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).

[dypsisdean]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

Chris,

I understand you are not looking to add new features at this time, but allowing "free" classifieds should be a easy mod to make for the product. that would be amazingly helpful to many members, incl me. Thanks!

ndahiya

I don't understand. I must be missing something. I thought "free" classified was the only way to run this as is. I didn't intend to charge anything, nor did I see how to.

[fwulfers]

Originally Posted by fwulfers

When sending a message to a seller or a buyer, the PM is OK but there is no email notification like I have set for my other PM’s.

Does anyone else have this same issue? This is kind of important as you'll only know about the message if you actually visit the site. I think many advertisers will want to know as soon as they have a message.

I looked in the database and the only difference I can find is in the pmtext table. Messages send through the Classifieds don't have any values in the touserarray field. Not sure if this is the problem or not.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by dypsisdean

But I still do not understand the premium ads. What is the purpose of the check box at the bottom of the ad to make it a premium ad if it is only automatic?

This checkbox is visible only to those who have permission to Moderate, as a way to help them to promote an Ad which belongs to a user who does not belongs to a usergroup with priority 1. To remove such an from premiums, you need to edit and uncheck this.

Originally Posted by dypsisdean

But, in addition, I have made the person that posted the ads I wish to make premioum a certified member, and I made sure their usergroup is set at "1," but the ads will still not appear in the premium section.

I'll try to reproduce it.

Originally Posted by dypsisdean

So it appears that once an ad is posted, the premium status (or lack thereof) can not be changed by editing the ad, or by adding the creator to the certified list, or by changing the usergroup settings - is this correct? In other words, if a person forgets to check the box when creating the ad, there is nothing that can be done to make it a premium. Do I understand this correctly?

As I said before, a user can't see that checkbox. Is visible only to moderators.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by fwulfers

Does anyone else have this same issue? This is kind of important as you'll only know about the message if you actually visit the site. I think many advertisers will want to know as soon as they have a message.

I looked in the database and the only difference I can find is in the pmtext table. Messages send through the Classifieds don't have any values in the touserarray field. Not sure if this is the problem or not.

I can assume the reason. Mary didn't liked to use vB's datamanager as a way to keep her mods compatible with upcoming version. So in this case just added the message in the database (but in correct way) without to use datamanager, and thus I believe that this is the point. Without to be 100% sure, I believe that adding the message using datamanager the emails will send. I'll try and I'll be back to this soon.

Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by PBRiot

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'language.phrasegroup_microclassifieds' in 'field list'

I think that this is a vB bug as it happen to me when I uninstalled the vB Project Tools. Seems that on uninstallation something is messing with the removal of cronjobs. Try to delete from vb_installation/includes/cron/ the file microclassifieds_cron.xml

Chris

[PBRiot]

Thanks for the reply. I went through earlier and removed all of the files that were part of the original upload, and I haven't had the error yet. I uninstalled earlier this morning (around 12 hours ago), and I got the error 5-6 times. If I don't get it again in 48 hours, then I think I'm safe.

Thanks so much for your rapid response, to myself and others, I'd love to support your other works (classifieds just isn't right for me though). Thanks again!

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by PBRiot

Thanks for the reply. I went through earlier and removed all of the files that were part of the original upload, and I haven't had the error yet. I uninstalled earlier this morning (around 12 hours ago), and I got the error 5-6 times. If I don't get it again in 48 hours, then I think I'm safe.

Thanks so much for your rapid response, to myself and others, I'd love to support your other works (classifieds just isn't right for me though). Thanks again!

Don't worry, I don't believe that you'll get this error again. Only the fact that you got this error 5-6 times only, means that it was coming from the cronjob, because that file really tried to load the phrase group microclassifieds. I'm wondering why vB does removes the cronjobs when uninstalls a product.

Chris

[vb50kgpoo]

Hi Chris
I can not find what if anything I am doing wrong. When I click to go to classifieds /classifieds.php) I get; vBulletin Message - you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

And I am the administrator!
Any ideas?
Regards / RSVP
Suci

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Antique-Swords

And I am the administrator!
Any ideas?
Regards / RSVP
Suci

Hello Suci,

Even if you're the administrator, you need to assign the right permissions for this product (as for any 3nd party product). Goto admincp-> Usergroups and assign permissions to each usergroup.

Chris

[vb50kgpoo]

Hi Chris
Thank you, but the classifieds are nowhere to be found in ACP Usergroups
Everything seemed to upload, import, etc. OK
Any ideas?
Suci