Changelog

Below is the changelog for iAuto (v.4.0 and above):

v.4.5.0 to v.4.6.0:

1. Car Dealer Profiles - NEW FEATURE
2. Dealer Inventory - NEW FEATURE
3. SEO-Friendly Dealer Ads Page added - NEW FEATURE
4. Contact User page added - NEW FEATURE
5. Slideshow - NEW FEATURE
6. YouTube Videos - NEW FEATURE
7. Highlight Ad - NEW FEATURE
8. WYSIWYG editor for text fields added - NEW FEATURE
9. 26 MINOR BUGFIXES & SEVERAL ENHANCEMENTS

v.4.4.0 to v.4.5.0:

1. Import User Profiles from CSV or XLS files function added – NEW FEATURE
2. Compare Listings feature added – NEW FEATURE
3. CAPTCHA for Forms added – NEW FEATURE
4. Max Symbols Allowed for text and input fields added – NEW FEATURE
5. Watermark for Uploaded Images – NEW FEATURE
6. Ratings are added to all types of listings – NEW FEATURE
7. Export User Profiles to XLS file – NEW FEATURE.
8. Paging for the Manage Users section in the admin panel introduced.
9. The issue with the ability to create a user profile field with field type undefined fixed.
10. Improvement - "Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory" note to all forms in admin panel added
11. The "You can post your listing now" link on the subscription page added.
12. The broken form field labels layout in narrow browser window on the General Settings page corrected.
13. GMaps display in IE fixed (using jQuery).

v.4.3.1 to v.4.4.0:

1. Logout link added to the Admin Panel – NEW FEATURE
2. Improved the add picture interface when adding links via the admin
3. Introduced the Multiple Picture Upload interface – NEW FEATURE
4. RSS-feeds added, including latest X listings and featured listings feeds – NEW FEATURE
5. Pre-moderation and Post moderation of all listings – NEW FEATURE
6. Mark Listing as Sold feature added – NEW FEATURE
7. Enable JavaScript and Cookies for Best User Experience notice added – NEW FEATURE
8. FCKEditor is upgraded to version 2.6.3, better and stable version of the editor
9. Fixed the issue with number of listings in the Browse by Body Style
10. Fixed issue with the editing of video files
11. Ability to expire Membership plans for existing users added – NEW FEATURE
12. Display listing address/zip on the built-in Google Map – NEW FEATURE
13. New SEO/SEM feature, Share Your Website, added – NEW FEATURE
14. Minor hints on supported picture and video formats added
15. Tips and help information added to the Admin Panel interface
16. Trusted Users option is added – NEW FEATURE
17. A 2009 updated vehicle make/model database added

v.4.3.0 to v.4.3.1:

1. Optimized listings search in task_scheduler.
2. Session check mechanism modified.
3. Optimized and improved performance, reduced load times.
4. Fixed empty date field in I18N.
5. System behavior after deleting user acct corrected. System logs user out now.
6. PayPal payment issue fixed.
7. The float field type for I18N fixed.
8. System can now search within tree type levels (restriction to top level removed).
9. Resolved the challenge with browsing by incomplete tree field.
10. The 'video' validation issue fixed.
11. Inconsistent RewriteBase in admin/.htaccess file fixed.
12. Fixed the permission issue in the cache folder for themes cloned.
13. Special symbols in phrase IDs fixed.
14. Payment completion issue for non-English product versions fixed.
15. Duplication of Form class in classifieds/Form.php removed.
16. Upper/lowercase symbols in phrase translations fixed.
17. Corrected categories for built-in business catalog.
18. Duplicate field names in input forms with multiple tree fields fixed.
19. The listing count for browse by tree fixed.
20. The payment creation date bug fixed.

v.4.2.2 to v.4.3.0:

1. Created the 'Contact Form' functionality. Default page for the contact form: http://YourWebsiteURL/contact/.
2. Added the function to create user from the admin panel.
3. Added the 'Custom Settings' section in the Admin panel. There are 2 default settings in this section: 'listing_currency' and 'transaction_currency'.
4. Added a new system setting: Radius Search Unit. The choice of radius search unit (miles\kilometers) will affect the search by the distance.
5. Fixed the issue with Zip Code imports.
6. Added the functionality to search listings by the following system fields: 'id', 'listing_type', 'activation_date' and 'username'.
7. Fixed the issue with field IDs. When the 'field ID' is changed from the admin panel, all the fields will be updated in the database.
8. Fixed the issue with sorting by 'id', 'listing_type', 'activation_date' and 'username' system fields on the search/filter results pages.
9. Fixed the issue with returning to the 'Search Results' page from the 'Listing Details' page via browser's 'Back' button.
10. Added the dropdown menu to choose a language in the frontend.
11. Added the 'Manage Languages' section in the admin panel.
12. Added the 'Manage Phrases' section in the admin panel.
13. Added the 'Internationalization Settings' subsection on the 'System Settings' page in the admin panel.
14. Added the translation functionality using square brackets, i.e. [[phraseID]]
15. Added the functionality to format dates and numbers in the input and search forms based on the language settings.
16. Added the functionality to format display of dates and numbers based on the language settings.
17. Added the placeholder support to phrase IDs that can be translated.
18. The interactive translating mode is implemented (highlight mode).

v.4.2.1 to v.4.2.2:

1. Fix sorting by activation_date in public site.
2. Fix encoding problems in Tell a Friend and Contact Seller functionality.
3. Added reply-to field in Contact Seller function.
4. Improve design, order and behavior for Edit and Delete buttons in admin site.
5. Fix encoding problem, Set output data encoding to utf-8 in import listings from xls file.
6. Fix problem for pages with slash at the end, if URL not contains slash then server add slash and redirect.
7. Change emails to blackhole@worksforweb.com in release database.
8. Fix validation for type video in listing creation time.
9. Fix unserialize error in payments. Improve HTML filtration, add HTML purifier.
10. Change mechanism of HTML filtration, filter HTML in Email class, Form class and display_listing.php module function.

v.4.2.0 to v.4.2.1:

1. Can rename buttons on the 'add_listing' page and in the 'My Listings' section.
2. Added a validation criterion for 'Zip Code' field. Saving of empty values was excluded.
3. Fixed the problem with renaming field captions in the existing user profiles in the DB after renaming it from the admin panel.
4. Inactive listing are no longer displayed from direct URL.
5. Fixed the problem of saving dates.
6. Listing display parameters in the 'My Listings' section were separated from the others.
7. Fixed the problem with extra listing browsing parameters.
8. Fixed the problem with forming keyword string during listing saving.
9. Fixed the problem with sorting by 'activation_date' field. Field type was changed from 'Date' to 'DateTime'.
10. Fixed the search by date range.
11. Fixed the email generation issue and charset encoding-related problem.
12. Naming convention of uploaded pictures for listings was changed to prevent browser caching of pics with similar names.
13. Fixed the problem with export.
14. Fixed the sorting and paging in the “browse by” listing results.
15. Fixed the email generation issue in the 'Contact Seller' function. 'Reply To' field that has sender's email was added.
16. Fixed the problem in the 'Saved Searches' function for user that is not logged in.
17. All buttons in the admin panel are in proper and uniform order now (1. edit, 2.delete), buttons changed.
18. Fixed the problem of redirecting from index.php to install.php if the software is not installed.
19. Fixed two security issues.
20. Fixed the problem with 'DECIMAL' type casting for MYSQL4.
21. Fixed the problem with inactive listings appearing in the search results after user session expiration.
22. User authorization to access listing editing was increased.
23. Added a new function for HTML tags translation in input forms.
24. The sorting mechanism on the search results page was changed. Added the sorting by field check routine.
25. Listing display templates was fixed. Missing fields were added.
26. Fixed the validation for the 'MakeModel' field during listing saving.
27. Fixed the problem with 'MakeModel' field import.

v.4.1.1 to v.4.2:

1. A new feature, ‘Browse listings by any field’ was added.
2. Browse templates were added to the main page.
3. A new feature, ‘Pass parameters via URI’ was added. It allows you to use SEO-friendly URLs with the 'display_listing' and 'browse' functions.
4. Listing search procedure was optimized in the My Listing section of the front end. The new function ‘Paging’ was added there.
5. A feature that allows to order values of tree type as you like was added.
6. Users are provided with ability to subscribe for the membership plan with unlimited expiration period.
7. A script related to packages of a membership plan was modified. Now the administrator can delete a package even though listing number of this package is not null.
8. Level numeration of Tree type fields in an exported file was changed.
9. A bug associated with returning to a merchant site after paying via paypal gateway was fixed.
10. A bug associated with wrong listing number of a package was fixed.
11. A bug associated with listing picture editing through the administration panel was fixed.
12. A bug with membership plans where ‘Expiration Period’=‘null value’ was fixed.
13. The user manual was updated.

v.4.1.0 to v.4.1.1:

1. The file type verification during geographic data importation was added.
2. A bug with deleting listing pictures after deleting a listing was fixed. Now after deleting a listing its pictures will be also deleted from the system.
3. A bug with the ‘Paging’ function in the Manage Listings section of the administration panel was fixed. Now a page number specified by the administrator is saved after listing activation, deactivation or deleting.
4. A bug associated with ‘Activate’ and ‘Deactivate’ links in the Manage Listings section of the administration panel was fixed.
5. A bug associated with PHP Notice during user session update was fixed.
6. A bug with deleting a membership plan was fixed. Now after deleting a membership plan from the system, an empty string does not remain in the list of membership plans of a User group.
7. The user manual was updated.

v.4.0 to v.4.1.0:

1. A new feature, 'Export Listings' was added. The administrator can export a file with listing data in Excel format.
2. iAuto templates were optimized according to the W3C standards.
3. Listing search procedure was optimized in the Manage Listings section of the administration panel. New functions, ‘Sorting’ and ‘Paging’, were added there.
4. The ability to display field captions by field IDs in display templates was added.
5. A bug with deleting a user picture/logo was fixed.
6. A bug with payment duplication in the My Payments area was fixed.
7. A My Listings sorting bug was fixed.
8. 'Failed to send activation email' system message was added. The message appears when a user inputs a nonexistent email.
9. A theme cloning failure bug was fixed.
10. Geographic data format was modified. Now the administrator can add zip codes composed of mixed alphanumeric characters.
11. Minor template modifications.
12. Descending "sort by date" order in My Payments was set by default.

Below is the changelog for iAuto (v3.1.2 and above):

v3.3 to v3.4:

1. The script was modified to be fully compatible with PHP version 5.
2. A bug with 'Inconsistent number of listings between website search and admin search' was fixed.
3. A new feature, 'Listing Details Page Counter', was added. Listing details now display hit/view counters for each listing.
4. A new database field type, 'Web Link', was added. The administrator can allow users to specify URL address for their listings.
5. A new user registration form field, 'web_link', was added. The administrator can allow users to specify URL address for the 'Seller Information' block in listing details.
6. Some changes were added to iRealty templates to simplify the logo image and slogan modifications.
7. A feature to import listings on behalf of users (owners) through the admin panel was restored.

v3.2 to v3.3:

1. Google Maps support was added for iRealty (can help with adding GMaps for iAuto as well if requested).
2. The bug with the ‘show_search_form’ function was fixed. Now an administrator can use this function more than once.
3. The bug with templates editing was fixed. Now after cloning a theme, templates can be edited via FTP.
4. The bug with a new user registration routine was fixed for MySQL v.5.xx.
5. Software installation script was improved by automatically setting a closing slash in the 'FTP Initial Directory' field.
6. User manual and installation manual further improved and updated.
   

v3.1.2 to v3.2:

1. The bug with user registration fixed.
2. The bug with changing the order of ad pictures fixed.
3. The bug with saving search form parameters with MySQL v.5.xx fixed.
4. A new database field type, 'ID' was added. Users can make a search by listings ID.
5. A new database field type, 'Keywords' was added. Users can make a search by listings' keywords.
6. A new feature, 'Import User Lists' was added. An administrator can create a file with users data and import it to the database. The importation can be done in CSV/Excel extension formats. After user imports, their profiles can be modified by using the 'Edit User' option of the admin panel.
7. The updated user manual in a new format added.