Major Additions - Mary's Classifieds

-----Not available any more------


*** 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).

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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 dypsisdean

Another small problem - PLEASE

I have the photos per row set to 4, but it doesn't seem to work after the latest upgrade. I have included an attachment.

Photos per row is valid only if you've turn off the carousel. To see your photos at that place seens that you've it on. Look at the attachement how it looks in my demo installation. Are you sure that the classifieds.css file exists at microclassifieds/includes/ ?
Otherwise turn off the carousel (admincp->microclassifieds->general settings).

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by maineGuy72

can you do one other things for me? please

product-microclassifieds.xml line 3273

replace the whole if condition with this

      <vb:if condition="$classified_price>0">
        <option value="usercp_classifieds.php?do=sellitem&itemid={vb:raw classified_id}&statusid=1">{vb:var vbphrase.microclassifieds_accept_sale}</option>
      </vb:if>
............................................
      <option value="usercp_classifieds.php?do=sellitem&itemid={vb:raw classified_id}&statusid=1">{vb:var vbphrase.microclassifieds_accept_sale}</option>

it adds accept to the drop down list in the usercp in the accept sale tab. it had the option is reject or delete but not accept. thanks

This option already exists as you can see Mike. Just needs the price to be higher than 0 to be activated.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by psychobike

Why would the Main Tab and Subnav be connected in code?

ChrisTERiS, what are the chances of having a activate/deactivate Main Tab option in the settings? Or to be able to change the name in the settings from say Classifieds, Auctions, Sale Ad's, Want Ad's, or whatever the admin would want?

I don't have did anything different than vb does. If for example you deactivate the menu "Blogs" are you able to see any submenu option of the Blogs? Same for "What's new". If you remove it, are you able to see any option?

If (as you wrote) have you build a custom block for Classifieds, then you can easily add the options there copyring the links from the template microclassifieds_tabmenu.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by psychobike

ChrisTERiS, did you apply the info from the link below in this current update? I seem to still have the same issues as if the fix was never applied.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=359

This fix is on 5.1.3 (Later today). Fixed in 5.1.3

[1320Nation]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

This fix is on 5.1.3 (Later today).

Great, I'll be watching for it. Thanks for the time you have dedicated to a cool mod!

[dypsisdean]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Photos per row is valid only if you've turn off the carousel. To see your photos at that place seens that you've it on. Look at the attachement how it looks in my demo installation. Are you sure that the classifieds.css file exists at microclassifieds/includes/ ?
Otherwise turn off the carousel (admincp->microclassifieds->general settings).

Chris

Thanks Chris, Turning "Carousel" off fixed the problem. But what then do you do with the older ads with pics if you want to turn on "Carousel?"

But please, my other question - as no one can buy anything at the moment. Clicking on BUY IT takes me to my Forum Home Page. The link directs to http://www.sitename/forum/# This apparently started happening on my 2 week old installation without my knowledge, as well as after I upgraded today on my test site.

I know it worked before, and the only thing that changed was I installed another mod (vbActivity) on both. But I have disabled it with the same problem remaining. Can I run update.php again? Will that make a difference?

[1320Nation]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

I don't have did anything different than vb does. If for example you deactivate the menu "Blogs" are you able to see any submenu option of the Blogs? Same for "What's new". If you remove it, are you able to see any option?

If (as you wrote) have you build a custom block for Classifieds, then you can easily add the options there copyring the links from the template microclassifieds_tabmenu.

Chris

If I were a coder/developer I would have probably already done something like that, but I'm not. I'm sure stuff like that is easy to do, when you know how to do it. I would have thought my ignorance on how to do what I have asked to do, would have stood out simply by my asking.

I do not use neither of the Blogs or Whats New on my board.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by BWJ

5.1.2 removed the error message while sorting within a category. Problem now, is that if you push the arrow the sorting will collect information from all categories, like in advanced search.

Confirmed - Fixed in 5.1.3

Originally Posted by BWJ

In the profile tab, there is no 'Post at' time for each classified

Confirmed - Fixed in 5.1.3

Originally Posted by BWJ

In advanced search: The location drop down box doesn't follow the width of the letters. It cuts them and is too narrow. There doesn't seem to be the same problem with the other drop downs.

I'll make it longer - Fixed in 5.1.3

Originally Posted by BWJ

Non-latin letters are not respected in the drop down of a 'seachable field' (created in admin) in sorting within advanced search . It will show them but it will not sort them. In stead it will write 'No records found'.

I can't duplicate it. I found them to be searchable ok, and ordering ok. Testing them with Greek I just foung an error in sorting (some letters are in wrong position), but this is a known global MySQL bug for ordering the Greek alphabet.

Originally Posted by BWJ

Furthermore I have found some more non translatable phrases. But I guess you prefer to get the primary bugs scrubbed first.

Which phrases?

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by dypsisdean

Thanks Chris, Turning "Carousel" off fixed the problem. But what then do you do with the older ads with pics if you want to turn on "Carousel?"

But please, my other question - as no one can buy anything at the moment. Clicking on BUY IT takes me to my Forum Home Page. The link directs to http://www.sitename/forum/# This apparently started happening on my 2 week old installation without my knowledge, as well as after I upgraded today on my test site.

I know it worked before, and the only thing that changed was I installed another mod (vbActivity) on both. But I have disabled it with the same problem remaining. Can I run update.php again? Will that make a difference?

Just re-upload all the file from the latest version and then re-import product-microclassifieds.xml. It works for sure. It's also strange that carousel is not working on your site. As a final test you can inactivate (not uninstall) all 3nd party mods, and turn them on one by one to see which confilsts with classifieds.

Chris

[dypsisdean]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

Just re-upload all the file from the latest version and then re-import product-microclassifieds.xml. It works for sure. It's also strange that carousel is not working on your site. As a final test you can inactivate (not uninstall) all 3nd party mods, and turn them on one by one to see which confilsts with classifieds.

Chris

Thanks Chris - you are doing an incredible job. Please don't burn yourself out. This has so much potential.

I found the problem (sort of). It's a skinning problem. I changed some css/php to get the colors, etc. to match my site. I must have done something that affected something else. I am not that experienced with skinning changes. Using the default skin fixes the problem.

But at least I have something to work with now. However, I don't think I changed anything except colors. At least I didn't intend to. Is there anyway that could/should affect functionality?