Major Additions - microBUSINESS (Business directory and more)

Removed by Author
as I've upgraded to vB4
and thus I can't have vB3 legally installed
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microBUSINESS
ver 1.1.0 (Released 16 Oct 2009)

This is the Full Commercial Version
You must *** UNINSTALL *** any other version before

by MicroHellas
http://www.microhellas.com

DEMO:
http://www.microhellas.com/forums/business.php

User: demouser
Pass: demopass

Compatible with versions 3.6.x, 3.7.x, 3.8.x

Version 1.0.1 fixes the missing procedures: deleteprofile and deleteitem

To upgrade just upload business.php and re-import product-microbusiness.xml (check overwrite).

This is the Full Commercial Version (1.1.0)
You must *** UNINSTALL *** any other version before

1.- Usage

• Business directory, Links directory and much more.
• Each user can has unlimited companies
• Each company can has unlimited items (shops, links etc)
• Google Maps
• Rating and Reviews

2.- Installation










The installation is pretty easy, has been checked many times for installing and uninstalling the product. Just follow these steps below:

• Download and unzip the file microBUSINESS.zip
• Open the folder vbulletin and select all files and subfolders inside it
• Connect to your website and open the directory where is your vBulletin installation (usally forum, forums, portal etc).
• Upload the selected files to your site. If you fellow the right way then the file business.php must be on the same level as the index.php file of vBulletin.
• CMOD 777 folders:
  • microbusiness/files/
  • microbusiness/photos/
  • microbusiness/photos/thumbs/
  • microbusiness/photos/tmp
• Before any new installation is good to backup your database before, even if nobody is doing it (including me). At lease turn your site off
• Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
• From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product-microbusiness.xml

3.- Configuration










As every vBulletin product, you need to make some initial configurations before it goes live.

• MicroSUPPORT Options
• Google Map API key. If you plan to use Google maps you must obtain a free api key.
• Setup categories and feature list (if you plan to use it).
• Setup usergroup permissions.

4.- Template Modification


The module is using it's own templates, so it doesn't needs any template modification except if you want to add a link to the navbar. In this case you need to modify the NavBar template.


Open it and find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">
$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

Add below:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="business.php$session[sessionurl_q]">
Directory</a></td>

5.- Copyright

• This software is copyrighted work of Maria Avlatzi (MicroHellas) and copyright removal doesn't allowed.
• You can NOT re-distribute this module even for free.

6. Commercial Version

In the upcoming days I'll release a commercial version with some additional features:

• Thread for each post (depending on usergroup permissions)
• Post appoval or not (currently all post are auto approved)
• User should be able to post unlimited companies and/or items. Now all usergroups can post unlimited.
• more are coming....

Enjoy it

Maria

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Hello,

I just released the full commercial version of microBUSINESS. As this version supports forums/threads per post (plus many more), is totally incompatible with version 1.0.1, so you need to uninstall version 1.0.1 before installing this one.

Please note that I'll continue supporting and upgrading microBUSINESS but only for vB series 3.x. I don't plan to continue supporting vB community after the release of vB4. As I wrote in my previous post, I don't agree with the new vB pricing and I don't plan to upgrade my licenses.

Maria

[chet]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Meanwhile I also got the email from vB about new pricing structure and I've to decide if I'll continue supporting vB. Jelsoft for a long time now is selling thanks to the wide range of free mods and styles. I've started feeling idiot for spending my valuable time just to make someone else richer. In a difficult financial period for all type of business worldwide, I do believe that its a shame to ask a big amount of money for something that still dosen't exists other than some screenshoots. No demo and most important. No ETA !!

Maria

I'm not sure I follow, are you saying that Jelsoft is selling up or Jelsoft are selling Mods that you created for free.

Either way you must be pretty miffied

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by chet

.....are selling Mods that you created for free.....

NO !!!

If you read carefully the thread https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=225182, you will realise that many people decided to buy vBulletin, as it has a plethora of free modules and styles. Even in my case, I've 8 clients who bought vBulletin just to use it with my microTRAVEL module.

So, Jelsoft somehow makes money from our work. And believe me we don't have anything in exchange. Not even a single free license, which is a must for most coders to use it in a testing domain. For this reason I bought a second license. Just for coding.

By increasing so much the price, its difficult for most coders and desigers to follow up the cost for upgrades.

Maria

[ShadMan]

I completely understand, Maria, but I'll be sad to see you no longer coding for new vB versions. I've used several of your products, and have always been happy with them. I'll install this new release tomorrow. Thanks again!

[Black Tiger]

Thank you *very* much for releasing this version to us Maria, that's very nice of you.
And I agree your opinion about v4. You already discussed on your own previous forum that things were coming which would not be appreciated by many customers and you were right all the way!

I will stay with 3.x as long as possible and probably don't upgrade to v4.

By the way... I found a little typo in the announcement text up there:

and copyright removal doesn't allowed.

That should be "isn't allowed'.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Black Tiger

That should be "isn't allowed'.

Thank you so much for your supporting words Really appreciated. As for the typo... my bad English But regarding the copyright link, as long as I'm not planing to continue developing vB mods, it has no sense there, so you can remove it.

I'll continue developing Business mods, but using my own forum script. Sure not a vBulletin, but at least should works fine.

Maria

[Underlab]

Anyone know how to do a VBSeo rewrite for this mod?

[AfterWorldForum]

Hi Maria,

Is there any progress on trying to merge the items with the companies? We're trying to put your mod to use for a virtual world scenario, but with the current setup, it would require quite a bit of tweaking (which I am not sure you'd allow). It would end up in a product that resembles a business directory more than anything else, but that's exactly what we're looking for.

A merger of the item and company functionality would do the trick for us, and if you already did start working on it, I'd prefer waiting for that, rather than first having to dig into the code and then later on find my PHP programming is just not up to par.

Thanks in advance

Update: Minor bugfix. In the microbusiness_usercp template, find:

<div align="center">

Replace with:

<div align="center">
<br>

This prevents the menubar from jumping (it's in a consistent location for all other actions, just not for UserCP).

[AfterWorldForum]

Sorry, my earlier suggestion would destroy more than it would fix. Therefore I removed it.

Basically, I was trying to deal with the addedit_item template. The memberinfo box on the left positions itself to the top, while the table with information about the item due to cellpadding seems to sink a couple of pixels.

My initial approach removed the padding, but that ended up in the table looking like crap. I've tried various ways to try and solve it, but have not found an elegant solution yet that would NOT break the padding inside the table, and at the same time ensures the memberinfo table stays where it is positioned on the other pages as well.

[AfterWorldForum]

I released the directory to my users yesterday, but it seems awfully clunky and slow for some reason. I did add the menubar to a few more pages and made a bunch of other alterations to customize things, but I cannot see how it could have made things this slow.

Anyone else having some kind of issue like that?

Thanks