Hey all, I've been working on this site for a while now (just going on 2 years) and i've done quite a few unique things I believe to the Classifieds site: http://www.performancecentral.com.au - A completely revised Template working off the original Default Base - A Customised Category Selection which uses Radio Buttons instead of a drop down box (soon to also have images integrated in the Category Selection - An Automatic Image Title, which is actually hidden and pulls the "Listing Title" and places it into the Image Title Box without the seller seeing anything. - A Customised My Account section which will give you 3 columns to which you can see all your listings. I am still yet to add options to allow you to edit them from within the thread if you are the seller. - A Unique Selling Tool which actually Generates a BBCODE version of your listing to post up on your favourite Car Forum. - A revised system for Uploading Images, which will prompt different Submit questions based on the amount of images, for example if there is 1 or more images uploaded so far it will say "Finalise Listing", if there are 0 images uploaded the submit button will say "Continue Without Uploading Images". I welcome anyone to test out these features and have a browse through the different areas: I made a test user if you would like to browse around. Username: Tester Password: Tester I have included an example of one for you all to see below. When following the instructions in this For Sale Listing below: http://www.performancecentral.com.au/viewlisting.php?view=2038 You end up with: Targa Roof Bags in Black SW20 MR2 Targa Roof Bags in Black SW20 MR2. Excellent Excellent Condition, still has sticker intact. Price: $100.00 Contact Details: Phone: 0425823736 Images:
Thanks mate So much still to do on it haha. The next part will be based on a selection from a drop down menu on the left of the screen, it will update them on the latest listings with their pre described search term.... Thats the hard part from here on lol
The latest updates to the site: - Australian Flag which will highlight the state in which the seller is based in http://www.performancecentral.com.a...tezza_3sge_beams_engine_jdm_ae86_corolla.html
We've had a number of big changes. The more I learn the code the more i'm able to make customisations. http://www.performancecentral.com.au So far with the help of mike-n-tosh I now have the sellers name appear at the top when you click on "see more items from the seller" http://www.performancecentral.com.au/searchresults.php?owner=543&username=rossimo I have also built my own Filter By Location, Date Added and Price sorting. I ended up using a drop down menu so that users will be able to get the right choice first. The filter by location code is a bit rough, but it looks for what page your on using the {$file} function and adds the suitable code on the end of the url For example for the Showlistings page Code used: HTML: <a rel="nofollow" href="{$file}?pg=new&sortfield=price&sortorder=asc" class="sortheader">Lowest To Highest</a> </li> Example here: http://www.performancecentral.com.au/listings/new.html And Userlisting (which is a page I created myself JUST dedicated for viewing "Sellers other items". HTML: <li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.performancecentral.com.au/searchresults.php?searchtext={$smarty.get.searchtext}&sortfield=price&sortorder=asc" class="sortheader">Lowest To Highest</a> </li> Example Here: http://www.performancecentral.com.au/searchresults.php?owner=543&username=rossimo I have reimplemented by BBcode generator which allows users to create a completely hosted version of their listing to place onto their favourite forum which is visible at the bottom of this page when you click the "View A BBCode Version of this Listing Here " button http://www.performancecentral.com.au/listing/2354/ssr_professor_sp1_18x8_37_18x8_37.html Here is an example of the code I used HTML: </br> <strong>Forum Post Title</strong></br> Copy All the text below and paste it into your forum title</br> <input type="text" size="90" value="{$title}"> </br> </br></br> Copy All the text below and paste it into your forum Post Body <textarea rows="14" cols="80"> [b]{$title}[/b] {$description} [b]Price: [/b] {$price} [b]Contact Details: [/b] {if $phone=="Y" && $data <> ''} Location: {$state} Phone: {$phone} {else} {/if} {$phone} {if $viewphotos=="Y" && $data <> ''} {foreach from=$data item=image} [img]http://www.performancecentral.com.au/photos/{$image.image}[/img] {foreachelse} {/foreach} {else} {/if} </textarea> Other improvements involve customisations of the listing page and the inclusion of dual columns in the show listings page. Its very primative code but works. Basically checks if a variable is odd or even, if it is odd, it creates a new <td>, if its even, drop to the next line. The variable counts up every time till I reach my listings per page limit. http://www.performancecentral.com.au/listings/new.html The viewlisting page also received a freshen up and may receive a few more tweaks in the coming weeks: http://www.performancecentral.com.a...ch_tubo_back_exhaust_off_subaru_rs_sedan.html Apart from minor things like adding variables into the Show Listings page (I show location on each listing to make it easier to browse) There isn't much left from the 68classifieds template left haha. Its hard to tell that it is in fact the same software running in the background haha. I love it.
I've made some new changes to the site again and welcome anyone to check it out: www.performancecentral.com.au
The NEWER and improved classified I have even more new additions including - Drop down sorting based on price and date added - the ability to filter results and see which filters you have enabled (and disable only the ones you want, for example state or price). - Customised Categories page using images instead of text to make your selection - Customised option for seller to edit their listing using a link on their advert - Improved Account section allows users to delete or edit listings straight away (without having to click browse your listings). - New Recaptcha applied to the Contact Owner (which is always visible to anyone that wants to make contact with the seller) - New Sellers logo for businesses (manually added in but coded to come up when a particular users advert comes up) - Number hide function requires users to click on the "SHOW" button to reveal the full phone number - The layout has been significantly altered, I am now W3c 1.0 HTML compliant too yay lol - Matching Administrator template to the home page, allows an improved visual experience for me -What you see is what you get editor on the Page Editor with Stylesheet applied to match the end result. Makes article writing as easy as wordpress. I have nearly figured out cutting out the preview step, if only I could combine the step 1 and 3 (image uploading) into the one (or even contact details in as part of step 3) I am in the process of enabling a price slider as part of the filter too. This should make the overall filter setup much easier. Those buttons you see under the CONTACT button only show up when you are an administrator, allows direct access.
Been Crazy busy lately, got heaps of new additions to add in. With the help of Mike N Tosh and Freeze2 I have been able to implement some new changes: I have expanded the concept of the original Featured Horizontal Plugin to accept some new variables and as a a result it is able to do a lot more now I am now able to pass in the title of a particular page, and present listings which are related to it. For example "Toyota Caldina GTT" will now display listings which are "like" the title. This is visible at the bottom of the page: http://www.performancecentral.com.au/page/toyota-caldina-st215.html I have also used the same functionality to create Sellers Other Listings by using the $owner as a variable (comes factory as part of the featured horizontal plugin). I did however pass in the actual listing id that the user is viewing as a variable back into the featured horizontal plugin and request that all listings from that owner EXCEPT where the listing equals the one that the user is on. Works fantastic. I also implemented a function where if the number of rows found is greater than 3 (how many i can fit in the box comfortably), that it would show a "Click here to see more from this seller" button. If its less than or equal to 3 just show the 3 it needs to). I am currently working on a Similar listings plugin which is implemented (you can pass in a variable of the actual site title and description) but I haven't been able to get the results i'm after in the Similar listings so more work will be done on it. Apart from that I have just done more work stripping away. I started off with the default template, boy it has gone along way Any comments would be much appreciated:
