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

VBay.

This will add an auction section to your bulletin!

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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 would change 1 line in your product.xml

find:

PHP Code:

        <phrasetype name="GLOBAL" fieldname="global"> 


replace with:

PHP Code:

        <phrasetype name="GLOBAL" fieldname="global"> 
            <phrase name="vbay_vbay" date="1190941112" username="Blaine0002" version="1.1.3"><![CDATA[Vbay]]></phrase> 
        </phrasetype> 
        <phrasetype name="Vbay Global Phrases" fieldname="vbay_global"> 


then in vbay.php
find:

PHP Code:

  $phrasegroups = array('threadmanage', 'posting'); 


replace with:

PHP Code:

  $phrasegroups = array('threadmanage', 'posting', 'vbay_global' ); 


you have to add 'vbay_global' to the phrasegroups array in every php file u use it..
advantage.. the phrases are only loaded on those pages...

NOW reimport product.xml with overwrite!

I added just above the new phrasetype.. the word "vbay" to the Global phrasegroup so that you can add the word "Vbay" in navbar.. that will be the only one loaded on all pages..

hope that helps

Felix

PS: Make sure that when you continue devel. and manually add a phrase to masterlanguage.. you choose the phrasetype: Vbay Global Phrases and not GLOBAL

[Bergman2]

My test users have come up with one more improvment suggestion.

Is there a possibility that the auction owner get a PM when someone have put a bid on his auction ?

Otherwise im really impressed with your work. Im totally sure that this will be one of the best hacks when all problems are solved.

[Blaine0002]

Thanks for the idea, ill include that option in the next ver.

Ideas are always welcome! keep them coming!

[Blaine0002]

next version is going to be mostly an administrative overhaul, added many new features thanks to derfelix

I fixed phrases, (I HOPE I HAVE THEM ALL!)
removed contact information,
made vbay viewable to everyone,
added thumbnail cacheing (reduces server load)
Added thumbnail max width or height
administrative limit of uploaded images
added thumbnail blurring or sharpening
Fixed buy it now price and increment bug.
Changed it so you do not need to enter in your address untill you want to buy bid or sell.
Added the option to pm seller when somone bids on item.
Also working on vbay phrase groups and phrased variables.
Fixed WOL's
Added multiple usergroups specified in seller group.

I hope to have this version out as soon as i possibly can

[BrettJC]

I am only new to vb and this is the last hack I have installed before making the site live and it is fantastic I will get alot of use out of this.

There is only one thing I noticed with my install that needed a little tweaking and that was my forum install isn't in my sites root dir so I changed the vbay_navbar_edit template to match the dir of my forum.

The problem I am having is that I can only get to vBay from the Home page if i click the vBay navbar item from the Forum, Gallery, UserCP, Member list I get the path i specified in the vbay_navbar_edit template added into the url.

Example:

The URL should be http://www.mysite.com/forum/vbay.php

If I click from any of the pages mentioned above it links to:

http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum/vbay.php

How can I fix this?

[acorndomains.co]

Originally Posted by acorndomains.co

Did anyone find ways to do the following:

Show a list of ending soon auctions
Show a list of recently added auctions
Remove the need to post your address
Allow more than 1 currency
Allow more than 1 payment method
Take a slice of the action by having a percentage of all sales sent to your PayPal account

It's on my site here:
www.acorndomains.co.uk/vbay.php

Many thanks

Anyone? my users dont want to have to go into each category to see whats there

[Blaine0002]

You are using vbadvanced?

[BrettJC]

Never mind, It was very late last night and I wasn't thinking straight, I just turned off the automatic navbar link option and created one manually with the correct link.

Cheers,
Brett

[Bergman2]

Some more feature requests by my users:

- Include a link to the actual auction in the PM:s
- Also some link like "Go back" or vBay header when someone tries to bid on their own auction. Or maybe remove the bid box if it is your own auction.
- When putting a new auction up, the "Description" field maybe be pre-filled with the text "Condition:", "Payment:", "Shipping:" and "Other:". Just to clearify what supposed to be in there
- List the last x auctions on vBay start page and in closed auctions
- Show a thumbnail of the item on the vBay start page and when entering the category

Some new bugs:
- When clicking on a picture thumbnail eventual Flash banners will be placed in front of the picture. My user mentioned something about z-index (dont know what it is) and proposed to open the picture in a pop-up instead. Im attaching a screen dump of it.

Thats all for now ! My users love the hack as it is now.

[Bergman2]

Ohh, i forgot one thing. What happens if the winning bid does not want the item ? Is there a possibility to send all bidders and their bids in the winning PM to the seller ?