Colour
    • Usertitle Colour
    • Username Change
    • Usertitle Change
    • Immunity from changes
    • Usergroup Permissions
  • Stealing
    • Attempt to steal other peoples points.
  • Lotteries
    • Buy tickets
    • Review past lotteries
  • Bank
    • Store points
• AdminCP
  • Create Currencies
    • Multiple currencies supporting a wide range of points addons
  • Create Categories
    • Item categories for sorting purposes
  • Create Shops
    • Set common shop info
    • Set items this shop sells
  • Create Items
    • Icons
    • Per-item permissions
    • Itemtype-specific form fields
    • Per-shop settings
    • Set stock
    • Set price
    • Set currency
    • Notification on item purchase
  • Lotteries
  • Lottery prizes
  • Settings
    • Total control over points
    • Stealing Settings
      • Default %age chance of success
      • Default %age of points stolen
    • Bank Settings
      • Theft protection for bank funds

Pro

• Front-End
  • Transaction Log
  • Purchases
    • Forum Access
    • Usergroup Changes
    • Gift items to others
    • Custom Item input areas
  • Donate Points
  • Items
    • Immunity from theft.
    • Increase chances of theft working
    • Steal higher %age of persons points
  • Bank
    • Gain daily interest from points in the bank
• AdminCP
  • Create Shops
    • Set owner
  • Create Items
    • Set item as giftable or not
    • Set duration
    • Set max stock
    • Notification on item configuration
  • Set default usergroup access
  • Items
  • Increase chances of theft working
    • %age chance boost
  • Lottery
    • Recurring lotteries

Item Type: Sticky Thread

• Allows users to sticky a thread of their choice
• Configuration takes a thread ID that will be stickied
• Users cannot sticky already stickied threads
• Sticky status gets deactivated when the item expires, is deactivated or discarded
• (Pro) Forums can be excluded from having their threads sticky-able

Item Type: Fire Moderator

• Allows users to demote a forum moderator (not Super Moderator) from their position and remove their moderator permissions for a selected forum
• Admins can choose what moderator(s) in what forum(s) are fire-able
• Admins can choose to let a re-configured, expired or deactivated item "un-fire" a moderator, restoring their permissions
• Users select a moderator from the list of available moderators to fire
• Uses vBulletin data managers for maximum compatibility with 3rd party mods

Item Type: Forum Password

• Allows users to buy the password for select forum(s)
• Admins can choose one or more forums that are password protected to be given to users when buying the item
• Passwords for forums purchased are displayed on the item's "Configure" page
• Configure page updates if the password changes

Item Type: Post Style

• Allows users to configure font colour and effects to be used on their posts
• Admins can enable Bold, Italic, Underline, Colour, Glow and Shadow to be configurable by the user when configuring this item
• Users can configure any of the above that the admin has allowed
• Works the same way as the User Title Style and Username Style items

Item Type: Upload Smilie

• Allows users to upload a smilie and choose its replacement text
• Admins can configure the size limitations of user uploaded smilie images via a vBulletin Options setting
• Users can choose title, replacement text, upload an image either via URL or via local upload and choose smilie category
• Fully integrated into the Smilie Manager in the AdminCP and uses DataManagers for maximum 3rd party modification compatibility

Item Type: Create Smilie Category

• Allows users to create a new Smilie Category that they can use for their custom smilie uploads or be used by Admins for existing smilies
• Users can configure the title of the Smilie Category
• Fully integrated into the Smilie Category manager in the ACP and uses vBulletin's rebuild cache functions for maximum compatibility

Item Type: Thread Title Style

• Allows users to configure font colour and effects to be used on thread titles in the "Forum Display" thread list
• Admins can enable Bold, Italic, Underline, Colour, Glow and Shadow to be configurable by the user when configuring this item
• Users can configure any of the above that the admin has allowed
• Works the same way as the User Title Style and Username Style items

(Pro) Item Type: Profile Music

• Allows users to add a music player to their profile with an MP3 track of their choice
• Configuration takes a URL to an MP3 file
• Profile sideblock plays the MP3 with the Dewplayer flash player
• Music does not auto-play, clicking the Play button is required

(Pro) Item Type: Avatar Change

• Allows users to buy a single instance of avatar change
• Requires vBulletin Options override enabled
• Supports usergroups exempt from the "No Change" override
• Implements its limits / permissions on vBulletin's Edit Avatar page for maximum compatibility with 3rd party mods
• Non-reconfigurable items get deleted upon avatar change

(Pro) Item Type: Delete Thread

• Allows users to soft delete a thread of their choosing
• Admins can choose one or more forums that are excluded from having their threads soft deleted
• Disabled or expired items restores the thread
• Uses vBulletin data managers and functions to delete and undelete threads for maximum compatibility with 3rd party mods

(Pro) Item Type: Change Forum Description

• Allows users to change the description of a forum of their choosing
• Admins can choose one or more forums that are excluded from having their descriptions changed
• Admins can choose to allow or disallow items that can be re-configured from having their forums changed. Allowing forum change would mean someone could change the descriptions of ALL non-excluded forums.
• Uses vBulletin data managers and functions to delete and undelete threads for maximum compatibility with 3rd party mods

(Pro) Item Type: Signature Change

• Allows users to buy a single instance of signature change
• Requires vBulletin Options override enabled
• Supports usergroups exempt from the "No Change" override
• Implements its limits / permissions on vBulletin's Edit Signature page for maximum compatibility with 3rd party mods
• Non-reconfigurable items get deleted upon signature change

(Pro) Item Type: Ban User From Thread

• Allows users to ban a user of their choosing from a thread of their choosing
• Admins can choose one or more forums that are excluded from having their threads bannable
• Admins can choose one or more usergroups that are excluded from being bannable
• Hides the thread from the "Forum Display" list
• Visiting a "banned thread" via the URL in a "You have been banned from this thread!" message.

(Pro) Item Type: Username Style (Pre-Defined)

• Allows users to purchase a pre-defined Username Style
• Admins can configure any combination of Bold, Italic, Underline, Colour, Glow, Shadow
• Works in the same way as the user-configurable item, except users can't configure this item

(Pro) Item Type: User Title Style (Pre-Defined)

• Allows users to purchase a pre-defined User Title Style
• Admins can configure any combination of Bold, Italic, Underline, Colour, Glow, Shadow
• Works in the same way as the user-configurable item, except users can't configure this item

(Pro) Item Type: User Title Change (Pre-Defined)

• Allows users to purchase a pre-defined User Title
• Admins can configure the user title the user will be purchasing
• Works in the same way as the user-configurable item, except users can't configure this item

(Pro) Item Type: Create Forum

• Allows users to create a new forum that is ready to accept new posts
• Admins can configure what forum(s) are excluded from getting sub-forums via this item
• Users can configure forum title, description and parent ID from the list of allowed forums
• Uses the defaults found in vBulletin's forum manager to create first-time options, admin configurable via the Forum Manager
• Uses vBulletin DataManager for maximum compatibility with 3rd party mods

(Pro) Item Type: Moderate Forum

• Allows users to become a moderator in an admin-defined forum
• Admins can configure the forum that buyers will become a moderator of, and also the same moderator permissions as are available in vBulletin's moderator management interface
• When the item expires, moderator powers get taken away
• Uses vBulletin DataManager for maximum possible compatibility with 3rd party mods

(Pro) Item Type: Post Style (Pre-Defined)

• Allows users to purchase a pre-defined Post Style
• Admins can configure any combination of Bold, Italic, Underline, Colour, Glow, Shadow
• Works in the same way as the user-configurable item, except users can't configure this item

(Pro) Item Type: Thread Title Style (Pre-Defined)

• Allows users to purchase a pre-defined Thread Title Style
• Admins can configure any combination of Bold, Italic, Underline, Colour, Glow, Shadow
• Works in the same way as the user-configurable item, except users can't configure this item

(Pro) AdminCP Inventory Management

• Admins can search through a user's inventory and delete items from their inventory
• Search parameters / filters include items per page, user name (optional), sorting and an optional item filter
• Items can be added to a specific user's inventory
• Items will default to inactive and unconfigured, so users can configure and activate them
• Items can also be mass added to either all user groups, or users who are a member of a specific usergroup

Shop Management

• Admins and User Shop owners can set another person as "Benficiary" of the shop to receive a percentage 0-100 of the proceeds
• Can be same as shop owner, none (extra money vanishes into thin air) or another userId
• Amounts can be split in any amount of 0-100%

Shops / Items General

• Front-end: Shop list does not display if only one shop is active
• Front-end: Item list can now have more or less than 5 items per line depending on the skin
• Items have an AdminCP toggle to force it to not be displayed in the postbit. Purchased items are forcibly set to Hidden and cannot be un-hidden.
• Items with the Item Type "Usergroup Permissions (Yes / No)" or "Usergroup Permissions (Values)" can now override up to 5 permissions each.
• (Pro) Custom items now displays icons from a separate folder from admin-created items

General / Other

• The bank balance of each currency can optionally be displayed in the postbit. Toggled by a vBOption setting.
• The profile tab can be disabled via a vBOption setting.
• The Purchase Notification PM now lists the quantity of items purchased
• All PMs sent by this mod now displays the forum signature
• Item display in the postbit now shows gift giver and gift message if any were entered, where applicable
• All "Yes / No / Default" usergroup permission selectors now have vB-style "All Yes / All No / All Default" buttons
• Items now have a toggle for Active. Items flagged as inactive are automatically disabled from the inventories of any member who purchased it while it was active.

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[bmc]

I have a few questions:

1. How do I integrate vBShop with vBExperience points? I want to use vBExperience points as the official currency for vBShop. Please inform me exactly how to do this.
2. How do I edit the number of points for a specific user? I tried editing a user's profile in the AdminCP, but was unable to find this feature. Please advise.
3. I set up an item for purchase that enables a user to open and close their own threads. After purchasing the item, the user is still unable to open and close their own threads, despite having purchased the item in vBShop. I also had this problem with other "Usergroup Permissions (Values)" and "Usergroup Permissions (Yes / No)" settings. How can I fix this issue?

[dizzynation]

Vbshop when installed kept my guest from viewing posts, it just sent them to a white page.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by bmc

How do I integrate vBShop with vBExperience points? I want to use vBExperience points as the official currency for vBShop. Please inform me exactly how to do this.

I don't know exactly how to do this, but you need to edit the default currency with the vBExperience column. Ask in the vBExperience thread if you need help figuring out what column in the user table it uses

Originally Posted by bmc

How do I edit the number of points for a specific user? I tried editing a user's profile in the AdminCP, but was unable to find this feature. Please advise.

Ensure you're running 2.2, as that is a feature in that version.

Originally Posted by bmc

I set up an item for purchase that enables a user to open and close their own threads. After purchasing the item, the user is still unable to open and close their own threads, despite having purchased the item in vBShop. I also had this problem with other "Usergroup Permissions (Values)" and "Usergroup Permissions (Yes / No)" settings. How can I fix this issue?

If you give me a complete list of problematic permissions I will look into them.

Originally Posted by dizzynation

Vbshop when installed kept my guest from viewing posts, it just sent them to a white page.

Without some form of error message I'm sadly unable to assist


Fillip

[Scyther]

pls help...
I uploaded all the contents from the Upload file you specified, DB, and tried import the products_dbtech_vbshop.xml to my forum root directory...

but it doesn't work...I get the following error:

/home/canarybr/public_html/up/forum/dbtech/vbshop/includes/class_install.php appears to be missing!

I uploaded class_install.php myself, and again the same error comes up..

pls help..

[dizzynation]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

Without some form of error message I'm sadly unable to assist


Fillip

Thats the thing, there was no error message, only a blank white page, when i globally disable vbshop the guest can view the post, but not when its active.

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by Scyther

pls help...
I uploaded all the contents from the Upload file you specified, DB, and tried import the products_dbtech_vbshop.xml to my forum root directory...

but it doesn't work...I get the following error:



I uploaded class_install.php myself, and again the same error comes up..

pls help..

http://www.captainluffy.com/forum/db...ss_install.php - returns 404

Please upload the files exactly as they are inside the upload folder to your forum folder

Originally Posted by dizzynation

Thats the thing, there was no error message, only a blank white page, when i globally disable vbshop the guest can view the post, but not when its active.

Did you check your server's error log?


Fillip

[bmc]

Originally Posted by DragonByte Tech

I don't know exactly how to do this, but you need to edit the default currency with the vBExperience column. Ask in the vBExperience thread if you need help figuring out what column in the user table it uses

Thanks for your reply! I'll ask over there.

Ensure you're running 2.2, as that is a feature in that version.

I am running 2.2 (the download you currently have on here), and am unable to find it. Could you please direct me to where I would find this feature in the AdminCP to edit the amount of points per user?

If you give me a complete list of problematic permissions I will look into them.

The following are problematic permissions that do not work for me (I tested with a regular registered user, and the features listed below didn't work after purchasing them in the shop):

NOTE: I will edit this list as I encounter additional errors.


Usergroup Permissions (Yes / No)

• Can Open / Close Own Threads
• Can View Who's Online

Usergroup Permissions (Values)

• Minimum Time Between Posts

[DragonByte Tech]

Originally Posted by bmc

I am running 2.2 (the download you currently have on here), and am unable to find it. Could you please direct me to where I would find this feature in the AdminCP to edit the amount of points per user?

The same user manager where you can edit their password and other vBulletin fields

Originally Posted by bmc

The following are problematic permissions that do not work for me (I tested with a regular registered user, and the features listed below didn't work after purchasing them in the shop):

NOTE: I will edit this list as I encounter additional errors.


Usergroup Permissions (Yes / No)

• Can Open / Close Own Threads
• Can View Who's Online

Usergroup Permissions (Values)

• Minimum Time Between Posts

If it's going to be an ongoing list, could you please post it in our support forums? In about 2 days your post will be buried, and it'll be very hard for me to keep track of it reliably.

If you post a bug report on our support forum, I'll give it a week or so while you keep digging

Just to explain why this is happening: Sometimes, vBulletin create their permissions in a non-standard manner, which requires some tweaking in order to properly get it to work with vBShop.


Fillip

[sassou2009]

thank you for this great addon, but can i change the file name (vbshop.php) i would like to change it to (shop.php) it will look better on browser url
thx

[DragonByte Tech]

That's not possible, sorry


Fillip