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recently I've log on into my account on Webmaster-Talk which using vB and got idea about new mod...
so here it's:
there is some kind of hack for vB which is used on WT community, it's kind of shop based on points which are work like internal currency. it let people to buy some things like signature, changing avatar, sticky post, italic name for nick and much other things, here is what I can buy on  the shop currently:

QuoteDonate money to an other user
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Donate money to an other user


Costs: $0
Sold #: 8
U Need: $0
   With this free action you can donate money to other members.

Buy The Sticky Feature
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Buy The Sticky Feature


Costs: $1000
Sold #: 0
U Need: $876
   This action gives you the ability to stick any thread. 1 Sticky per buy.

Add Glow To Username
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Add Glow To Username


Costs: $1500
Sold #: 3
U Need: $1376
   With this action you can add an attractive glowing color to your username wich you can define yourself. If you have already a glow then you can change it here aswell.

Change Username
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Change Username


Costs: $2000
Sold #: 1
U Need: $1876
   With this action you can change your username

Give an other user a custom title
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Give an other user a custom title


Costs: $2500
Sold #: 0
U Need: $2376
   With this action you can give an other user a custom title. The title that you give will be showed on every post of that user.
Tip: Do it when that user dont have enough money to restore his custom title ;)

Change Custom Title
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Change Custom Title


Costs: $300
Sold #: 8
U Need: $176
   With this action you can get a custom title and if you dont have one already then get one

Change Custom Avatar
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Change Custom Avatar


Costs: $500
Sold #: 1
U Need: $376
   With this action you can get a custom avatar or if you already one you can change it...

Add Calendar Event
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Add Calendar Event


Costs: $500
Sold #: 0
U Need: $376
   With this action you can add a public calendar event on the calendar

Buy A Midi Song For Your Profile
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Buy A Midi Song For Your Profile


Costs: $500
Sold #: 0
U Need: $376
   This action gives you the ability to buy a Midi Song for your profile. The midi song will be played on the background while a member is viewing your profile.

Buy An Italic Username
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Buy An Italic Username


Costs: $500
Sold #: 3
U Need: $376
   This action gives you the ability to display your username in the postbit as italic.

I don't quite remeber how points collected, probably they are generated from posting... but I would prefer point system based on the pure posts, but rather it's overall activity e.g. combination of posts viewed per member and posts made by him. or how frequently he appear on community, there should be variation probably... and could be transferred between the people...(I think that some good point system was done in the RPG mod which was done for YaBB).
So what do you think about this feature? do you like it's idea and would it be useful for your community?
also how big chances that such mod could be built for SMF?

if they can buy with real money too converted into 'board currency' that comes to me.. i demand this feature!

put [unknown] on extra extra caffeine!


lol.. i actually got told about a board the other day where people can pay $10 to change another users avatars for 48hrs :)

this would be really cool... i need the money for hosting costs.. if people can pay me $10 to play wiv the template for a few hours... include it!

lol

Simple Money Funnelling (into admin's bank acct's)  8)

hmm actually I thought not about taking money from members but for brining another reason to be active and provide more fun to people who is using community. but since you're admin who have access to points you can charge people e.g. via paypal and later put these points into their account...(but personally I can't imagine community that charge for something like this in real cash...)

Quote from: Overseer on September 02, 2003, 04:42:28 PM
lol

Simple Money Funnelling (into admin's bank acct's)  8)

he he he :)

I wasnt actually too keen on the idea.. esp for permanent changes.. but for temp ones.. it could be kinda funny..

yea... could be really funny

Quote from: Overseer on September 02, 2003, 04:46:21 PM
I wasnt actually too keen on the idea.. esp for permanent changes.. but for temp ones.. it could be kinda funny..

Yeah the change coult affect only their template... and after a few hours it times out and goes back to default.  And other users can have the option to view their template.  That link could be in their profile or something along those lines..

Quote from: morph on September 02, 2003, 04:52:57 PM

Quote from: Overseer on September 02, 2003, 04:46:21 PM
I wasnt actually too keen on the idea.. esp for permanent changes.. but for temp ones.. it could be kinda funny..

Yeah the change coult affect only their template... and after a few hours it times out and goes back to default.  And other users can have the option to view their template.  That link could be in their profile or something along those lines..

Yea, they get to play with just their template.. could be a "design your own SMF" (or in my case "design your own bostasp") that could be a great laugh

this is a very nice idea! :P

but i think it is better suited for a mod then to implement it in SMF

Quote from: Seph|roth on September 02, 2003, 05:00:11 PM
this is a very nice idea! :P

but i think it is better suited for a mod then to implement it in SMF

I agree with you there.  But remember there are always security risks.

Quote from: Seph|roth on September 02, 2003, 05:00:11 PM
this is a very nice idea! :P

but i think it is better suited for a mod then to implement it in SMF

Yea, I agree that is should just be a mod,

Quote from: Seph|roth on September 02, 2003, 05:00:11 PM
this is a very nice idea! :P

but i think it is better suited for a mod then to implement it in SMF

and I've talk about it's implementation like a mod, not like a built in feature.
as for changing templates and other features I think it could be cool to feel yourself as admin of some big community even if it's not last too long.
but what about generating points not from real money but from something else like posting or something? anyone like this idea or not really?

Quote from: sensovision on September 02, 2003, 05:14:06 PM

Quote from: Seph|roth on September 02, 2003, 05:00:11 PM
this is a very nice idea! :P

but i think it is better suited for a mod then to implement it in SMF

and I've talk about it's implementation like a mod, not like a built in feature.
as for changing templates and other features I think it could be cool to feel yourself as admin of some big community even if it's not last too long.
but what about generating points not from real money but from something else like posting or something? anyone like this idea or not really?

To get points you could modify karma maybe? people can give and take points from people after they have past a certain amount of posts.  And they can only give or take 5 points an hour and you cannot give your self points.. anyone like that idea?

hmm that's good idea Morph, I think I like it...

Quote from: morph on September 02, 2003, 05:20:35 PM

Quote from: sensovision on September 02, 2003, 05:14:06 PM

Quote from: Seph|roth on September 02, 2003, 05:00:11 PM
this is a very nice idea! :P

but i think it is better suited for a mod then to implement it in SMF

and I've talk about it's implementation like a mod, not like a built in feature.
as for changing templates and other features I think it could be cool to feel yourself as admin of some big community even if it's not last too long.
but what about generating points not from real money but from something else like posting or something? anyone like this idea or not really?

To get points you could modify karma maybe? people can give and take points from people after they have past a certain amount of posts.  And they can only give or take 5 points an hour and you cannot give your self points.. anyone like that idea?

I like that idea, but on my forum, most people will be in minus points... (or minus brownie points, as we call them) so no1 will get any points to do anything. We're mean

Quote from: morph on September 02, 2003, 05:02:04 PM
lol.. i actually got told about a board the other day where people can pay $10 to change another users avatars for 48hrs :)

That's ridiculous. It's a complete farce to charge for that kind of "feature"

As for the question in hand let someone mod it. You may as well just say "user can change avatar at x amount of posts etc etc" The security risks are non existant IF the mod maker codes a good mod AND you don't expect to process real money through SMF(obviously there is secure payment methods to do this)

Haha... but it works.

I will be making an itemshop mod, if I continue to have some time available to me.... and it will not require that much change to make it real money.

-[Unknown]

lol... if my site doesn't go down the pan... that'll be something i'll have to try

item shop was an idea of me for yabbse :) but it was too much work for unknown because he was working on SMF

is there anyone working on this?

i've seen this in phpbb.

People get points from posting and creating topics.

And there was a bank (with Stock Exchange)

and Lottery

and people could donate points to other members

any news about shop yet?

[Unknown] has said he will do it, once SMF is done.

cool:) thanks for update Ben!

i hope it does get done! :D :)

That's totally awesome d00d T'CHYAH!

Gimme Noggin

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 02, 2003, 09:00:17 PM
Haha... but it works.

I will be making an itemshop mod, if I continue to have some time available to me.... and it will not require that much change to make it real money.

-[Unknown]

This mod sounds cool and something I can use big-time, but will you include an option to sell items in with real money without having to use this points rewards system so the admin can actually make a profit?

Quote from: Elijah Bliss on September 15, 2004, 02:14:49 AM

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 02, 2003, 09:00:17 PM
Haha... but it works.

I will be making an itemshop mod, if I continue to have some time available to me.... and it will not require that much change to make it real money.

-[Unknown]

Some people may be hesitant on losing money just to  make your username glow, etc.. It's a fun thing to do but I don't see why you need to involve real money.
This mod sounds cool and something I can use big-time, but will you include an option to sell items in with real money without having to use this points rewards system so the admin can actually make a profit?

Quote from: Knippy on September 15, 2004, 10:53:27 AM

Quote from: Elijah Bliss on September 15, 2004, 02:14:49 AM

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 02, 2003, 09:00:17 PM
Haha... but it works.

I will be making an itemshop mod, if I continue to have some time available to me.... and it will not require that much change to make it real money.

-[Unknown]

Some people may be hesitant on losing money just to  make your username glow, etc.. It's a fun thing to do but I don't see why you need to involve real money.
This mod sounds cool and something I can use big-time, but will you include an option to sell items in with real money without having to use this points rewards system so the admin can actually make a profit?

I understand that [Unknown] will make this "real money" compatible so to speak, I probably didn't phrase my question well. I was getting at what options and features were going to be available, such as paypal, etc.

I have quite a few craftsmen and indy artists in my forum who could benefit from a mod like this, taking advantage of the traffic I get and selling their products and music, so this is not just about a "greedy admin taking money from members"

[Unknown] is a very thorough guy, so I'm pretty sure he has most if not all bases covered.

Well, I wonder about offering indie downloads for like "points", where you could buy points.

Then, you could sell things for even just a couple dollars, and still have it be reasonable.  They put out a $20 and can buy like 8 things or something.

Hmm... so I guess that would be related to the downloads system... hmmm...

-[Unknown]

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 15, 2004, 04:28:20 PM
Well, I wonder about offering indie downloads for like "points", where you could buy points.

Then, you could sell things for even just a couple dollars, and still have it be reasonable.  They put out a $20 and can buy like 8 things or something.

Hmm... so I guess that would be related to the downloads system... hmmm...

-[Unknown]

Wow, I wasn't even thinking about downloadable music, just the physical CD, but that sounds really good too if you can pull that off.

I have some women in my forum that also make and sell quilts and blankets. I can see how this mod can help them out because they tend to get lost in the mix on ebay.

Quote from: Knippy on September 15, 2004, 10:53:27 AM

Quote from: Elijah Bliss on September 15, 2004, 02:14:49 AM

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 02, 2003, 09:00:17 PM
Haha... but it works.

I will be making an itemshop mod, if I continue to have some time available to me.... and it will not require that much change to make it real money.

-[Unknown]

Some people may be hesitant on losing money just to  make your username glow, etc.. It's a fun thing to do but I don't see why you need to involve real money.
This mod sounds cool and something I can use big-time, but will you include an option to sell items in with real money without having to use this points rewards system so the admin can actually make a profit?

Hmmm I remember posting content...? Oh well

I dont think real money would be a good idea due to the official channels and stuff.. people can be cheated; never got the check, person stops payment on check, etc.. it goes on forever.. Thats why you shouldn't do a lot of payment on the internet. I only bought one thing .. and that was a godaddy domain.

I think a shop system which is free and  as an MOD for SMF would kick ass!

Atm the only "ok" solution for Free is OSCommerce Shop - but its very complex and the most is just not nessassary.
Also their are tools which let you administrate the Shop DB over a clientsite software eg. faktura.

I like to see such a shop or MOD with SMF code :P

Also you can build a professionel version which is for charter members and contains unlimited articels....FREE version needs at least 100 articels.


cheers

Quote from: roboter88 on September 16, 2004, 11:04:59 AM
Atm the only "ok" solution for Free is OSCommerce Shop - but its very complex and the most is just not nessassary.

There's also Zen Cart, but knowing the SMF's code and the way the developers work, I agree that a Simple Machines' e-commerce solution would be a lot cooler.

Quote from: Knippy on September 16, 2004, 10:41:12 AM

Quote from: Knippy on September 15, 2004, 10:53:27 AM

Quote from: Elijah Bliss on September 15, 2004, 02:14:49 AM

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 02, 2003, 09:00:17 PM
Haha... but it works.

I will be making an itemshop mod, if I continue to have some time available to me.... and it will not require that much change to make it real money.

-[Unknown]

Some people may be hesitant on losing money just to  make your username glow, etc.. It's a fun thing to do but I don't see why you need to involve real money.
This mod sounds cool and something I can use big-time, but will you include an option to sell items in with real money without having to use this points rewards system so the admin can actually make a profit?

Hmmm I remember posting content...? Oh well

I dont think real money would be a good idea due to the official channels and stuff.. people can be cheated; never got the check, person stops payment on check, etc.. it goes on forever.. Thats why you shouldn't do a lot of payment on the internet. I only bought one thing .. and that was a godaddy domain.

I think people are making this too complicated. This shouldn't be an "e-commerce mod" I propose that the Shop Mod handles calculations only, puts them in a form, and send those calculations to Paypal. Paypal can handle the rest. As far as your concern with people cheating on the points reward system that is why I asked for the option for sellers to disable that feature if they wanted to sell their products straight up.

I think the best pay option for the internet is to pay before shipping.....
All you need is a logical calculation for shipping to everywhere....

Cause i and my customer needs a paypal account and requirements for this is a credit card(correct me if im wwrong).
Also mybe i dont want to feed paypal?

The funny thing is that this topic has now been a year in running and no success yet. Is  it still being worked on? Honestly SMF is the best forum software ever. Anyways i just want to know how long i have to wait for this particular mod

Quote from: atoti on September 19, 2004, 01:49:08 AM
The funny thing is that this topic has now been a year in running and no success yet. Is  it still being worked on? Honestly SMF is the best forum software ever. Anyways i just want to know how long i have to wait for this particular mod

Well, feel free to work on it then.  I don't have time right now.

-[Unknown]

Quote from: [Unknown] on September 19, 2004, 01:52:45 AM

Quote from: atoti on September 19, 2004, 01:49:08 AM
The funny thing is that this topic has now been a year in running and no success yet. Is  it still being worked on? Honestly SMF is the best forum software ever. Anyways i just want to know how long i have to wait for this particular mod

Well, feel free to work on it then.  I don't have time right now.

-[Unknown]

How long do u think its gonna take?
n how does one start a package server?
jus askin, prolly might get to work on it
but no promises.

If [Unknown] works on mods, it means SMF doesn't get worked on. I know I'd sooner see SMF worked on than some mod.

If you want to make a package server, I'm sure you can read the code than relates to it and work it out.

Quote from: Ben_S on September 19, 2004, 10:39:07 AM
If [Unknown] works on mods, it means SMF doesn't get worked on. I know I'd sooner see SMF worked on than some mod.

If you want to make a package server, I'm sure you can read the code than relates to it and work it out.

I am working on the documentation for that, though.

-[Unknown]

Anywayz thanks folks (esp [unknown]) for speedy replies. Jus hopin to see it someday. n by the way, keep up the good work

I didn't even bother looking at the time stamps of this thread.
We need more developers on payroll. Give these guys some raises.

this has been done on phpBB, IPB, vBB, OpenBB, all the forum software. I demand it for SMF now.

Quote from: LordAnki on November 15, 2004, 08:25:53 PM
this has been done on phpBB, IPB, vBB, OpenBB, all the forum software. I demand it for SMF now.

It's people like you who make people not want to do things. Maybe you should try to learn some manners and appreciate the things that people do in their own time and give away free.

Quotethis has been done on phpBB, IPB, vBB, OpenBB, all the forum software. I demand it for SMF now.

You demand something form free software that people make out of the goodness of their hearts?! You have some nerve. At the very least say "thank you" for this whole forum that they have made for us, for free.

Quote from: LordAnki on November 15, 2004, 08:25:53 PM
this has been done on phpBB, IPB, vBB, OpenBB, all the forum software. I demand it for SMF now.

Demand it?

Quote from: LordAnki on November 15, 2004, 08:25:53 PM
this has been done on phpBB, IPB, vBB, OpenBB, all the forum software. I demand it for SMF now.

It is great to see an optimistically eager person just like me.  hehe!  I really do like to see this shop mod to come out.  I hope it is soon.  I am really eager. :)

hi everyone,
   i've just finished the first beta version of SMFShop -- its a shop mod for SMF, basically like IBStore for invision board

NOTE: This is only a BETA! the next version will come out in a few days.

to get my mod, goto http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=65

Cool Im going to install this for sure :)

I will wait to test it out for the fulle version ;)

yeah it's worth a try  :D

This is a great idea and thanks for putting your time into it. I would be great for my board to have a mod of this type. I've noticed its ready for download but I would like to wait to make sure its stable enough and more features have been added to it. Having it install through the package manager would be great too.

Once again thanks for the hard work.

I have found it to be pretty stable.  would like to have some more options, like a member creating a new forum and they are a mod (for a specified time)

Does it have cash in it?
or you have to install the cash mod before this one?

is there a cash mod for the current version?(or just that old one?)

when is the full version going to be ready please?And where will i can find it  ;D


nice job 8)

this mod has already been released:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=22396.0

i saw in the first post there is more in that purple thing than there actually is... they cant buy 1 sticky or anything like that...

i hope this is included in the next version.

Uhhh... tried to install this on a fresh 1.0.3 installation, and when I clicked to apply the mod (after it had gone through the test), my "mysqld-nt.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close." It continues to do this and it happens every time I try to access the 'smf' database through phpMyAdmin too... the 'smf' database only.

I'm happy I tried on my local machine first, before making a mess of my host's SQL server.

This is very good idea. Does anyone work on it? Please PM me and I would love to exchange ideas with him/her and work on it together!

wtt, please don't resurrect old threads unless absolutely necessary.

There is already a Shop mod in the mod site, located here: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=65

Thanks a lot for that! I would try to install and test that! Please PM me if you are working in this field!

Quote from: Eliana Tamerin on June 09, 2008, 01:48:55 PM
wtt, please don't resurrect old threads unless absolutely necessary.

There is already a Shop mod in the mod site, located here: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=65

Quote from: Daniel15 on December 27, 2004, 09:40:06 PM
hi everyone,
   i've just finished the first beta version of SMFShop -- its a shop mod for SMF, basically like IBStore for invision board

NOTE: This is only a BETA! the next version will come out in a few days.

to get my mod, goto http://mods.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=65

where is it for 1.1.5

yeah, it's cool