Related categories and links may be important for user navigation between categories and other URLs on related topics.
When there is another category in your website that would be of interest to the visitors to your category, but would not make a logic...
You can try to enable PHP mailer authenticating through SMTP at the
bottom of this page:
Admin Area -> Application Setup -> Advanced Setup
Here are the steps required:
1/ Change "Method to send mail" to "SMTP Server"
2/ Specify SMTP Host/Port
...
To make all the existing user accounts expire on 31 Dec 2037 you can run the following query from Admin Area -> SQL Command
(assuming "ec4_" is the tables prefix you use):
UPDATE ec4_user SET exp_date=FROM_UNIXTIME(2145823200),
hw_pay_plan="[SUB_FR...
Yes, all non-automatic payments like Cash, Money Order, Check payments, etc. can be registered via Admin Area -> Transactions -> REGISTER PAYMENT
If member has already provided certain information during his initial registration and has to provide that information all over again when he is placing the ad, there is a way to eliminate the need to have customer provide the information twice.
Just...
Yes, in Admin Area -> Application Setup at the bottom you can find option "User must be logged in" and [category-specific] link.
An error like this typically means that the file associated with that particular database table is damaged
(MySQL errno: 145 Can't open file ec3_ad.MYI).
You can repair the table in one of the following ways:
1/ Through Esvon Classifieds Admin A...
No, but we have live examples of quite large websites.
By now (January 2005) one our customer has website with over 85,000 listings running and it is working great.
If you do not need any other languages on site, just one - no need to purchase multilanguage module in this case.
The following is true for Esvon Classifieds v3.0.797 or later.
1/ For listing details page you can insert into details.htm template
(in Admin Area -> Templates, after the necessary fieldset selection)
these tags (for example) :
2/ For each category you ...
To add new chained select field (e.g. make/model, state/city, etc) you may want to follow these steps :
1/ go to Admin Area -> Manage Fieldsets -> Field Manager
and select the fieldset in which you would like to create dependent
drop-down menu (chain...
If you have Apache server you can place .htaccess file into /admin/
directory (or its renamed equivalent) with the following lines (use
your directory name instead of /admin/ if you renamed it).
If .htaccess file already exists you can add these lin...
Since build 4.0.12 in Esvon Classifieds you can configure automatic creation of title field using the other listing fields. For example, it can be "Year Make Model" for cars.
1) In Admin Area -> Manage Fieldsets click "edit" fields for the fieldset you...
Some performance tuning and optimization tips can be found here.
File to restore Admin Area access details to default adm / adm
is "admin_restore.php" and it can be found in "upgrades/" directory
Please copy this file into script dir (where index.php resides),
run it from browser and delete after this
"Ad Priority Ranking" options can be configured in Admin Area -> Ad Extras. You may want to enable "Ad Priority Ranking" extra option offering to allow "Better Placement" feature and to be able to charge your users for it.
Priority Ranking affects the or...
In Admin Area -> Application Setup you can check off option "Allow certain HTML tags in textarea/htmlarea controls ?"
Please make this file writable for web server (chmod it to 666 - for Unix/Linux, make it writable from IIS console - for Windows).
Please re-check your files/dirs permissions - they have to be set as explained at /docs/readme.txt file.
If you have any technical issues or questions regarding your product, you can contact our Customer Care representatives via HelpDesk. To help to expedite your request we ask that you complete as much information as possible. The quality and timeliness of ...
Usually on shared hosting servers there's a max connections limit per database. If it goes over that concurent amount, then you would receive "Too many connections" error.
Please ask your hosting provider to find out the reason.
This problem may occur if you remove "Title" field from your fieldset.
Quoting docs/fieldsets.txt file :
"'v_title' database field must be present and defined in each fieldset as Ad Title"
Please add 'v_title' text field in Admin Area -> Manage Fie...
Probably you have created a copy of blocks file (block-Something.php) near the original block file. Rename this copy to have ".bak" extension for example (at least not ".php") and clear cache in Admin Area -> Application Setup -> Performance Setup.
The only difference is that Real Estate edition has preconfigured ad fields for Real Estate, regular classifieds has 5 preconfigured fieldsets (Real Estate, Autos, Personals, Announcements, Jobs).
So just order regular classifieds - you can make Real E...
We have included basic sitemap functionality recently, the URL to it is
http://www.example.com/index.php?page=sitemap
(replace www.example.com with your domain name)
If a user specifies incorrect login or password, the user is rejected.
Then if the user tries again with valid login and password quickly, the user is refused again.
This is brute-force login attack protection.
In Admin Area -> Application Setup -> A...
If you have many categories (hundreds, thousands) and your classifieds software version is 4.0.11 or less,
run the following SQL statements from Admin Area -> SQL Command
(replace "ec4_" with your tables prefix):
ALTER TABLE ec4_category DROP INDEX n...
We describe software directories here to help you better understand software structure and to obtain certain basis for software customizing if you are interested in it.
"admin/" - for php files handling Admin Area functionality
"cron/" - ...
Front-end displaying results are cached for best performance.
In Admin Area -> Application Setup -> Performance Setup
you can specify "Cache expiration time, minutes"
As your website grows, switching to MySQL full-text search can be beneficial for database performance improvement.
It will certainly have a noticeable effect if you have dozens of thousands of listings.
You may want to read documentation covering MySQ...
Thats a php error caused by php trying to send header information after output to the browser has already started.
This can be caused by an extra line at the top (before php opening tag - <?php) or at the end (after closing php tag - ?>) of inc/...
To make sure your website doesn't have obvious vulnerabilities, we highly recommend you to perform vulnerability audit,
such as offered by McAfee (Step 3 - web application scan),
see URL http://www.mcafeesecure.com/us/technology-scan.jsp
If you will ...
There are different fields because either 'email' or 'username' can be used as 'login' depending on website configuration.
In Admin Area -> Application Setup you can specify which field (email or username) should be used for login purposes
The 'banned_ip' table was renamed to 'ip' in newer versions of Esvon Classifieds. This table is used for hits/votes counting so as not to count hits/votes from the same IP address during the day (time is specified in Admin Area).
It is filled when people...
Since Esvon Classifieds build 4.0.12 you can enable template hints in templates as comments.
In Admin Area -> Application Setup -> Advanced Setup you can enable "Display HTML template hints ?" option and view source code of website front-end after p...
If "Editable" is set to "Hidden", it means field value can be entered once at "Place Ad" page and it will be not displayed at "Modify Ad" page later. It may be useful for
one-time question fields like "How you found us ?" (in user profile) and similar wh...
The session id gets attached to every internal link url only for the first web page of a session, then it disappears. This behaviour can be changed starting from php 4.3.0 - please insert into inc/application.php file after hwSessionInit() the following l...
The MySQL full-text search capability has some user-tunable parameters.
For example, MySQL doesn't index small words (length 3 or less) by default.
The minimum word length to be indexed is controlled by a server
variable (ft_min_word_len), i. e. th...
Please see Admin Area -> General Setup.
"Enable ads exp. date" must be checked on not to display expired ads for site visitors.
If you use HTML pages generation the expired ads will be not displayed after the next HTML pages generation.
MySQL connection settings are located in inc/application.php file
It seems your hosting account disk quota is exceeded.
Please check your hosting allowed disk space and increase it or delete unnecessary files.
If you are a registered license owner, you have to obtain license file from Esvon Customer Area
( http://www.esvon.com/members/ ) and upload it as instructed there.
You will not see 'demo version' links if license file is uploaded and the software is...
To avoid listing expiration date displaying in User Area,
in Admin Area -> Application Setup option
"Users can modify listing exp. date?" should be unchecked.
In Admin Area -> Price Plans for SUB (membership) plans
make sure "User can update listings ...
We don't offer phone support for many reasons :
- to keep costs and thus the end software price affordable;
- it's too hard to keep track of phone messages over the time;
- ticket system allows us to focus on fixing problems instead of answering the ...
If you have category specific listing fields (if you use more than 1 fieldset for your categories), different categories will have different searchable fields.
In this case at "Advanced Search" page you should select certain category to display searcha...
For the start, you can turn on/off MySQL full-text search in Admin Area -> Application Setup -> Advanced Setup
(option named "Use MySQL full-text search capabilities for Keywords Search").
MySQL full-text search technique works best with large colle...
This problem is rare and happens due to MySQL collations settings.
Try to find out if your database/tables are set to utf8_bin or other collation (via phpMyAdmin or ask hosting provider). Any collation that ends in "_bin" or "_cs" is case sensitive. ...
We always recommend to use the latest stable MySQL version. There are enough things that run faster on MySQL 4.x and later versions (query cache if enabled, SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS option, full-text indexing, more efficient SQL syntax in some cases, etc), ou...
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