Major Additions - vBCredits - Ultimate Points System

vBCredits is the ultimate points system for your vBulletin!
Click here for the vB3.7 compatible version

Thank you to everyone who voted us MOTM

Features:

• Earning Credits
  • Twenty-Four Actions Eligible for Awards
    • Induction
      • Registration, Promotion, Subscription, etc
    • Referral
    • Paycheck
      • Definable Time Period
    • Activity
      • Definable Qualification
    • Birthday
    • Grant Reputation
      • Can Integrate with Rep Power
    • Receive Reputation
      • Can Multiply Reputation Points
    • Infraction
      • Can Multiply Infraction Points
    • New Thread
    • Rate Thread
      • Can Multiply Rating
    • Posting
    • Own Thread Posting
    • Post Size
      • Multiply Against Chars or Words
      • Can Strip BB Code Prior
      • Definable Maximum
    • Your Thread Viewed
      • Can Disable Guest Views
    • Your Thread Rated
    • Your Thread Replied
    • Your Profile Viewed
    • Poll Creation
    • Poll Vote
    • Upload Attachment
    • Sending PM
    • Calendar Event
    • Profile Picture
    • Profile Fields
      • Can Multiply Number of Fields
      • Can Set Minimum Fields
  • Decimal Settings for Credits and Percentages
  • Protocol for Negative Balances
  • Award Recalculation when Action Changes
  • Award Negation Multiplier
    • When Action Revoked Such As Post Deletion
  • Forum Overrides
    • Twelve Eligible Actions by Usergroup
    • ACP Tool to Configure Multiple at Once
    • Earning in Forums Can be Turned Off
• Displaying Credits
  • Everybody, Private, Nobody
    • Usergroup Permission to See All Private Amounts
  • Displays by Global, Usergroup, Forum
  • Lock Usergroups from Entire System
  • AJAX Navbar Amount Refresh
  • Display / Order by Savings, Checking, or Both
  • Richest User Listing
    • Can Exclude Usergroups From Listing
  • Display Credits in Memberlist
• Extensive Referral System
  • Validate by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Referee Credit Incentive
  • Number of Referrals per Referral Point
  • Maximum Referral Points
  • Referral Points Multiplied Against Additive Referral Bonus
  • ARB Increases ALL Other Action Award Amounts
• Post Award System
  • AJAX Through Thread or Profile
  • Can Spend From Central Board Account
    • Filled from Taxes, Fees, etc
  • Daily, User, Thread Limits
  • Can Disallow Negative Awards
  • Disable by Usergroup, Forum
  • Moderate by Usergroup, Forum
  • Can Publicly Display Awards in Thread
• Transaction Log
  • Displays All Donations, Awards, Payments, Winnings, etc
  • Can be Split into Pages
  • Usergroup Permission to View All Users' Logs
  • Specify Transaction Alerts via PM
  • Comments and Reasons Allow BB Code
• Donations
  • Support for Comments and Anonymous
  • Time Based User Limits
  • Donation Fee
  • Fee Handling Protocol
  • Moderate / Cancel Donations
• Drawings
  • Unlimited Concurrent Drawings
  • Raffle / Lottery Types
  • Static / Raising Jackpots
  • Per Drawing Ticket Cost
  • Maximum Active Tickets
  • Minimum / Maximum Tickets Sold for Drawings
  • Recurring Drawings
  • Usergroup Discounts
  • Configurable Title and Date
  • Exclude Usergroups
  • Optional Winner PHP
  • Allow Lottery Number Picking
  • Tax on Winnings
  • Archive Time Limit for Completed Drawings
  • Retry Period for Ineligible Drawings
• Savings Accounts
  • Validate Access by Time, Posts, and Reputation
  • Minimum Balance for Interest
  • Bank Transfer Fee
  • Pending Deposits
  • Early Withdrawal Fee
  • Interest Intervals
  • Maximum Savings per Usergroup
  • Configurable Usergroup Interest Rates
  • Moderate Deposits
• Loans
  • Moderate Loans
  • Maximum Total Loans and Amounts
  • Minimum Loan Amount
  • Minimum Payment by Due Date
  • Late Payment Fee
  • Automatic Recurring Payments
  • Accountability Rating for Loan Repayment
  • Good and Bad Rating Thresholds
  • Lock Spending Ability if Below Bad Rating
  • Transfer Usergroups when Threshold Passed
    • Reward or Punish Users with New Rates and Abilities
• Administrative Utilities
  • Mass Usergroup Updater
    • Select Template Usergroup to Copy Settings
    • Select Multiple Target Usergroups
    • Configure All Usergroup Settings and Awards
  • Mass Credit Updater
    • Retroactively Award Users Based on Settings
    • Can be Used to Award Static Amounts to All Users
    • Can be Used to Reset Entire Usergroups
    • Pick and Choose Usergroups and Awards to Calculate
  • Modify User Accounts by Criteria
    • First Search for Users Using Familiar Options
    • Can Search by Savings and Checking Amounts
    • Can Alter Resulting Users' Amounts Directly
    • Can Apply Easy-to-Use Custom Defined Formula
      • Use Simple Math, Numbers, and Variables
        • Days Registered
        • Post Count
        • Reputation
        • Infraction Points
        • Checking and Savings Amounts
• Overall Quality
  • Everything is Easily Disabled / Unlimited
  • Will Not Alter Environment for vB or Other Hacks
  • Fully Phrased
  • Complete Admin Help*
  • WOL Locations
  • Includes Hooks
  • Unique Plugin Optimization
  • Uses Bitfields and Datastore
  • Maintains Sessions
  • Includes TMS Support
  • No File Edits

and much more!

Just follow the directions carefully in the zip based on whether you are clean installing or upgrading


Fully integrated with vBulletin and easily integrated with third party scripts:
Many hacks allow you to specify a points system by entering the table and column for the points data. Use TABLE: user COLUMN: credits when integrating vBCredits with such hacks (note: you may need to include your table prefix with some hacks)! If you are unsure about integration - ask me!

Why is this version not the gold version yet?
vBCredits 1.4rc1 went through a long bugtesting process at the official site, and rc2 is largely bug free in its entirety. However, *it is missing most of the admin help and post/thread deletion actions are temporarily removed while I figure out how to fix them.

Footnotes:
Thank you for using vBCredits, I would be happy to hear your feedback and correct anything that comes up. For more tailored support, please indicate you have installed this hack. Use of this free hack requires that you retain the copyright line at the bottom of the forum (PM me otherwise). If you do not agree with this, please do not use vBCredits - thank you for your understanding and support!

[barny11]

Originally Posted by PlymWS

To edit a template :

Admin CP -> Styles & Templates -> Style Manager

In the right hand pane select the down arrow in between "All Style Options" and the "Go" button and select Edit Templates

In the resulting window scroll down using the vertical scroll bar until you see PostBit Templates. Double click Postbit templates to expand it and scroll down until you see postbit or postbit_legacy ( if you use the old style panel on the left hand side of every post )

Double click on postbit or postbit_legacy

An edit window will appear.

In the "Find" box at the bottom of the editing window paste this and click find:

<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon]

This will highlight that line. Create a blank line above this by going to the left hand side of the line highlighted and press enter. Click in this new blank line and enter :

$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right]

The template should now look like this :

id="repdisplay_$post[postid]_$post[userid]">$post[reputationdisplay]</span></div></if>
$template_hook[postbit_userinfo_right]
<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon] $post[skypeicon]</div>

Click the save button at the bottom of the edit window to save the template. This will perform the template edit you need to get the credits to display in your postbit fields.

Wow thanks for that m8

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

I suggest you read this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=39142
I try to write my instructions for people who understand the things on this page, otherwise it would irritate the majority who do. Furthermore, did you try the template hook instructions at the bottom of the Instructions.txt file?

Thanks PlymWS for writing up the detailed instructions for me though And I'll include that in 1.4

Thanks for that m8 and also for the pm

Just re read my post and it sounded a little blunt which it really wasnt meant to be .
The hack is just what we have been looking for since vbplaza had to be removed and now with vpager having to go as well things are getting a bit messy in the templates and just needed a pointer as to were the hook instructions were best placed as i had put them in but still got nothing showing in postbits etc

will give installing another go soon and if i get stuck will deffo be shouting your name out for help LOL

[Terrasoft]

Dude, Waltz...you rock so much man! Im so glad to see the arcade add-on! =D

Any progress reports on vbcommerce? Or somewhere I can see the progress?

I would vote MOTM, but I already did. ^_^ I believe this will along with vbcommerce will blow vbplaza 2.0 out of the water.

...I need to figure out some things for you to add on now. >_0

[Phil4387]

Thanks for the update, but I found another mistake. When you choose the "Perform all of the transactions..." option it includes any awards that were given out as if they were normal transactions.

[Darkwaltz4]

Thanks for the support everyone, as well as those who have donated !

Only a couple more days to see if I made it into MOTM - be sure to vote again on the poll if i did

Originally Posted by Ba$im

u r best coder I see work hardly
thank u very much
plz keep this
also about vbcommerce
can be include something like this
http://www.christianforums.com/characters

thanks

Yes, vBCommerce will be an itemshop just like that and a lot more :-p

Originally Posted by simunaqv

Hello, is somebody using vbCredits with RPG-Integration Hack?

I know you can specify the table and row for the points hack, use the settings at the top of the screen.

Originally Posted by Phil4387

Thanks for the update, but I found another mistake. When you choose the "Perform all of the transactions..." option it includes any awards that were given out as if they were a normal transaction.

Not a bug: i chose to include everything for addon support as well for addons which save to the transaction log. such as vBCredit$ notes how much was purchased -- and if THAT wasnt returned to your users they would probably get pissed :-p

[Phil4387]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

Not a bug: i chose to include everything for addon support as well for addons which save to the transaction log. such as vBCredit$ notes how much was purchased -- and if THAT wasnt returned to your users they would probably get pissed :-p

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that if I give someone a 500 credit award and then appropriate credits using the option to perform all transactions. It will give that person the 500 credits, which is fine, but it will also subtract 500 credits from the person who gave them the award as if it was a donation.

[Darkwaltz4]

OOH, thats right, i totally forgot about the new award type... the one through profiles and not attached to posts >.< well, its not major enough to warrant an update, but will be included. Thanks for pointing it out

if you want to fix it yourself, change in admincp/credits_admin.php

PHP Code:

     else if ($log['action'] != 'post') 


replace with

PHP Code:

     else if (!in_array($log['action'], array('post', 'award'))) 


[Dark_Konoko]

Sorry if this has already been answered in this thread, I skimmed through and could see nothing, but I was wondering how one would go about changing the formula used to calculate total points given for specific actions. Most of the values seem fine except for the fact that users get an amazing amount of points just for rating a thread and I'd love to change this to balance the economy of my forums.

Thank you in advance folks

[Darkwaltz4]

You can set the amount for thread rating in the usergroup settings. Also, there is a global setting which allows you to vary the amount against the rating, and I think you have it set to yes and you want it to be no

Dont forget ALL awards can be negative and fractional (even 'bad' actions can be positive, and vice versa)

[G_Man]

Originally Posted by Darkwaltz4

OOH, thats right, i totally forgot about the new award type... the one through profiles and not attached to posts >.< well, its not major enough to warrant an update, but will be included. Thanks for pointing it out

if you want to fix it yourself, change in admincp/credits_admin.php

PHP Code:

     else if ($log['action'] != 'post') 


replace with

PHP Code:

     else if (!in_array($log['action'], array('post', 'award'))) 


This will be in 1.4, correct?

Also, I don't need the appropriations now so I can also wait for 1.4?

and of course... Cheers!!

[Darkwaltz4]

yeah, i just dont want to put out another update with such a trivial fix :-p

it only affects if you made awards through the profile, and you are rebuilding the credits.