User profile ratings/Karma RELEASED!!!

cemainickam wrote:

hey , i think this is the fix for the plugin

Delete the regular karma plugin and install the new one no need to thnk me 2 min job and i'm not a coder

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Post edited by: cemainickam, at: 2007/07/10 16:38

Kay, so now I broke it... he he...I break things quite often...

I delete the plug in, like it in this post, and now I cant re-install it... it just sais the folder already exists, so how the hell do I get it back in??

Better yet could someone recomend a step by step removal kit...

Mike

Just have to say i love this component, its great to see a simple and nice karma component that has the community builder plugin.

A quick question, and apologies if it seams very simple, i am a complete newbie to joomla and to programming and really everything.

I noticed that you can rate users through the community builder plugin, and looking through how it worked it is smart that it prevents users from adding karma to themselves, but i was wondering if anyone had the code that would allow me to add karma points to a users balance based on posts, like if a user posts a link then i hack the code so that it adds one point to their monthly karma.

Sorry if it seams so simple, bear with me, i know nothing lol.

Oncec again congrats on a great component!

anyone with some programming experience want to have a quick peek at this code and tell me where i am going wrong, lol sorry about this.

thanks



### Update Karma of user submitting content

$points = 5;
$database->setQuery( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #__karma_tb WHERE `user_id`=".$my->id );
$count = $database->loadResult();
// Selects the current user from the karma table based on $my->id
$sql = "UPDATE #__karma_tb SET `var_karma`=`var_karma`+$points, `total_karma`=`total_karma`+$points WHERE `user_id`=".$my->id;
//Add points to the current users total karma and monthly karma
$database->setQuery($sql);
$database->query();

Hello Everyone,

After looking at the Karma component and plug-in i must say i was very impressed and thought what a great component but it needed a few little extra pieces, so i spoke to the developer about a custom modification to the suite. Bear in mind this is suited to my site so alot of the features are not all round sadly, but for those who want a system that will automatically generate points to users for doing certian tasks this may be helpful for you.

The component uses a mambot to check which component is being called and for what task, and based on that task it then generates x number of points (set through component configeration) to the user.

At the moment, points are award able for Registration (Only through CB), Updating your profile (CB), submitting content, submitting a web-link, and submitting a forum post through the latest fireboard forum.

There are also custom fields in the config and some code that allows you to add or remove x number of points, this is more for growth but if you wanted to use it you would have to insert it directly into the component itself, like a hack i suppose.

The system also generates logs, so you can click on a member and see how many points were added for what task, and there is also a module that shows the logged in users current monthly and total points and a log history of what points were awarded for in the module, where the number of log entries is settable in the module.

I hope this helps some people, because the fields are the same the top karma yearly and monthly modules should still work, but you have to download them, i havent included them in the zip file.

The file can be downloaded from
www.reviewyou.com.au/Karma2_UnzipFirst.zip
If anyone likes it and finds it useful, consider a paypal donation to cover costs, but hope it helps.

To manually add/remove points, you can use the CLASS_karma class and the functions addPoints() and remPoints().

Parameters are:

addPoints($userid, $points, $description) remPoints($userid, $points, $description)

eg.

require_once( $mosConfig_absolute_path .
'/components/com_karma/karma.class.php' ); CLASS_karma::addPoints($my->id, 2, "Description goes here");

To get a point equivalent from a custom configuration point, you can use the getConfig() function.

Parementers are:

getConfig($name)

eg.

$points = CLASS_karma::getConfig("custom1")

WOW! How cool is this? Very cool.

Questions for me (since I'm the original developer, not programmer mind you).

1. Is there limiting to prevent karma fraud? What's to stop a person from uploading 20 pictures to their gallery, getting 20 points, then deleting them and doing it again?

2. Can we see a demo or see it in action somewhere?

Thanks.

I will try and put a demo up sometime soon, i am still learning it at the moment lol, in terms of karma fraud it won't give points when you upload a picture, however when you update profile it will, that is a problem that there is no way to prevent karma fraud, which is where the log system comes in, it is a little annoying i guess but not really something i thought of at the time, and thought that by awarding say 1 karma point for profile update and needing higher karma's for other things it should get around that.

I promise i will put up a demo sometime soon so you can have a look and see how it works and all that stuff.