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 sadiq6210

I was asking about you ^_^
Any news about the width of the table?

Appreciate your support

I apologize but this feature will be only in the PRO version, for 2 main reasons:

1. The datagrid itself, with the custom modifications (because this was a custom modification), it costed me more than $400. As you can understand to give my work for free, is ok, but to pay for giving something for free, its out of logic.
2. Adding so many features in the FREE version (compare the first one that I got from Mary, with the latest here), only 4-5 features left to have in addition in the PRO version, and as you can understand, only very few members are ready to pay for it.
3. I was expecting to have some money in exchange selling the copyright removal. For 3 months now, only one paid for it. Honestly (I'm not talking in person), do you believe that from around 150 installations only 1 has removed the copyright? There are users here, who got support, and whose site I visited (they've them in their signature), and I found my copyright removed. That's no fair.

Chris

[bigtree]

Could it be that something was changed in the code from vbulletin 4.1.4 to 4.1.5? I am on 4.1.5 pl 1

I am planning on upgrading to 4.1.7 once the guinea pigs get done with it and the first patch is released. Maybe lets see how that goes for us then?

Something is clearly incorrect with either your patch above or the code for vb 4.1.5 .

Love this Classified! Very impressive.

Cheers!

[JimL]

Any ideas about this?

Originally Posted by JimL

I'm having some trouble, usergroup permissions doesn't seem to work for additional usergroups (only primary). Is this intended or is it something wrong with our setup?

ie: a user with primary usergroup "registered user" and additonal usergroup "administrators" will use the usergroup permissions from "registered user".

If this is how it is intended, how can we change it to include additional usergroups as well?

edit: hm. seems like that was part-true.

Administrators are allowed to moderate / edit ads. But the variables controlling number of concurrent ads plus photos and files in each ad is from the primary usergroup only.


So if I have a setup like this

Then the usergroup administrators CAN moderate, but they can only have 2 ads.

Running VB4.1.7

[JimL]

Just tried a completely new install of vbulletin 4.1.7 + Classifieds 5.1.7 and I can't get the fields defining max * to work correctly.

example:
registered users max days = 30
admin users max days = 45

user set as primary usergroup registered users and additional usergroup admin
max days = 30

user set as primary usergroup admin and additional usergroup registered users
max days = 45

this is kind of critical as our users get automatically upgraded to additonal usergroup "members" when paying in our store, and we want them to have elevated rights in this extension.

[bigtree]

On a side note: Its the internet and most want something for nothing, and usually get it somewhere. The full story however, nothing great and stable is for free. And who in their right mind can work for nothing? Everyone deserves to be paid for working.
As long as this has support, I will definitely be supporting you on this back.

Looking forward to seeing this work on 4.1.7 as this is a major bug fix version.

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

I apologize but this feature will be only in the PRO version, for 2 main reasons:

1. The datagrid itself, with the custom modifications (because this was a custom modification), it costed me more than $400. As you can understand to give my work for free, is ok, but to pay for giving something for free, its out of logic.
2. Adding so many features in the FREE version (compare the first one that I got from Mary, with the latest here), only 4-5 features left to have in addition in the PRO version, and as you can understand, only very few members are ready to pay for it.
3. I was expecting to have some money in exchange selling the copyright removal. For 3 months now, only one paid for it. Honestly (I'm not talking in person), do you believe that from around 150 installations only 1 has removed the copyright? There are users here, who got support, and whose site I visited (they've them in their signature), and I found my copyright removed. That's no fair.

Chris

I am totally agree with you Chris.
I am looking to use this mod as e-bookshop in our official university forum, still I don't know will we use it or not, I am just trying to make it as what we need in a test forum (not online) especially we are using RTL/ARABIC language so I want to make sure before install it. If we take decision to use it, then, you can consider me as a second person who will remove the copyright.

Until now we are facing some difficulties in RTL, charset, style, align, and remove or modify some features.

But about the table width.
I am not sure if you understood what I mean. see the screenshot

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...0&d=1318779275

Have a look to the "question mark" area, I thought this is a bug. Is it a feature to increase the width of the table to 100%. The table width should be 100% and no need for this blank area. Is it bug or a feature to remove this blank area?

At the end of the day, I respect your effort Chris, It is not fair from me to discuss this with you. You are offering this mod for free with awesome support and we all appreciate that, so no need to apologize, no need for any clarifications. You are consuming your time to deliver a good mod for us and it is fair to get benefits from it. I just want to make sure the you understood what I mean when I wrote about (table width) in my previous post. Is it really a feature to make the table 100% width?

BTW, English is not my language, I am sorry if there is and mistakes

Thanks & Regards

[JimL]

Change browsegrid width to 100%

admincp - styles & templates - yourtemplate - microclassifieds templates - microclassifieds_browsegrid

find

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">

replace with

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:100%;">

[JimL]

bug in string microclassifieds_no_more

<p align="justify">You're trying to add a new ad, or to activate an old one, but this is not permitting
from your usergroup's settings. Please contact administrator to ask how you can upgrade,
or deactivate, delete, mark as sold another Ad to free up your space.</p>
<p>Goto <a href="classifieds.php?do=myitems"><b>My Classifieds</b></p>

Should be:

<p align="justify">You're trying to add a new ad, or to activate an old one, but this is not permitting
from your usergroup's settings. Please contact administrator to ask how you can upgrade,
or deactivate, delete, mark as sold another Ad to free up your space.</p>
<p>Goto <a href="usercp_classifieds.php?do=myitems"><b>My Classifieds</b></p>

[duketxboy]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

I apologize but this feature will be only in the PRO version, for 2 main reasons:

1. The datagrid itself, with the custom modifications (because this was a custom modification), it costed me more than $400. As you can understand to give my work for free, is ok, but to pay for giving something for free, its out of logic.
2. Adding so many features in the FREE version (compare the first one that I got from Mary, with the latest here), only 4-5 features left to have in addition in the PRO version, and as you can understand, only very few members are ready to pay for it.
3. I was expecting to have some money in exchange selling the copyright removal. For 3 months now, only one paid for it. Honestly (I'm not talking in person), do you believe that from around 150 installations only 1 has removed the copyright? There are users here, who got support, and whose site I visited (they've them in their signature), and I found my copyright removed. That's no fair.

Chris

with you on that chris the recession is bad & timeless hours working on this should be paid for this weekend ill have a chance to check out the pro version to see if im interested

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by JimL

Change browsegrid width to 100%

admincp - styles & templates - yourtemplate - microclassifieds templates - microclassifieds_browsegrid

find

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">

replace with

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:100%;">

Working as a charm

Thanks Jim