Setting Program Options


Notes:
All the color choices on this page can be overridden by using the style sheet in the page_top.html page.

DO NOT use parentheses () in any of the text areas. This will cause a server error.

In the Terms and Conditions text, if you use any single quotes you will need to escape the quote ( \' ) with a backslash, or you will get a javascript error on the listing forms.


You can not use parentheses ( ) in any area below.


Registration
Do you want to require Registration to place ad's  ? Yes   No                


Registration Required Fields   ?
First Name Yes   No                              
Last Name Yes   No
Address Yes   No
City Yes   No
State Yes   No
Post Code Yes   No
Country Yes   No
Phone Yes   No


Extra fields - not required to be filled in by user.

# For a text field, just enter the name for the field that will show on the reg. page.
# EXAMPLE -> What is your age? 
# If you want to use an option list for an extra field
# use a semi-colon between the names in the lable
# EXAMPLE -> field1 = How did you hear about us;Yahoo;Alta Vista;Go.Com; 
# EXAMPLE -> field1 = DD-LIST-LABLE;OPTION1;OPTION2;OPTION3:ETC;
Field1
Field2
Field3
Field4
Field5
 
Enter any text that you want in the email that is sent to the user when they register.
 
Subscribe to News Letter option Yes   No
News Letter Text
 
Enter any text that you want on the filal page after the user registers. HTML Ok.
 




Terms and Conditions
# If you want the user to have to check the Terms and Conditions checkbox
# before they can place an ad, check the YES box below.
Require Terms Yes   No
 
Enter your terms and conditions in the box below. HTML Ok.
 




Listing Types
# Select the type of ad's that you want to offer to your users
# 1. Text only ads
# 2. Photo only ads
# 3. Text ads and Photo ads
# (you can bill extra for photo ads, see paid ads below)
Select Listing Type/s Text Only   Photo Ads Only   Both Photo and Text ad's
 




Free Ads
# Set the number of days that a FREE ad will run before it 
# is automatically removed by the system - the number of days
Free ad's expire in Days.
 

# For the FREE posting program, set the fields that
# you want to be required to be filled in by the user.
Email Address Yes   No
Name Yes   No
Address Yes   No
City Yes   No
State Yes   No
Post Code Yes   No
Phone Yes   No
Web Site Yes   No
 
Do FREE Ads have the ability to place an image in their ad?
Free Image Ads Yes   No
 
Do you want to check for bad words to keep porn sites from posting?
Check for bad words? Yes   No
 
# USER BLOCKING - APPLIES TO FREE AD'S ONLY
# If you want to use the "email blocking" feature, set the variable
# below to 'yes'   This will stop a user with a certain email address
# from "spaming" your classifieds.
Use Email Blocking Yes   No
 
# If you want to use the "IP blocking" feature, set the variable
# below to 'yes'   This will stop a user, from a certain IP
#  Address, from "spaming" your classifieds.
Use IP Blocking Yes   No
 
# If you do not want postings from robots, set the variable
# below to 'No'   This will stop spam from the automated programs that
# post to classifieds.
Remote Access Yes   No
 
# Enter the number of free listings that a user is allowed to post. 
# This is required, if you want it unlimited, set to 1000.
# Free Ads Allowed
 
Enter any text that you would like to include in the email sent to user.
 
Enter any text that you would like at the top of the free listing page. HTML Ok.
 
 
Enter any text that you would like in the left column of the free listing page. HTML Ok.
 
 
Enter any text that you want the user to see if they exced the number of free ads allowed.
NO HTML, this will also get emailed to the user
 
 
# If you you want to allow your free listings to sell an item
# directly form their ad using Pay Pal, set the pay pal option
# below to YES
Pay Pal Option? Yes   No




Paid Ads
# Set the Ad durations that you want available for Paid Ads.
# Enter the NUMBER OF DAYS with a comma between durations
# ie - '60,120,180,360';
Ad Durations
 
# Enter the DOLLAR AMOUNTS for each of the above paid durations.
# This MUST correspond with the durations defined above.
# ie - '2.95,4.95,7.95,9.95';
Paid Charges
 
# If you are using Image Ads, enter the price of placing
# an image on the page for each of the above paid durations.
# If the AdType is set to "Photo Only", or "Text Only"
# Image_charges below is not used.

# The Image_charges MUST correspond with the durations defined above.
# ie - '2.00,4.00,7.00,9.00';
Image Charges
 
# Enter the DOLLAR AMOUNTS for Renewals.
# This MUST correspond with the durations defined above.
# ie - '2.95,4.95,7.95,9.95';
Renewal Charges
 
Pay Pal Email Address
Pay Pal Logo
Pay Pal return program
Pay Pal refused
 
Enter any text you would like on the top of the Pay Pal page.
You can use HTML tags if you like.
 
# For the PAID posting program, set the fields that
# you want to be required to be filled in by the user.
Email Address Yes   No
Name Yes   No
Address Yes   No
City Yes   No
State Yes   No
Post Code Yes   No
Phone Yes   No
Web Site Yes   No
 
# Do you want the paid ad's always at the top of the category page?
Paid ad's on top? Yes   No
 
Link Color for Paid ad's   Use Hex, 0000FF is Blue
 
Enter any text that you would like to include in the email sent to user.
 
# If you are using both Free ad's and Paid ad's, 
# do you want an "upgrade your listing" link on the ad page?
# This allows users that have a free listing to upgrade to a 
# paid listing.
Upgrade your listing link? Yes   No
 
 
# If you you want to allow your users to sell an item
# directly form their ad using Pay Pal, set the pay pal option
# below to YES
Pay Pal Option? Yes   No
 




Email Reminders
# If you are sending email reminders to alert users that their ad is about
# to expire, enter the number of days that you want to start sending
# reminders before their ad expires.  Example '7' would
# start sending reminders 7 days before the ad expires.
Reminder Start days before ad expires.
 
Enter any text you would like in the reminder email
NO HTML tags.
 




Sudo Banner Rotation
# This option will print a table with a background image
# near the top of the category page. This is used to rotate Paid Ads in a 
# banner type look. These are actually text links, the Title of the 
# Paid ad is clickable to that ad's details page.
# The banners are rotated by category, if no banner is found in
# the category selected, one will be printed at random from the paid ad's.
# You can also rotate your own links, see below.
# Sample Banner
Use Sudo Banner Yes   No
# Enter the height and width of the table
Height Width 
# Enter the color for the text in the banner.
# Make sure this is a contrasting color for your background
Text Color 
# Enter the name of the background image to use as table background
# place this image in the /images folder. The image must be the same
# height and width you entered above.
# For more than one image, use a semi-colon between image names. 
# This will print the images at random.
# EXAMPLE
# image1.gif;image2.gif;image3.gif
Background Image Name 
# If you want the banner on the search results page
# set the variable below to 'Yes'
Show on Search Results Yes   No
# If you want the banner on the details page
# set the variable below to 'Yes'
Show on Details Page Yes   No
# Rotate your own "banner" by entering the text and link below.
Your Banner Text
Web Address 
# You can rotate as many links as you want with associated
# URL's. Enter each text you want to rotate with a semi-colon between 
# the text and links.
# EXAMPLE
# Your ad Here;Visit Ranson's Scripts;New EzSite Site Replication Program
# http://www.rlaj.com/yourad.html;http://ransonsscripts.com

# You can also use the space where the banner appears
# to put any HTML you like there. This can be images, banner ad's, 
# anything you would want to put there. The banner is replaced
# with the HTML code from the banner_space_html.html file.
# The banner_space_html.html file is located in the /logs folder.
# This will override the banner rotation
Alt use of banner space Yes   No
# Enter the HTML you would like to
# use in place of the banner.
HTML Code




Using Sub Categories

# If you want to use Sub Categories, check the yes box.
Use Sub Category Yes   No


Using Left Column

# If you use the left column, 
# the Sub-Categories will appear in the left column.
Use Category page Left Column Yes   No
 

# If you use the left column, 
# You can have the categories ALWAYS on the left.
Categories ALWAYS on the left? Yes   No
 
Categories on the Details Page? Yes   No
 

# Set the options for the Left Column
Left Column Width View Width
Left Column Color View Color
 

# You can add HTML to the left column.
# THIS APPEARS ABOVE THE CATEGORY LISTINGS
# Just paste the text (HTML) in the box below that you
# want to appear before the Sub Categories.
# This can be images or text or both.
Left Column HTML 

# You can add HTML to the left column.
# THIS APPEARS BELOW THE CATEGORY LISTINGS

# Just paste the text (HTML) in the box below that you
# want to appear after the Sub Categories.
# This can be images or text or both.
Left Column HTML





Using Right Column

Shows Featured Listings in a right column on category page.
Uses the thumbnail images and title of the item.
Show Featured in Right Column Yes   No
Set the # of Featured Listings to show in right column  
 
# If you use the right column, 
# the Featured Listings will appear in the right column.
Use Category page Right Column Yes   No
 
Use Details page Right Column Yes   No
 

# Set the options for the Right Column
Right Column Width View Width
Right Column Color View Color
           Set Right Column Color Same as Left Column
 

# You can add HTML to the right column.
# THIS APPEARS ABOVE THE FEATURED LISTINGS
# Just paste the text (HTML) in the box below that you
# want to appear before the featured listings.
# This can be images or text or both.
Right Column HTML 

# You can add HTML to the right column.
# THIS APPEARS BELOW THE FEATURED LISTINGS
# Just paste the text (HTML) in the box below that you
# want to appear after the featured listings.
# This can be images or text or both.
Right Column HTML






Page Colors and Look


# Enter the color for the table headers.
# This is the color of the tables throughout
# the classified program. 
# Title background of the Ad Details page, register page, 
# password help, admin, etc..
# If you do not want a background color on the tables, set the
# TableBg color to your background color.
Table Background 

# Enter a color for the text that appears against the table
# background. This should be a contrasting color to the
# table BG color defined above.
Table text color 

# Enter the width of the main table for the classifieds pages
# This is a percentage of the available width of the screen.
Table Width 

# On the category page the listing backgrounds
# alternate background colors. You can define the colors below
# that you want to alternate.
Listing Background 1
Listing Background 2 

# If you want to use a horizontal rule between
# listings, set to YES below.
Use HR Between Listings Yes   No 

# If you want to show the program run time at the 
# bottom of the screens check the YES box.
Show Run time Yes   No




Using Your Own Templates

If you do not know what the templates are
use the default (no) for now.
Templates and help files are in the /templates folder.

# If you want to use your own template for the
# category page, check the yes box.
# requires 2 templates
# Template Help File
Use Category Templates Yes   No 

# If you want to use your own template for the
# ad details page, check the yes box.
# Details Page Help File
Use Details Template Yes   No 

# Category Template Wizard
# Important: Set all the options on this page and
# save the options before you use the wizard.

# If you are using your own templates, you can use up 
# to 5 additional text fields for your ad listing programs.
# Enter the field "lable" in the boxes below. The "lable"
# is what shows on the page, like - Additional Field 1 below.
Additional Field 1 <!spair1>
Additional Field 2 <!spair2>
Additional Field 3 <!spair3>
Additional Field 4 <!spair4>
Additional Field 5 <!spair5>
 




Thumbnail Images

# If you want to use thumbmnail images on the 
# category page, check yes below and set the width for the thumbnail 
# image. In pixels
Use Thumbnail Yes   No
Max Image Width 
# Enter the maxium image size for thumbnail images. This should
# be rather small in order to keep users from uploading
# images that are physically too large. 
# Enter size in bytes -> 4000 = 4K
Thumb Image Size 

# This version is capleable of using the GD 
# library for automatically generating the thumbnail images. You must 
# first make sure that GD is installed Click here to test if GD
# is installed on your server. If you get an error, GD is not installed.
# You can ask your server admin to install the program for you 
# on the server.
Use GD Thumbnail Yes   No

# If you want to use thumbmnail images on the 
# category page, you may want to NOT show the Ad number.
# Not applicable if you are using the category template.
Show Ad Number Yes   No

# You can only use the short desc. with the thumbnail image option.
# Enter the limit you want to put on the length of the
# Short Description. The # of characters.
Use Short Desc Yes   No
Short Desc Linit




Misc Options
# Set the optional fields that you want available
# on the Ad listing forms.
Use Price Field Yes   No
Use Condition Field Yes   No

## ** If you would like the program to delete the Ads after #? days 
## When there is a new entry, the program will remove all ad's in
## that category that are expired.
Use Auto delete Yes   No

Do you want to show the search box above the listings?
Display Search Yes   No

Do you want to allow HTML in the users description?
Allow HTML Yes   No

# If you want to use the category link  
# that appears on all the screens.
# This is the java PopUp window for categories.
# home >> categories >> 'page_were_on'
Display Cat link Yes   No


# There are 2 options for the pop-up category list
# 1 - the list prints all of the categories 
# With both lists, only categories that have 
# entries will have active links.
# 2 - the list only prints the list of categories
# that have entries.
Category Type Print All   Print only actives

# If you want to use the counter option  
# on the ad details page, check Yes below
Display Counter Yes   No

# Enter the maxium number of entries for each category (required)
# If you want it unlimited, set to 1000000.
Maxium # of entries 

# Enter the number of Ads to display per page
# on the category list screen.
Maxium # items per page 

# Enter the limit you want to put on the length of the description 
# for the entry. The # of characters.
Description Limit 

# Enter the limit you want to put on the length of the title 
# for the entry. The # of characters.
Title Limit 

# Enter the maxium image width for the images on the Ad
# details page. (200 is a good width for the page)
Max Image Width 

# Enter the maxium image size for user images. This should
# be rather small in order to keep users from uploading
# images that are physically too large. 
# Enter size in bytes -> 10000 = 10K
Max Image Size 








# NOTES:  

DO NOT use parentheses () in any of the text areas. This will cause
a server error.

In the Terms and Conditions text, if you use any single quotes
you will need to escape the quote  ( \' )  or ou will get
a javascript error on the listing forms.