Cash mod progress

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I have always said on this one that it was not going to happen until a vision for it was good enough, this took a long time to happen as I am far from convinced that people wanting it by and large knew what they wanted.

If you do things that are wrong they are very difficult to get rid of!

I am finally confident that what is being done is the right answer


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4 payment gateways plus of course virtual payments now coded

I really hope we will get a few shops on board and get something good going.
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Google checkout now there as a payment processor.
Nicks buttons now added.
The shop template now deals with people not being logged in if it is a virtual shop.
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Well I have not put in 5 payment gateways for people to buy virtual baubles
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I think it makes sense now to press on with the ways people can accumulate cash.

At which point we may be set for a release, there will still I think be things people will want, but it will all be clearer when people have stuff to play with.
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Minor pause for reflection   I am using two portals to define actions and where they take place. I think this falls into what I consider to be the phpbb3 trap, add double the complexity to deal "elegantly" with things that 5% of people will want to do.

I think I need to drop back to one portal which might mean that people wanting to do very awkward things will have to define more rules than they would with the two portal approach, but meanwhile 95% of people find it easier to use.
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I also think that this will be a very good mod that will integrate well with what we have now.

I bet some people thought I was just fobbing people off with excuses when I said it would not get done until it could be done right and it would have been relatively easy to go down the road of adding someone else's cash hack.

It certainly would have been easier than what will probably be about 40 hours or more of me programming, on top of the countless hours spent contemplating this feature!

But anything we do, we have to live with for a very long time  
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touch wood the action matching is now complete, when a post takes place all the actions defined are checked to see which ones should actually be applied.

Next stop is applying them.

I'd say we are shaping up for a release next Monday, the delay until then being more because of other stuff going on than anything else.
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I am adding the ability to show XPROFILE fields using a php sprintf format string:

http://uk3.php.net/sprintf

Will be useful for showing currency and generally making automatic display of the fields neater and easier.
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I have just made a post and seen the topic starter get awarded virtual cash

Basically this means the core functionality is there, but there are an awful lot of permutations that can occur  

As such testing and rollout will be a little involved, and as stated will probably have to be Monday.
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Another small touch of finishing is that you can now drill down to an item in the shop, probably not needed for the common type of shop. This is made more useful with a LONG_DESCRIPTION field.

The shop template now has the following modes.


{SHOP_S_MODE}
0 - individual item view
1 - row/column view
2 - View Basket
3 - Checkout
4 - Thank you for the order
5 - Payment not completed

At no point currently does the shop email anyone, typically both the shop and the payment processor will email both buyer and seller and so extra emails are a little redundant. But they may be useful.

I envisage attempting to set up a myfreeforum shop when this goes live and see what conclusions that leads me to.
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Just got most of the way through the paypal checkout process. e.g. Items passed to the paypal cart and paypal wanting me to pay
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