Appearance options
In order to setup the global system options for your classifieds system, you will need to login to your System Administrator account. You may login by clicking "Login" on the top menu of your classifieds. After you are logged in, you will be presented with the user account screen. On the left hand menu, you should see a link labeled "System Admin". Clicking this link will take you to the admin control panel.
When you enter the admin control panel, you will see a list of links in the left hand column. This section of the manual deals with the "Manage Appearance" section of your control panel. After clicking the "Manage Appearance" link, you will be presented with the global system settings for your classifieds.
Only System Admininistrators are able to view this section of the admin panel.
There are several different settings on this screen, which will control the overall appearance of the classifieds.
HTML content
The page header and page footer sections will allow you to place HTML content into your classifieds. For instance if you wanted to place a menu system at the top of your classifieds, you would place that HTML into the box presented. Through the use of these two boxes, you are able to wrap content all the way around the classifieds, making it appear seemless with your existing web site. For more information on how to wrap content around the classifieds, please click here.
You may also opt to instruct the classifieds to load an external HTML or PHP file to use as the header/footer. This is done by entering
"file:/physical/path/on/server/to/the/filetorun.php"
into the header box. You must enter the physical path, and not the url to the file in order for this to work. If you are unsure of the physical path, you may either ask your host, or view the connect.php file and look for the $insPath variable which contains the physical path to where the classifieds are installed.
Display Options
To set the overall width of the application, enter either a pixel amount (such as "750") or a percentage (such as "95%") into the "Page width" box.
The classifieds system allows you to display panels on the top and bottome of the categories/listings sections of the index page. Using the "Optional Panel" selectors will allow you to choose which panels, if any, you would like to display. If you choose a panel which is "rotating", it will refresh itself to display new listings every 5-10 seconds.
Using the columns selectors, you can choose how many columns you would like to present the categories and listings in on the index pages.
The setting labeled "Display subcats under categories" will allow you to display up to 3 randomly chosen subcategories to be displayed as links under the category itself
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"Yes" Example: Category name (10/230) This is the category description... Sub-cat2,Sub-cat3,Sub-cat1 |
"No" Example: Category name (10/230) This is the category description... |
To remove the counts which are normally shown after a category title (as in the examples above), turn the "Show ads/subcats counts" selector to no.
You have the same type of control over which information is displayed for an ad on the index, search and recent pages. If you do not wish to display something such as the date the ad was added, or locatino information for the ad, simply uncheck the box next to the display item and it will not appear on your classifieds listings.
CSS coloration
The last section of this portion of your admin panel, deals with the colorization/fonts for your directory. BosDirectory utilizes CSS to setup all of the colors, and text generated by the directory. If you are not familiar with CSS, you may read more about it at the official home for CSS, http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/. You may make changes to your CSS definitations in the box provided, or copy/paste your definitations into an external CSS editor to make changes there. You are more than free to ADD additional CSS definitations to this box, but do not REMOVE any of the definitations.