Purchasing points/credits/gold whatever is the first step…

a point system, we’re building one… at least Drew is… lol

the main goal will be to enable the purchase of Points via Paypal or anyother payment processor activated on vBulletin via the adminCP.

as i know nothing about how it work, what i think would be the best is to NOT duplicate the processes. we need something more efficient than the actual vbCredits engine, because it is complicated to understand at first and have a lack of configurations…

so, why is this the first step for a points system?.. because the other parts are easy. adding an element in a hook to give or take points is quite easy.

so:

  1. the member access the Transaction Manager
  2. it is asked to choose what transaction processor to choose, like Paypal, Worldpay, 2checkout, etc…
  3. the member is then asked how much credits to purchase. the page indicate the rates.
  4. the member is taken to the transaction processor.
  5. coming back from there, the member see how many credits he have now, and that’s it.

there is no need for a new payment api manager, vB have an efficient one… we just need to hook it up and proceed to payments based on the existing system. We only need an admincp that will check the rate for each level of credits, if needed: 1:1000, etc

how long can this take to be coded?

a new screenshots engine to come…

The attachment engine in vBulletin is just crap if you ask me… the [attach] and thing is not even working logically, even if they want to fix it in vb 4.0, it will not be in the actual generation…

so all my screenies will be hosted differently in the next days, so if you visit a release thread and see no screenshots, it’s because i’m moving things around… sorry!

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Typo, Usergroup HTML Markup instead of Username HTML Markup

Post: Usergroup HowTo: add style to usergroups html markups
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Posted by: nexia
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You see my markup?

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How did i attach an umbrella beside my name, is a mystery for many of you who are interested to make their membernames unique.

But it’s quite simple when you play a little with CSS elements.

First, instead of placing all the code in your Usergroup HTML Markup, you make it easier to edit and lighter for the browser by making your markups small and quick. Write is the same way as i did, creating a new class for the style.

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Remember that this detail is found when you edit your usergroups… this example is the admins one.

Then you go to your Style Manager, and edit the Main CSS of your prefered style… you go to the bottom of the page, in the « Additional CSS Definitions » and put the new class style in the SECOND field (the first one is overwritten by most of the products you can play with).

the example of my own class looks like this:[html].ug_admin {
font-family: « Lucida Grande », sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
color: #800080;
background-image: url(style/umbrella.png);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
padding-left: 13px;
}[/html]

example explained:

1- i changed the family of the font to have a more ergonomical one, Lucida is great
2- made the font in bold
3- changed the color for magenta
4- to make the umbrella show everywhere, i make it the background-image, no repeat
5- i add some padding to the left so the background image is without text over it

See, it’s easy. but to learn about the CSS elements is more complicated than that, and you can have a need for a tutorial… here is a great link: CSS Tutorial

have some fun designing your usergroups!

if i use vbMA right now…

will it be possible to import everything in your MTF Releases engine once available, Drew?

because i absolutely need a real engine for the releases… people have to subscribe for a license, and then they can purchase something…

what i need for this site:

1- guests/registered have no access to downloads
2- to have access to downloads, everybody have to pay the 10$ activation fee, which give a license id
3- free stuff is not tracked, « who downloaded » hack is handling it right now.
4- people pay the price of a release to have access to it.
5- people pay the price to have access to support.
5B- this can be done via a monthly fee OR credits per post in the support thread.

… i suppose i will have things to fix before making it solid-gold, so if you have ideas … it’s time!

new mission to recode all of vB hacks…

it may look impolite, but it is actually… i think that we need a serious rehearsal of everything we find on vb.org, recoded with a serious protocol (the vB one) and with the goal to release only useful stuff…

if you want to join the venture, just join and release what you think worth releasing… no leeching, i want everybody to get involved seriously in this, so we do not leech the vb.org content.

you find an idea, a useful one, and you code an engine that will do it. if the tool do not require support because it is simple, we can release it as a freebie… otherway it will be a paid product.

the reason behind this?… most of the gadgets released on vb.org are pointless… i want to grab the good stuff here, but as most of these coders are not to be invited here because they worth nothing, i’d like to have real coders release real tools… ideas are taken away by Jelsoft anyway (we call this copyright infrigement), so why not us.. 🙂