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Classifieds
by Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS

Please note that from
11 Aug 2013
you can get support only in my site
http://www.teriakis.com

Demo: http://www.christeris.net/dev42/classifieds.php
Demo Accounts:
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3

1.- What's this mod?

Is better to say what is NOT this mod . For those who have used MarysClassifieds, I can say that they are 2 products which you can't compate. MarysClassifieds had dozens of features, but when I installed in my site I realized that I need only 10% of those features. Maybe less. This is SL Classifieds. A minimalist version of MarysClassifieds, but I bet that 70% of the webmasters will find this one more pretty, more usefull.

• It supports 4 types of Classifieds:
  • For Sale
  • Wanted
  • For Trade
  • Free Offers
• Supports unlimited categories
• Supports Extra fields (but not searchable)
• Has PM templates for:
  • PM user when admin approves his Classifieds
  • PM user when admin rejects Classified
  • PM seller when a user Makes an Offer
  • PM seller when a user clicks Buy it
  • PM seller when a use uses the contact form
• Supports 5 statuses:
  • Open
  • Hidden
  • Reserved
  • Expired
  • Sold
  • Please note that unlike my old mod, here nothing is automatic. The seller has to take care to switch between statuses.
• There are listings for:
  • Category classifieds
  • Timeframe (What's New) Classifieds
  • Seller Classifieds
  • Search Results
• In view Ad page the visitor can see also:
  • Other classifieds from the same seller
  • Similar classifieds from the same category
• In all pages there are available the follow blocks having the appearance of widgets:
  • Category Menu
  • Search Form
  • Statistics
  • Latest classifieds
  • Popular classifieds
  • Soon to expire classifieds.
• Version 1.5 additions:
  • Facebook Like Advanced (Shows users who liked it)
  • RSS Feeds of last 10 Classifieds
  • Seller has the ability to not mark a classifieds as reserved when a user clickc BuyNow, in case that he has stock of the same items and he wants to keep classifieds active.
  • Added description in extra fields appearing as help text in add/edit form.
  • In case that a category has no subcategories, beside the "No more categories" added an icon/link to previous category level.
    

2.- How you can make (a bit) money with it.

Using vBulletin's Subscriptions Manager you can set subscription which will upgrade the subscribers to a higher usergroup with more privilenges in SL Classifieds. eg:

• To restrict post in specific categories. The system works such a way that for each category you can set who can post:
  • All usergroups
  • None usergroup
  • Specific usergroup(s).
• To allow more days for postings. eg usergroup A can set a maximum of 15 days before the Ad will remove from the system, while usergroup B can set the Ad's duration for 45 days etc.
• Concurrent Ads. eg Register users can have only 1 active ad, while your VIP usergroup can has 5 ..or 10 ... or whatever you want.
• More photos per Ad

3.- Installation

1. Download and unzip the file Classifieds_XXXX.zip
2. Upload the content of upload folder to the directory where your vB installation is. As a check: classifieds.php must be on the same directoru as global.php, forum.php etc. SL Classifieds are not working out of vB installation directory.
3. CMOD 777 the directories:
   1. christeris/classifieds/photos
   2. christeris/classifieds/photos/thumbs
   3. christeris/classifieds/photos/tmp
4. Goto Admincp and import product-classifieds.xml. Double check before if you have another product with the same name.
5. Set the various settings in Classifieds->General settings
6. Set usergroup permissions
7. Check and modify if you want PM templates.
8. Set categories
9. Set Extra fields (in case that you want them).

4.- SEO URLs

• If you're using vbSeo open the file Classifieds_vBSEO_Custom_Rewrite_Rules.txt and add them to your vbSeo installation.
• If you're using .htaccasse file copy the contents of htaccess.txt and add it to your current .htaccess files. If you don't have such file and your server is compatible with such files, upload htaccess.txt to your vB directory and rename it to: .htaccess

5. CMS Widget / Forum Sidebar Block for Latest Classifieds

1. Shows latest 5 Classifieds. If you want to change the number to another value change at 1st line: $maxitems = 5;
2. Installation as CMS Widget
   1. Goto Admincp-> vBulletin CMS-> Widgets
   2. Click "Create New Widget" at the list bottom
   3. Set Widget Type: PHP Direct Execution
   4. Give a Title which appears at the widget. eg Last Classifieds, or.. Last 5 Classifieds etc
   5. Click SAVE
   6. Find in the list the new widget and click configure at the right side
   7. Replace the example code, with the code from Widget_Latest_Classifieds.txt
   8. Click Save
   9. Goto Layout and add it in any section you want
   10. Click Save (Layout)
3. Installation as Forum sidebar Block
   1. Goto Admincp-> Forums & Moderators -> Forum Block Manager
   2. Click Add Block
   3. In the next screen "Select block type: Custom HTML/PHP"
   4. Click Continue
   5. Title: Latest Classifieds
   6. Content Type: PHP
   7. Content: Copy & Paste the code from Widget_Latest_Classifieds.txt
   8. Click Save. The block will be now visible to your forum sidebar

6.- Copyright Link

Since the time that DBTech released their Copyright Manager, I've removed my own copyrights. I found their action insulting me to maximum. Their wording "Site is powered by vBulletin AddOns and Modules by Dragonbyte Tech" (and not "Some parts of this site"), means that everything there is their own work, ignoring on the worst way the fact that there are 100's of other coders and designers who are supporting this community for years. So, I'm letting the glory to them. No copyrights from my side.

Enjoy it
Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS

[DirtRider]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Hey Dirtrider,
I had the same issue. You just need to adjust the background color in the classifieds.css. CSS Templates=>classifieds.css. Change the background color in the following code to suit your needs.

td.rightsection {
    border-top: 4px solid #D3D4AA;
    background: #5C5B4B;
    border-left: 1px solid #D3D4AA;
}

Ah thanks that sorted that one out

[RichieBoy67]

I can't wait to check this out Chris!!

[pontello]

Hi,
many thanks for your work!
How to get a widget to put in the other pages of the forum with the list of the lasts classifieds? with the rss feed? in this case I receive an error, please look here: http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php?do=feeds
Many thanks

Luca

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by pontello

Hi,
many thanks for your work!
How to get a widget to put in the other pages of the forum with the list of the lasts classifieds? with the rss feed? in this case I receive an error, please look here: http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php?do=feeds
Many thanks

Luca

I can't access that page (permissions error) but if the message that you're getting is about date format (something like "expecting long..."), you'll find the solution in version 1.6.1 that I'll release just after this post.

And yes you can use RSS for widget, but I'll release a widger for CMS and a block for Forum sidebar. It was to do it today but I had lot of work to finish, so I let it for tomorrow.

Chris

[migratoria]

Originally Posted by TheForumMarket

Later today I'll release a ready widget and a forum sidebar block for this.

Tanks Chris..

[MoreLinux]

@TheForumMarket, your mod looks like I'm going to use it. An small and simple (and I mean that in a positive way) classified system. Just what i need.

Thanks.

[pontello]

There is another error with the rss feed, thanks...

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 17 at column 329: Encoding error
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Forum Vespaonline - Annunci http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php Mon, 13 May 2013 03:37:57 +0200 http://www.vespaonline.com en [For Sale] Vespa 150 VBA1T (Brand New) http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=3&title=Vespa 150 VBA1T Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:05 +0100 : oldro (Individual) http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=3&title=Vespa 150 VBA1T

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by pontello

There is another error with the rss feed, thanks...

This page contains the following errors:

error on line 17 at column 329: Encoding error
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

Forum Vespaonline - Annunci http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php Mon, 13 May 2013 03:37:57 +0200 http://www.vespaonline.com en [For Sale] Vespa 150 VBA1T (Brand New) http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=3&title=Vespa 150 VBA1T Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:05 +0100 : oldro (Individual) http://www.vespaonline.com/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=3&title=Vespa 150 VBA1T

It happens sometimes with the language code. You need to manually edit the file classifieds.php. Open it with a text editor (like notepad)....

Search for:

header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset='.$vbulletin->options["charset"].'');

Replace it with:

header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8');

utf-8 is a sample here working in most cases. But you need to add the charset that you've set in your admincp-> Languages-> Settingd (eg iso-8859-1 etc etc).

[sadiq6210]

What is the change-log for 1.6.1?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

What is the change-log for 1.6.1?

Haven't you got the update email? It fixes a database error while adding an extra field, and also fixes a language error in RSS. Sorry but I haven't time to include your corrections for RTL.