Add-On Releases - Stock Trader for vBulletin

Stock Trader

Summary

This add-on gives your users the ability to use the money system on your board to "invest" in stock. Users can purchase and sell stock at market values. This plugin uses a stock feed from Yahoo to get real time stock quotes.

Release Notes

This product is considered to still be in Beta.This should be ending by the end of January.

This add-on is known to be compatible with vBulletin's built-in reputation system, vbBux and iCash.

Product Specifications

1. two plugins
2. one cron job
3. file uploads
4. one new DB table
5. one template
6. several phrases

Installation
Approx 2-5 mins

1. As always: Back up your Database!
2. upload the files in the "upload" directory, preserving the directory structure
3. Go into AdminCP and import the product-stocktrader.xml file.
4. (OPTIONAL) add a link in the navbar template or wherever your users can find it!

Upgrading/Updating

1. upload all files in the upload directory, overwriting any existing files
2. re-import the XML file, setting "Overwrite" to "Yes"

Configuration

1. vBulletin Options -> Stock Trader Options

Change History

• 0.9.9 (07-25-01) - fixed problem with trading mutual funds, fixed cheat with buying off hours (I think)
• 0.9.8 (07-18-01) - added new options and fixed bug with purchasing really cheap stock
• 0.9.7 (07-15-01) - fixed bug in top portfolios when using a table prefix
• 0.9.6 (07-15-01) - fixed table prefix issues, fixed portfolio.gif problem
• 0.9.5 (07-14-01) - added statistics page, ability to view other user portfolios, and postbit friendly variables
• 0.9.4 (07-09-01) - added a Capital Gains Tax option
• 0.9.3 (07-02-01) - fixed error with purchasing negative stock, fixed compatibility with iCash
• 0.9.2 (07-05-01) - bug fixes
• 0.9.1 (06-30-12) - added AJAX stock info lookup
• 0.9.0 (06-29-12) - initial Beta release

Future Features

• stock ticker marquee for users

Official Support

http://code.google.com/p/vbtrade/

PLEASE CLICK INSTALL!

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

Lionel,
I can't see your top profile page : Invalid action

How do you run cron manually ?

try again I just enabled unregistered

to run the cron manually, admincp/scheduled task manager and look for stock trader, then click "run"

[Lionel]

<a href="http://www.haitiwebs.com/forums/vbtrade.php?do=viewportfolio&userid=6120" target="_blank">here</a> is a portfolio that doesn't display (shows in db as -999999.999) and I just ran cron again

[Lionel]

Solved my problem: It was due to the table stocktrader where the cheaters had entered negative values (from other problem that had been solved, but negative values remained in table)

[Lionel]

But one last bug remains. If someone sells all the stocks and pulls out, the cron which should have first empty all columns before re inserting does not. Therefore, someone who is out still carries old values in user table.

[Lionel]

so what I did, before the foreach loop in the cron I did

$vbulletin->db->query_write("UPDATE user SET ambportval = '', ambportgainamt = '', ambportgainper = '' ");

and all is well

[Quantnet]

anyone notice the file for download is still 0.9.6 ? not 0.9.7 ? or just that he didn't change the number ?

Lionel, can you upload the file with the fix ?

[Lionel]

oh well, no one wanted to do it, so I did it. If it's ok with zethon I'll post my vbadvanced module.

image1 is seen by unregistered
image2 by member without portfolio
image3 by member with portfolio

[Quantnet]

wow, that's excellent Lionel. Can't wait to get that vbadvanced module.

[Lionel]

it does look good :-)
All packaged waiting for an ok.

[xxxsaint]

Very nice how you've got it showing the different market's position on the day , can that be done without vbadvanced ?

Also , how come we can pull up values of mutual funds , but you can't purchase them ??