Portal Software - [Chris] Classifieds

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]

Originally Posted by Action-N

I'll have to check this out when I can focus on it. What I am interested in is a alternative for the two vb garage scripts for listing members cars. This looks great being part of the cms keeping it's style so I'm hoping to change some wording an modify it some. You might consider taking some features that direction like permanent listings or better yet porting it as a auto manager script.

edit: After finding this I saw your other addon for reviews that'd be a better choice to convert for what I'm doing. Great since I could actually use this script as is. The style your doing is great an how addons should be done. Please consider writing a addon modeled after the reviews as a auto manager. Thanks, great stuff

Have wrote somewhere before that when I'll have some free time I'll release 2 special editions for:
1.- Job seeking
2.- Auto Classifieds

[Action-N]

Those would be helpful additions, my interest is more like a directory / registry for simply displaying an item. If done generalized enough it could be used for any item or interest giving it a broader usability. Here are some examples of what I'm talking about. Thanks for your time as I read your not so much a coder anymore. I've tried to an can imagine the time involved with making addons.

http://rides.superchevy.com/
http://www.supermotors.net/registry/
http://www.cardomain.com/

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

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

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

Like this (???? ???? ????)

This is the page source for (term.php):




and this is the source for forum (forum.php)

Still I am facing this problem Chris

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by sadiq6210

Still I am facing this problem Chris

Let it for the moment. Don't know why it does not works, while it works for Greek which is also a difficult language on showing correctly to the page.

In the next update I'll move the terms text to general settings.

[sadiq6210]

Thanks Chris

[Disco_Dave]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

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.

Hi Christos

Thanks for your reply, I'm looking the same sort of thing you have released for CMS front page only for the forum home page. We don't use CMS. Here's a snap shot of our forum home page, I'm refereeing to the widgets on the right, it would be nice to add a classified one:



Regards,
Dave

[Rich]

The widget he has in the main post won't work over there tricksodave?

[Disco_Dave]

Originally Posted by Rich

The widget he has in the main post won't work over there tricksodave?

Cheers, that's why I'm asking

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by tricksodave

Hi Christos

Thanks for your reply, I'm looking the same sort of thing you have released for CMS front page only for the forum home page. We don't use CMS. Here's a snap shot of our forum home page, I'm refereeing to the widgets on the right, it would be nice to add a classified one:



Regards,
Dave

Hi Dave,

Without any meaning to appear smarty, those are calling Forum sidabar blocks. Widgets are reffering to CMS.
Yes, I can release something like this for forum sidebar, but tomorrow. Today I'm very busy.

Christos

[Rich]

Chris, my classifieds "Similar Classifieds" don't link to the ad. They link to my sites homepage, regardless as to what ad I am viewing. Any thoughts?

I also have a stupid question, how/where do I edit an existing ad that someone else posted?