Major Additions - iTrader v2.0.1

iTrader - A user feedback add-on for vBulletin 3.5.x
Copyright ?2004-2005 Jason Rabel, All Rights Reserved.
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Latest iTrader Verson: 2.0.1
vB Versions Supported: 3.5.x & 3.6.x
Author: Jason Rabel
Contact: PM me here.
Site: EXTREME Overclocking
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Description:
iTrader for vB 3.5.x & 3.6.x has evolved from Trader Ratings for vB 3.0.x which evolved from Buy/Sell/Trade User Rating System for vB 2.x. 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 somewhat based on the honor system since there is no automatic way to truly tell if they did engage in a transaction. iTrader 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:

• Rate another member: Positive / Negative / Neutral
• Specify in each transaction: Buyer, Seller, or Trade
• Leave multiple comments about the deal
• Dates & IPs are all recorded to prevent abuse
• Specify a thread URL to the deal
• Advanced URL checking
• 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)
• iTrader Admins can edit/delete anyone's ratings (just incase)
• PM notification when new rating or comment is left
• Per-usergroup permissions
• Lots of admin controllable options

Installation / Upgrade Info:
Read the included readme file, it explains everything.

Standard Disclaimer:
BACKUP YOUR DATABASE & FILES BEFORE IMPLEMENTING THIS HACK!!!

Donations:
This add-on will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. The link is on the right under "The Developer" info.

Future Additions:

• AdminCP & ModCP Menus for searching IPs, stats, mass-prune, etc
• Better navigation across pages
• Better error descriptions
• Adjust action icons some
• Page to link two ratings manually
• AdminCP Option to choose how ratings are ordered (asc or desc by time)
• AJAX editing

Release History:
2.0.1 - December 18, 2005
2.0.0 - December 14, 2005

Detailed template edits : (Link)

[fluentdesigns]

Looking forward to 3.7 update as well! Any news on this yet?

[KHALIK]

Does this have built in paypal support ? for payments.

[Battle_Ring]

Cant wait for the 3.7 version

How is the coding on this going is it near?

[Jacqueline]

I saw some people saying it still worked ok in 3.7. I'm going to try installing in 3.6, then upgrading.

[Stubbed]

This mod already works perfectly fine for 3.7.

I followed the instructions that came with the download and in this topic (About adding the information to postbit in certain forums), and I also used this mod:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=itrader

Works fine, had no problems.

[Alex@Mk3OC]

I've got it working on 3.7 as well again with the same plugin as above, not got any problems at all

[Battle_Ring]

Ok great

[ctbo]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Hi Guys,

I was pretty much waiting for the final Gold version of vB 3.7 to be released before diving too far into the code. Yes I will be releasing a fresh version for 3.7 (because I too plan on upgrading). But I just started really working on it this past weekend after getting a test 3.7 forum installed. I do have several other big work-related projects going on at the moment, coding a free add-on isn't exactly at the top of the priority list so please be patient... The more people gripe and get demanding, the less incentive I have to actually finish it.

I'm kind of thinking on reverting back to a more simpler style, without having the whole extended comments thread thing with a rating pair. I think that really flew over most people's heads and I have not seen it used much on the few sites I check out. I also think I'm either going to completely remove the "report" feature, or possibly make it just an option in the admincp since that seemed to get abused more than it being actually of any use. If anyone has any serious objections to these removal, let me know and I can leave it in and maybe make some sort of style option in the admincp.

Other changes are mostly just minor fixes like the PM notifications being more details, navagation corrections, etc...

If there are any features you really want to see, please PM me here and be as detailed as possible.

The report function shouldnt be removed, but it does need to report to a forum rather than send an email.

Looking forward to a 3.7 release, my users would be very sorry to see this Mod go when we upgrade. Thanks for your great work Jason.

[AngieZ]

Can we make iTrader accessible to certain usergroups only?

[eoc_Jason]

We currently have vbclassified on our forum and would like to switch back to our old setup that used iTrader. We still have iTrader in place and active. Is there any way to convert our vbclassified feedbacks to carry over into the member's iTrader?

I don't know anything about how vbclassified works so I can't really help you there. I think with a little creativeness you should be able to make some sort of conversion query.

Please don't remove *any* functionality.

I'm not really planning on ripping anything out, I'm just changing the setup somewhat so that the "default" install uses as simpler menus and input boxes. There is still an admin choice to have the extra features if they wish to have them enabled (which currently is the extra thread like view for a deal).

Although having some way of doing the job without entering the thread URL would be infinitely better.

I think I can code in a little smartness so that you can put a rating link in certain forum sections. So basically it will pass the URL to the page and that's one thing that won't have to be filled in.

Also, an option in the user cp to include/exclude forums where rating is/isn't shown.

That's more of a template conditional in your postbit if you want to exclude it. (likewise you can do a conditional for only certain usergroups). I'll look into the feasability for making some admin boxes and then just a general variable for the postbit.

one question i have: if I upgrade to 3.7 gold and disable this add on until jason releases his new version, there should be no problem upgrading the hack at a later date, right? without losing current feedback, etc?

Yes, you can do that and all should be fine.

btw - would you do custom paid work after? Wanted to go deeper with this itrader.

No..

Can we make iTrader accessible to certain usergroups only?

yes, there are itrader options at the bottom of the usergroup settings...


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Okay, so now for an update. I saw that vB released 3.7.1 already... I didn't get a chance to install that on my test box yet, I'm planning on doing that later this evening. I don't think it will affect any functionality but I just want to be sure.

I spent some time last weekend (3 day weekend, woohoo) and made a lot of headway. I'm hoping tomorrow afternoon I can wrap up most of the changes. I just logged into vb.org since my previous post so I just saw all your suggestions and comments, I'll try to accomidate as much as possible. Anyhow once I get all the base code working right, I need to go over the upgrade / uninstall code carefully (always a pain to make sure it works right). And lastly I guess some updated documentation with the release would help some people out. Unfortunatly because of work constraints I really only get a chance to work on this on the weekends, but I will really try to push and get it out some time this coming week (probably mid to end of the week, I already know Monday is going to be extremely busy).