Since 1999, HeatWare has provided free use of its user feedback system, enabling forum users to Buy/Sell/Trade with confidence. We have officially released a vBulletin plugin that allows forums to display user feedback statistics from HeatWare in the user's forum profile. HeatWare is a global feedback system, therefore there is no need to build reputation on EACH forum you visit.
- Supported: vBulletin 4.2.3
- Not Supported: vBulletin 5.x
- Download the latest release and unzip the package
- Upload the contents of the folder upload_this to the vBulletin root folder
- Open heatware_config.php and enter the API key that you obtained after contacting HeatWare
After the plugin is installed, an option called HeatWare Feedback will appear in the user's profile with Yes/No options. When set to Yes, the plugin will use the forum user's E-mail address and search for a HeatWare account with that e-mail address. HeatWare allows multiple e-mail addresses to be associated with the user's account, so there is no need for users to change their forum e-mail address. Note: After enabling this option, it may take ~30 minutes for statistics to appear.
Where are the feedback stats displayed?
- A tab called HeatWare Feedback will be added to the user's profile
- When a user posts a message, the Positive/Negative/Neutral feedback count will be displayed under the user's avatar
- vBulletin Scheduled Tasks will run every 10 minutes to look for any user that enabled the plugin profile option. In addition, it will also search for HeatWare users with the forum user's email address, and fetch the feedback statistics.
- A scheduled task will run once per day to send HeatWare plugin usage statistics.
- User's HeatWare statistics will update no more than once per day
- There is a limit on how many API calls will be made per invocation to reduce forum and HeatWare load.
I am looking for the community to help with bug fixes, feature development, and testing compatibility with various vBulletin versions.
- Initial release
- Homepage: http://www.heatware.com/u/2
- E-mail: heatware.support(at)gmail(dot)com