Trader Ratings v1.2.0

Trader Ratings - A user feedback hack
Copyright ?2004 Jason Rabel, All Rights Reserved.
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Latest TR Verson: 1.2.0
vB Versions: 3.0.0 - 3.0.9
Author: Jason Rabel
Contact: PM me here, I'll respond.
Site: EXTREME Overclocking
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Updates:
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1.2.0 - September 4, 2004
- Added Trader Ratings Stats Page (finally!)
- Added PM notification when someone receives feedback
- Changed how positive feedback percentage score is calculated (bugfix)
- Ability to "close" the Trader Ratings pages (for maintainence or whatever) - TRATING_CLOSED
- Ability to set the URL field when submitting feedback to required or optional - TRATING_REQ_URL

1.1.0 - June 7, 2004
- Added time-based user edit/delete abilities, set via TRATING_UEDIT constant in traderratings.php file
- Userdate field is now an int field to be consistent with vBulletin
- Userrating field changed to tinyint to save space
- Fixed timeframes for showing historical ratings
- Made some various code consolidation
- Added missing ".TABLE_PREFIX." statement
- Templates.txt file shows code for postbit & MEMBERINFO, with conditional examples
- All 3 templates changed heavily
- Added some more phrases & fixed missing phrases

1.0.1 - June 2, 2004
- Fixed a "divide by zero" display error
- Postbit template fixed so guests do not have a trader rating

1.0.0 - June 1, 2004
- Initial Public Release

Description:
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Trader Ratings has evolved from my vB2 Buy/Sell/Trade User Rating System. 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 based on the honor system since there is no way to truly tell if they did engage in a transaction. (But I'm working on a way to fix that.) Trader Ratings 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:
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? Rate another member: Positive / Negative / Neutral
? Specify Buyer, Seller, or Trade
? Leave comments about the deal
? Records date when rating created
? Specify a URL to the deal
? 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)
? Admins & Mods can edit/delete anyone's ratings (just incase)
? Stats page showing best & worst rated members, and recent ratings
? PM notification when a person is rated

Basic Info:
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I haven't written a FAQ or any real documentation yet, but the way the system works is very simple. The only part that might confuse someone is that the Feedback Score is based only on UNIQUE members. Also, there are simple checks in place to make sure they actually do select proper info and enter a comment. A user is not able to rate themself (obviously). Permissions for viewing / rating are similar to standard forum viewing / posting permissions. Also it checks to make sure users exist and all that good stuff.

Installation Info:
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This hack is very simply to implement requiring only:
? 1 new file
? 5 new templates / 2-3 template changes (navbar, posbit/postbit_legacy, MEMBERINFO, memberlist_resultsbit)
? 52 new phrases
? 1 new DB table / 1 table DB change & index

An install/upgrade PHP file is included to do all the template/phrase/DB stuff, so basically you run that, upload the file, and edit your postbit template. BAM!

Screen Shots / Demos:
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See Screenshots below, or you can view them on my forums: My Trader Rating Page

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

Forums Using This Hack:
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EXTREME Overclocking Forums
i-Club -- Forums
Accord Tuner
NSX Prime
Honda-Acura.net
Guns Network
PimpRig

(PM me your forum if you want me to add you to the list)

Donations:
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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.


Plans For Future Releases:
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? rebuttal / followup comments
? item description (possibly instead of thread url)
? button on thread that buyer/seller clicks to tie the transaction to two people

[eoc_Jason]

Well, from what I can gather... you are running old versions of the templates... (I just registered on your site)...

[eoc_Jason]

Okay... I just uploaded Trader Ratings 1.2.0!

Please post any install/upgrade success / failures... Since the scripts are written by hand there's always the chance I made an oops.

Please let me know what you think (especially the stats page). The queries are a little high on the stats page because it really has to eat it when calculating out the % positive feedback.

[higabyte]

got it installed... thanks pretty easy install too....

however, i seem to be a moron, what exactly do i need to change for the different style ids?

should it look like this:

$styleid=$vboptions['styleid=xx'];

where xx is the style number??

[eoc_Jason]

no, just something like:

$styleid = 1;

It should default to whatever your current styleid is. However you might want to manually change it to whatever your top-level id is, that way all the custom styles below will inherit the templates.

[higabyte]

haha ok thats what i was thinking at first but thought that seemed too easy...

thanks again!!!

[the wiz]

I just updated, and it is still doing it.

How do I uninstall the hack? I want to completely uninstall it and then I'll run the new install thing and see if it works right.

[higabyte]

one other thing, i dont know if this has been addressed or not and if it has my apologies, but ok taking a look at this:

http://board.accordtuner.com/traderr...?u=1&styleid=9

You see I have 5 feedbacks left.

You have 3 fields, 1 month, 6 month, & 12 month...

now, shouldnt the the numbers in those 3 fields equate to the amount of feedbacks you have left?

ie: 1 month displays all left this month, 6 months would show from months 2-6, and 12 month would show 7-12, and then anything beyond 12 months old would fall off the list...

anyways, just a thought...

[higabyte]

ok might got a bug for ya...

it reports as closed to the regular members, I tried everything I could think of but since im not much of a php programmer I ended up having to just take the whole maitenance code out...

[Spinball]

Jason - thanks. A definite bug for you. You need to update the upgrade script to put the correct version number in there. It's still says 1.1.0.

[ImportPassion]

ya, version was one I was going to post.

also, for the wall of shame, what i did is added

, lastactivity DESC

after ORDER BY ratetradetotal ASC

on line 178

cause if someone hasn't been on in a long time and there are a bunch of ppl with all the same like 20 -1's, it goes by username b4 activity, so I just made that change.

All else looks good tho.

D