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 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.

I don't agree with it, but I also don't mean that you're saying it as a way to offend me. Honestly I'm trying my best to eliminate (as is possible) the bugs in the Free version. But there are some points that you need to pay attention.

1. Sure, I'm very young to say that I'm old, but of course I'm very old to say that I'm teenager. I'm 55yo, working since my 18yo, and as you can understand my body and mind, don't have the power that I had even 10 years ago.
2. Programming is not my job doing for living. So I've to work 8 hours like all of us here.
3. I'm spending all my free time in programming. But I need to admit that I'm giving first priority to those who are paying me.
4. Can you believe that I've an almost ready version with bug fixes to release here, and still didn't found the time to zip the file? Believe it. Even yesterday, I sent you the file that was ready since week (you can find it as attachment some pages before), but its not in the distribution file.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

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?

About the width. I've set it to use 100% of the available space. You can see it in the file classifieds.php. Search for: $objGrid -> width = '100%'; and you'll find it 2 times. One in categories listings, and one in the search results. The problem is that if you scroll down and see any referrence to: $objGrid-> FormatColumn(..........,"60","center");, the number before the aligment is fixed. In this case 60 means 60px. In the customized version that I ordered means %. As you can understand with fixed column width is very difficult to adjust the page. Even if the grid gets 100% of the available space, still will remain an empty column at the end.

As for the Arabic language (by the way I've lived 2 years in Kuwait). I don't think that should be any problem, as there are no problems with Greek characters which is also a problematic language. If you've setup vB to use RTL, then should be works fine. As for the character set. I've set it to work with UTF-8. Are you using another charset?

Chris

[bigtree]

Something to concider is SEO for this. I've entered in a few ads and google doesn't find them. If it is in my forum however, they are always found the next day or less. Not sure what that involves but that would be a very big plus for this. If people are advertising, knowing that their ad is being indexed makes it a win win for everyone.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by bigtree

Something to concider is SEO for this. I've entered in a few ads and google doesn't find them. If it is in my forum however, they are always found the next day or less. Not sure what that involves but that would be a very big plus for this. If people are advertising, knowing that their ad is being indexed makes it a win win for everyone.

I've talked many times in previous posts about the meaning of community, but seems that some users don't liked what I wrote. For me community is a meeting place of people with same interests, where everybody puts a small stone to build and grow-up it, as a way all to have more benefits of using it.

An example. I'm able to code, and thus I'm offering the code. Someone else who has more knowledge on using it can offer support on novice users. Someone who is good in writing, can write a simple manual etc etc. The same applies for vBseo rules (if you mean vBeso and not normal SEO friendly urls). Do you think that there are no users who are using it and don't have wrote these 3-4 lines of code? I bet that there are. The problem is that they don't want to share them. They like to get for free, but not to give for free. Sorry, but this is not community, but rather a repository of free code, where everybody comes, gets and go.

Chris

[amorosso]

Hi, I just installed this and I have to say I love it. However I have a question about this little red image that doesn't do a thing and I feel it's some kind of error. Any ideas

[mgcom]

Chris were is the paid version located ?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by mgcom

Chris were is the paid version located ?

Hello,

Here you go:
http://www.christeris.com/vbulletin.php

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by amorosso

Hi, I just installed this and I have to say I love it. However I have a question about this little red image that doesn't do a thing and I feel it's some kind of error. Any ideas

This line will scrolls the title of important Ads (or Ads that you want to promote), when you setup them in microCLASSIFIEDS-> General Settings. Just add as many ids you want seperating them by comma.

Chris

[amorosso]

Thank you so much, but I do feel dumb for asking now.. Anyway, my site is geared more for just displaying adds. With no money like. More like a craigslist site. Is there a way to remove all that jazz..

[JimL]

Possibly another bug?

in phpmydatagrid.class.php

find

require($this->lngPath . "languages/{$strLang}.php");

replace with

require($this->lngPath . "microclassifieds/datagrid/languages/{$strLang}.php");

Atleast I had to change this in order to use a custom language.