PhotoPostClassifies: Guests, Styles, Distance questions...

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 08:30 AM

I'm about to buy several PPC's, but I need clarity on a few issues:

- Styles
I have (or will have) custom designs for my vBulletin. When my PhotoPost Classifieds is integrated with my vB will PPC autmoatically inherit the style of the vB, or will I have to manually adjust the syle of PPC? [eta: After reading this thread, I think the answer to this is, "It's automatic."]

- Who can place ads?
Can I set permissions to allow unregistered GUESTS to post ads? (Assuming they pay any listing fee?) [ETA: Found the answer to this is YES, unregistered can place ads.]

- "Distance" field
I would like to keep this field, but I'm unclear as to how the information is entered. When a member (or guest) places an ad, are they asked for their zip code or full address?

Is there any way to display the full address? (Most of my ads will be businesses)

- Additional 'field' changes...
I'm assuming I can change the fields like 'asking price', etc to anything I want - yes?

Chuck S · April 14th, 2006, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by pcoskat

- Styles
I have (or will have) custom designs for my vBulletin. When my PhotoPost Classifieds is integrated with my vB will PPC autmoatically inherit the style of the vB, or will I have to manually adjust the syle of PPC? [eta: After reading this thread, I think the answer to this is, "It's automatic."]

PhotoPost Classifieds can automatically use the vbulletin stylesheet when you use the vb3 enhanced integratration as we do auto replace our stylesheet variables with those of vb3's style. Only thing to consider if you are using custom stylesheets with custom paths you may need to when using gradient images etc in the vbulletin style admin of the style change the relative path to the files directories to full url so the images can be found over Photopost.
Our auto url rewrite code auto rewrites all the normal vb relative urls so it would only be custom image paths you need to change to the full url.

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- Who can place ads?
Can I set permissions to allow unregistered GUESTS to post ads? (Assuming they pay any listing fee?) [ETA: Found the answer to this is YES, unregistered can place ads.]

You are absolutely correct here any group in vbulletin you can set permissions accordingly in our usergroups editor.

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Originally Posted by pcoskat

- "Distance" field
I would like to keep this field, but I'm unclear as to how the information is entered. When a member (or guest) places an ad, are they asked for their zip code or full address?

Is there any way to display the full address? (Most of my ads will be businesses)

The distance field itself is zipcode and is a required field if your using the zipcode integration. You may per category define up to 6 extra fields to have users input more information that you may want to collect and this information will be shown when viewing the ads.

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- Additional 'field' changes...
I'm assuming I can change the fields like 'asking price', etc to anything I want - yes?

You may edit your templates as you see fit and edit your language strings in the english.php file to change the phrases to anything you wish. Provided that is if your dealing with a numeric field like asking price that the data still being entered in the field is numeric.

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 11:05 AM

It's all a bit over my head, technically, but it 'sounds' like with a capable technician, I can have the changes I need.

Thanks!

<---See my profile addition? There needs to be a choice of "NONE". To call myself a 'beginner' is a gross overstatement. I have no technical background. I'm a webmaster who hires tech people to make my 'visions' work...(I don't even know what php stands for.)

Chuck S · April 14th, 2006, 01:21 PM

I will let Michael know there should be a NONE option.

If ya let me know what you did not understand in my response I can gladly expand on it some more.

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 01:25 PM

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If ya let me know what you did not understand in my response I can gladly expand on it some more.

Don't worry about it. I think I get it 'enough' for my purpose...

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 01:35 PM

One more question, and then I think I'm done...

Within PhotoPost Classifieds, can individual categories be set to function differently?

By that I mean...

Can one category (and subcategories) be set to function as my podcast directory

While another category (and subcategories) be set to function as a 'personals/matchmaking' section

While yet a 3rd category (and subcategories) be set to function as a standard 'classifieds' section?

Or...would I have to buy 3 individual PPC licences to accomplish that?

Chuck S · April 14th, 2006, 01:41 PM

One license would do all that although we would love to sell you many licenses.

Basically Photopost Classifieds comes with 4 template types

- For Sale
- Wanted
- Help Wanted
- Personals

You can assign categories you create to different template types to achieve different sections.

Now the XML playlist thing I showed you in ReviewPost which you can easily use with Classifieds Instead works by defining an extra field in the category editor say called Feed Url. The player will load if $extra1 is not empty so as long as you do not use Extra1 on any other template types you will be fine.

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 01:53 PM

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One license would do all that although we would love to sell you many licenses.

hehe

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

You can assign categories you create to different template types to achieve different sections.

Perfect!

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Now the XML playlist thing I showed you in ReviewPost which you can easily use with Classifieds Instead works by defining an extra field in the category editor say called Feed Url. The player will load if $extra1 is not empty so as long as you do not use Extra1 on any other template types you will be fine.

Sounds like Greek.

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 01:59 PM

Actually one more question...

Let's say I have the following different categories:

Personals
Podcasts
Classifieds

Can I have all of the following displayed on forum home (each in it's own section)? (ie I have a column of boxes along the left side of my forum, and each box would have a different 'random' item.)

Random Personal ad
Random Podcast
Random Classified ad

Chuck S · April 14th, 2006, 02:10 PM

Okay this could get greekish here

Photopost Classifieds comes with an external script inc_ads.php which displays either the most recent,random or most popular ads and can be included on your forumhome template. This is included in our software by default.

If you want to have 3 separate ad blocks each pulling different ads from specific categories showing in 3 separate ad blocks then you would need to have someone design those for you since it would not be native functionality in the code.

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

Okay this could get greekish here

Photopost Classifieds comes with an external script inc_ads.php which displays either the most recent,random or most popular ads and can be included on your forumhome template. This is included in our software by default.

If you want to have 3 separate ad blocks each pulling different ads from specific categories showing in 3 separate ad blocks then you would need to have someone design those for you since it would not be native functionality in the code.

So 'out of the box', the 'random' feature would randomly pull items from all categories. Correct?

Chuck S · April 14th, 2006, 02:44 PM

yes that is correct much like the random photo and random products blocks I have on my forumhome

http://www.reeftalk.com/forums/index.php

pcoskat · April 14th, 2006, 03:25 PM

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yes that is correct much like the random photo and random products blocks I have on my forumhome

Hmmm, that won't work for me.

I would need individual 'random' items. 3 of my sites using PPC will have at least 2 categories and I don't want the categories 'mixed' on the Random display.

Is this a customization you can do? Or would I be better off getting additional PPC's for those sites?

ETA
Nevermind about the 'random' issue. I've resolved this problem.

Chuck S · April 14th, 2006, 05:04 PM

No Problems

Glad you resolved it