Open Classifieds 2.0. Beta 1

Hello!

Open Classifieds started 4 years a go as a personal project for classifiedsbarcelona.com, I remember releasing the code and getting hundreds of downloads! Truth to be told I never expected such success. We’ve been releasing updates with new features kind of often been the biggest change done this summer with 1.8.x. But since long a go we know that the way OC was developed made it difficult to extend it as much as we wanted and was making the life difficult not only to us but to other people. Since last summer, that I quited my regular job established a company and I started to plan what I wanted for OC, It’s really difficult to fulfill the wishes of everybody so we did what we thought was most useful for us and hopefully for you. Since December I hired 2 employees and with a team of 3 working full time to keep current version + support + 2.0. development. It’s been really tough…My team and I are really proud of the work we did and still there’s plenty of bugs and room for improvement.

Well today it’s my Birthday (29yo) and I thought best way I could celebrate is to release the work of the last 6 months…guys seriously we’ve been working really hard on this, so I hope you like it. And give us as much feedback as possible!

Also remember we still an Open Source project and it’s for free, we only earn from our products (we don’t earn at all xD) so please even if it’s just as a donation purchase ;).

[section_title]What’s new[/section_title]

• CMS to create pages, emails
• Pay to feature ad, or to bump to first page
• Easier admin, with drag and drop locations & categories
• Widgets drag and drop and multiple sidebars support
• Public users profile
• New orders to see payment statements
• Simpler configuration system
• Users roles and ACL
• Allow users to login from a Email Link
• New Ad field, website.
• Contact an Ad can include an attachment like a CV for example.

[section_title]New Technology[/section_title]

• Kohana PHP framework
• Model View Controller structure
• New MySQL model based on MyISAM
• Extendable Themes
• Make widgets in 5 minutes
• Google maps v3
• Twitter Bootstrap based

[section_title]How to Install[/section_title]

• Download Beta 1
• Unpack
• Run the installation in http://yourdomain.com/install/
• Follow the steps
• Login in admin, create some categories and locations
• Working!

[section_title]Upgrade 1.7.x/1.8.x to 2.0[/section_title]

• Create a backup of your files and DB
• Download Beta 1
• Delete all files except folder /images/
• Uncompress and upload files
• Run the installation at http://yourdomain.com/
• Follow the steps
• Choose a different Database or use a different table prefix, we recommend using oc2_
• Got to the admin for migration of data http://yourdomain.com/oc-panel/tools/migration
• Put the details of your old DB connection
• Please wait can take a while…
• Enjoy ;)

[section_title]To do before stable release[/section_title]

• Translations. Main languages, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian…
• Fix bugs, please report them here or in the comments of this post.
• Finish all the premium themes + theme selector
• Improve texts and tooltips text in admin
• More widgets!
• We need your help! please check here

[section_title]Professional customers[/section_title]

Paid customers with premium themes, please wait we will migrate all the themes, currently working on Kamaleon and Responsive themes.

If you buy the PRO version you get free upgrade to 2.0. that would cost $99 so hurry and buy now! ;)

[section_title]Download[/section_title]
We ask for your name and email to keep you posted of further developments. I hope you understand.

UPDATE 2013/5/9 We updated the demo so now is using the release candidate 1!

• Demo available here
• user: [email protected] pwd: 1234
• If you want to test you can use free hosting here. Warning really slow.