Major Additions - VBay! Transform your vbulletin into an auctionhouse!

VBay.

This will add an auction section to your bulletin!

If you want to donate to me click the link over there ---------------------->

I am open to suggestions, bugs, comments, insults, and anything else you might say to me at the time :P

To do list:
*use forums/categories/subforums for your auctionhouse.
high bidder userid -> username
*" in description cuts the description at that point
add buyer name
fix pm formatting
add more currencies
intergrate with trader ratings
add paypal api
bidder usergroups
*hot auctions on main < - Available with addon (wont be packaged in vbay)
admin editing auctions
*set up for use with forum commenting.
*fix amount of days an auction can be posted (more than 2 char)
ability to prune old auctions
make sure buy it now is using buy it now price, not bid.
allow admin ability to specify bid/buyitnow/both overrides.

* = Completed.

Features:
Full BBCode support.
Specification of everything, Money Auction length ECT.
Image uploader for auctions.
Closed auction section.
3 auction types, bid, buy it now, or both.


To install
Upload files, and import product as usual
Make a new usergroup and call it the sellers usergroup, do what you want with this group (allow people to request addition maybe?)
Go to vbulletin options and into vbay, set the usergroup id of the sellers group you just made.


To upgrade
re upload all files
import new product
REVERT YOUR TEMPLATES

[derfelix]

Well i seemed to have problems installing.. fixed 2 to get it basically to run..

1. the templates were truncated at install... why? because the vbay template for example contains a non-encoded html entity.. the ? sign.. it has to be &copy; if like me you use UTF-8 encoding.. (the template imports only up to that sign..) and as the template is not finished and the database gives you error (but strangely only when it reads the template) .. (nb: it also doesnt like when suddenly single quotes are used in the template.. vbay template - at the end width='100%' instead of width="100%" .. but the issue was definitively the ? sign..)

2. ok.. got it running.. but when i want to add an auction.. it gives me an warning.. saying:

Warning: mysql_insert_id() [function.mysql-insert-id]: A link to the server could not be established in C:\apache\xxxxxx\htdocs\forums\vbay.php on line 408

all other hacks seem to work perfectly.. so I assume its this addon that is causing the problems.. I think it has something to do with database collation.. and php version..
I am using php 5.2x and mysqli module with utf-8 encoding.. (need it for multilanguage support as the site is in 7 languages..)
[EDIT]just seen that mysql_insert_id() has to be changed to mysqli_insert_id() when mysqli is enabled in config.php [/EDIT]
but the idea seems interesting.. i'll wait for the version 2 before install.

Felix

[DieselMinded]

FYI, I cant get in any longer...what did you change? It probably doesnt like my zip code because it has letters in it:

Blaine Canadian users have letters in there zipcode ...Help Please

[Blaine0002]

Oops, didnt know that. Edit vbay.php find
'zip' => TYPE_INT,
replace with
'zip' => TYPE_NOHTML,

that should do it.

[Blaine0002]

When i eventually do change the name of vbay to something else, what should i call it?

[towermatt]

I run a Dark Tower fan site (set of Stephen King books) so I renamed the .php file "DTbay". Hopefully that is okay.

The link at the bottom of the page still goes straight to you though.

[Blaine0002]

Yep thats perfectly fine

[Blaine0002]

Originally Posted by derfelix

Well i seemed to have problems installing.. fixed 2 to get it basically to run..

1. the templates were truncated at install... why? because the vbay template for example contains a non-encoded html entity.. the ? sign.. it has to be &copy; if like me you use UTF-8 encoding.. (the template imports only up to that sign..) and as the template is not finished and the database gives you error (but strangely only when it reads the template) .. (nb: it also doesnt like when suddenly single quotes are used in the template.. vbay template - at the end width='100%' instead of width="100%" .. but the issue was definitively the ? sign..)

2. ok.. got it running.. but when i want to add an auction.. it gives me an warning.. saying:


all other hacks seem to work perfectly.. so I assume its this addon that is causing the problems.. I think it has something to do with database collation.. and php version..
I am using php 5.2x and mysqli module with utf-8 encoding.. (need it for multilanguage support as the site is in 7 languages..)
[EDIT]just seen that mysql_insert_id() has to be changed to mysqli_insert_id() when mysqli is enabled in config.php [/EDIT]
but the idea seems interesting.. i'll wait for the version 2 before install.

Felix

Thanks for pointing that out, ill fix the &copy; issue, and will look into a vbulletin substitute for mysql_insert_id

[Dunno012007]

Can you add like a Tracking system for tracking numbers if so u have my donation another way to stop scammers with tracking

[towermatt]

Hey Blaine

I am hoping there is a way to edit the very first page a member sees when they log in the first time. It asks for a shipping address and I wanted to put a link to my sites privacy policy there.

Just so folks know we aren't sharing their mailing address with anyone but the seller.

I know it says that somewhere else but I really need it on the first page they see.

Thank you in advance.

Edit--also my Canadian users are saying it won't allow their postal code which is six digits long. I read the thread and found where to change the State allowable characters but not for the zip

[Blaine0002]

Not sure, it should allow it, but i would wait untill next version, which SHOULD be updated today.