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).

[Jman423]

I've been doing my best to keep up with this thread... but maybe I missed something.

What are the differences between the free version and the pro version, and when will the site be up so the pro version can be purchased?

I also think it would be a good idea to update the first post (mod description) in this thread so that it doesn't seem that 4.9.5 is the latest version of the free mod. It also advertises features that are not included in the free version.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by JimL

This sucks, because of this auction bids don't work, no interaction between the buyer seller works, and the thumbnail generation doesn't work.

The random ads slider doesn't slide anywhere either.. :\

instant search doesn't work

I can't believe it's a transfer issue since I have uploaded VB4 and several products/plugins and everything works.

Is there ANYTHING in the settings / server config that might make this not work?

Please avoid to be so general. You can't say that is not works, especially in so many sections, while it's works for all the others (100+).

From the other side, you're trying to get help without even trying a bit on your own. First check that you must do (not only for this, but for any addon that you'll find problems), is to deactivate ALL other plugins and check if it works or not. If it works, then you must try activating one by one your addons, to see which conflist with this one. Any AddOn in this community has been check to work with a clear vB installation, and not with an installation having 10+ (if not more) addons.

Another point. You must provide us a link to your page. What other javascripts are you using? eg are you using Mootools? In this case most probably this is the reason of the conflist.

There are unlimited reasons that something does not work. There so many different server configurations, so many addons etc etc, that makes a miracle something to work in conjuction with all of them. In this case you've to decide what's the most important for you to use. Exactly the same happen to me right now in my site. I wanted to use 2 scripts there, but for some ununderstandable reason each one conflist with the other.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Jman423

I've been doing my best to keep up with this thread... but maybe I missed something.

What are the differences between the free version and the pro version, and when will the site be up so the pro version can be purchased?

I also think it would be a good idea to update the first post (mod description) in this thread so that it doesn't seem that 4.9.5 is the latest version of the free mod. It also advertises features that are not included in the free version.

You're right and sorry for it, but as I'm mentioned in a reply to other post, I had unexpected problems in my site with 2 scripts that I wanted to use, and which for a strange reason conflist each other.

Currently, there are no so many additions to the Pro version. I don't use to release an AddOn with 2 features for Free and then add a list of another 98 features with the comment // Only in the Pro version. That's redicolus.

So the current additions are:
1.- 4 types of listings
2.- Totally redesigned Profile page
3.- Totally redesigned UserCP

That's all. The most important in the Pro version is the security that you'll get a product which will be upgrading with new features in regular basis.

Chris

[vb.help]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Officially should be available only in the PRO version, unless if someone post it here for the Free version.

Chris

Can you post the link for PRO version ?

[JimL]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Please avoid to be so general. You can't say that is not works, especially in so many sections, while it's works for all the others (100+).

I wrote a post here somewhere saying the problem was actually in the template itself, I never figured out what exactly was the problem as I ended up deleting the template and rebuilding it.

[Jman423]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

You're right and sorry for it, but as I'm mentioned in a reply to other post, I had unexpected problems in my site with 2 scripts that I wanted to use, and which for a strange reason conflist each other.

Currently, there are no so many additions to the Pro version. I don't use to release an AddOn with 2 features for Free and then add a list of another 98 features with the comment // Only in the Pro version. That's redicolus.

So the current additions are:
1.- 4 types of listings
2.- Totally redesigned Profile page
3.- Totally redesigned UserCP

That's all. The most important in the Pro version is the security that you'll get a product which will be upgrading with new features in regular basis.

Chris

Thank you for the response.

I will be purchasing the pro version, so I look forward to its availability. I see that your site is still down, or at least the link I have is down.

Do you have any sort of ETA when your site will be up and running, and ready for license purchases?

Also, would you entertain the idea of adding custom features for an additional cost?

Thanks

[GoHighVoltage]

IS there a way to turn on/turn off auctions, etc.

Is there any way to turn off the payment options and shipping options.

For example. I just want to run a classifieds like craigslist does. Where payment/shipping does not take place.

Also. If this mod is uninstalled, does it 100% uninstall, or is there items left in the database after uninstall?

[Bram H]

How come that ads are still visible after they should have expired:

This Ad Expires in -1 weeks, -4 days, -13 hours, -52 minutes

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Jman423

Thank you for the response.

I will be purchasing the pro version, so I look forward to its availability. I see that your site is still down, or at least the link I have is down.

Do you have any sort of ETA when your site will be up and running, and ready for license purchases?

Also, would you entertain the idea of adding custom features for an additional cost?

Thanks

In around 8 hours from now it will be open. We can discuss about the additional features and if they're good for most of the sites (I mean not very special requests), I'll do it for free as an upgrade. eg currently I'm adding the ability the poster to set quantity of the available products for sale.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Bram H

How come that ads are still visible after they should have expired:

This Ad Expires in -1 weeks, -4 days, -13 hours, -52 minutes

There was a typo in the cron file which causes the cron to not run any part below the line with the typo. I'll release a fix soon.

Chris