Release notes

NEW: New field in the custom list form: 'Cache'. The content of the custom lists can be cached on the server and this way, pages that contain custom lists can load much faster!

NEW: New fields in the custom list form to make the lists “category-context specific”! E.g. if a user is just under the Cars category, a featured list can display the featured cars and when the user is just under the Dating category, it contains the featured dating ads.

CHG: The order of the 'Advanced search' and the 'Category search' sections have been reversed in the search forms.

FIX: Some custom list related bugfixes

FIX: The info texts won't get stuck any more - not even on sites where registered_globals is on

FIX: Fixing the positioning of the 'Extra HTML footer'

FIX: Fixing some design misalignment in case of 'right to left' languages

FIX: Some custom list related bugfixes

NEW: 'Featured ads' lists. Check out in the demo how cool it can be: http://noahsclassifieds.org/v8rss/

NEW: Besides the 'Featured ads', admin can set up any number of custom advertisement lists

NEW: The custom lists can be automatically displayed on various areas of the Noah's pages

NEW: Two custom list styles: normal and scrollable widget. The scrollable widgets can even be set to scroll automatically

NEW: The custom ad lists feature also provides a possibility for admin to save the most frequently used searches. An arbitrarily complicated search condition can be assigned to every custom list.

NEW: Possibility to assign menu points to the custom fields through which they can be displayed

CHG: The 'My ads', 'Recent ads', 'Popular ads' and 'Pending ads' lists are from now on amongst the pre-configured custom ad lists. This way, you can change their properties with the same flexibility the custom ad lists provide,

NEW: Possibility to specify the columns, the column order, the default sorting and the maximum number of ads displayed in every custom ad list

NEW: New custom field property: 'Scope'. Now, you can set some (or all) of the fields to “common”. The common fields exist in every category and they make it possible that you can display more columns even in the non-category specific custom ad lists, or search result lists

NEW: The 'Picture' and the 'Media file' fields are now also searchable. E.g. one can search for ads that has a picture uploaded.

NEW: 'Control panel' for admin. Most of the admin menu points have been moved on to the Control panel page - the rest of the admin menu is now much shorter

NEW: Internationalization improvements (see the documentation: http://www.noahsclassifieds.org/documentation/translation)

NEW: Internationalization of the template files,

NEW: A workaround to internationalize the most important texts of the database content. E.g. category names and descriptions, custom field names, descriptions, select field options, custom list titles, etc.

NEW: Besides the 'Language direction' property in the Settings form, it is also possible to put the language direction in the language files

NEW: Arabic support

NEW: Improved German support,

NEW: New setting in the category form: 'Restart expiration on modify' - this is an alternative of the ad prolonging. If checked and the owner modifies his or her ad, the ad expiration will start again.

NEW: User based RSS feeds: from the details page of a user, one can subscribe to the RSS feed of the ads of the given user

CHG: If one leaves all the search conditions blank, an empty search result list will be displayed (instead of displaying all the ads)

CHG: Clicking on an image in the ad list opens the ad details page instead of opening the full sized image

FIX: The bug has been fixed that the owners couldn't delete their ads,

FIX: A sorting bug in the custom field list has been fixed,

FIX: A date column related bug in the search result lists has been fixed,

FIX: Subscribed users got notifications even after the pending ads

FIX: An expiration related bug that made it possible for ads to expire under some special circumstances even if expiration was already disabled in the category

FIX: A sorting bug in 3.0.0 has been fixed,

FIX: The 'Ads of this user' field has been added to the custom fields of the users

FIX: Some bugfixes

NEW: All fields of the ads can be handled amongst the custom fields - even the fixed fields! This way, the order and several properties of the 'Category', 'Created', 'Status', 'Views', 'Responses', 'Owner' and 'Expiration' fields can be set in a manner that is uniform with that of all the other custom fields.

NEW: Admin can add custom fields to the Users, too, through a link in the header of the user list. E.g. this way, the registration form and the user profile can be extended with fields like 'First name', 'Last name', 'City', 'Country, 'State', 'Zip code', 'Picture', etc.

NEW: With all the custom fields that can be added to the users, the user details page can look like the ad details pages and all the display formatting options that are available to “design” an ad details page, are now available for the user details page, too! E.g. the pictures of the user can be displayed on the right, you can place fields below and above the pictures block, etc. Check out our site demo for examples!

NEW: Just like in case of the ad fields, the users have fixed fields, too. E.g. 'Name', 'Email', etc. These fields appear in the custom field list of the users and you can change their order and many of their properties.

NEW: Besides creating normal ad custom fields, you have the option to select the user fields for display besides the normal ad fields! This way, the fields of the owner of an ad can be displayed directly in either the ad list or on the ad details page. E.g. you can add the phone number of the owner of the ad to the ad details page. Or if you have a custom 'Zip code' user field, you can display it, too. Moreover, if you specify the Zip code as 'Searchable', users will be able to search for ads by zip code!

NEW: User search feature. The User search form appears below the ad search form if you enable it in the Settings form.

NEW: If you add user fields to the ad custom fields, it is possible to search for ads by the fields of their owners! E.g. searches based on ad locations will be possible.

NEW: Advanced operations on the whole list of custom fields of a category (appears under the custom field list): you can delete all custom fields of a category at once, you can clone all the custom fields of a category into the sub categories, you can clone them into selected categories, or you can clone the custom field list of an other category into this one!

NEW: A category “clone” feature has been added to the 'Category organizer' that makes a copy of a category with all its properties and custom fields

NEW: Improved category organizer page: direct links to modify, delete and clone the categories, as well as to view their custom fields,

NEW: In case of more than 100 categories, pagination will be applied on the category organizer page. Categories can be dragged from one page and dropped to an other one,

NEW: Turkish, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese language support

NEW: Possibility to define the number of columns the checkboxes of a checkbox type custom field are displayed in,

NEW: Extending the search feature with the possibility of searching by multiple selection and checkbox fields

NEW: Improved search result listing: if all the search results are ads of the same category, then the search result listing will contain all the category specific columns,

NEW: handling of non-existent URLs and the possibility of defining a 404 error page

NEW: More flexible options to who the 'Add to favorities' and 'Auto notify' feature is enabled for. E.g. It can be specified in the Settings form so that the 'Add to favorities' feature is enabled only for the logged in users.

NEW: Custom field enhancement: in case of a Checkbox type field, the number of columns it will be displayed can be specified, too.

NEW: Search form enhancement: ads and users can also be searched by Checkbox and Multiple selection type fields

CHG: The layout customization properties have been moved from the Settings form into the new Content form

CHG: The visibility control of the user's Email, 'Remember password' and 'Password reminder' fields has been moved from the Settings form to the corresponding user custom field.

CHG: The 'Main site' menu point of the Joomla bridged Noah's installation can be configured in the Settings form,

CHG: The 'Language direction' property has been added to the Settings form,

FIX: A pager tool bug has been fixed

FIX: Sending out notifications in UTF-8 character encoding

FIX: Several bugfixes

NEW: Possibility to change the order of categories and reorganize them completely with an drag-and-drop interface. (RSS version only)

NEW: Advanced HTML editors are applied in fields that serve to add HTML content instead of simple textareas. Preview and instant save features in them.

NEW: Two more new fields to add custom HTML content in the Settings form (paid versions only)

NEW: New field in the category form: 'Only admin can submit ad in this category'

NEW: More flexible ad expiration handling: expiration times can be overridden per ad. Even by the owner of the ad if enabled! (Only in the paid versions)

NEW: Display formatting possibilities have been added to the number type custom fields. Prefix, precision, precision- and thousands separator. E.g. this way, currency values can be properly displayed and still sorted as numbers!

NEW: Dutch language file update

NEW: Hungarian language file update

CHG: Applying different 'from' and 'reply to' addresses in the 'reply to this post' and 'send to a friend' notifications

CHG: Is someone has already registered with an email address, none can register again with the same address. Also, the valid format of the email address is now checked during the registration.

FIX: Pending ads are not displayed in the RSS feeds any more

FIX: The 'Mandatory' setting works for the Picture and Media type fields, too.

FIX: If a custom field was deleted, ad submission got disabled in the given category

FIX: A sorting bug has been fixed

NEW: Possibility to add spam protection (CAPTCHA) to the most vulnerable forms

NEW: Additional customization possibilities of the placement of ad fields on the ad details page

NEW: Texarea fields can have a default value, too

NEW: Possibility to hide the label of a custom field on the ad details page

NEW: Possibility to display fields in the right side bar of the ad details panel either above or below the picture field

NEW: Make fields only visible for admin in the ad create/modify form

NEW: Make fields only visible for either only admin, only the owner of the ad, or only for logged in users on the ad details page

NEW: Possibility to hide the email address from the user details page

CHG: Security improvement: moving almost all the program files from the installation root into the htaccess-protected app directory

CHG: Security improvement: inserting a check in the header of all php files that prohibits their direct execution

CHG: Security improvement: possibility to move config.php out of the web space of the server

CHG: Improving the usability of the custom fields form

CHG: The doctype of the template files has been changed to HTML from XHTML

CHG: The custom field that is denoted as the KEYWORDS field can be displayed on the ad details page, too

FIX: Fixing some expiration time related bugs

FIX: Empty ads were created when one clicked on Submit too fast in the Submit ad form

FIX: The Date type custom field can be mandatory, too

FIX: Display length limit in lists works also for text type custom fields

FIX: UTF-8 support in the RSS feeds

CHG: Complete Spanish language files added,

FIX: The Max number of characters a post can have-feature has been fixed and works now

FIX: The “ad approved” notification didn't show the ad title: fixed

FIX: The manual update didn't updated the version number in the database: fixed

FIX: A colspan bug in the ad list fixed

FIX: This is just a bugfix release. The RSS links were unclickable in 2.2.0.

NEW: Multi language support added with 14 languages, For more info, see: http://www.noahsclassifieds.org/documentation/translation

NEW: New fields have been added to the Settings form to support the customization of the header and footer area of the pages and the HEAD section,

NEW: Admin can specify whether the owner of the ads appears in the ad lists and on the details pages

CHG: Merging the Change password form into the My profile form, in order to save some place in the menu bar

CHG: Slightly changing the layout of the header section of the modern theme, so that the new language selector can also fit and that the main menu bar doesn't obscure the logo in languages where the menu labels are not so short as in English,

CHG: The Help menu point of the admin interface now points to the new Noah's documentation: http://www.noahsclassifieds.org/documentation

FIX: Inactive ads will not be displayed any more in the http://www.yourdomain.com/list/username kind of ad listings,

FIX: Several improvements and fixes in handling the default values of custom fields

NEW: Improved update process - manual updates will be also possible besides the automatic one

NEW: An update.php script has been added and it is capable to convert an existing Noah's Classifieds 1.3, or 1.3.1 installation to the latest 2.1.2 version

FIX: The URL in the reply to posting notification points to the ad itself now,

FIX: The from and reply to address of the mail to a friend notification is fixed to the sender of the notification,

FIX: Ampersands bugs in ad and category titles have been fixed

CHG: It is possible to specify an email address for the admin user under My Profile now. Without admin having an email address, users couldn't use the Reply to this ad button on ads that have been created by admin! (More precisely: they could use it, but admin can't get the notification mail obviously)

FIX: The missing Recent ads and Popular ads buttons have been restored,

FIX: The bug that prevented the Settings form from proper saving after an automatic update to 2.1.0 has been fixed,

FIX: The CC possibility of Notifications has been fixed

NEW: Move ads: possibility to move ads into other categories which have a “compatible” custom field setup.

NEW: Password reminder

NEW: Possibility to change the date format

NEW: It is now customizable whether the ad creation date and the time left until expiration is displayed in lists and on the ad details pages

NEW: The favorities feature, the password reminder and the remember password feature can be disabled from the admin interface

NEW: Automatic updates: the program can check for updates periodically

NEW: Automatic installation: the program can be installed automatically without using the install wizard. This can be particularly useful for hosting companies who want to integrate Noah's into their packages.

CHG: Improved Update page

FIX: Fixes of the Media type custom field

FIX: Several other bugfixes

NEW: Basic content management possibilities added

CHG: Those template files that are the same in all themes have been moved into the themes/common_templates directory

FIX: Picture display bug fixed in the classic view of item details pages

FIX: Bugfix in the Settings modify form

NEW: Feature added that admin can update Noah's to the latest version from the admin interface

FIX: Reply to this ad and Email this ad to a friend buttons have been fixed on the ad details pages.

FIX: Picture display of the classic theme on the ad details pages has been fixed,