Joomla Extensions , Joomla Components

Overview

...the easiest way to publish web ads.

• Automatic install! All plugins and modules are installed with the component itself.
• HTML description, List and Grid view mode, expiry countdown.
• Template engine.
• User extended profile, email Notifications. 
• SEF, dynamic page titles, metadescription, keywords, tags
• Categories, Watchlist.
• Featured ads: gold, silver or bronze with customizable CSS.
• pay per Listing (publishing)
• pay per Featured (gold, silver, bronze)
• pay per Contact (publisher details)
• Multiple payment Gateway system for payments towards the site including PayPal and Moneybookers.
• date triggered publishing, republishing, archive, report/block ads.
• User messaging system.
• Image Gallery, File Attachements.
• Community Builder integration, Google Maps.
• various administration features, multiple currencies, bulk import, export.

Description

Ads Factory - Classified Web Ads System for Joomla. 

Native Joomla 1.5.x MVC code; no legacy plugin needed.

Ads Factory is fully SEF including dynamic page titles! Automatic metadescription and keywords are integrated in the component to comply with the actual standards. Tags on ads and a tag cloud module is also present to provide a huge SEF improvement.

The component offers Categories support including a category module, which can be also used as a filter option. The present Watchlist can be set on existing categories or ads based and includes also email notification. Aside this advanced search and filter options are avaialble for the extension.

For each ad a separate location can be entered using the GoogleMaps system. Also the user has the possiblity to upgrade his ad to a featured ad: gold, silver or bronze. The ads can be also saved for later publishing (publish/unpublish; save ads now publish later) or can be date triggered published. A republishing option is avaialble for expired ads; also on expiry a email notification is sent. If not replublished the ads will go to the existing archive system. Ads can de reported to the admin in case of fraudulent behavior. In case that a user wants to ask an ad publisher a certain question, he can use the integrated user messaging system.

A main image and secondary images can be attached to each ad. This will be automatically included in a small image gallery present for each ad. The image gallery is slider based and has also a detailed view option. File attachements can be used also, in order to provide detailed informations. This attachements togheter with the gallery and GoogleMaps are displayed on the detailed view of each ad. GoogleMaps is part of the Community Builder integration and contains the CB "My Ads" and "GoogleMap" tab.

The administrator has extensive control over all ads. He can easily block certain ads with a single click, set up the picture resize values, etc. If desired he can enter multiple currencies and configure all email notifications. Bulk import with images and file attachemnts is possible and also a very easy export to the excel file format.

The webmaster can require (if desired) user payments for:

• pay per Listing (publishing)
• pay per Featured (gold, silver, bronze)
• pay per Contact (publisher details)

Paypal is implemented as payment method along to the multiple payment gateway system.

What do I get buying this product?

• The fully functional open source (no encrypting) component, meaning that you are able to perform modifications if needed for your site.
• Modules: Menu Module, Categories Module (including number of ads and filter funtion), Featured Ads, Random Ads, Popular Ads, Most Valuable Ads, Latest Ads and Tag Clouds Module.
• Community Builder Plugins: My Ads, GoogleMap Tab.
• Full SEF integration, easy configurable language file, Categories Support and Template Engine!

Requirements:

• Joomla 1.5.x
• CRON (a general CRON Tutorial is available in our documentation section).

Demo: The demo-server for Ads Factory is available under http://adsfactory.thefactory.ro - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side. Feel free to test as you please; the server resets itself each hour.

Version Info

Ads Factory 1.5.4 released on February 26, 2010.

• Optimization: added Ad title with reference to the transaction under Admin/Classifieds/Manage payments/View Payments Page.
• Optimization: default order by date, id and title desc.
• Optimization: for multiple record listings.
• Optimization: "General Settings / Display subcat. listings in parent" to count all subcategories; if disabled, the same workflow like till current version.
• Fixed several issues including display currency in column listing, saving end date on submission, cancelled filter, search ads after start and end date, extending ads date, custom filed text area display, repeating tags, not displaying ads of deleted users, charset, categories status in backend, Joomfish Category SEF URLs (was translating the url's as Joomfish does automatically to queries; applied fix: url's stay untranslated), template (message list display \r\n instead of <br />), message date time format not as configured, watchlist button in grid view, thefactory/category without status, thefactory/category has_children with new paramet: show_active_only default false, etc.
  

Ads Factory 1.5.3 released on February 17, 2010. 

• New feature: Language transliteration for Cyrillic chars and others (using iconv php extension) of URLs.
• Modified Ads links and category links.
  

Ads Factory 1.5.2 released on January 30, 2010.

• New feature: Custom fields attributes (html meaning) and parameter new properties.
• New feature: Custom fields are read from ini file.
• Fixed issues regarding Custom Fields Charset, Custom Fields Radio Box Type saving value, Date using Joomla in other language files, ItemId got lost After save when Instalation List Ads menu Item not published (now ItemId is kept the "New Ad" menu Item id instead of List), Category not displayed Ordering in backend, Ads CB tabs issue (upgrade manually the CB plugins), image uploading missing message, price contact, deprecated method replaced (processTemplate instead of processDisplay), price when more payments gateways enabled, etc.
  

Ads Factory 1.5.1 released on December 30, 2009.

• New feature: search by only Categories with ads method.
• Fixed issue regarding listing price (category not saved when category page option enabled), SEF Category, custom Fields Search, custom Fields Edit (add empty options), custom Fields Ads, User via Page Positions, Listing disabled featurings, method to display only ad containg categories, messages tab reply, scroll on reply, Price Listing Edit Fee and Optimisation: user friendly message when payment is in progress for the unpublished ad to edit (so users will know not to buy again listing for the same ad!), Smarty Helper Tab, Template charset, etc.
  

Ads Factory 1.5.0 released on December 8, 2009.

• New feature: RSS listings.
• New feature: Social Taggings; Tweet and Delicious links.
• Joomfish Integration: translatable static content and dinamic content from ads and categories table (only core fields by default).
• Custom Positions (designated area of template rendered with custom fields); Management of positions for List and Details page template; editing in templates for Positions; assigning custom fields to positions; positions dinamically load the custom fields assigned in templates in the designated area.
• New Payments features: Listing Pricing per Category, New Payment Gateway Plugin: 2CheckOut.
• Improved Spam Protection: ReCaptcha (replacing old Captcha system), spoofing checking & tokenize forms, cloaking email joomla, smarty, recaptcha.
• New Custom Fields Management features: delete custom fields, validation for custom fields on front (number, email and URL).
• New Administration Settings: Googlemap configuration, System information, Smarty Cache management.
• Routing optimizations: faster (first time routing optimisations/route table for categories).
• Component structure optimization: details layout stays in the component now; details page ad title appears in breadcrumb; Model methods for loading ad, user; Improved logics in details Template: separate templates for user, gallery sections in elements/details/..
• User Interface optimizations: proper validations for Custom Field Adding; override 'Enable Category Page' if there are no categories; Overlib replace with mootools Tooltip.
• Coding optimisations: new Custom Field validate format (mysql,uniqueness), replace inefective JFactory:: calls with &JFactory::; remove JURI:root() in helper makeLinks; Query optimizations, etc.
• Fixed several issues including: model listing (Order by all types of listing featuring not just gold), YUI upgrade to 2.8.0RC4, transliterate some url parameters for SEF (regional chars); HTML issues in templates; HTMLSafeOutput for Ad content in editing page, Cancel add message fixed, CRON, TAGS cloud module, tooltip, CB, CRON, helper/route.php, JAdsPayment replaced with JTheFactoryPaymentController, Payment IPN, CB integration, etc.
  

Ads Factory 1.4.1 released on November 6, 2009. 

• Improved Payment.
• Fixed issues regarding SEF on categories, delete fields option, payment contact, end time, loose date on saving with other date format then default, clear editing session when new hit (after error edit ad is kept in session and deleted only when succesfully), delete files, models/adsman.php, pricing listing on tax and edit, etc.

Ads Factory 1.4.0 released on August 17, 2009. 

• New feature: Custom Fields for Ads and Users (if no CB usuage).
  
• New feature: Endless Subcategories Levels including module integration.
• New Category toolbar.
• New Gallery Plugin: YUI, Lyte.
• New Joomla Search Bot.
• Improved Commissions Plugin.
  
• Fixed issues regarding ItemID's, Install Kit, installing search plugin and plugins, ads post limit, pagination number; filter, navigation, ordering, metatags on categories; admin message on user profile, mails on report, show no map on ad when missing choordinates, help bullets, edit ad on admin if title with ", allowing non-logged users buying contact information, displaying blocked ads on search plugin, category selection issue, Joomfish language on front, ROOT constant, router, controller, helper, DB quote, etc. 
  

Ads Factory 1.3.5 released on May 21, 2009. 

• New feature: add new payment facilty and credits.
• New feature: delete message.
• New feature: category desciption for SEF.
• New feature: Captcha for messaging (enable/disable).
• New feature: listing in subcategories on filters.
• New feature: option for guest messaging.
• Fixed several issues including sorting js on normal listing and latest ads module listing, search after country and city with CB, reply function, price validation (ask price), some missing language constants, default task ACL, category names for listing (not just simply SEF generated), constant for ADS_ERR_USER_PROFILE_NOT_FILLED, public task missing:default report not public, User Detail POST vs. REQUEST, ACL under J!1.5.11, etc.
  

Ads Factory 1.3.0 released on April 16, 2009. 

• New feature: Multiple Payment Gateways. (Choose payment type if more then one enabled; new payment API can be created copying the files pay_paypal (or monebookers) and rename it to the new desired one (Ex. Google Checkout); replace the code for IPN, custom names, descriptions of payment name, logo. then proceed with the 2nd step by inserting the new payment in the paysystems table.)
• New feature: Moneybookers Payment Method. (Paypal was already avaialable starting with the first version).
• New feature: Extending classified feature.
• New feature: Limit of Ads (global limit/Low Priority, limit per user groups/Medium Priority, limit per users/High Priority).
• Fixed issues regarding: CB get profile inconsistency, start/end date editing issue, missing text definitions, Google Map issue with Firefox 3, Submission settings in admin issues for Chrome mainly, separated the Terms & Conditions saving from the general settings area (javascript Tiny MCE error in tabs generated in Firefox 3 and Chrome), action form, require image in backend, etc.

Ads Factory 1.1.0 released on March 6, 2009. 

• New feature: enable/disable messaging.
• Fixed issues regarding Missing/assign ItemId in list view links, in listing module, on redirects between tasks, user profile must be filled to add a new ad, hardcoded constants in backend, menu type component not url with default aliast.

Ads Factory 1.0.1 released on February 18, 2009.

• New feature: Start/End date editable in admin.
• Improved Private System; for private ads: if the pricing plugin contact is not enabled, user info and link are hidden and notice text is displayed, if the pricing plugin contact is enabled a link to user profile is displayed where the current user (if not the same user as the ads owner) will be noticed that he will be charged with credit if he chooses to continue to view the page or send to buy credit if he has no credit.
• Fixed issues regarding: name for addtype in template (it was add_type and it was not saved), JS Countdown possible issues for some browsers.

Ads Factory 1.0.0 released on January 25, 2009.

Screenshots

To see exatcly how it looks please check our Demo Site - to login for the frontend or backend, just click the login buttons available on the left side.

Screenshots are representing version 1.0.0 of Ads Factory.

Reviews

Customer Reviews:

Erik Folberth  (Friday, 23 January 2009)
Rating:
In recent years the term "classified advertising" or "classified ads" has expanded from merely the sense of print advertisements in periodicals to include similar types of advertising on computer services, radio, and even television, particularly cable television but occasionally broadcast television as well, with the latter occurring typically very early in the morning hours.

Like most forms of printed media, the classified ad has found its way to the Internet.

Internet classified ads do not typically use per-line pricing models, so they tend to be longer. They are also more readily searchable unlike their offline brethren, tend to be local, and may foster a greater sense of urgency as a result of their daily structure and wider scope for audiences.

ADS Factory is the easiest way to publish classified web ads.