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Re: SMF Shop Ideas..:Job Lottery Auctions..
« Reply #15 on: April 19, 2007, 01:05:01 pm »
I honestly think that these would be awesome mods!!  I'd love to see a lottery mod, but no cron job LOL.  But I could see where and RPG forum would LOVE the Job and Auction Mod, especially if they have clans.

what is a cron job? I keep seeing people talk about it and i see it in my cpanel but dont want to messa round wth it because I already messed up my site 2x but what is it and what options should i used when i do deside to do it

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Re: SMF Shop Ideas..:Job Lottery Auctions..
« Reply #16 on: April 19, 2007, 03:39:58 pm »
I honestly think that these would be awesome mods!!  I'd love to see a lottery mod, but no cron job LOL.  But I could see where and RPG forum would LOVE the Job and Auction Mod, especially if they have clans.

what is a cron job? I keep seeing people talk about it and i see it in my cpanel but dont want to messa round wth it because I already messed up my site 2x but what is it and what options should i used when i do deside to do it

Um, well a cron job is a script that you can use to have your server call on for different times and such.  Although, it can be done without a cron job.  I personally don't like cron jobs, because they tend to confuse me and I get frustrated and eventually just give up, plus some servers don't have them.
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Re: SMF Shop Ideas..:Job Lottery Auctions..
« Reply #17 on: April 19, 2007, 05:55:35 pm »
 Actually Cron is a Unix (also Linux and BSD) service...you need to tell it the details of what you want it to do and then it will execute the commands you've given it at set times that you've given it (Chron indicating chronometer)...here's a tutorial...

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

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Re: SMF Shop Ideas..:Job Lottery Auctions..
« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2007, 05:12:01 am »
Actually Cron is a Unix (also Linux and BSD) service...you need to tell it the details of what you want it to do and then it will execute the commands you've given it at set times that you've given it (Chron indicating chronometer)...here's a tutorial...

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html
THANK YOU, you explained it soo much better than I could have, but then again, I have a migraine, and explainning anything right now is impossible LOL  - but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like cron jobs LOL
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Re: SMF Shop Ideas..:Job Lottery Auctions..
« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2007, 05:35:16 am »
My pleasure...mind you does this mean I can't get you to do a custom install of php for me? That one's crossing my eyes a treat.

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« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2007, 06:06:05 am »
My pleasure...mind you does this mean I can't get you to do a custom install of php for me? That one's crossing my eyes a treat.
Yeah, see I'm staying away from ALL code at the moment.  Even looking at simple HTML is causing my brain to overload, I think I've been staring at code for too long LOL.
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« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2007, 06:14:26 am »
All joking aside I do hope you get over the migraine quickly...I know it's not easy to cope when you're struggling through such things.

Offline Lew_Cipher

Re: SMF Shop Ideas..:Job Lottery Auctions..
« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2007, 12:28:36 am »
Well, i would think that it would be cool if SMF shop had more included with it..

Right now it has something like this: cash/bank/shop, so why don't you add a few things too it?

cash/shop/bank/jobs/lottery/auctions

---Jobs---
Users can get jobs, then when the person who got 'hired' for the job does it, (ex.: Mod, Ranks, Post Fixer, Snitch) hits the 'Done' button,
the person who created the jobs clicks confirm, and the hired user gets a certain amounts or credits

--Lottery--
Users would bet a certain amount of credits , then set the minimum amount of credits to put down for a "ticket" then set the date it goes off, it would randomly pick a winner and the winner would get the set credit amount.

--Auctions--
This is like the Lottery, but only people place bids, and the person puts down a item for the winner.

Iwould love to see these things implanted...
That would make more people want SMF shop, and it would make it cooler....What do you think?..

Excellent ideas!