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

[Rob Hephner]

Um,,,,Hello??

[Adderz]

I cant seem to get this thing working at all

Shame as it would have been really useful to me


I seem to lose everything after "Take Ticket" including the footer etc

[Phosphorus]

how to clear tickets from the previous lotterys ...................

PLEASE REPLY

[cynthetiq]

uninstalled until author returns.

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by cynthetiq

uninstalled until author returns.

will never happen.

[kaderith]

Originally Posted by 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

The only way I've been able to clear the tickets from previous drawings is to use phpMyAdmin and manually empty the 'jlottery' table which holds the tickets. Its a little bit of a pain but, since we wanted to offer bi-monthly and sometimes weekly drawings with prizes for our group members this was the best way to do it and not have to worry about someone accusing the moderators and administrative staff of picking "favorites" for the winners.

I am still having the problem with the "Number of posts required to participate." option, in that even though its set for 0 posts, it members have to post at least once in order to be able to get a ticket for the current drawing. I think that what is happening is that its set so that it thinks members must have more than X number of posts, so if you set it for 0 thinking you're effectively disabling the minimum number of posts required what is happening is the thing is viewing it as "must have more than X posts" to participate so its still going to give the 'You are not allowed to participate' message until someone posts once. (It is operating I think, with the parameter set to require more than X number of posts, so if you put in 0 its telling the script users must have more than 0 posts (ie at least 1) in order to take part).

Which is fine, except for those members of our group (which is a crafting/crochet/knitting group) who are too special to read the instructions posted regularly at our YahooGroups mailing list, and which are posted on the board itself.. don't bother to read any of the information there and just complain that they can't get it to work. :P

If there's someone out there who knows how to write the code, can look at the information in the php files and figure out how to change that section so that it works as it should that would be great. I've tried, but I have a way to go and each time I tried to modify the code all I did was break it and have to revert back to the backup copy to get things working again.

I'm willing to just leave it with members having to post at least once in order to take part. What I would really like to be able to do is run more than one drawing at the same time. If there was a way to be able to offer more than one drawing running concurrently that would be a huge plus for our group.

[ragarcia87]

Thank you. Insalled

[Jhonnydc]

One question... i have installed this mod but i see the error in attach...

How can resolve it???

[Silver740]

Very promising. Will reserve this until problems are fixed.

[Jhonnydc]

Ok.. thanks... another question for this problem...
The permission of the files in ftp...
I have 755 for all files and folders that i have upload... is it correct???