Major Additions - Mary's Classifieds

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*** VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE ***

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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NEW VERSION 6.6.0

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

*** VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE ***

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).

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Bergler

Does anyone have a widget code for this product?

The block generator does not work?

Please upload this file to admincp. By mistake I've disabled the title field.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Halfhidden

Hi Chris.
The value in the sold field is "0".
But this was a test purchase between two administrators who each followed the procedure to accept the sale.
The buyer got this pm from the seller.


So as far as I know everything was done correctly.

No, the procedure is not finished. The full procedure is:

1. Buyer clicks on "Buy Now":
   1. The Ad is marked as sold = 49 (awaiting approval)
   2. The Ad goes invisible
   3. A PM is sending to seller to accept (or reject the sale)
2. Seller accepts the sale:
   1. Ad is marked as sold = 99 (awaiting payment)
   2. A PM is sending to Buyer informing him that seller accepted the order and now he must be in contact with seller to discuss payment way.
3. When the seller get the payment he must mark the item as sold.
   1. Ad is marked as sold = 1 (Final)
   2. PM is sending to both partied to inform them that the have xx days to review each other.

Chris

[Bergler]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Please upload this file to admincp. By mistake I've disabled the title field.

Chris

Thank you Sir!

One more question, how do you change the name of the navbar tab?

[maineGuy72]

Originally Posted by Bergler

Thank you Sir!

One more question, how do you change the name of the navbar tab?

search this mod it has been addressed several times

[Halfhidden]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

No, the procedure is not finished. The full procedure is:

1. Buyer clicks on "Buy Now":
   1. The Ad is marked as sold = 49 (awaiting approval)
   2. The Ad goes invisible
   3. A PM is sending to seller to accept (or reject the sale)
2. Seller accepts the sale:
   1. Ad is marked as sold = 99 (awaiting payment)
   2. A PM is sending to Buyer informing him that seller accepted the order and now he must be in contact with seller to discuss payment way.
3. When the seller get the payment he must mark the item as sold.
   1. Ad is marked as sold = 1 (Final)
   2. PM is sending to both partied to inform them that the have xx days to review each other.

Chris

A thousand apologies. We seemed to have forgotten to go to the pending section and accept the sale and mark it as sold.
Thanks you once again.

[Bergler]

Originally Posted by maineGuy72

search this mod it has been addressed several times

There is 88 pages, thanks for the help, you might as well just not answered.

[Halfhidden]

Originally Posted by Bergler

There is 88 pages, thanks for the help, you might as well just not answered.

The underline fact is that members should use self help wherever possible. All you need to do is hit the "search this thread" and type in your key words.
If developers are bogged down answering questions that have been answered many times already it will put them off support and or use up their valuable time.
I don't think anyone was trying to offend you... just point out a community fact

[DannyITR]

Originally Posted by fwulfers

Small bug.. When you click on an image in Seller's other items, the link is missing the itemid and results in: Invalid data specified

example:
/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=&urlid=1&userid =19

When you click on the title next to the image, the itemid is OK.
/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=20&urlid=1&user id=19

By the way, why would you include the urlid and userid in these links? Just the itemid works fine as well.

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Thank you Mike.

I'm still getting this bug. Was it fixed?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Bergler

There is 88 pages, thanks for the help, you might as well just not answered.

Admincp-> Plugins & Products -> Plugins Manager.
Click Edit on microCLASSIFIEDS Tab Menu. Change the phrase "{vb:var vbphrase.microclassifieds_classifieds}"with your own word.
.....or....
Phrase Manager-> Global variables
Search for microclassifieds_classifieds and change it as you like.

But as other members said already, its a simple search to find the solution.

Chris

[axg]

I run VB Advance. So i do not have the complete suite of VB. Just the forums.

Is there a way to show the latest adds in vbAdvance?