Mary's Classifieds
 

By downloading and installing the new version 5.0.3, you automatically accept the following restrictions in use, which have been approved as legal from the Administrator Team of vB.org.

1. This version is 80% custom work for a client in Norway, who gots the permissions for exclusive use in Scandidavia (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland). As a result of this legal agreement that I signed, installation of Mary's Classifieds is prohibited in domains (sites):
   1. With extention .no (Norway), .se (Sweden), .dk (Denmark) and .fi (Finland).
   2. In any site, having any tld extention (eg com, net etc etc), having as primary language:
      1. Norwegian
      2. Swedish
      3. Danish
      4. Finnish
2. Version 5.0.3 uses a thrid party Ajax Library from Guru Sistemas Ltd. This is a commercial library that I bought. Use of this libary out of the original directory (microclassifieds/datagrid/class/), even on the same domain, or including this library in any other module except Marys Classifieds is prohibited.
3. From this version and on there is my copyright link in the footer as all mods have. Please don't remove it. You can remove it legally by paying for it (not donating).

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With 100+ support pages, its impossible for me to follow the posts her. That's why I opened in my site:

1. A Thread for Installation Issues
2. A Project for Bug Reports

I'll appreciate your understanding on the fact that this is a Free product, so don't expect superior level support, but I'll try my best with the help of Bug Tracker.

Also note that even if you can suggest new features, these features will be include in the upcoming CMPS style version which will be Commercial. No plans exist for adding new features in the Free version. Just bug fixes.
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There are many new features to this version to list them now. Spend sometime to explore the new mod and you'll find them. The only that I want to mention is that the SEO rules that I've, are normal rules and not vbSeo rules.



How to upgrade:

1. Download the latest version 6.6.0. Please be aware that the regional restriction on use (Scandinavia) is still valid.
2. Upload *** ALL *** the files in your forum directory.
3. Import the product-microclassifieds.xml from your admincp, choosing overwrite.
4. Walk throught the General settinsg and usergroup permissions, as there are many new settings.

Thank you
Chris







1.- How it works

• A user posts an Ad. If the user hasn't post a profile before, the system auto creates one for him, populating it with any data there are in his forum profile.
• Members who are searching or browsing ads can see his ad. According the adtype (For-sale, Wanted, Auction), they can Buy it or Bid on it. The ad becomes invisible to public.
• System PMs seller about the sale. Seller can accept or decline the sale. In case of accept the ad is marking as pending payment. If seller declines the sale, the ad is activating again.
• When the payment is done, seller marks it as paid, the ad is removing from the server (with all related photos and attachments), and some data remain for history only.
• System PMs buyer that the sale has been finalized, and prompts him to rate and review the seller.
• In a time frame that admin has setup, seller and buyer can review each other. During this period reviews are hidden. When the time frame expires, the reviews become visible. Also with the help of a cron job, there is a check which activates reviews, even before the expiration, if both parties have post the review.

2.- Frontend Features

• 3 types of Classifieds (For-Sale, Wanted, Auction).
• Different look for each type.
• Powerfull Search engine
• What's New (Last 7, 14, 21, 30 days)
• Buyer can rate Seller, but also Seller can rate Buyer.
• Profile Information
• Full contact details
• Google Map Locator
• Value as Seller:
  • Rating
  • Total Sales
  • Total Amount of sold items
• Value as Buyer:
  • Rating
  • Total orders that he placed
  • Total amount of his orders
• Active Ads
• Sold Ads
• Reviews that he gots as Seller (from Buyers)
• Reviews that he gots as Buyer (from Sellers)
• Contact form
• Information Blocks in Main page:
  • Auctions to Expire
  • Random Classifieds
  • Premium Classifieds
  • Premium Profiles
  • Newest Idividual Ads
  • Newest Store Ads
  • Top Sellers (Rating)
  • Top Buyers (Rating)
  • Best Sellers (Amount of items that he sold)
  • Best Buyers (Amount of items that he bought)
• User can bookmark an Ad
• User can mark to follow a category, so he will get a PM for each new ad placed in that category (including subcategories).
• Logon user can:
  • Post an Ad (if it is permitting by his usergroup permissions).
  • Edit his profile
  • See the public view of his profile
  • My Classifieds section with:
    • Active Ads with options to Edit, Hide, Activate (if hidden) or Delete it
    • Hidden Ads with options to Activate or Delete
    • Accept Sales. List all Ads that have expired (if auction) or someone asked to buy them. Options: Accept sale, Reject sale, Delete Ad
    • Pending Ads, showing the ads awaiting to be paid. Options to close the sale (after payment), or to reactivate the ad
    • Sold Ads
  • My Bids
  • My Bookmarks
  • My Watch categories
  • My History, showing:
    • Items that I sold
    • Items that I bought
  • Attractive interface
  • Easy to understand and use by your members
  • Certified Memebrs

3.- Administrator Features

• Unlimited depth level of categories
• Option per category to allow posts to:
  • All Usergroups
  • None Usergroup
  • Specific Usergroup, or Usergroups
• Extra fields, global for all categories:
  • Text
  • Radio Button
  • Checkboxes
  • Droplist
  • Textarea
• Extra fields for Profiles (same options as above).
• Set expiration time (in days) for ads. A cronjob checks the ads and removes ads that have been expired (also removes related, bookmarks, bids etc).
• Can setup default currency for all ads, or can allow users to use any currency they want.
• Allow or disallow to user, to choose if he wants any expired ad, to be peplaced with a new one.
• Can setup where the text search will perform:
  • Title
  • Title and Keywords
  • Title, Keywords and Message body.
• In addition, he can setup how the search will works:
  • Looking for exact text
  • Looking for partial search
• Can choose to use or not Google Maps
• And many other common options (eg photo widths, allowed filetypes etc etc).

4.- Moderator Actions

• Approve New or Edited Ads
• Approve or Delete Reported Ads
• Add/Delete Certified Members. Certified Members is another way to promote some users that you want. You can change the word to anything you like. Some webmasters use it to show that a seller has proven his identity to him, others use it to promote good clients etc.

5.- Usergroup Permissions

• Can access the classified section
• Can post ads
• How many concurrent active ads
• How many photos per ad
• How many attachments per ad
• Priority on listings (1= Higher .... 9=Lower. Please note that usergroups with priority 1, Ads and Profiles appear in random, as Premium)
• Ads need approval? This is a commonly used permission, but I moved it to work per usergroup and not as general option.
• Can Moderate Ads and Reported Ads
• Can Moderate Certified Members

6.- New version 4.9.5

This version fixes all posted bugs and corrects any styling issued by using external css files (microclassifieds/includes/classifieds.css). It also replace the inline blocks (Buy Now etc) with modal popup windows.




7.- Upgrade to ver.4.9.5

1. Upload all file to your site overwriting the old ones
2. Import product-microclassifieds.xml from your admincp marking the overwrite checkbox

8.- New version 4.9.5a

1. New Feature:
   1. Added Social Network sharing buttons (facebook, Twitter etc)
2. Improvement:
   1. Added {vb:raw headinclude_bottom} in all templates
3. Bug fixes:
   1. Auctions PMs have empty text
   2. Wrong PM on close Auction when there was no bids
   3. Missing photo in Premium Sellers block
   4. Missing condition "Used" in listings
   5. Wrong date in PMs to contact seller
   6. Missing photo in Wanted Ads
   7. Database error when adding a category with apostrophe in title

9.- Upgrade to ver.4.9.5a

1. Upload all file to your site overwriting the old ones
2. Import product-microclassifieds.xml from your admincp marking the overwrite checkbox

10.- New version 4.9.5a

1. Bug fixes:
   1. Phrase in wrong phrase section caused empty PMs for Auctions.
   2. Wrong Mathematical formula in Search (expiration).

11.- Upgrade to ver.4.9.5a

1. Upload all file to your site overwriting the old ones
2. Import product-microclassifieds.xml from your admincp marking the overwrite checkbox

Finally..

hope the next release will have an option for the auction (such as penny auction, but it now option, free auction, beginner auction, peak auction, etc etc)

btw thanks alot for the release for v4, installed + nominated :)

I don't know why but I can't edit the post above to add upgrading instructions. Currently if you've already 4.8.5 installed then, the only that you have to do is to upload classifieds.php on your site.

Chris

Download link does not work

yup link not working..

hope the next release will have an option for the auction, such as penny auction, free auction, beginner auction buy it now feature, etc etc :)

thanks alot for the release, mark installed + nominated :)

@voglermc
@Gripi
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Have no idea why the download link does not works. I faced similar problem trying to edit the text. Maybe moderators want to check if I really have got code rights from Mary, or not. This is the only that I can think right now.

Chris

The post was awaiting approval because of some of the words you used in the post some words trigger this action. I have approved it. So, see if you can download the attachments and edit the post now.

Download-wise, seems to be fine now :up:

Awesome! Finally progress.

Possible bug...

When a member sends a seller a message thru the " Contact Seller" link, it sends a blank message....no text

Thanks for working on this - it is much appreciated!

As there 2 ways for contacting seller could you please specify where you met this bug? When viewing the Ad's page or when seeing the seller's profile (last tab).

Chris

Great to see it is getting supported.

How does one add and remove premium buyers, I dont seem to be able to do this and I have total admin control??

Premium Sellers/Buyers (and thus premium classifieds) are those who belong to usergroup, for which you have set "Listing Priority" 1 (its the last option on microCLASSIFIEDS usergroup permissions.

Chris

This was when viewing tha ads page , havent tried yet when seeing the sellers profile

Tagged for future...thanks for running with this one...

Ok, thank you. Is this maybe the reason that the uploaded photos are broken links? Also how I can inform the members who have installed the earlier version, that an update is available for download?

Thank you

download link don't work

Don't know what to say. As you can see the screenshots are also broken links.

You should pm a staff member.
B.t.w. what's the difference between this release and the old (deleted) one? Thanks.

Has 3-4 bug fixes, plus a replacement of inline blocks (Buy now, Contact Seller etc) with popup (jquery) windows. The blocks were working with the switch Show/Hide. So clicking the link the block appeared, but you had to click it again to close it. Many users were clicking lots of link and the result was ugly. Lots of block one below the other.

Still broken... :(

still cant download

all work fine this morning, now I can download

I had some Problems with header and footer of a different style/theme.

You can solve this issue by:

Edit Template microclassifieds_main

Search for:

{vb:raw header}
{vb:raw navbar}

Replace with:

{vb:raw header}
{vb:raw headinclude_bottom}
{vb:raw navbar}

and Footer/Header shows correctly. Perhaps you could include that in the next update?

Thank you. I marked it for next update. I also noticed in the code, that there is no check for loading the css from the web if user has setup it such a way. So, most probably tomorrow I'll release a new update.

C.T.

After install I get the following error. Any idea what might wrong, or of a cure?

Are you continuing getting this error? It comes from the Top Sellers block, but as I seen the query is correct there. Also nobody reported a problem like this, and this function is there from the first release. What's you MySQL version?

Edited: Opsss.... I just seen that you're using MySQLi, right? I've to check it.

C.T.

Yeah that's the error that comes up when selecting the Classifieds Tab on the navbar. I currently have the micromembers and microclassifieds plugin's disabled in the product manager while waiting for a cure.

Dunno if this is a bug (Now running 4.1.5, same in 4.1.4)

As Admin, full power, Can?t get the profilepicture to show under "Premium Profiles" field, tried jpg, .gif and differnet sizes.
The picure SHOWS normal under the profile.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/07/35.jpg

Also...how do i swap place on the tabs? "What' s new before the Classifieds(MotorBlocket)"

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/07/34.jpg

Another bug?

There are two choices when making an ad. New or Used.

Only NEW show up on the list, Used not. It does show INSIDE the product for sale.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/07/33.jpg

1. Lines ar partially gone under the products.
2 & 3. Only NEW shows, not Used. (Inside product shows both)


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/07/33.jpg

Thanks so much with providing a new life for this product!

I installed and currently testing it. It's working great so far and no errors or problems. One thing that's very important for our automotive site is being able to search/filter using the Classified Extra Fields. For example, searching for bodystyle/transmission/color and so on.

I didn't see that in the current version so hopefully that's possible in future or premium/paid-for versions?

Upgrade the board to vB version 4.1.5. last night and this plugin is still failing on my end. The error message given was the same as the one above.

I'll add it to the commercial version, but maybe to this one too, as its not a new feature but rather an improvment to an existing one.

C.T.

Sorry but I haven't worked with MySQLi database driver before, so fixing your problem maybe it will take days.

C.T.

"MySQLi" should not make a difference. It is more than likely related to their MySQL version which is 5.5.

Another great feature would be to "share" or/and "like" the ads stright to FaceBook...

Another possible bug (running this great addon hard at the moment)...


When sending a PM via "Contact Seller" the date is totally wrong, so the PM ends up last in the inbox.
NOTE: happenes ONLY when you send message via profile contact. IF you send via the AD, the date is correct.


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/07/30.jpg