DJ-Classifieds beta version

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1 DJ-Classifieds beta version instruction manual This manual cannot be redistributed without permission from design-joomla.eu Visit the official website design-joomla.eu of this Joomla component and other extentions and high quality templates. Copyright

2 Table Contents 1. Overview Files 2. Installation 3. DJ-Classifieds component configuration 4. Displaying classifieds on a website 5. DJ-Classifieds Menu module 6. DJ-Classifieds Search module 7. DJ-Classifieds Items module configuration

3 Overview Files All packages can be downloaded from our website A complete list of availabe install packages: 1. DJ-Classifieds component 2. DJ-Classifieds Menu module 3. DJ-Classifieds Items module 4. DJ-Classifieds Search module Notice: All modules are based on DJ-Classifieds component. It means that they don't work without DJ-Classifieds component. Installation Install all the packages in the ordinary way. Navigate Extensions Install/Uninstall, choose the package and press Upload File & Install. Now the component is available on your components list and all installed modules are displayed on Module Manager. Let's take a look at configuration of each installed item. As a DJ-Classifieds is a basic one, we will start with it. DJ-Classifieds configuration The DJ-Classifieds component allows you to add text advertisements into thematic categories, assigning images and descriptions to them. You can also allow users to add their own advertisements at your website and optional there is possibility to charge users for it. Navigate Extensions DJClassifieds You will see a page with empty list of categories:

4 Short description: Categories a list of categories, creating a category helps you to keep order of advertisements Ads a list of categorized advertisements Uncategorized a list of uncategorized advertisements Let's start with creating an example category. Press Add at the top panel, then you will see a page: Short description: Name enter a name of category Price enter a price if you want to charge users for adding an advertisement into category Parent Category the first category leave as Main Category, the next one can be assigned as a subcategory (optional) Autopublish publish category yes/no/global settings Description fill a text area with description of category (optional) Existing images gives an information about existing image related to an individual category Add icon add icon to the category (optional)

5 See an example list of categories: If you want to make some changes in added category e.g. change an image or a description, you have to edit a respective category. See an example of an edited category: Make your changes and press Save button.

6 Now we can pass on to create the first advertisement. Before doing this, take a look at a parameters view, where you can set ads and categories configuration. Press Parameters at the top panel. Then you will see a page:

7 Short description: Ads per page number of ads displayed per page Max number of images in ad maximum number of images that can be displayed in advertisement Days to ad expiration number of days left to ad expiration Days before notification number of days left before sending notification, for 0 notifications are not sending Promotion price enter a promotion price Promotion enable promotion yes/no, promotion advertisements are displayed at the top of the list with blue background color User type type of users able to add their advertisements registred/all users Autopublish global setting of auto publishing yes/no Captcha a protection system to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer, if you enable it, users will have to read and put two words before adding an advertisement Paypal user enter your account paypal Price unit enter a currency you want to be displayed Small Thumbnail width/height a dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is a small image which appears next to the advertisement in the list view Thumbnail width/height a dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is an image which appears in the detail view of advertisement, it is linked to its large image Category Thumbnail width/height a dimensions of an image measured in pixels, it is an image which appears in category view of advertisements Show footer show/hide link to design-joomla.eu addons

8 When you have your parameters configured, choose Ads on control panel and press Add to add new advertisement. You will see a page:

9 Short description: Name enter a name of advertisement Parent Category choose a category where an advertisement belongs to Exp date expiration date of advertisement Promotion first enable promotion yes/no, promotion advertisements are displayed at the top of the list with blue background color Published publish yes/no Intro text fill a text area with a short description of an advertisement Description fill a text area with a full description of an advertisement Existing images gives an information about all existing images related to an individual advertisement Upload image add an image to an advertisement See an example list of advertisements: If you want to make some changes in added advertisement e.g. change an image or a description, you have to edit a respective advertisement.

10 See an example of an edited advertisement: Make your changes and press Save button.

11 Displaying classifieds on a website Using a component, there are three ways to show your categorized items. 1. Add item 2. Category table 3. Single item 4. Useritems Navigate to a menu where you want to create a link and select DJ-Classifieds from a menu item type. This will allow you to make another choice between mentioned options above. a) Add item This menu item allows users to add their own advertisements.

12 Below you can see how looks the form of adding advertisement by user. As you can see, this form is similar to the form of adding advertisement in the administration panel. b) Category table This view allows to show all advertisements or advertisements from a single category. Remember to insert uniqe ID for displaying a single category. check an ID at category list

13 See an example of category table view: Short description: Title a title of advertisement Category a category of advertisement Description a description of advertisement Added date of adding advertisement Displayed a number of displays of advertisement c) Single item check an ID at ads list

14 See an example of single item:

15 If you press Ask Seller button, you will see a text form. Enter your question and press Send button to send your question to seller. d) Useritems This view allows users to see a list of their advertisements. Short description: Title a title of advertisement Intro description an intro description of advertisement Added date of adding advertisement Ad expires date of expiring of advertisement Status status of advertisement Active/Non-active Edit press >> to edit an advertisement

16 DJ-Classifieds Menu module This module display all categories as menu links. DJ-Classifieds Search module Search module for DJ-Classifieds component.

17 DJ-Classifieds Item module configuration This module displays advertisements in a certain order last/popular/random. Let's look at the parameters:

18 Short description: Number of items number of advertisements displayed in the module Order choose order to display - last/popular/random Show icon/date/category/description show - yes/no Description linked description linked to the advertisement - yes/no Chars in description number of chars in description Enable cache enable cache yes/no Notice: Remember to save settings of each module and publish them at a proper position. Bug Report: If you found any bug please report to us at contact@design-joomla.eu