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]

Originally Posted by jgommel

Okay, I want to like this mod, but there are way too many issues in this initial release. For starters, it's not Firefox 3.5 (Mac) friendly at all. The Home/Directory/Companies/User CP tabs do not format correctly in Firefox. When viewing a company, the Overview/Map/Photos/Items links are smashed together.

Never thought that FF should not output correctly standard HTML formatting (width=xx)

Originally Posted by jgommel

- I've tried multiple times to upload valid photos with a company, but the photos are never applied.

CMOD 777 folders:

• microbusiness/files/
• microbusiness/photos/
• microbusiness/photos/thumbs/
• microbusiness/photos/tmp

Originally Posted by jgommel

- There's no option to choose a category when you add a new company. I've added two categories from the AdminCP, but there's no place to choose the category when adding a new company.

You can't assign categories to companies. Just to items. The logic is simple. If a company has items (items is not equivalent to product, but to shops etc) in different categories, what category can be used for company??? That's why, when you select "Companies" in search form at the top, the category list becomes inactive.

Originally Posted by jgommel

- Unable to rate a company.

You can't rate a company. Company's overall rating is auto calculating from ratings of it's items. I think that this is the right approach to rating.

Originally Posted by jgommel

- This image nophoto.gif is missing from the /microbusiness/images/ folder. I checked my download and verified it's not there. Consequently, all image links are broken.

Sorry, get it attached here.

Originally Posted by jgommel

- If you add a website to a new company, then try to click the Website link on Company Overview it's prefixing like this: http://www.clevelandpaintball.com/fo...tpaintball.com

Can't duplicate this bug. For me works fine.

Originally Posted by jgommel

- While on the Home tab, if a user clicks on Premium Items/Top Rated Items/Popular Items/New Items their taken to a blank white screen.

I forgot to remove the links. I did it for left column which is on all pages, and I forgot the central blocks on the index page.

But in general, I don't believe that some incompatibilities with FF, or a missing file, are droping it's value to rate it as "Terrible"

Maria

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by chick

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM microbusiness_features WHERE id= LIMIT 1; error

If no items a blank page is received

Shouldn't items automatically go into the company?

Yes, each item must be assign to a company. As for the error, please setup Features or deactivate them from microBUSINESS Options.

Maria

[Cybeth]

picture is missing (/microbusiness/images/navbit.gif)

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Cybeth

picture is missing (/microbusiness/images/navbit.gif)

Attached here. Sorry.

Maria

[Cybeth]

Thanks MicroHellas

</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<div align="center">
<br>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">

I still removed from the Templates <br>
without it looks better

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Cybeth

Thanks MicroHellas

</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<div align="center">
<br>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%">

I still removed from the Templates <br>
without it looks better

If you check any of my other mods, this is the first one that I placed line break before the table. But this time it appeard ugly in my eyes, that's why I added it. Of course this is a personal taste.

Maria

[ragtek]

and to be xhtml valid, use <br />

But very nice add-on
searched since years for something like that

[ragtek]

One little thing i've seen in all your add-ons:

Use also actiontemplates and not only the globaltemplate array!

[vengeance72]

Hi Maria,

thank you so much for these great mod!
I got a little problem. My banner-ad displays a second time in the "Directory" field. Do you have a solution to stop that?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by vengeance72

Hi Maria,

thank you so much for these great mod!
I got a little problem. My banner-ad displays a second time in the "Directory" field. Do you have a solution to stop that?

Thanks in advance,
Peter

Hello Peter,

Could you please explain it in more details? What's actually "banner-ad"? Can you give me your url to check it?

Maria