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).

[maineGuy72]

hi chris,
it appears that we are running out of errors to report. thats a good thing. keep up the good work

[fwulfers]

When logged in as a regular member, I can't seem to Edit or Delete my own ads. I checked in the Group permissions but there is no setting for something like "Can edit or delete own ads".

Regardless of the maximum image size for uploaded images, the images in the lightbox are always the same size (about 600 px wide). I have my size set to 800 px but that doesn't show when going through the images in the actual classified.

I have added 9 custom fields and the Advanced Search screen is getting very wide and you have to scroll sideways to see them all. This is not a bug though and I am not sure how this can be improved without seeing all fields. Perhaps a Search side bar with all fields, and limited number of fields in the search result pane?
http://saabworld.net/classifieds.php?do=search

I am also having some formatting issues with my site themes/skins. Most of it is formatting all right except when browsing or searching. http://saabworld.net/classifieds.php?do=main&catid=2

Even when switching to a basic vBulletin theme with a few different colors, the headers for the Browse section remains the standard light blue.

I have moved all my ads from the old to this new system and no errors or other problems.

[maineGuy72]

Originally Posted by fwulfers

I am also having some formatting issues with my site themes/skins. Most of it is formatting all right except when browsing or searching. http://saabworld.net/classifieds.php?do=main&catid=2

Even when switching to a basic vBulletin theme with a few different colors, the headers for the Browse section remains the standard light blue.

I have moved all my ads from the old to this new system and no errors or other problems.

i think there is 6 different skins for the datgrid. just no option to select them. that light blue bar for browse header is defined by which skin is used. (if i am reading that code correctly) i would have to assume that in the future you will be able to change or even add your own skin to match your site. ofcourse i could be totally wrong.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by fwulfers

When logged in as a regular member, I can't seem to Edit or Delete my own ads. I checked in the Group permissions but there is no setting for something like "Can edit or delete own ads".

Settings (UserCP)-> My Classifieds. At the right side there is a droplist with the available options according to Ad's status

Originally Posted by fwulfers

Regardless of the maximum image size for uploaded images, the images in the lightbox are always the same size (about 600 px wide). I have my size set to 800 px but that doesn't show when going through the images in the actual classified.

I'll check it. It's first time using lightbox but the thumbviewer which Mary's was using is very old.

Originally Posted by fwulfers

I have added 9 custom fields and the Advanced Search screen is getting very wide and you have to scroll sideways to see them all. This is not a bug though and I am not sure how this can be improved without seeing all fields. Perhaps a Search side bar with all fields, and limited number of fields in the search result pane?
http://saabworld.net/classifieds.php?do=search

As I've wrote in a previous post I'll add switches to standard fields to turn them On/Off in searching. From that point I can't do something more. But there is a scrolling bar at the bottom. Also avoid to use a lot of extra searchable fields

Originally Posted by fwulfers

I am also having some formatting issues with my site themes/skins. Most of it is formatting all right except when browsing or searching. http://saabworld.net/classifieds.php?do=main&catid=2

Even when switching to a basic vBulletin theme with a few different colors, the headers for the Browse section remains the standard light blue.

I have moved all my ads from the old to this new system and no errors or other problems.

I'll check it, even if I'm not guru in design.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by maineGuy72

hi chris,
it appears that we are running out of errors to report. thats a good thing. keep up the good work

Good for you, bad for me, as I'll lost my job No work... no job...

[fwulfers]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Settings (UserCP)-> My Classifieds. At the right side there is a droplist with the available options according to Ad's status

Ah yes, I was looking at the bottom of the Classified like how it shows when you belong to a user group that can moderate ads.

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

As I've wrote in a previous post I'll add switches to standard fields to turn them On/Off in searching. From that point I can't do something more. But there is a scrolling bar at the bottom. Also avoid to use a lot of extra searchable fields

But the extra fields is the reason for switching to this. The change like you described will improve it a lot. Not all fields are important in Search results.

I was also thinking of maybe the possibility of turning off the Weight and Dimensions fields? We don't really have any use for those fields. As you can tell, these are just minor things. Software works great so far.

[maineGuy72]

in datagrid it does not show the category you are browsing in

Browse Classifieds in: and all Subcategories

[maineGuy72]

in dgstyle.css in the datagrid/css folder look for .dgHeader at line 44
this controls the look for the browse in category bar. but for some reason i cant get the background to change even if i take out the background image url. i will keep messing with it

[maineGuy72]

when browsing a category and screen resolution is 1024x768 or less only part of the datagrid is seen and there is no slide bar to view more

not sure how big a deal this is but thought i would point it out

[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.