Classifieds 4.0 GOLD released 1-30-2010

Chuck S · January 30th, 2010, 01:56 PM

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VERSION UPDATE: 4.00
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Classifieds 4.0 is a major update with features users have requested.

New features:

. vB4 support
. Usergroup Payment Permissions per Category.
. True Reserve Setting -- If the price in an auction does not reach reserve setting auction will be relisted and not sold for a lesser price.
. Cron Expire Task -- Ability to run the expire cron in the footer of the site versus setting up a cron task on the server.
. SEO URLs (requires .htaccess file)
. Single URLs for images
. 301 redirects to SEO pages for spider and normal URLs
. SEO URLs enabled in Admin -> Edit Settings -> Global Options (choices are none, spider, seo)

Upgraded files

/*.php (except config-inc.php.NEW, config-intc.php.NEW, inc_ads.php, inc_classifieds.php)

forums/vb3.php (you only need this file if you are using the vb registration system)

templates/vb4enhanced/* (new directory)

cron.php (new file)

HTACCESS (new file) -- You must rename this to .htaccess and upload to the classifieds directory. If your on a windows server and want to use SEO then you need to have an ISAPI Rewrite Manager installed and place the contents of the htaccess file in your ISAPI Rewrite Manager panel.

There is an upgrade script to run to add any new fields needed even if you where running the beta.

WarDog · February 1st, 2010, 10:54 AM

Chuck

I am running vB 4.0.1 and still have the old classified 3.2.1 on my server (turned off). I never installed any of the betas. Can I do the 4.0.0 gold install to the 3.2.1 to retain old records or is it best just to do a fresh install of classifieds?

Thanks

Chuck S · February 1st, 2010, 12:05 PM

Just do an upgrade. Copy over all the files except the install.php and config files and run the upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0

WarDog · February 7th, 2010, 10:23 AM

Chuck

I see there has been another build on 05FEB, do we need to upload all files?

Chuck S · February 7th, 2010, 10:26 AM

Nope

try just

adm-misc.php
comshow.php
member.php
header-inc.php
pp-inc.php
showcat.php

ndahiya · February 7th, 2010, 03:40 PM

Just bought and installed pp Classifieds 4.0

but,
in the footer, it shows: Powered by: PhotoPost Classifieds 3.21 vB3 Enhanced Copyright 2010 All Enthusiast, Inc.

In the admincp, it shows: Classifieds 3.13 Update!

And on the classified main page on this website (http://www.photopost.com/class/) it shows: PhotoPost Classifieds 2.61 now available!

ndahiya

ndahiya · February 7th, 2010, 03:41 PM

In the admin options etc, i saw vb4 while installing, but all other options refer to vb3 ? is that how it is supposed to be?
the integration options all refer to vb3 in the admincp... it appears to be working fine with vb4, so looks like a typo (except the text does not show in drop downs).

ndahiya

WarDog · February 7th, 2010, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Nope

try just

adm-misc.php
comshow.php
member.php
header-inc.php
pp-inc.php
showcat.php

Thanks Chuck....

Chuck S · February 7th, 2010, 04:53 PM

Your talking about the news script not the version. The version is listed under statistics and it most definately says 4.0

We just released 4.0 so it takes a week or so till the webmaster here updates the news scripts.

ndahiya · February 7th, 2010, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Your talking about the news script not the version. The version is listed under statistics and it most definately says 4.0

We just released 4.0 so it takes a week or so till the webmaster here updates the news scripts.

thx. that is only one of the 3 version errors. the other is in the footer (copyright), and the other is on the class main page (also a webmaster issue)/.

1996 328ti · February 13th, 2010, 09:06 PM

I had a previous Beta version so I assume there is no database update.
My admincp is black. Can I change that to another style?

And don't I replace sendnotice.php?
How do I send notices now?

It's confusing when my new config file says Beta and my previous version said Beta2.

Chuck S · February 13th, 2010, 10:30 PM

The first post should answer your questions.

You need to upload all files except the config files and run the upgrade script.

sendnotice still works fine thats the server cron task. There is a separate file that is a silent file that is used as the footer cron.

1996 328ti · February 13th, 2010, 10:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

The first post should answer your questions.

You need to upload all files except the config files and run the upgrade script.

sendnotice still works fine thats the server cron task. There is a separate file that is a silent file that is used as the footer cron.

I saw this.

Quote:

This install script will upgrade your 3.2 release to 4.0. Only run this upgrade if you have the 3.2 version of the database in place (either by previous upgrades or if upgrading in order to the latest).

And when I run the upgrade, I get this.

Quote:

Preparing to update database...

Error performing MySQL command: ALTER TABLE cp_categories ADD ugnopay VARCHAR(255) NULL AFTER ugnopost
Error: Duplicate column name 'ugnopay'

Upgrade complete!

Chuck S · February 14th, 2010, 06:19 AM

Classifieds 4.0 GOLD released 1-30-2010

I am talking about the very first post of this thread here. Very detailed instructions above and there is this

Quote:

There is an upgrade script to run to add any new fields needed even if you where running the beta.

1996 328ti · February 14th, 2010, 07:22 AM

Well this is the part that confused me.

Quote:

There is an upgrade script to run to add any new fields needed even if you where running the beta.

Running the upgrade causes an error.
I was running the beta2 and the config file still says beta.

This install script will upgrade your 3.2 release to 4.0.

Quote:

Only run this upgrade if you have the 3.2 version of the database in place (either by previous upgrades or if upgrading in order to the latest).

Again, I already had 4 beta2 and that is not what the script says.

And how do I change the style of the admin section?
The background is now black.

Chuck S · February 14th, 2010, 11:00 AM

As the instructions above state you need to run the upgrade script again.

You can set whatever style photopost classifieds wants to use in admin => layout options.

1996 328ti · February 14th, 2010, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

As the instructions above state you need to run the upgrade script again.

When I did I got this error

Quote:

Preparing to update database...

Error performing MySQL command: ALTER TABLE cp_categories ADD ugnopay VARCHAR(255) NULL AFTER ugnopost
Error: Duplicate column name 'ugnopay'

Upgrade complete!

I'm assuming it will not cause a problem down the road.

Chuck S · February 14th, 2010, 12:38 PM

Nope a duplicate error is no problem that was something added in BETA 2 thats why you had it

What was added was all this stuff for the footer cron feature and true reserve feature.

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

KenDude · February 22nd, 2010, 10:30 PM

Chuck,

With regard to this new version, is VB4 required or it just supports VB4 now too? (I'm still on 3.8.4 and plan to be for some time)

Second, have any field names changed in the database? I'm assuming you may have added some fields or tables, but have you changed or dropped any? I ask because we have a very extensive integration with ecarlist, ebizautos and other XML feeds that deliver vehicles to our classifieds and are populated into the database, if field names change or go away that presents a problem for us and I don't want to break anything without knowing what needs to be fixed.

I'm running 3.2 currently and never installed any betas for the new product.

Thanks in advance!

Chuck S · February 23rd, 2010, 05:29 AM

You can use any vb.

No fields where delete just a few things added.