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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]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

Chris all error & redirect screens on my forum use RTL language instead of LTR with this mod enabled.

Maybe if you try to inactivate all other plugins just for testing? I have no other report for such important issue and also I can't reproduce it in my testing site. Do you?
http://www.christeris.net/dev42/classifieds.php

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by Muhammad Rahman

to many bug on SE ,,
-> Wanted Color not working
-> Status listing not working (Sale, wanted, sold, reverse, ect)
-> in page My Classifieds status sold, but with link to item user still can buy (exp link : http://mydomain/classifieds.php?do=viewitem&itemid=4)

please fix it.,

Please use email for getting support for SE. But before be sure that you've cleared your browser's cachec and also the system cache (admincp). Except the 3nd that I need to check, the first 2 have tested and are working fine.

[Muhammad Rahman]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

Please use email for getting support for SE. But before be sure that you've cleared your browser's cachec and also the system cache (admincp). Except the 3nd that I need to check, the first 2 have tested and are working fine.

Where I send the email.
I've deleted all the cache (admincp and browser) but it still does not work,

[CharlieDelta]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

Maybe if you try to inactivate all other plugins just for testing? I have no other report for such important issue and also I can't reproduce it in my testing site. Do you?
http://www.christeris.net/dev42/classifieds.php

That is how I determined it was your plugin. With classifieds disabled everything is fine.

[migratoria]

Originally Posted by Christos Teriakis

Hello,

Sorry no news, as I'm not guru in vbseo rules. I belive that you can get more advices at vbseo forums.

But no one uses vBSEO?
The arguments of the market should be indexed by search engines otherwise do only half the job

[meadwench]

Chris,

I love how this looks, great mod! I'd like to use it in my forum, where we have an open classified board, but people have been not giving out full information to ensure a safe sale.

Is there a way to require that sellers provide contact information like address and phone number in your mod? This is very important to my members.

Thanks again for all your hard work! I'll be happy to contribute for the copyright removal if I can meet the requirement of seller required contact information.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by migratoria

But no one uses vBSEO?
The arguments of the market should be indexed by search engines otherwise do only half the job

vbSeo is a 3nd party commercial addon:
1.- I'm not supporting commercial products
2.- Even trying to help those members who are using vbseo, I asked from vbSeo a developer's license to install it in my developing site (which has registrations off), just as a way to be able to check the rules before releasing them. They refused it and they told my to buy an additional license.
3.- When I seen that I'll never use my own license in any of my sites, I asked them to transfer the license domain to my developing site (I'm saying again that I've turn off registrations). They said that this can be done but only when I'll renew my license.

After all, what's the reason to help them and their members? I'm willing (and I'm doing it several years now) to give my work for free. But to pay something extra, sorry but it does not sounds logic.

[Christos Teriakis]

Originally Posted by CharlieDelta

That is how I determined it was your plugin. With classifieds disabled everything is fine.

Yes, this is how you determine that there is a conflist and not that classifieds have a problem. If you don't do the same on the opposite way how we can derermine with which plugin conflists with classifieds?

For sure a clean vb installation and Classifieds works fine. No RLT message in redirections or in error messages. I tried it (once more) right now by buying an item. The redirection was a normal LTR redirection.

[Muhammad Rahman]

email send Chris for my problem with SE ,,

----- edit -----

bug again in SE Classifieds,

if opened my offer , there is an error.,

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM forum_x_classifieds_items WHERE id=2 ORDER BY itemid ASC;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'itemid' in 'order clause'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Friday, June 21st 2013 @ 09:08:56 PM
Error Date    : Friday, June 21st 2013 @ 09:08:56 PM
Script        : http://localhost/upload/classifieds_usercp.php?do=myoffers&action=1
Referrer      : http://localhost/upload/classifieds_usercp.php?do=myoffers&action=2
IP Address    : ::1
Username      : admin
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.16

[sadiq6210]

Originally Posted by Muhammad Rahman

email send Chris for my problem with SE ,,

----- edit -----

bug again in SE Classifieds,

if opened my offer , there is an error.,

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM forum_x_classifieds_items WHERE id=2 ORDER BY itemid ASC;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'itemid' in 'order clause'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Friday, June 21st 2013 @ 09:08:56 PM
Error Date    : Friday, June 21st 2013 @ 09:08:56 PM
Script        : http://localhost/upload/classifieds_usercp.php?do=myoffers&action=1
Referrer      : http://localhost/upload/classifieds_usercp.php?do=myoffers&action=2
IP Address    : ::1
Username      : admin
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.5.16

I have the same error Chris

Database error in vBulletin 4.2.1:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM classifieds_items WHERE id=12 ORDER BY itemid ASC;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'itemid' in 'order clause'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Saturday, June 22nd 2013 @ 10:26:23 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, June 22nd 2013 @ 10:26:23 AM
Script        : http://www.user.com/forum/classifieds_usercp.php?do=myoffers&action=2
Referrer      : http://www.user.com/forum/classifieds_usercp.php?do=myoffers&action=1
IP Address    : xxxxxxxx
Username      : xxxxxxxx
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.1.69-cll