Things I like to see on the next release.

[Jacob]

First of all let me congratulate you on a great release! Very easy to work with and very functional.

I've noticed a few problems my self:
1. In the admin panel, you can check multiple entries but you can't do anything with them.. you can only edit/delete one item at a time.
2. Log-Out sometime doesn't work properly.. most of the time it does but when it doesn't its a real hassle (had to delete cookies and stuff.. and I love cookies).
3. When uploading an image (or more than one), sometime at a certain size there's a php code error saying the resizing engine can't deal with it. This happens even when setting the size limit to accommodate the file in the admin area.

Here's something I'd really like to see:
Unregistered users should have the option to edit/delete their messages. Better if it can be done the same way as Gumtree/Craiglist.
I don't know any php but worked with logic and tried to copy and manipulate some code from the registered user edit page and the admin edit page. I had very limited success with that. What I've gathered is you can add a notification not just to validate the item, but to say it has been accepted into the website and to give a link containing the unique item id+it's s_secret so that the user can edit/delete his item.

If this can be done it would be awesome!

Thanks for all your efforts developing this code by the way, much appreciated!

[_CONEJO]

Hi Jacob!

Thanks for your comments, that's a lot of help.

1.- When you talk about "entries" which menu are you talking about? Item, pages, categories, languages? all of them. It's normal that you have to edit them one by one, but you should be able to delete/make premium/enable/... the selected ones in one step. Tell us which entries, so we could focus on that.

2.- We'll take a look at that. I have to go out today, but as soon as I have a free time I will open an issue ( or you could do that by yourself at http://issues.osclass.org ) and inform you how it's going.

3.- Same as point 2, we have to review that. Does it happen with some filetypes (jpg, png,...) or specific name file (maybe with special characters) ? Any help/information is welcome.


Exrta bonus.-
That was already planned. Not sure how gumtree/craiglist work, but we decided to let the user (anonymus) a reasonable amount of time to modify its ad. Of course that amount of time we'll be customizable. This will be included in the 1.1 release for sure, I don't know if this could make it to the monday version or the next one (we planned to release a package with the files on SVN each monday, that packages shouldn't but could be unstable). Anyway, we'll inform you about this.


Do you have any other suggestion? We really appreciate your help and ideas. Thanks!

[ljhelbo]

I noticed nummer 2 as well. I think the problem is, when a user logs in and makes a checkmark at "Remember me". I took a look at the file /oc/user.php under "case 'logout':". This option is actually carried out; but it seems as if the user is logged in again right away. Så to the user it looks as if the function does not work.

[Jacob]

Hi again,

It's good to hear it might be coming as soon as Monday. That's a really nice progress.

I take number 1 back - it does work, I was just a bit stupid apparently

I couldn't get the Google maps to work, aspecially not in a way it could show important info like streets. However, I managed to work around this. It's a bit random because I don't know PHP or any other coding language but I've figured that much and it's working flawlessly.. so you can just add this php section in the item.php under one of the themes.

<?
$string3=$item['s_region'];
$string2=$item['s_city'];
$string1=$item['s_address'];
$string= "$string1 $string2 $string3 ";
$address = urlencode($string);

echo "<a class=\"googlemap\" href=\"http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=$address&z=16&iwloc=addr\" target=\"_blank\">Show on the map</a>\n";
echo "\n";
?>

[_CONEJO]

3. When uploading an image (or more than one), sometime at a certain size there's a php code error saying the resizing engine can't deal with it. This happens even when setting the size limit to accommodate the file in the admin area.

I've been trying to reproduce this issue on my development machine. I couldn't make it fails, so I'm not sure why. Could you answer some questions?
1.- This happen always with the same image? (for example, it always fails with yourImage.png)
2.- Is with the same image extension? (if it always fails with png's or jpeg's or gif's...)
3.- Is your osclass installation in a diferent computer? (maybe I couldn't make it since the images are taken from the same computer as the development server, my local server).
4.- Does the filename have any especial characters? (symbols as /&%$·"!¿? ... )
5.- Does it somethign to do with the filesize? (Mb)

[_CONEJO]

Point 2 (loging out) and google Maps plugins, should be fixed now. Still investingating imageResizer issues and fixing minor bugs to keep it stable.

[Jacob]

OK, I'll try to answer the question. I didn't determine exactly when it happens but here's what I've figured so far.


1. If I upload one/multiple images that are under 1.5MB - Works OK
For files between 1.5 to 2 MB or more - If I upload one it works fine, when uploading a few (I think 3 or more), sometimes, not always I had this error showing up:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /home/content/c/o/n/.../html/gulu/oc-includes/osclass/classes/ImageResizer.php on line 38


2. All the files I tested were .jpg

3. Everything is sourced from the same computer, however I test everything online and the server is not on my computer.

4. Nope, Reguler IMG1701.JPG files

5. Yes, although I haven't yet determined when exactly it comes as a factor

[Flap]

At first I'd like to congratulate you to releasing OSClass and thank you to developing it.

1. I miss some important thing (at least for me important) like editing item atributes in administration. I'd like to be able to define only some countries from which users can choose. Also I need to choose which fields I want to disable and option to add own fields.

2. When I add more then one level of subcategories it didn't displays. I prefer more levels of subcategories.

3. I miss possibility of adding attachments like mp3 files.

Thats probably all.. Looking forward to next release.

[_CONEJO]

At first I'd like to congratulate you to releasing OSClass and thank you to developing it.

1. I miss some important thing (at least for me important) like editing item atributes in administration. I'd like to be able to define only some countries from which users can choose. Also I need to choose which fields I want to disable and option to add own fields.

2. When I add more then one level of subcategories it didn't displays. I prefer more levels of subcategories.

3. I miss possibility of adding attachments like mp3 files.

Thats probably all.. Looking forward to next release.

Hi! Thanks for your comment.
About 1.- Item editing in admin panel is already planned, you will see this feature added soon.
2.- Categories are fixed, they will make it on tomorrow release!
3.- As point 1, it's already planned. It will take a couple of weeks, but it's on our roadmap


*For adding your own custom fields I will suggesst you to make a plugin. It's not very complicated, but of course you need to have some basic PHP+MySQL knowledge, but we're working on solve that also.

Which fields are you interested in disable? and what are missing ?

Thanks!

[Flap]

At first I'd like to congratulate you to releasing OSClass and thank you to developing it.

1. I miss some important thing (at least for me important) like editing item atributes in administration. I'd like to be able to define only some countries from which users can choose. Also I need to choose which fields I want to disable and option to add own fields.

2. When I add more then one level of subcategories it didn't displays. I prefer more levels of subcategories.

3. I miss possibility of adding attachments like mp3 files.

Thats probably all.. Looking forward to next release.

Hi! Thanks for your comment.
About 1.- Item editing in admin panel is already planned, you will see this feature added soon.
2.- Categories are fixed, they will make it on tomorrow release!
3.- As point 1, it's already planned. It will take a couple of weeks, but it's on our roadmap


*For adding your own custom fields I will suggesst you to make a plugin. It's not very complicated, but of course you need to have some basic PHP+MySQL knowledge, but we're working on solve that also.

Which fields are you interested in disable? and what are missing ?

Thanks!

I miss fields like ICQ, Phone, Skype to make communication easier. Of course these are optional. I don't need disable any field at the moment but I thought It could be useful feature.

I don't have knowledge of PHP and MySQL so I can't make my own plugin probably same as I can't make theme. Are you planning to make new theme? Themes which are in this version are too much simple. I'd like to have something with side pannels with categories and place for adverts and in body place could be newest items. I know that you are busy right now but I'd like to know If you are planning something like this.

And I also think that there should be possibility to choose if you Sell, Buy or Exchange items.

[Juan Ramón]

I miss fields like ICQ, Phone, Skype to make communication easier. Of course these are optional. I don't need disable any field at the moment but I thought It could be useful feature.

I don't have knowledge of PHP and MySQL so I can't make my own plugin probably same as I can't make theme. Are you planning to make new theme? Themes which are in this version are too much simple. I'd like to have something with side pannels with categories and place for adverts and in body place could be newest items. I know that you are busy right now but I'd like to know If you are planning something like this.

And I also think that there should be possibility to choose if you Sell, Buy or Exchange items.

We didn't think about "sell, buy or exchange items" and it's important. How would do you use it? As a item field or as a category?

In the near future we want to have a complete theme, adding widgets so people that don't know about php could customize the theme. In addition, we have planned a plugin for advertisements: http://issues.osclass.org/browse/OSCLASS-102

[Flap]

Sell, Buy and Exchange option should be roll down menu or tick boxes and when you use exchange option price field should be blocked. Especially for me is that option important.

Also options like country and region could be roll down menus and options could be edited through administration. So you could let post item only people from certain countries or regions.

Will you ask users to tell you how they imagine complete theme? It could be useful same as this topic. When are you planning to release complete theme?

[Flap]

Another useful feature I'd like to see in next release is option to put your item on the top of the latest items list. This feature could be only for registred users. After 24 hours they could be able to edit/update their item which could put it on the first place in the newest list. Thanks to this feature it's easier to imagine which items are still actual.
If you make this feature, there should be another connected to this. Items wouldn't be deleted after time set in administration but after certain time from the last edit/update. I know that it's quite complicated but I think it's great feature.

[_CONEJO]

@Flap

Countries and regions are now a roll down menú, not sure which version are you using. In the next release countries, regions and cities could be edited in admin panel (it's already on the SVN).

Yes, will ask the users, or you could start a new topic on the forum. Since none of us is a designer, we didn't spend so much time with themes. We're focus right now in functionalities, themes should be able to use them.


We planned a "premium ad" feature. That's, users could pay a fee to have their ad as "premium". Premium ads will show on top of the list or wherever you want. Not sure if that is the same feature as you describe.

Items are not deleted, they just simply don't show on the list (but the URL will still works) after the specified time, usefull to avoid years-old ads for example. In the future we could make them to take the last edition date as the date to count for expiring it.



Any more ideas?

[Flap]

To _CONEJO

Premium ads aren't exactly same thing I meant. It's also good feature but I thought that premium ads will be displayed on another place than standart ads (for example as thumbnail right after site logo or in the side panel called Premium ads).

Feature I meant is for usual registred users. If you place ad it is on the top of the list but after few days it is replaced by newer ads. Some item can be sold earlier than item which was placed later so you don't exactly know which of them are still actual. Because of that I wanted to make feature that we can call ,,Ad update''. This feature could allow user to edit his ad for example after 48 hours and put it again on the first place of the list like it was new ad. Thanks to this feature you could avoid to duplicate items which users make because they want to let another user know that their ad is still actual.

I have no good english but I hope I explained it. If you still don't get what I meant tell me and I will explain it on the picture