Major Additions - VBay! Transform your vbulletin into an auctionhouse!

VBay.

This will add an auction section to your bulletin!

If you want to donate to me click the link over there ---------------------->

I am open to suggestions, bugs, comments, insults, and anything else you might say to me at the time :P

To do list:
*use forums/categories/subforums for your auctionhouse.
high bidder userid -> username
*" in description cuts the description at that point
add buyer name
fix pm formatting
add more currencies
intergrate with trader ratings
add paypal api
bidder usergroups
*hot auctions on main < - Available with addon (wont be packaged in vbay)
admin editing auctions
*set up for use with forum commenting.
*fix amount of days an auction can be posted (more than 2 char)
ability to prune old auctions
make sure buy it now is using buy it now price, not bid.
allow admin ability to specify bid/buyitnow/both overrides.

* = Completed.

Features:
Full BBCode support.
Specification of everything, Money Auction length ECT.
Image uploader for auctions.
Closed auction section.
3 auction types, bid, buy it now, or both.


To install
Upload files, and import product as usual
Make a new usergroup and call it the sellers usergroup, do what you want with this group (allow people to request addition maybe?)
Go to vbulletin options and into vbay, set the usergroup id of the sellers group you just made.


To upgrade
re upload all files
import new product
REVERT YOUR TEMPLATES

[Skitty]

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

are you lookng at the templates in the 'find updated templates' page or in the vbay category of the templates page?

Hi, I checked first in the Vbay category, then after seeing this (above) post of yours I checked the "updated templates" option and that doesn't show any vbay templates either the only updated templates that show are "MEMBERINFO"

[Blaine0002]

ok thats fine then, have you made sure you imported the newest xml and updated all the files?

if so check for a phrase named vbay_pm_i_bid
tell me if it exists

[Skitty]

I just searched in phrases for vbay_pm_i_bid and found it, in Global phrases ?

[Skitty]

p.s., I tested the upgrade using Opera, if that makes any difference. Also, yeppers on the updated xml, new version uploaded over the old one, product manager shows updated 1.1.7 file.

[Blaine0002]

it shouldnt, you say you arent recieving pms when auctions close am i correct?

[Skitty]

Test auctions (buy it now) yesterday on the 1.1.6 version generated the automatic pm. We only ran one test auction today after the upgrade to 1.1.7 and there was no pm sent to either party. I'll check it again in a bit but the one auction we ran had no notification and when the item was purchased, the auction closed without any record of who purchased it.

[Skitty]

Okeedokee, I just ran another test auction, buy it now, if the notification pm doesnt show up in ten minutes I'll let you know.

edit :

Buy it now auctions without a bidding option end without showing any record of the winner.

Buy it now auctions with the bidding option will leave a record of winner when there was an initial bid placed before the buy it now option was used.

[Skitty]

No pm's on any of them.

[Blaine0002]

and by record of the winner you mean the high bidder?

[Skitty]

Yes, the completed auction page says "auction completed" (from memory, I may be a word or two off) but does not show who purchased the item. I do have the options set that high bidders are visible.