Major Additions - vbFClassifieds by vbFreelancers

Removed by the Author
due to luck of free time to support it.
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vbFClassifieds by vBulletin Freelancers
http://www.vbulletinfreelancers.com

1.- Features

• Unlimited Categories
• Unlimited Subcategories
• Paid or Free Ads
• Ability to use different price per category/subcategory
• Sellers can accept PayPal IPN payments
• Sellers can setup different PayPal account for each Ad
• Sellers can sell in different currency per Ad
• Buyers can post review and rating for Sellers
• Top Sellers block
• You can use different template than the site's template
• You can use different template even per category
• Editor Choice Ads
• vbSeo friendly
• No time limit on use
• This is our Lite version

2.- Commercial vs Lite version

• Flexible custom fields, organized in fieldsets. Cutom fields are reusable and of course you can assign each field group to one, many or all categories
• Sponsored and Premium Ads
• Bookmarks
• Tell a Friend
• Report Ads
• RSS per category/subcategory

3.- Installation

1. Upload all files and directories including at "vbulletin" directory to the directory where vBulletin is installed.
2. CMOD the following directories to 777
   1. /photos (inside vbfclassifieds directory)
   2. /tmp (inside vbfclassifieds/photos directory)
   3. /thumbs (inside vbfclassifieds/photos directory)
3. For security reasons backup your database AND turn your board off
4. Check at your AdminCP->vBulletin Options->Plugin/Hook System that Plugin system is enabled.
5. From your AdminCP->Plugin System->Manage Products choose Add/Import Product and import the product: product_vbfclassifieds.xml
6. If you want to add a link to your nav bar then you must edit the NAVBAR template:
   Search For:
   

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

   Add Below:
   

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

   ....or use any other word you want
7. By default none usergroup has permissions to use vbfclassifieds, so you need to give permissions to any group. Goto AdminCP->Usergroups->Usergroup Manager and edit any usergroup you like to give permissions.
8. If you've installed vbSEO, Login into vbSEO Control Panel, click "Custom Rewrite Rules", insert rewrite rules (attached in vbseo-rules.txt to not lose formatting) and save settings.

4.- Copyright

The script cannot be redistributed, reproduced, or published in any way. Modifying this
script and sharing or publishing your modification anywhere without the author's written permission is not allowed, but you can modify it as you want but just for your
own use.

In addition to above restrictions you can't develop and share addons for 3nd party scripts (eg for vBadvanced).

Removal of our copyright link is strictly prohibited.

[steadicamop]

For some reason, someone has posted a new classified ad, but it hasn't appeared - and it isn't available to be approved, but (I made a small mod to show the last 5 on the forum home) it shows on the index page - how can this be?

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by steadicamop

For some reason, someone has posted a new classified ad, but it hasn't appeared - and it isn't available to be approved, but (I made a small mod to show the last 5 on the forum home) it shows on the index page - how can this be?

Most probably he didn't publiched it. By default the Ad is placing in draft, till the user to click "Publish it". After it goes to admin for approval (if any).

[vbFreelancers]

Originally Posted by steadicamop

but (I made a small mod to show the last 5 on the forum home) it shows on the index page - how can this be?

Be sure to include in your custom query:

WHERE active=1 AND hidden=0 AND approved=1

[steadicamop]

Thanks - on both counts, as you suggested they hadn't published it, I checked in the database to find out!

I've also added the extra part to the query, that worked like a charm as I found until until they published their ad.

Thanks again for the prompt support

[Rich]

I just attempted to run this on vBulletin 3.7 beta 4 and it doesn't seem to work. The fields for a new ad are displaying a '1" in them and when I attempt to add a test ad, it says I don't have permission. (Yes, usergroup was set.) I will follow this to see if it evolves.

[parabat]

I seem to have a problem with the printing facility. When I try to print an ad, I get the following error. Any ideas please.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: showextrafields() in /.../Forums/vbfclassifieds.php on line 4430

Originally Posted by steadicamop

I have created a small add on for this ... to show on the forumhome page, with Olympic's kind permission I can post it here - if anyone would find it useful? It's nothing fancy just displays the last 5 adverts, it can be positioned to your liking in the forum home template.

Jason

Jason, your little addon would be very helpful. Could you please let me have it

Thanx
-PB

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Olympic

As you can see in the screenshots, we don't use forums/subforums interface. Rather we use category/subcategory listings.
If this is what did you meant, yes, you can have different price per Ad for any single category or subcategory.
To setup subcategories, first you must setup categories and then, on the drop list on the right of the category's name, choose "Edit Subcategories".

Maybe I'm just overlooking something obvious, but after reading 8 pages of comments I see no instructions anywhere about how to add categories! It's not even mentioned at all in the instructions in the initial post. The instructions in the zip file says a bit more:

Step 2: Setup the categories and/or subcategories.

But gives no indication how.

The only odd thing I see in the screenshots is a "New Extra Field" box but there's no indication this has anything to do with vbfclassifieds or how to get to it.

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Edit: Currently missing from the instructions is the not-so-trivial requirement to refresh your admin cp after importing the product. Then you'll find a new group on the left "vbFClassifieds", which includes Categories.

[Videx]

Now that I can actually test things, I also seem to be missing any kind of automatic expiration for ads.? Shouldn't this be a Category setting?

[aamirkhj]

Hi I have just tried to install this mod but there are no instructions where to upload vbFClassifiedlite folder by using ftp, I uploaded all in the root directory of the site first and then inside the forum directory but cannot see any thing change in ACP on both occasions.

The only instruction to upload the folder is "Upload all files and directories including at "vbulletin" directory to the directory where vBulletin is installed"

Can some one please help me to where I should upload the vbFClassifiedlite via ftp, any help will be much appreciated.

Regards

Aamir

[Videx]

Depending on your FTP program, go inside the vbFClassified's vbulletin folder and select all. Drag and drop them onto your /forums/ folder on your server.

You can verify afterwards that the file in vbulletin/admincp/ really went into /forums/admincp/ on your server.

When upgrading, you'll have to allow all to overwrite.