NewPoints 1.9.3

[Pirata Nervo]

Hello everybody,
I'm here to present you NewPoints: another points system for MyBB.

NewPoints is GPLv3
NewPoints is free

Description

You might be asking "Why another points system when there are 2 great points system already?". Because I felt that users needed a user friendly points system but at the same time, a feature rich one.
That would probably be something like MyPS+MyPlaza Turbo.

However, I decided to write my own from scratch last week and I've finished it yesterday.

Why would you use this one instead of MyPlaza Turbo or MyPS?
There's a simple answer:

• This one is less powerful than MyPlaza Turbo but way more organized and has a user friendly interface as the settings and the plugins page are extremely similar to MyBB's settings and plugins pages, making it easier for administrators to know how to manage plugins and settings.
• Everything related to NewPoints is managed from one single place! (except templates and tasks)
• Another thing that makes it better than MyPlaza Turbo (in my opinion) is that plugins work exactly like MyBB plugins, however a few functions need to be called on activation and deactivation to ensure they will work properly. This way, plugin developers don't need to learn new things in order to develop plugins for NewPoints.
• The Forum Rules and Group Rules are a great feature that administrators can make use of. A module for MyPlaza Turbo that would require a minimum points to view or post in a certain forum had been requested a lot of times, so I thought it would be a good addition.
• And finally, thanks to hooks, it's easy to integrate a NewPoints plugin with the NewPoints system.
  

Features: (core only)

• Main settings
  • NewPoints enabled.
  • Currency Name
  • Currency Prefix.
  • Currency Suffix.
  • Decimal places.
  • Statistics visible to users.
  • Donations enabled.
  • Send PM on donate.
  • Number of last donations to show.
  • Number of richest users to show.
    
• Income settings
  • Points per post.
  • Points per thread.
  • Points per poll.
  • Points per character (on new post and new thread).
  • Minimum characters required to multiply points per character.
  • Points on registration.
  • Points per poll vote.
  • Points per reply (points given to the author of the thread).
  • Points per PM sent.
  • Points per page view.
  • Points per visit (MyBB Session).
    
• Seperated plugins system. (based off MyBB's one)
• Seperated settings system. (based off MyBB's one)
• Maintenance page to recount points, reset points, edit user's points and reconstruct templates.
• Easy-to-edit templates.
• Forum Rules. (income rate, minimum points to view, minimum points to create a new post/thread)
• User Group rules (income rate, amount of points to pay to this group, number of seconds between payments).
• Task which creates a backup of NewPoints default tables as well as newpoints field in the users table. (backups are saved to admin/backups/backupnewpoints/)
• Shows number of points in profile and post bit.
  

Converters
Yes, thats right, NewPoints comes with two converters:

• MyPlaza Turbo to NewPoints
• MyPS to NewPoints
  

Data converted from MyPlaza Turbo:

• Points
• Forum Income rates to Forum Rules
• User Group income rates to Group Rules
  

Data converted from MyPS to NewPoints:

• Points
• Exempt Forums to Forum Rules
• Exempt Groups to Group rules
  

Screenshots - from v1.0

NewPoints page
Home


Bank (note: this is a plugin!)


Donate


Statistics



Profile and Postbit
Viewing someone else's profile (if it was my own profile, it wouldn't show "Donate")


Postbit



Admin CP
Plugins


Settings


Maintenance


Log


Forum Rules


Add Forum Rule


Group Rules


Statistics



Converters
Converter #1 (MyPlaza Turbo -> NewPoints)


Converter #2 (MyPS -> NewPoints)


Installation/Upgrade/Backups/Converter instructions
NewPoints comes with the following documents:

• readme.html (general data (installation/upgrade instructions, usage instructions, etc))
• backups.html (how to setup weekly backups of NewPoints and restore them successfully)
• converters.html (instructions on how to use the converters)
• development.html (complete list of functions provided by NewPoints with descriptions and parameters values)
  

Plugins
You can find the available plugins here.

If you want to develop plugins for NewPoints just check the development.html document and take a look at newpoints_hello.php to understand how to develop plugins. (it's really easy if you know how to create MyBB plugins).

Change Log
1.9.3

• Fixed bug in the recounting process (related to the income rules).
  

1.9.2

• Fixed SQL error in Plugins List and Plugins Updates Check pages.
  

1.9.1

• Fixed problem regarding points count in quick edit and quick reply - would allow users to get unlimited points by changing the characters number.
  

1.9

• Fixed double </span> tag
• Points to View and Points to Post fields are no longer unsigned. (upgrade script must be run)
• Now adds NewPoints' settings to $mybb->settings instead of having duplicates in the settings table (for some reason they were being deleted)
  

1.8

• Fixed possible bug in uninstallation, if there was a plugin installed but the file was missing, it would "quit" the uninstallation leaving other plugins installed and possibly causing conflict if you install NewPoints and its plugins again.
• No longer displays setting groups when there are no settings for that plugin.
• Split main plugin file into multiple files - takes less time for the parser to read what's actually required.
• Fixed a small bug in the settings page related to a variable type.
• BLOG/TEXT has no longer default value (it actually can't have a default value, bad mistake of mine)
• Sets the collation of the tables on installation to what the user has as default, using MyBB's DB::build_create_table_collation() function.
  

(for older versions please read the changelog.txt file)

Support
Support should be asked at http://forums.mybb-plugins.com

Credits
Thanks to:
Andrew
Glas
Mark.M
ralgith
ZiNgA BuRgA

Download

  NewPoints 1.9.zip (Size: 756.33 KB / Downloads: 396)

[Andrew]

lol I'm please to see this on release now! thanks P.Nervo! I'm very happy for this new point system for mybb! great job indeed! Let me be the first one to test it too on my server

[Pirata Nervo]

Thank you, report any bugs you may find. Although we have tried everything already, there might be something missing

[Glas]

IT looks awesome
^^ i congratulate your effort

but there are 2 things...

1. I do not agree that it's free, (no9t so important)
2. I will not use it until MyRpg and Inventory (with item merge system) have been ported to NewPoints
My forum uses love those 2 plugins

Sorry

[Pirata Nervo]

I don't plan on creating an rpg plugin soon. I'll make the shop first (a better inventory)

[Andrew]

we can find a bug tracker from your downloader (your member), they might report it here we can say "bug hunger".. lol let me start and try making a plugin for this system tomorrow.. but not sure!

[Pirata Nervo]

Good luck, if you need help just make a new thread

[Glas]

IT looks awesome
^^ i congratulate your effort

but there are 2 things...

1. I do not agree that it's free, (no9t so important)
2. I will not use it until MyRpg and Inventory (with item merge system) have been ported to NewPoints
My forum uses love those 2 plugins

Sorry

[Andrew]

(09-15-2009 12:34 AM)Glas Wrote:  IT looks awesome
^^ i congratulate your effort

but there are 2 things...

1. I do not agree that it's free, (no9t so important)
2. I will not use it until MyRpg and Inventory (with item merge system) have been ported to NewPoints
My forum uses love those 2 plugins

Sorry

We can try converting that plugin to this system.. or even make a unique one with the same feature.. I prefer it to be free as it is very useful! trust me

[Pirata Nervo]

Why did you post the same thing again glas? lol