Noah's Classifieds
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- SureLurksalot
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Anyone mess with Noah's Classifieds much?
It could really use a facelift as the stock install just looks disgusting... Mostly it's just the colors, the giant powered by message and donate link in the footer.
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Anyone know of any good customization links?
I looked around on the developers site: classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/index.php
It seems the forum is no longer there.
So I took a look here at the faq : classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/faq.php
And also here
GTEK: www.gotgtek.com/forum/index.php?board=14.0
But really can't find any really good guides to customizing it.
I found the CSS sheet, the images, and some other stuff and am working on them right now, but if anyone knows of a good guide to completely chopping this component apart please post a link for me as I would like to overhaul this ugly duckling......THANKS!! - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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- Stephen O Connor
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I have it on one site where it kind of works with the exisiting color scheme.
I have done quite a bit of hacking to work color schemes though. I use Firefox extensions Colorzilla and Web Developer for clues and information and just go at hacking away. I'm not the most experienced, so a lot has been hit and miss. I use colorzilla to find the hex code of a color I want to change. Then I grab the appropriate file via ftp into my text html editor and search for that color and look at the surrounding code. I apply a change and upload it. If it doesn't work I undo the change and keep looking.
Over time, I'm getting better at it and more accurate. I have a Frogfire site in which I have hacked Coppermine, Moodle, Squirrelmail and a few extensions to keep the look pretty consistent.
Steve
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- SureLurksalot
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Well here it is all hacked upon
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This is installed on a site I have been playing with Youyou's carbonation variant on (that I probably won't finish untill next year :-[)
The coolest thing to me about how it turned out is when I use the color switcher the noah's links change too.(categories/home/register/recent ads etc.)
I have done quite a bit of hacking to work color schemes though. I use Firefox extensions Colorzilla and Web Developer for clues and information and just go at hacking away. I'm not the most experienced, so a lot has been hit and miss. I use colorzilla to find the hex code of a color I want to change. Then I grab the appropriate file via ftp into my text html editor and search for that color and look at the surrounding code. I apply a change and upload it. If it doesn't work I undo the change and keep looking.
Yes Stephen I really love those Firefox Extensions.....been using them for quite some time and they have been such wonderfull tools in my box of web-dev goodies....don't know how I got along without them before...
Oh I almost forgot! To get rid of the huge "donate" and "powered by" in the footer of noah's just open up template.php read the comments and around line 96 to line 114 just edit away to your hearts content! see below
// Creates the footer // This footer can be removed or modified function templateShowVersionFooter() { global $gorumglobalstat,$lll; $s=""; $s.=vertSpacer(); $s.="<center><span class='powfooter'>Powered by ". "<a href='http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/' class='powfooter'>". "Noah's Classifieds</a> "; $s.=str_replace("_", ".", $gorumglobalstat->instver); $s.=" - <a href='http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/donate.php'". " class='powfooter'>Donate Noah's Classifieds</a>"; $s.="</span></center>"; $s.="<center><span class='powfooter'>Mambo integration by ". "<a href='http://www.davidmckinnisconsulting.com/' class='powfooter'>". "David McKinnis Consulting, LLC</a>"; $s.="</span></center>"; return $s; - Last Edit: 18 years 7 months ago by .
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- Raymond Basso
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I could be wrong but the last time I checked Noah's Classified is no longer supported by the people who wrote it. It is listed in Security Focus Bugtraq as having many vulnerabilites.
http://search.securityfocus.com/swsearch?query=noah%27s+classifieds&sbm=%2F&submit=Search%21&metaname=alldoc&sort=swishrank
and I would not use it. I had it on one web site and pulled it over a year ago. Use at your own risk.
Ray
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- SureLurksalot
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Ray Thanks for the heads up!! Security of 3rd party components should always be of gravest concern and taken most seriously.
Ray I may be wrong also but I thought that these issues were addressed by David McKinnis www.davidmckinnisconsulting.com/joom/ind...w&id=2&Itemid=3 ; in the newest release of noah's.
I am not sure about Noah's standalone version.
From the bugtracker page on Sourceforge regarding security:Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in Noah Classifieds. The full report can be found here www.kapda
.ir/advisory-268.html.
The first issue - path disclosure - is not a problem in the Noah Component. The other problems are issues in the
component.
Comment:
These vulnerabilities have been fixed.
Additionally, I believe there were some future vulnerabilities because of poor handling of settings. A set of lines in gorum/constants.php checked
global variables and if they were already set, would not change them. It seems reasonably possible if register_globals is on, for a malicious person
to change those settings and perhaps affect the program. I have fixed those lines so the values are always set internally so setting them by GET or
POST doesn't override the values.
I am using the Noah's Joomla Component found here: forge.joomla.org/sf/frs/do/viewSummary/projects.noah/frs
But I am also not yet using it on a live production site either, it is only on my testing site.
When I find some more time in the next few weeks I will research this some more just to make absolutely sure it's "safe"
Once again THANKS for the heads up!! - Last Edit: 18 years 7 months ago by .
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- Raymond Basso
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It may very well be OK. Maybe the developer patched up the holes in it. I see that it's listed on the Joomla extension site. It also is not on the Joomla bad list. I would just be careful with it. I have always felt that Joomla's big weakness is the modules and components that people make. I hardly ever use any of them. I tend to trust the ones I have to pay for more than the free ones.
Ray
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- Franck
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Peter, you made a good work with this customization of Noah!
I see in the screenshot that you use it with carbonation and without right or left colunm. I also use Noah with carbonation and I have 2 issues:
First with the font of all the page. Seems that Noah's CSS change the size of all the links in the page, including the menus, to bigger font :-\
The second issue is when I log into my account. The Noah's table become bigger than the main page and the content is wider than the rest. I need to use Noah without right or left colunm to fix the problem but I would like to find another solution.
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- SureLurksalot
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Franck if I remember right when I was customising this I also had trouble with the table size of Noahs "blowing out" my template. I solved this by reducing the size of my images for the main Categories and the noahs table decreased in both width and hieght, but I still had to publish it "alone" without right or left modules. Because I plan on keeping my default width to "thin" in template index.php
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I dont recall having any troubles with my font sizes however.
Is your default font size in your carbonation template index.php set at larger perhaps?
See code:$default_font = "default"; // smaller | default | larger
I could not reproduce the font issue however....If theres anything else you could tell me about it I would be glad to try and help....
When I get some more time I was planning on messing with noah's table sizes so that I could use it with this template with right or left modules published and make it work in template "wide" or template "thin" .... Just haven't had enough time yet.... - Last Edit: 18 years 7 months ago by .
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- Franck
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Thanks a lot Peter for your help!
The setting for the font size is "default" in my site and I really don't know exactly why I have this issue. However, I need more time too look in the Noah's file and try to understand.
The other issue is only when I log into my account like a member and the main categorie increase in both widht and height ??? If I'm not logged in the account, the main categorie size is good... It is for this reason that I have Noah without colunm.
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- Andy Kimmell
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Does anyone know if there is a way to import all the users on my existing joomla site into noah's classifieds? I installed it but my uses would have to register again and I'd like to avoid that.
I looked at adsmanager but I'm hesitant to use that since it only works in legacy mode.
Thanks,
Andy. - Thanks,
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