rmccny Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Work on the next release of vBLink has been underway for some time now and there are a lot more changes then we originally planned. Due to the extensive re-engineering of vBLink I have decided to cancel the release of vBLink 1.2 and release it as vBLink Pro 2.0. Everyone who contributed towards vBLink 1.x will automatically be entitled to get 2.0 when it's finished; however we will no longer be providing access to source code with version 2. vBLink Pro 2.0 shares virtually nothing in common with the 1.x series; adding a new XML API, new ways to link your forum accounts, but losing the complicated setup and messy config files. Some Feature Highlights of vBLink Pro 2.0 include... No configuration files to edit! Clients can link their existing forum accounts in the client area. New client area forum registration module with AJAX username availability check. New vBLink XML API for making calls into vBulletin without the need for complicated MySQL configuration. vBLink API intelligent error reporting clearly indicates the source of the error (i.e. 404 not found, vBulletin Offline, Database Error, etc). New Admin Module for easy configuration and management of vBLink. Simplified management of system settings including automatic token generation. Simplified management of vBulletin settings; no need to lookup usergroup and field ID's as they are queried using the vBLink API. Full login-session sharing; when a client logs into vB, they are automatically logged into WHMCS. Then a client logs into WHMCS, they are automatically logged into vBulletin. This can be disabled on a per-client basis. A totally redesigned new admin module. Simplified management of system settings. New vBLink API with intelligent error reporting. Simplified management of vBulletin settings. Usergroups and custom fields are now queried through the new vBLink API! New client area module allows your clients to register for the support forum in one easy step! Ajax username lookup queries the vBLink API to check availability! Give your existing clients the ability to link their existing forum account to WHMCS in the client area. I don't have an ETA, however I anticipate a public beta sometime in the next 1-2 weeks. Please bear with me, I am still working through the backlog of vBLink support and installation requests that built up over the holidays. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herpherp Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Is there a price set for this yet? Just wondering, we were currently going to make a script to do some of this but if it is within our price range we would be interested. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 however we will no longer be providing access to source code with version 2. Thats a shame, we've been considering connecting access to certain sections of our forums into WHMCS so clients gain/lose access to them based on currently active products etc, and had been tempted to buy vblink as a starting point for the codebase. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmccny Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 herpherp, no decision on actual price yet, but it'll be close to the current "contributor" rate. othellotech, I don't see anything that would prevent you from using it. Just because the code is encoded, doesn't mean you can't use it. I'm taking the extra time to ensure that the API is reusable by 3rd party scripts and enhancements. For instance.. Do you want to pull a clients' forum profile and use it inside WHMCS? $vblink_account = vblink_fetch_client($GLOBALS['userid']); if ($vblink_account) { $response = vblink_api_exec(array('command'=>'fetch_profile','userid'=>$vblink_account['userid'])); if ($response->status=='OK') { echo $response->user->posts; echo vblink_ts_to_whmcs_date($response->user->lastactivity); } } I have also just finished development on a "plugin" for the WHMCS Admin/Clients Profile tab that adds a "Forum Account" box with the clients basic forum details in it, including links to their profile and "all posts" search. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataHosts Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 This looks nice...may think of VB instead of FusionBB now 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I don't see anything that would prevent you from using it. Just because the code is encoded, doesn't mean you can't use it. I'm taking the extra time to ensure that the API Without seeing the code I wont know what I want to crib/learn from At the moment we're playing with cronjobs and mysqldb updates for the "rights controls" - it started out as a simple "if has an active VPS, has access to the VPS forum", which morphed into "has access to *post* in the VPS forum" which morphed into "has an order *or* product thats a VPS can have read access, has an active product has post access which morphed into "has certain product and no o/s invoices and no pending cancellation, has access to ..." which morphed into ... a complex array of permissions and a rules processor based on a mapping of tblproducts to forums_products_rules 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidBlueX Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 I can't wait! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidBlueX Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Any updates? I will even pay to try out the beta 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corehoster.com Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Any update on this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Intens Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Any updates 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidBlueX Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 Guess he doesn't want to get paid, and instead wants us to use the free version In any case, I'm sure he is busy as his posted suggested, but any updates would be great *hint* *hint* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XN-Matt Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Without seeing the code I wont know what I want to crib/learn from At the moment we're playing with cronjobs and mysqldb updates for the "rights controls" - it started out as a simple "if has an active VPS, has access to the VPS forum", which morphed into "has access to *post* in the VPS forum" which morphed into "has an order *or* product thats a VPS can have read access, has an active product has post access which morphed into "has certain product and no o/s invoices and no pending cancellation, has access to ..." which morphed into ... a complex array of permissions and a rules processor based on a mapping of tblproducts to forums_products_rules Sounds like what we had... and similar what we use for external mailing lists. Ended up binning it for now until we have a day when we can bash it out completely. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucerfoot Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 rmccny does not keep his promises with this whmcs addon to people when he saids that he going to ge back to you and he never does 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulliteShot Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 This would be awesome. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftModders Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 This would indeed be very useful, however if the author is not interested in continuing this project, I most certainly will . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Intens Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 This would indeed be very useful, however if the author is not interested in continuing this project, I most certainly will .well i hope that you will 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidBlueX Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 This would indeed be very useful, however if the author is not interested in continuing this project, I most certainly will . Please do 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucerfoot Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 this vblink addon went to a black white screen when my friend quinn tried to install it on my whmcs program today, so where did quinn go wrong with it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 this vblink addon went to a black white screen when my friend quinn tried to install it on my whmcs program today, so where did quinn go wrong with it Quinn should ask the people it was purchased from. Thread cleaned again. This will be the last time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucerfoot Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) the problem with that is, the people from that site where i got the vblink from, never get back to you in a support ticket at all Edited February 20, 2009 by saucerfoot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 If it's not what you'd paid for, and you can't reach them for support to fix it, you should charge back the purchase price and stop using it. If it has rendered either application unusable, reinstalling the files that were affected to their original state should fix that. This is all very basic stuff, and while I can appreciate the fact you're inexperienced and hampered because of disabilities you say you have, that isn't any excuse for avoiding the basic step of trying to learn instead of constantly demanding aid for third party applications that aren't supported. If your WHMCS is broken, open a ticket and someone should be able to fix it for you. If you open that ticket and demand they get that third party add on installed and working, I'd be very surprised if they did so. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saucerfoot Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I tried doing it on my own bear and it keeps on going to a blank white screen when i try to install the vblink on my whmcs program so i can stop the spam bots from registering on my board all the time and steven is hard to get hold of because he does not have a phone number for me to call him on the phone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
striddy Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 it keeps on going to a blank white screen when i try to install the vblink on my whmcs program Please contact the creator of the script. Only the creator of the script can help you. There is no point asking for help for a 3rd party script from users of the WHMCS forum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.