Add-On Releases - Jujubins Lottery

Coder(s): jujubins (Nando)

Compatibility: 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x

Product Info:
Files to upload - 2
Files to import - 1
Templates - 8
Plugins - 2
Phrases - 33

Languages:
English
Portuguese

Purpose: Drawn awards for your forum users or if you want, just to one usergroup.

How it works: The users whom have permission to participate, those who have more than "x" posts, registered before "y" and members of "z" group, can take one ticket for day, until the day you set your scheduled tasks of your forum to close the lottery and drawn. As soon as drawn, there will be a congratulation message to the winner and disseminating him.


Demo: http://forum.glords.com/lottery.php

Installing:

1. Upload the files in the forum folder to your vBulletin root.
2. Import the product_jlottery.xml via Product Manager system.

Upgrading:

1. Upload the files in the forum folder to your vBulletin root.
2. Import the product_jlottery.xml via Product Manager system.

Setting:
Go to Admin CP > vBulletin Options > Jujubins Lottery and type in the fields:

• Enable: Set this option to yes to enable Jujubins Lottery.
• Topic: Topic ID with details of the lottery.
• Members Allowed: This option prevent new users to participate in the lottery. Only users before the date chosen could participate. Use Unix time.
• Posts Required: Number of posts required to participate.
• Usergroups Allowed: Usergroups allowed to participate. Separate with comma the usergroups.
• Round tickets:Example:
  14 tickets will appear 20 tickets.
  34 tickets will appear 40 tickets.
• Moderators: Now you can choose the moderator's group to reset in the lottery's page
• Post the winner? Automatically post the winner in thread.
• Poster userid: The userid that will post the congratulations.
• Post message: Post message.
  Variables: {winner}, {ticket}, {hour} and {date}

To change the date of the lottery go to Admin CP> Scheduled Taks> Scheduled Task Manager> Jujubins Lottery and modify the fields of the Day of month, Hour and Minute.


Requirements:
PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

History:
v0.5.0 - Dec 29. 2008
First Release
v0.7.0 - Dec 31. 2008

Added Phrases
Added option to reset when repeated the scheduled task

v0.7.1 - Jan 01. 2009
Correction in the variables of phrases
Correction in pharses
Added language in Portuguese
v0.8.0 - Jan 10. 2009
Added option to choose which usergroups can participate
Compatible with version 3.8.0
v1.0.0 - Jan 11. 2009

Added auto-link in the quick links, pop-up of community and navbar

Added option of types of drawn, "per day", "per drawn", "without limits"
v1.1.0 - Jan 12. 2009
Fixed: SQL table prefix
v1.2.0 - Jan 12. 2009
Added "see all" tickets link
Added option to enable link to see all tickets
v1.2.5 - Feb 1. 2009
Fixed: Show winners
v1.2.6 - Feb 6. 2009
Fixed: Winner link (member.php)
v1.2.6 - Feb 6. 2009
Fixed: Winner link (member.php)
v2.0.0 - Out 27. 2009
Re-writted the mod's intire code
Simplified code
SQL with fewer fields
2 new settings: Round tickets and moderators
Now you reset in lottery's page
Fixed: All known bugs
v2.1.0 - Out 29. 2009
Added: Automatic congratulations post in the thread (editable) (thanks paul41598)
Fixed: Some insignificant bugs
v2.1.1 - Out 30. 2009
Fixed: Posts limit (thanks pipibunny)
v2.1.3 - Out 30. 2009
Fixed: Usergroups colors in "See all" (thanks kalisekj)
Fixed: Links in menu (thanks kalisekj)
Fixed: Reset link to moderators (thanks kalisekj)
Fixed: Update version 2.0.0 to above will not reset your lottery (thanks kalisekj)

Quick support in english/portuguese: http://forum.glords.com/showthread.php?t=8927

Mark as Installed
Nominate for MOTM

Originally Posted by jujubins

I apologize to everybody who have donwloaded and waited for the Jujubins Lottery's updates. Today, I've re-writted the mod's intire code, making it simplier and with an easy lecture. I've tested it and no bug was found, I ask for help for everyone of you to make it better.
I promise that, starting from today, I'll be giving support about the mod.

The version 2.0.0 have been lauched, and it's in the topic.

Please help my keep supporting the project by donating in Paypal

[pipibunny]

I installed it. But I had a error.

When a new person access to lottery, it's display "Only members registred before of 13:47 of the date 23/02/2009 and have 0 posts can participate. ". But I disable Members Allowed funtion.

[jujubins]

No, you not disabled.
To disable you need set 0.

[pipibunny]

Dear Jujubins,

I had set 0 in function but it didn't work. Pls see image

[cynthetiq]

Originally Posted by sparky5693

I see how to reset the lottery, but it still shows the number of tickets from the previous drawing. Shouldn't it discard all the old tickets? As it currently is, the "statistics" can actually list members that aren't part of the current lottery.

Originally Posted by sparky5693

Is it possible to allow members who aren't part of the lottery see who won?

I have the same questions.

Also, is it possible to make it so that they need to post once that day to get the ticket for the day?

[itsIAN]

I have similar questions as well.

Whenever I clear the lottery it saves the tickets from last week. Though it wasn't hard just going into the database and deleting them, shouldn't this be automatic?

Also, I noticed it keeps counting up in the ticket numbers. Maybe I'm wrong, but shouldn't it start over for each week?

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by itsIAN

I have similar questions as well.

Whenever I clear the lottery it saves the tickets from last week. Though it wasn't hard just going into the database and deleting them, shouldn't this be automatic?

Also, I noticed it keeps counting up in the ticket numbers. Maybe I'm wrong, but shouldn't it start over for each week?

yep, still bugged rendering this thing useless

[kaderith]

I'm having the same issue reported by 'pipibunny'

The script is set to "0" for both the Members Allowed and Posts Required options, so that it should allow all members who are registered on the forum (and I do have my user groups set correctly) to take part however, even though its set for 0 posts, its not letting people get a ticket until they've posted at least once on the board.

Which is in turn, causing a great deal of irritation for me since I'm being bombarded with complaints.

[marianoblesa]

How good would be possible if it is not much trouble to add the option to delete all tickets in the database or set to 0.

Thank you.

[kaderith]

I reset the drawing after its first use following the directions as listed. Now, I'm sitting here trying to pick a winner for tonight.. and it isn't working. At all.

[Rob Hephner]

I can't figure out how to clear tickets from the previous lottery, it seems they just stay.

How can I make it start with a clean slate each time.

Thanks