Gold Shop [discontinued]

[burntumber]

Texas - I have been working on something through analysis of your code.

Is it possible to do any of these things with the current shop, or with a code that calls various aspects of your javascript?

1) Give the user an item from clicking a link, without the "buy amount" pop up appearing? I had done this through calling officialbuyitem but am looking for a way to give a user an item without that pop up box. That is to say, they click an image that puts the item directly into their inventory.

2) Give a user multiple, different items with a single purchase; like opening a treasure chest and receiving a pogo stick, a hat, and a towel-- If I were to put a "package" item in the shop, how would it be possible for the user to buy the package and receive the three items the package contains?

3) Give out timed items, where the timer begins from the moment the item is put into the profile, or has a date that it will disappear from the profile when the user logs into the forum?

[Former Member]

Texas Hey one Awesome Feature for next version, You should add items that give powers. Like Police Badge lets you moderate forums or something. Idk just some ideas.

[Texas]

burntumber:

1) That will also be possible, if not slightly easier with the new version. When the new update comes out you can PM me and I'll get you the details on what you'll need to do, it should be pretty simple.

2) I was actually thinking about that the other day, I'll add it to my future feature list.

3) That's an interesting idea, I can see a few roadblocks but I might be able to work something out. I'll add this one to the list also.

@vtwisted1x: That's a nice idea, but it's not possible on my end. I could however add in an admin alert system that would alert you when anyone bought a new item. I'm looking at this for a feature for a Gold Shop addon that will allow people to sell items to each other.

[Boy_Wonder]

Texas I have a random question but does your shop code ide the forum main page or a profile page? The reason I ask is that I could possibly write myself a jquery code to add in sub-category like effect as a temporary

[Texas]

Well, the V2 hid the profile page, but I decided there was no reason to make it on the profile, so I moved it to the normal forum page. If you need any additional help with your code feel free to ask.

Boy_Wonder

[Boy_Wonder]

Thanks Texas - I was mainly asking as I'm thinking of doing same as I did for the Awards code, targetting specific ids (Does each item get an id if I remember right) and inserting a new table row before (as I think you use table rows)

[Texas]

Boy_Wonder: Eh...the new version doesn't use table rows any more...

[Boy_Wonder]

Is it a div then xD ((Even easier!))

[Texas]

Yeah, each item is in it's own DIV that has a class based on it's ID.

[Boy_Wonder]

Sweet - that should make it easy then

[Texas]

Glad I didn't make it harder for yah.

Also, I was able start, and complete, the addition of packages to the plugin.

How they work?
There is a new "packages" tab on the user interface. You create a package name, id, cost, and description. Then, you add items to that package by putting the ID of the already existing item and which package it belongs to. Basically the same way you add items to categories. Then the packages automatically get placed in their own special category. When you buy the package, it gives you the items you included in the package. So, packages cannot be returned. However, the individual items can be. So, you have to pick your poison, if you want the packages to be cheaper than buying the individual item, than you have to make it so that the items in the packages cannot be returned. Otherwise someone could just buy the package, and then return it back to the store getting more money back than he paid for. Or, you can make the packages just an easier way to buy a several different items without having to go buy each one individually.

[burntumber]

Texas -- Awesome work for the packages. That's exactly what I was hoping for, and your expediency in including such an advancement is superb.

When will the new shop plugin be live? I can't wait to test it out. I'll message you now.

As for further development, what do you think of the following:

Each user has their own item shelf page, accessible either from their profile, mini profile, etc; wherever you see fit. A separate, customizable page to show your items, and even offer items up for trade from your available items. Thoughts?

[Former Member]

Texas Awsome dude and also when is it going to be released?

[Texas]

burntumber: I'd never thought of the trading thing. I'll think about that, I've already been planning to have members be able to sell the items they buy to other members, but I'll see if I can't incorporate trading as well.

@vtwisted1x: Well, the packages won't be released for at least a week or two, I've got to test things out and also wait for the first update to get accepted.

[Boy_Wonder]

Texas - do you know approx how long before new version is in the library

AND any thoughts on making combinable items

Eg say someone brought a horse

If they then brought a 'hay' object they could 'combine' it with the horse and it could get a boost (something like +5 put in the corner), or new tack and again it'd give say +10/+15 etc boost