PhotoPost Classifieds 4.01 Released 3-11-2010 - Page 3

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 06:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Chuck S

As stated in my last post there are no vb plugins created yet since vb4 is new. Our product has never integrated with vb profile etc.

Hmmm....

Thanks for the clarification Chuck ...

Well, I don't know what to say, except mea culpa ....

I had no idea that this product was in essence a standalone piece of code with no linkages and integration to vBulletin 4 except the skin and common name use. It was recommended to us to replace vBClassifieds, which is full integrated. I'll have to post back to them on vbulletin.org and let them know that this isn't what they thought.

Anyway, I guess we need to speak to your customer service about a possible refund, as this isn't going to work for our 12,000 members without a lot of additional integration programming. Perhaps I need to assess the cost of integration programming against the cost of a different product that's already integrated before I do that.

A separate question if I may?

We're testing this on a devforum database, not our live production version. If we create ads on this devforum database, are they actually in our vBulletin SQL database, or are they being stored in a separate database? In other words, do the ads created our devforum appear on our live forums if we installed Classifieds there, because they are stores separately?

Appreciate your help on trying to get this going though ...

Regards,
Doug

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 06:47 AM

Chuck ...

Where does one turn ON the ability to use the formatting BBCodes (ie: size=3) etc in the ad body?

Also, please check attachments. Are we missing something?

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 10:36 AM

Well vbclassifieds is a vb plugin so yes that uses everything vb.

Our application integrates fine with what we state it does. Adding various stuff to vb is done through plugins and as stated vb4 is just too new to see alot of this yet. For instance I created the Pro gallery plugin that shows gallery content in vb4 and you can see that in the mod forums. I held off on classifieds and the other products because vbulletin has changed so much stuff. They released vb4 too early. They are on 4.03 right now and I think they are approaching 1000 bugs fixed and coding changes in the last 4 months alone since release.

Once vb4 calms down I am looking at writing other plugins.

As to your next post

1. In admin => showproduct options set to not use images in the menu and you will see text links

2. In admin => global options set your GMT offset to the proper offset to bring your server time back to GMT and it will post time inline with your vb times.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

2. In admin => global options set your GMT offset to the proper offset to bring your server time back to GMT and it will post time inline with your vb times.

It currently says:

Quote:

GMT Offset
If you are running VB and want the server to display the time as an offset of GMT (for example, to the timezone where your server is located), enter t

So, I entered "t" .... that didn't work ...

I tried "-5" as an example, offset for EDT from GMT and that backed me up 10 hours, changing the ad to 11:00 pm Sunday night when I posted it at 9:00 am this morning (Monday)?

Any ideas?

Regards,
Doug

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 10:58 AM

Thanks Chuck ...

Got the icon thing sorted out.. "text" looks better...

Se attached for another one of those?

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 12:13 PM

what script are you on?

Have you added extra fields or anything?

I dont know of any default option in our software thats blank and is going to have a dropdown option of other so I might actually need to see that specific page to comment further

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

what script are you on?

Have you added extra fields or anything?

I dont know of any default option in our software thats blank and is going to have a dropdown option of other so I might actually need to see that specific page to comment further

It's just a test ad created using the standard default "business" ad type and I'm in EDIT mode as the ad creator, using /pp-classifieds/editproduct.php. That box appears in it as an optional drop down choice, with the word "other" at the bottom, just as the pic shows.

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 12:33 PM

Okay edit the editproduct4 template and remove this

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 12:49 PM

Yup, fixed .... thanks ..

We're on a roll ..

After I copied your files via FTP to the pp-classifieds directory, I set all the files and directories to specific chmod values as you requested. At that point, I was able to access all the files under Unix just fine, because I created them.

I then ran an INSTALL script and got the product, as you know.

However, after that install, I'm unable to access the files in that directory using any Unix commands at all? I'm getting an error:

Permission denied (SSH_FX_PERMISSION_DENIED: The user does not have sufficient permissions to perform the operation.)

Does your install program change the permissions under Unix and how to do I get permissions back so I can do something as simple as change the default ugly "no thumbnail" pic to something a little better looking?

Thanks Chuck ...

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 01:03 PM

You might need to call your host on that one. On any normal hosting account you upload files as the default user they give you for example

www.yoursite.com

username yoursit

password password

Your files/directories should be owned by the user yoursit and you should have all permissions to change whatever you like. Our program is not going to change anything with what you upload. For instance your talking about and image under our images directory which is 755 permissions by default and the files on a normal unix server would be 644 I beleive.

If your having user permissions issues definately sounds like a hosting question.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You might need to call your host on that one. On any normal hosting account you upload files as the default user they give you for example

www.yoursite.com

username yoursit

password password

Your files/directories should be owned by the user yoursit and you should have all permissions to change whatever you like. Our program is not going to change anything with what you upload. For instance your talking about and image under our images directory which is 755 permissions by default and the files on a normal unix server would be 644 I beleive.

If your having user permissions issues definately sounds like a hosting question.

Thanks Chuck ...

Will do that, but I wanted to check to make sure your install program didn't alter any permissions after I had copied and chmod'ed all the files before I ran it. After the install, I can't get at any of those files in the pp-classifieds under any of my Unix Admin user names, including the one I oritinally copied them there under.

I've referred the problem to our "root" Unix Admin and I'll let you know the outcome....

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 02:10 PM

Not a problem. The install program of ours only checks permissions on the config files and the data directory only.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

2. In admin => global options set your GMT offset to the proper offset to bring your server time back to GMT and it will post time inline with your vb times.

Sorry Chuck, I screwed up and edited the earlier post when I should have created a new one ... anyway ...

The time field currently says:

Quote:

GMT Offset
If you are running VB and want the server to display the time as an offset of GMT (for example, to the timezone where your server is located), enter t

So, I entered "t" .... that didn't work ...

I tried "-5" as an example, offset for EDT from GMT and that backed me up 10 hours (5x2), changing the ad to 11:00 pm Sunday night when I posted it at 9:00 am this morning (Monday)?

Any ideas?

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 02:15 PM

Well this depends what your server time is. If your server time is EST then you would place a 5 in the GMT box because EST is 5 hours before GMT so you want to bring it back up to GMT time.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 02:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Well this depends what your server time is. If your server time is EST then you would place a 5 in the GMT box because EST is 5 hours before GMT so you want to bring it back up to GMT time.

Doh ...

That's got it ...

I incorrectly used the vBulletin convention and put a "-" sign in, as they start with GMT and add or subtract...

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 03:43 PM

You can do that or install it in a directory called whatever you like where ever you like

/pp-classifieds

/classifieds

/acme/classifieds

/ads

/acme/classifieds

really it is whatever you wish.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Badger

A separate question if I may?

We're testing this on a devforum database, not our live production version. If we create ads on this devforum database, are they actually in our vBulletin SQL database, or are they being stored in a separate database? In other words, do the ads created our devforum appear on our live forums if we installed Classifieds there, because they are stored separately?

Chuck ...

I think I may have missed the answer to this one?

Thanks ...

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 05:12 PM

Your ads will show on the install they are uploaded to.

Your dev install if separate from your live site so they are not going to show there.

Badger · April 26th, 2010, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chuck S

Your ads will show on the install they are uploaded to.

Your dev install if separate from your live site so they are not going to show there.

So, there's no point in configuring categories and Photopost settings, since we have to do a complete Photopost Classifieds re-install once the live site is updated from vb3 to vb4... correct?

Simply use the devforum to gain experience with Classifieds and see if we can find someone to do some custom integration code?

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · April 26th, 2010, 06:03 PM

Correct unless your going to move the database tables and the files to the live site there is no need doing configuration.