Category Archives: Real estate agency portal

Customizations

How to add dropdown to amenities?

Add field in administration and after that edit templates\bootstrap2-responsive\property.php, lines around 328-340 add red customization for outdoor amenities example:

                <?php if(isset($category_options_52) && $category_options_count_52>0): ?>
                <h2>{options_name_52}</h2>
                <ul class="amenities">
                {category_options_52}
                {is_checkbox}
                <li>
                <img src="assets/img/checkbox_{option_value}.png" alt="{option_value}" class="check" />&nbsp;&nbsp;{option_name}&nbsp;&nbsp;{icon}
                </li>
                {/is_checkbox}
                {is_dropdown}
                <li>
{option_name}: {option_value}
                </li>
                {/is_dropdown}
                {/category_options_52}
                </ul>
                <br style="clear: both;" />
                <?php endif; ?>
Customizations

How to add custom field in search form?

For Property Listing and Hotel Booking Portal #02, and templates with visual forms support:

Please follow guide from template, like:

http://geniuscript.com/wbooking/user_guide_theme/#!/custom_search_form

For Real Estate Agency Portal script or manually build forms:

Depends on which template file you using, for example: templates\bootstrap2-responsive\components\search-filter.php line around 23, add additional input… (You should not copy paste from this website, but from your file and modify, because of possible “quote” formatting issues or changes in your script version)

Example to find FROM some number:

<input id="search_option_20_from" type="text" class="span2" placeholder="From bedrooms" />

Example to find TO some number:

<input id="search_option_20_to" type="text" class="span2" placeholder="To bedrooms" />

Example to find EQUAL, same number:

<input id="search_option_20" type="text" class="span2" placeholder="To bedrooms" />

For this situation example you also need to change field type to short input  in Administration…

Also very helpfully for customization is example search form, so check out code in this and other search form files: search-filter.php

For new inovative search form on right side:

Also templates\bootstrap2-responsive\components\search-filter.php and additional templates\bootstrap2-responsive\page_homepage-filters.php, lines 153-209, same field on 2 places, one time in above mentioned files.

NOTICE: Don’t removed top primary searchbar, this custom search can’t work without primary top, so you should restore top search. If you want to hide it you can hide via css (style=”display:none;”), but not remove completely from HTML!

For >=v1.5.4 If you want that textfield become numeric searchable you should add in database “property_lang” table, add
field_136_int in type int. Then resave all properties. 136 is example of field ID.

For >=v1.5.6 If you want that textfield become numeric searchable Admin->Real estates->Fields->Edit wanted and click on “Enable numeric filtering”:

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After that you should resave all properties

For >=v1.5.7 right search form is moved to widget:

templates\bootstrap2-responsive\widgets\right_customfilter.php

 

 

 

FAQ

How to remove english language?

  •  You can hide english language if this is enought for you (Admin->Settings->languages->Edit wanted)
  • You can rename english language to something else and translate (Admin->Settings->languages->Edit wanted)

You can remove it, but must be sure if you  translate everything on website to your other language before this.

If yes, then:
1. Just for security backup everything

2. Open phpMyAdmin and  run SQL:

UPDATE `language` SET is_locked=0 WHERE 1

3.  Now you can remove language from admin interface Admin->Settings->languages->Remove wanted language

FAQ

How to add external website link to menu?

Admin->Pages->Add Page-> In keywords field you can add any link, for example: http://www.google.com

If you need quotes in URL, for example when calling api methods with json, then you should replace quote with %22, example on image:

link_chars

NOTE: in script v1.5.9 and above this replace is not required anymore.

For classifieds script you can take link as on this example:

 search={"v_search_option_79":"example value"}

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If you will add complete link including http://www.geniuscript.com/class…; then other page will be opened depend on link, so be careful.

Customizations

How to change default font?

For Bootstrap 2 / Real estate agency portal

Default font can be changed with css file customization, templates\bootstrap2-responsive\assets\css\styles.css, line around 257 or find code and change:

font-family: "Open Sans","Arial",sans-serif;

For Bootstrap 4 / Real Estate Geo Portal

Default css files for template:

\templates\bootstrap4\assets\css\winter-flat.css

\templates\bootstrap4\assets\css\custom.css

For change font size of menu, add into \templates\bootstrap4\assets\css\custom.css

.menu .nav-link {
    font-size: 12px;
}

Similar way also for other themes

Customizations

How to replace map with slider in header?

 

In version >=1.5.4:

Admin->Pages->Edit->change header template

In versions <=1.5.3:

There is 2 version of homepage templates, “homepage” and “homepage-slideshow”, you can select wanted template.

You want to replace map with slider on all pages?

Can be done with wanted template file customizations, just replace part of code that showing map, with part of code that showing slider, for example on classic page_page.php located in folder: templates\bootstrap2-responsive

Replace:

<input id="pac-input" class="controls" type="text" placeholder="{lang_Search}" />
<div class="wrap-map" id="wrap-map">
</div>

With this code:

<div class="wrap-map">
    <div id="myCarousel" class="carousel slide">
    <ol class="carousel-indicators">
    {slideshow_images}
    <li data-target="#myCarousel" data-slide-to="{num}" class="{first_active}"></li>
    {/slideshow_images}
    </ol>
    <!-- Carousel items -->
    <div class="carousel-inner">
    {slideshow_images}
        <div class="item {first_active}">
        <img alt="" src="{url}" />
        </div>
    {/slideshow_images}
    </div>
    <!-- Carousel nav -->
    <a class="carousel-control left" href="#myCarousel" data-slide="prev">&lsaquo;</a>
    <a class="carousel-control right" href="#myCarousel" data-slide="next">&rsaquo;</a>
    </div>
</div>

You can also replace map with other type of content, if you need css customization, can be done in file: templates\bootstrap2-responsive\assets\css\styles.css

If you want to pause carousel then you can use something like this:

<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#myCarousel").carousel('pause');
});
</script>
FAQ

SEO optimizations and removing index.php

How to submit your page on google?

Most simple way is to submit your generated sitemap.xml to google webmaster tools:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

Generated URL example: http://real-estate.iwinter.com.hr/sitemap.xml

Regarding removing index.php:

First of all this doesn’t work on standard localhost, only on real servers!

If you want best seo principles like just content title in URL, without “index.php” in URI, you need to:

Rename “seo.htaccess” file to “.htaccess”.

.htaccess should be placed into your public_html, so root of your web installation, example:

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In “application/config/config.php” change:

$config[‘index_page’] = ‘index.php';

to

$config[‘index_page’] = ”;

Some hosting providers have many restrictions with *.htaccess files, there is more versions so you can try other versions like seo-v2.htaccess etc…

Regarding hosting providers, this customization is tested on:

a2_hosting_logo

Don’t forget to check out extra seo module: http://iwinter.com.hr/support/?p=4662

Or this hint: http://iwinter.com.hr/support/?p=160

 

 

Issues

I receive invalid DB Connection String/ hostname / port

if you have problem with hostname, in standard hosting providers this should be localhost, but sometimes not and depends on hosting provider. Please ask your hosting provider which MySQL database hostname and port you should use for database access.

You can also test your database details with this basic connection code to be sure that it’s right:

<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "your-username";
$password = "your-password";
$database_name = "your-database-name";

$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $database_name);
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
echo "Connected successfully";
?>

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_connect.asp

If your database connection works and you still have issue with script connection then please provide me your cpanel login details, database details and website link for test, via email: sanljiljan@geniuscript.com

Customizations

How to change area in square meters from drop down to from-to input fields?

1.  Admin->Real estates->Fields->Edit area->Change from Type dropdown to short input

2. Additional you need change wanted template files, for example templates\bootstrap2-responsive\components\search.php, line 15-17:

<select id="search_option_3" class="span3 selectpicker nomargin" placeholder="{options_name_3}">
{options_values_3}
</select>

Replace with:

<input id="search_option_3_from" type="text" class="span3" placeholder="{lang_From} ({options_prefix_3}{options_suffix_3})" />
<input id="search_option_3_to" type="text" class="span3" placeholder="{lang_To} ({options_prefix_3}{options_suffix_3})" />

Of course, you probably will need also small css fixes to show it nicely.

 

 

Customizations

How to change content/fields in results items?

For WP theme/plugin version

Developers basic skills needed for this, if you are nor familiar check guide to ask for customization (cost additional):  http://iwinter.com.hr/support/?page_id=1870

You need to modify file SW_Win_Classified\views\frontend\resultspage.php in your theme, usual location for nexos theme:

wp-content\themes\nexos\SW_Win_Classified\views\frontend\resultspage.php

Example to add address:

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results:

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Example for location or very custom fields:

Basically copied from wp-content\themes\nexos\SW_Win_Classified\views\frontend\listingpreview.php

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example results:

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For script version >= 1.5.7

For grid version you can edit content in: templates\{your_template}\widgets\results_item.php

And for list version templates\{your_template}\results.php

General HTML customization guide: http://iwinter.com.hr/support/?p=2076

For bootstrap template (old script version < 1.5.6):

For initial results listing, you should edit template file selected when editing pagem for example templates\bootstrap2-responsive\page_homepage.php, begining from line around 122, {results} … {/results}:

For example if you want to change bathrooms with badrooms, replace:

<p class="bottom-border">{options_name_19} <span>{option_19}</span></p>

with:

<p class="bottom-border">{options_name_20} <span>{option_20}</span></p>

Number represents field/option ID#

For results listing when clicking to search button, you should edit templates\bootstrap2-responsive\results.php, lines from 30-115, same thing but 2 times (for grid view type and list view type),  same thing, so:

For example if you want to change bathrooms with badrooms, replace 2 times (line 45 and line 88):

<p class="bottom-border">{options_name_19} <span>{option_19}</span></p>

with:

<p class="bottom-border">{options_name_20} <span>{option_20}</span></p>

Number represents field/option ID#