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).

[kfyonur]

why it effect my forum ?

i uninstall it again but is normal now.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by kfyonur

why it effect my forum ?

i uninstall it again but is normal now.

It depends how you uninstall it. Worst way is to try it by phpMyAdmin. But even using vB's uninstall, you'll never be sure that everything has been removed, and this is not a probelm coming from any addon, but on the way that vB works. It removed only the database structure and phrases. So you need to manually remove all files from your webspace. In most cases letting them there is not a problem, unless the module (like Classifieds), has cron files and they're using phrases. In this case, letting the files in the the cron directory when the time comes to run this cronjob, vB tried to load the phrases, but as it can't find them, it produces database error.

Chris

[Wild Bronco]

Originally Posted by judgeserg

You restart the web server?
I've seen exactly the same problem and gave her a solution.

As an option - do a search and replace <? to <?php

:up: :up:
That was it... in most of the php files about 60 instances



In php.ini option "short_open_tag" is still disabled end everything is working

Thank you

[bigtree]

Originally Posted by bigtree

Okay, I messed up. I had with a conflict when upgrading vb 4.1.7 . I deactivated Mary's Classifieds to be safe and did something to the database where I cannot upgrade Mary's C now. The tables are already installed and will not let me uninstall or update it. Its basically broken. How do I fix this? How can I remove it all together and start over. I cannot uninstall it either.

Please if you can help. How do I remove this and start over?

[bigtree]

Mary's Classifieds is everywhere from templates to database. Is there something I can run that will remove it all?

[karlm]

Thanks for this.. it could be the all-in-one answer I'v been looking for...

Problem though, unfortunately.

It doesn't seem to allow loading of images.

My forum & CMS both allow image uploads/links but this plugin doesn't report any errors - yet when I submit a test-ad it asks me to create a thumbnail, but doesn't offer the image I've uploaded... so all ads appear without any images.

Ideas, please?

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p.s. /microclassifieds/photos/thumbs/ is set to writable (777)

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by karlm

Thanks for this.. it could be the all-in-one answer I'v been looking for...

Problem though, unfortunately.

It doesn't seem to allow loading of images.

My forum & CMS both allow image uploads/links but this plugin doesn't report any errors - yet when I submit a test-ad it asks me to create a thumbnail, but doesn't offer the image I've uploaded... so all ads appear without any images.

Ideas, please?


ps /microclassifieds/photos/thumbs/ is set to writable (777)

What about the other directories? 777 must be set all:
microclassifieds/photos/
microclassifieds/photos/tmp
microclassifieds/photos/thumbs/
microclassifieds/files/

Chris

[karlm]

Originally Posted by ChrisTERiS

What about the other directories? 777 must be set all:
microclassifieds/photos/
microclassifieds/photos/tmp
microclassifieds/photos/thumbs/
microclassifieds/files/

Chris

Thank you Sir, that seems to have done it!

[karlm]

Next issue...

When I click 'buy it' I'm presented with a tickbox to confirm I understand the procedures. After I hit the submit button (once ticked) i get a DB error from this URL:
mysite.com/classifieds.php?do=buynow


Also, when I click a keyword - I am taken to a blank page from this URL:
mysite.com/classifieds.php?do=searchresults&keyword=banana

I am using the .htaccess file, as instructed and it seems to work so I'm not sure it is related to the whitepage for keywords.
I must be missing a setting somewhere. I have given registered users permissions to sell and use the addon - and indeed it works all the way through, allowing thumbnail creation and everything... in fact, it tells me it works fine. Then it shows me a list of my ads (under my fake standard member account) and there is nothing in the history bar at all.. not a bean!

Given this, I've checked the classified categories permissions and ensured they were set to 'all who can post'.. and still i can create ads as a registered user but cannot have them displayed.

Then I went to my admin account and looked for any that needed moderation - but none showed up. It seems as though registered members lose the ads the moment they are submitted.

[claystation]

Today I installed 6.6.1. Things are looking good but if I am logged in as the admin I am getting this error. When I click on the my profile link or my name in the header. I have vb 4.1.7 installed.
You don't seem to get this error if I disable the script or if I am logged in as just a registered user.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/claystat/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php(4580) : eval()'d code on line 129

Update: Just figured out it is probably VBSEO related. To bad I have not idea how to fix it.

Thanks,
Andy