README

A Flarum extension that adds a configurable virtual currency and point ledger to your community.

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Money lets a community reward, charge, redistribute, and audit points around common forum actions such as posting, replying, liking, registration, and moderator edits. It is designed for communities that want points to represent attention, contribution, participation cost, or other internal value.

This extension is based on flarum-ext-money by AntoineFr. Thanks to the original author for the excellent foundation. This fork keeps the original idea and adds more opinionated logging, redistribution, and Flarum 2.x compatibility features.

Compatibility

Flarum: ^2.0.0-beta
PHP: ^8.3
Requires flarum/likes ^2.0@beta
Current release line: 2.x
Flarum 1.x users should stay on the 0.x release line.

Features

Virtual Currency

Adds a money balance to every Flarum user.
Displays the balance on user cards.
Supports a custom display template, such as [money] points.
Can hide zero balances from the forum UI.

Point Ledger

Records every balance change in the money_logs table.
Stores the changed amount, resulting balance, action type, reason, related user, post, discussion, and timestamps.
Adds a "Point Records" page under the signed-in user's profile.
Supports paginated log loading.
Links log reasons back to related discussions and posts when possible.
Restricts the front-end log page and API listing to the current authenticated user.

Registration Bonus

Grants new users an initial point balance when they register.
Records the registration bonus in the ledger.

Posting And Reply Rules

Configures a point amount for creating a new discussion post.
Configures a separate point amount for replies.
Each action can be either a reward or a deduction.
Prevents an action when a deduction would make the actor spend more points than they have.
Supports a minimum post length for reply rewards or deductions.

Reply Feedback

Replies can optionally give points back to the discussion author.
Useful for communities where replying costs the replier but rewards the author who created the discussion.
Self-feedback is ignored so users do not reward themselves through their own content.

Like Rewards And Costs

Configures point changes when a user likes a post.
Like actions can be rewards or deductions.
Like deductions can optionally be redistributed to the post author.
Self-likes are ignored.
Unliking reverses the configured point effect, including author feedback when enabled.

Extra Character Rules

Adds an optional rule for longer content.
After a configurable character threshold, every additional character increment can trigger extra points.
Extra points follow the configured reward or deduction direction for posts or replies.
Extra character changes are also written to the point ledger.

Moderation And Manual Editing

Adds an Edit money permission.
Authorized moderators can edit a user's balance from user controls.
Manual balance changes are logged with the delta and resulting balance.

Auto Adjustment On Hidden, Restored, Or Deleted Content

Can automatically adjust balances when discussions or posts are hidden/restored.
Can instead wait until discussions or posts are deleted.
Can be disabled entirely.
These automatic changes are recorded with the related post or discussion context.

Multi-Level Display

Supports comma-separated money level names, such as Gold,Silver,Bronze.
Supports a configurable scale, such as 100, to split one numeric balance into multiple display units.
Example: a balance can be shown as several named levels instead of a single raw number.

Admin Settings

Setting	Description
Money name	Display template for balances. Use `[money]` as the numeric placeholder.
Initial money	Points granted to new users on registration.
Level names	Optional comma-separated labels for multi-level display.
Money scale	Base used to split balances across level names.
New post amount	Amount applied when a user creates the first post in a discussion.
Reply amount	Amount applied when a user replies to a discussion.
Like amount	Amount applied when a user likes a post.
Change type	Choose reward or deduction for post, reply, and like rules.
Feedback	Choose whether reply/like deductions reward the original author.
Character threshold	Minimum content length before extra character points apply.
Character increment	Number of extra characters per additional point change.
Points per increment	Points applied for each extra character increment.
Auto update money	Choose how hidden/restored/deleted content affects balances.
Hide zero	Hide zero balances on user cards.

Installation

Install with Composer:

composer require shebaoting/flarum-money:"^2.0"

Run migrations and clear the Flarum cache:

php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

Then enable the extension in the Flarum admin panel and configure the permission and point rules.

Updating

composer update shebaoting/flarum-money:"^2.0"
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

If your forum still requires the old package name, switch the Composer requirement first:

composer remove shebaoting/money --no-update
composer require shebaoting/flarum-money:"^2.0" -W

When upgrading from 0.x to 2.x, make sure your forum is already running Flarum 2.x beta and PHP 8.3 or newer.

Development

Install JavaScript dependencies and build the front-end assets from the js directory:

cd js
yarn install
yarn build

Validate the Composer package from the extension root:

composer validate

Philosophy

The design philosophy behind this system is a metaphor for time.

Everything you do in a community consumes time. If a contribution receives no meaningful response, it can feel like the time was spent in vain. A point system can make that invisible cost and feedback loop visible: creating, replying, and liking can all represent attention moving between people.

For a similar concept, I recommend watching the movie In Time.

Contact

You can contact me if you wish to fund or discuss Flarum extension development.

Email: th9th@th9th.com

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