pay for clicking links

[judel]

I know you created the plugin where people pay myps for downloading an attachment, but what about paying for clicking links? Or is something like that already around somewhere, and I missed it?

Also, any progress on the shop mod, Labrocca? Since Lex is MIA, we can't expect his shop to be released, darn it!

[labrocca]

Well...no progress on that. As for a clicking links thing..that's dangerous as it's against TOS of Adsense and most ad programs to offer incentives to click.

[judel]

No, I'm not talking about adsense. Like a link within a post. And the person would have to pay points (myps) to click it, not real money.

[exarchate]

yea i think that's a good idea. because i cant attach all big files to the forum, i upload the files somewhere, and i want them to pay with MYPS for the link i gave. At least admin and moderator can do this.
Thx

[judel]

Exactly, that's basically what I want as well. I don't see how adsense could be involved, if the code was written strictly for links within a post...unless that just isn't possible?

[labrocca]

Well everything is possible but I have to admit this is low priority for me. I hope to go into mybb overdrive when 1.4 comes out. 1.4 has so many changes that to create a lot of plugins might just mean rewriting them later on.

[maryan]

ya, i think that this will be a great feature.

[animuson]

You know this probably could be pretty simple. You could change the MyCode for [ url ] tags to change it to go to YOURSITE/exit.php?url=URL and have exit.php record the click and add the points, then redirect to the original URL at the end.

However, you probably would need some system to prevent them from being credited for clicking the same link multiple times in a 24 hour, 48 hour, 72 hour, 1 week, or however long period of time. System abuse == uber phail. But then again you could just create a new database that records the URL, username, and expiration date and if the current time is after the expiration date, credit the account and redirect, else only redirect.

I'm not sure if these things would be affected much by the new version as they are mostly completed in databases and features exterior from the original MyBB codes (and I can't imagine they'd be changing the [ url ] tag function with a new version).

[labrocca]

Animuson you are right basically. That would be the proper way to do it. IMHO it would be even better not to use the url mycode but instead create one unique.