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PHP 4 End of Life - Server Upgrade

PHP has recently released v4.4.9 and that is going to be the last release of the PHP v4.x line. Our current server is still running on PHP 4 and we are planning on upgrading it on September 1st.

This means if you are hosted customer running any other scripts besides 68 Classifieds you need to make sure they will work with PHP 5. 68 Classifieds is designed to work with PHP 4.3 all the way through the latest PHP 5.x release. So you will not have to worry about our script continuing to work.

Hurray we are finally coming out of the dark age.

New Classifieds Industry Website

The online classifieds industry can be very lucrative if you know the ropes. Until recently online classifieds website owners and managers were on there own trying to figure out what makes the industry tick and how to get a piece of the classifieds pie.

A team of classified website owners have banded together and formed an online community forum that is dedicated to the classifieds industry. Not only does it discuss day-to-day techniques but they also offer valuable ideas on marketing, HTML, graphic design, multimedia and search engine optimization all of which is part of running a successful classified ads website business.

Part of the classifieds industry website is a gallery of classifieds websites that users can get some ideas from. Our users are all professional and courteous and will go out of their way to help you says Brian Hussey the administrator of the site.

Brian has been involved in online communities for years and strives to help people, Brian is a problem solver and decided to launch the Classifieds Industry forum because there was nothing else out there to help people in the industry.

Classified script developers have their own forums that help their own customers with scripts and that’s great but what we wanted to offer is an extension of these communities and bring owners of sites together to share their knowledge in a global community. Brian goes on to say that once the word gets out the classifieds industry forum will be an awesome community that can help everyone in the industry become successful.

Visit their growing community today www.ClassifiedsIndustry.com

v4.0.5 Is now released

V4.0.5 is now released and is available from our customers section. This is a bug fix release and also includes a new feature to order payment gateways. You must run the setup and follow the upgrade steps.

To see the full change log and read the whole announcement please visit this forum thread.

New Site Showcase Section

We have decided to start a new site showcase section on our blog to showcase some of our customers. Our customer base is very broad with customers having horse classifieds, auto classifieds, motorcycle classifieds, and even very niche topics like pigeon racing and pinball classifieds. So if you would like to get your site showcased then please get in touch and we will see what we can come up with. If you would like to take part just fill out the form below.

Please keep in mind we will not be able to showcase every site and the more custom the better.

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Spring Break Vacation

First off happy April fools day. This is not a joke though.

This is an announcement to let everyone know our office will be closed April 3rd through the 6th. I will be going down to the coast and will have internet so I will still be able to check support but it will be only a few hours a day.

If you need immediate support it is best to ask on the forums as we have users from all over and usually someone will respond a lot faster.

I want to thank everyone for being a customer and have a happy spring break.

v4.0.1 is now released

V4.0.1 is now released and is available from our customers section.

New Features:

• The install now sets the tables to UTF-8. This can be changed in setup/config.php to a particular charset. (This only affects new installs)
• Added new email templates that are sent when a listing is modified and you have it set to change the status.

Notes:

For the full release announcement please visit this forum thread.

If you find any bugs please post them to our bug tracker here:
68 Classifieds Issue Tracker

The download is available in our customers area:
68 Classifieds Customers Area