microBUSINESS (Business directory and more)
 

Removed by Author
as I've upgraded to vB4
and thus I can't have vB3 legally installed
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To upgrade just upload business.php and re-import product-microbusiness.xml (check overwrite).




1.- Usage

• Business directory, Links directory and much more.
• Each user can has unlimited companies
• Each company can has unlimited items (shops, links etc)
• Google Maps
• Rating and Reviews

2.- Installation










The installation is pretty easy, has been checked many times for installing and uninstalling the product. Just follow these steps below:

• Download and unzip the file microBUSINESS.zip
• Open the folder vbulletin and select all files and subfolders inside it
• Connect to your website and open the directory where is your vBulletin installation (usally forum, forums, portal etc).
• Upload the selected files to your site. If you fellow the right way then the file business.php must be on the same level as the index.php file of vBulletin.
• CMOD 777 folders:
  • microbusiness/files/
  • microbusiness/photos/
  • microbusiness/photos/thumbs/
  • microbusiness/photos/tmp
• Before any new installation is good to backup your database before, even if nobody is doing it (including me). At lease turn your site off
• Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
• From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product-microbusiness.xml

3.- Configuration










As every vBulletin product, you need to make some initial configurations before it goes live.

• MicroSUPPORT Options
• Google Map API key. If you plan to use Google maps you must obtain a free api key.
• Setup categories and feature list (if you plan to use it).
• Setup usergroup permissions.

4.- Template Modification


The module is using it's own templates, so it doesn't needs any template modification except if you want to add a link to the navbar. In this case you need to modify the NavBar template.


Open it and find:

Add below:


5.- Copyright

• This software is copyrighted work of Maria Avlatzi (MicroHellas) and copyright removal doesn't allowed.
• You can NOT re-distribute this module even for free.

• Thread for each post (depending on usergroup permissions)
• Post appoval or not (currently all post are auto approved)
• User should be able to post unlimited companies and/or items. Now all usergroups can post unlimited.
• more are coming....

Thanks Maria

This is so well done that it makes me want to start a new site just so I can use it :)

Thanks for sharing!

very nice!

Maria once again you have excelled yourself, I for one will be installing this and road testing it with our guys on our forum,

Top WORK ^5

Ste

looks incredible! Tagged.

Don't need to use it, but like it :)

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM microbusiness_features WHERE id= LIMIT 1; error

If no items a blank page is received

Shouldn't items automatically go into the company?

Okay, I want to like this mod, but there are way too many issues in this initial release. For starters, it's not Firefox 3.5 (Mac) friendly at all. The Home/Directory/Companies/User CP tabs do not format correctly in Firefox. When viewing a company, the Overview/Map/Photos/Items links are smashed together.

- I've tried multiple times to upload valid photos with a company, but the photos are never applied.

- There's no option to choose a category when you add a new company. I've added two categories from the AdminCP, but there's no place to choose the category when adding a new company.

- Unable to rate a company.

- This image nophoto.gif is missing from the /microbusiness/images/ folder. I checked my download and verified it's not there. Consequently, all image links are broken.

- If you add a website to a new company, then try to click the Website link on Company Overview it's prefixing like this: http://www.clevelandpaintball.com/fo...tpaintball.com

- While on the Home tab, if a user clicks on Premium Items/Top Rated Items/Popular Items/New Items their taken to a blank white screen.

I've tried this mod on both Safari 4.0.1 and Firefox 3.5 (Mac)