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Classifieds
by Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS

Please note that from
11 Aug 2013
you can get support only in my site
http://www.teriakis.com

Demo: http://www.christeris.net/dev42/classifieds.php
Demo Accounts:
demouser1 / demopass1
demouser2 / demopass2
demouser3 / demopass3

1.- What's this mod?

Is better to say what is NOT this mod . For those who have used MarysClassifieds, I can say that they are 2 products which you can't compate. MarysClassifieds had dozens of features, but when I installed in my site I realized that I need only 10% of those features. Maybe less. This is SL Classifieds. A minimalist version of MarysClassifieds, but I bet that 70% of the webmasters will find this one more pretty, more usefull.

• It supports 4 types of Classifieds:
  • For Sale
  • Wanted
  • For Trade
  • Free Offers
• Supports unlimited categories
• Supports Extra fields (but not searchable)
• Has PM templates for:
  • PM user when admin approves his Classifieds
  • PM user when admin rejects Classified
  • PM seller when a user Makes an Offer
  • PM seller when a user clicks Buy it
  • PM seller when a use uses the contact form
• Supports 5 statuses:
  • Open
  • Hidden
  • Reserved
  • Expired
  • Sold
  • Please note that unlike my old mod, here nothing is automatic. The seller has to take care to switch between statuses.
• There are listings for:
  • Category classifieds
  • Timeframe (What's New) Classifieds
  • Seller Classifieds
  • Search Results
• In view Ad page the visitor can see also:
  • Other classifieds from the same seller
  • Similar classifieds from the same category
• In all pages there are available the follow blocks having the appearance of widgets:
  • Category Menu
  • Search Form
  • Statistics
  • Latest classifieds
  • Popular classifieds
  • Soon to expire classifieds.
• Version 1.5 additions:
  • Facebook Like Advanced (Shows users who liked it)
  • RSS Feeds of last 10 Classifieds
  • Seller has the ability to not mark a classifieds as reserved when a user clickc BuyNow, in case that he has stock of the same items and he wants to keep classifieds active.
  • Added description in extra fields appearing as help text in add/edit form.
  • In case that a category has no subcategories, beside the "No more categories" added an icon/link to previous category level.
    

2.- How you can make (a bit) money with it.

Using vBulletin's Subscriptions Manager you can set subscription which will upgrade the subscribers to a higher usergroup with more privilenges in SL Classifieds. eg:

• To restrict post in specific categories. The system works such a way that for each category you can set who can post:
  • All usergroups
  • None usergroup
  • Specific usergroup(s).
• To allow more days for postings. eg usergroup A can set a maximum of 15 days before the Ad will remove from the system, while usergroup B can set the Ad's duration for 45 days etc.
• Concurrent Ads. eg Register users can have only 1 active ad, while your VIP usergroup can has 5 ..or 10 ... or whatever you want.
• More photos per Ad

3.- Installation

1. Download and unzip the file Classifieds_XXXX.zip
2. Upload the content of upload folder to the directory where your vB installation is. As a check: classifieds.php must be on the same directoru as global.php, forum.php etc. SL Classifieds are not working out of vB installation directory.
3. CMOD 777 the directories:
   1. christeris/classifieds/photos
   2. christeris/classifieds/photos/thumbs
   3. christeris/classifieds/photos/tmp
4. Goto Admincp and import product-classifieds.xml. Double check before if you have another product with the same name.
5. Set the various settings in Classifieds->General settings
6. Set usergroup permissions
7. Check and modify if you want PM templates.
8. Set categories
9. Set Extra fields (in case that you want them).

4.- SEO URLs

• If you're using vbSeo open the file Classifieds_vBSEO_Custom_Rewrite_Rules.txt and add them to your vbSeo installation.
• If you're using .htaccasse file copy the contents of htaccess.txt and add it to your current .htaccess files. If you don't have such file and your server is compatible with such files, upload htaccess.txt to your vB directory and rename it to: .htaccess

5. CMS Widget / Forum Sidebar Block for Latest Classifieds

1. Shows latest 5 Classifieds. If you want to change the number to another value change at 1st line: $maxitems = 5;
2. Installation as CMS Widget
   1. Goto Admincp-> vBulletin CMS-> Widgets
   2. Click "Create New Widget" at the list bottom
   3. Set Widget Type: PHP Direct Execution
   4. Give a Title which appears at the widget. eg Last Classifieds, or.. Last 5 Classifieds etc
   5. Click SAVE
   6. Find in the list the new widget and click configure at the right side
   7. Replace the example code, with the code from Widget_Latest_Classifieds.txt
   8. Click Save
   9. Goto Layout and add it in any section you want
   10. Click Save (Layout)
3. Installation as Forum sidebar Block
   1. Goto Admincp-> Forums & Moderators -> Forum Block Manager
   2. Click Add Block
   3. In the next screen "Select block type: Custom HTML/PHP"
   4. Click Continue
   5. Title: Latest Classifieds
   6. Content Type: PHP
   7. Content: Copy & Paste the code from Widget_Latest_Classifieds.txt
   8. Click Save. The block will be now visible to your forum sidebar

6.- Copyright Link

Since the time that DBTech released their Copyright Manager, I've removed my own copyrights. I found their action insulting me to maximum. Their wording "Site is powered by vBulletin AddOns and Modules by Dragonbyte Tech" (and not "Some parts of this site"), means that everything there is their own work, ignoring on the worst way the fact that there are 100's of other coders and designers who are supporting this community for years. So, I'm letting the glory to them. No copyrights from my side.

Enjoy it
Christos Teriakis
aka ChrisTERiS

[Christos Teriakis]

As promised, I just released a widget with latest classifieds for vB CMS. You can download Widget_Latest_Classifieds.zip but read carefully the installation.txt file.

Christos Teriakis
(aka ChrisTERiS)

[Toorak Times]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

How long will be the maximum duration is up to you. You can setup on per usergroup basis the maximum duration.

Christos

Thanks mate

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Rich

Someone posted a "Wanted" ad and when I view it I have the option to "Make Offer". There is nothing to make an offer on since they are seeking a product or service. The same is true for posting a trade. There should be either a different form for trades and the wanted section, that caters to that type of listing, or should we remove the "Make Offer" entirely for those?

Currently I will reply only to this as I'm in rush. I don't agree and please allow me to explain in simple English a real example: "I'm placing a wanted ad looking to find a smartphone. You're reading my ad and because you've for sale an iPhone you're MAKING AN OFFER to me to buy the iPhone". So I believe that the word "Make Offer" best fits in wanted ads. Because all visitors will make offers to the ad owner.

[migratoria]

As promised, I just released a widget with latest classifieds for vB CMS. You can download Widget_Latest_Classifieds.zip but read carefully the installation.txt file.

Good..
Tanks Chris

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

Errors for wrong directories fixed in ver. 1.1.0. As for the terms. You need to edit with a text editor the file christeris/includes/terms.php
You can add any html text there. When finish upload this file to:
your_vb_installation/christeris/includes/

Chris

I wrote Arabic text, but it is appearing like this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1368868002

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

I wrote Arabic text, but it is appearing like this:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1368868002

Add this to terms.php

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="rtl" lang="ar"> 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>

................ Your Terms here.........
</body>
</html>

.....lang="ar".... I just supposed it... put your language code there.

[Disco_Dave]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

As promised, I just released a widget with latest classifieds for vB CMS. You can download Widget_Latest_Classifieds.zip but read carefully the installation.txt file.

Christos Teriakis
(aka ChrisTERiS)

Are you planning on making one for the forum home page?

ps...This is one of the best add-ons I've added to our forum, IMO should be a stock feature in vBulletin

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

Add this to terms.php

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="rtl" lang="ar"> 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
</head>
<body>

................ Your Terms here.........
</body>
</html>

.....lang="ar".... I just supposed it... put your language code there.

Yes it "ar" but still it is showing (??????? ????? )

The database charset is (windows-1256), so I also checked

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="rtl" lang="ar"> 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256" />
</head>
<body>
<font face="Tahoma" size="2">
TEXT HERE
</font>
</body>
</html>

but not working

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

.....but not working

Try to access the file directly: http://www.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/christeris/...udes/terms.php
How the text appears?

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by tricksodave

Are you planning on making one for the forum home page?

ps...This is one of the best add-ons I've added to our forum, IMO should be a stock feature in vBulletin

If you give me more details on what you really mean, then I can tell you "Yes or No"
Do you mean something like this:
http://www.christeris.net/dev42/articles.php

This page is a modified threadlisting of a forum marked as articles forum. If you click a title you'll see that the comments are normal thread replies.
The idea is coming from my mod Extra Pages which allow to build a page populating it with different (per page) widgets.