Got “internal server error” right after you upload all files?

1. Open .htaccess file and remove the first row. (php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off)
2. Ask your hosting company why they are against turning off magic quotes, especially since it is recommended by php group.(http://us3.php.net/magic_quotes)

Yeah, I know that this is a third post about the functionality for our next version, and I promise you the next post will be an announce of the actual release.

Several thing happened, and we have so much ready to be put together functionality in our hand, so we decide to skip partially completed, 1.2.2, 1.2.3 and put everything together as 1.2.5

* Printable coupons - You can mark any coupon as “Printable” in the admin panel and special page that visitor can print and bring to the store will be generated for it.
* Forums integration. - You can install vBulletin, phpbb or Simple Machines Forum(SMF) and share the users and comment links with your site.
* Admin panel template editor. No need to go to the FTP to change template files anymore, you can do it right from the admin panel.
* E-mail notifications templates - Set up and edit templates for your “New deal posted” e-mail notifications.
* List your coupons on our site - Shopping cart functionality for the store owners. People who want to publish deals on your site could register, select a payment plan, pay for it and get their very own store to publish deals and coupons. Administrator could set up a payment plans and prices in the admin panel.
* Improved E-mail/Subscriptions management - You can review and modify subscribers and send out the newsletter to all of them from the admin panel.
* Rewards functionality - The new wave for the deals/coupons websites. You can offer your registered users cashback or other types of rewards for buying stuff using you deals and coupons. You can see in the admin panel what offers were clicked by users. Complete compatibility with CJ Rewards and LS Signature links program.
* Full integration with our soon-to-be-released OWS Deals/Coupons Datafeed Service. - Finally you will be able to create a 100% automated deals/coupons website.

Release date is: August 20.

Finally we got major feature list for the next two releases.

1.2.2 - planned release date Aug 1st, 2008
* Forums integration. You can install vBulletin, phpbb or Simple Machines Forum(SMF) and share the users and comment links with your site.
* Admin panel template editor. No need to go to the FTP to change template files anymore, you can do it right from the admin panel.
* Shopping cart functionality for the store owners. People who want to publish deals on your site could register, select a payment plan, pay for it and get their very own store to publish deals and coupons. Administrator could set up a payment plans and prices in the admin panel.

1.2.3

* Improved E-mail/Subscriptions management.
* Rewards functionality.. The new wave for the deals/coupons website. You can offer your registered users cashback or other types of rewards for buying stuff using you deals and coupons. Complete compatibility with CJ Rewards and LS Signature links program.

There is always something ahead of us. It seems like the list of features that we need to implement is getting bigger with every new release.
That is what planned to be included in the 1.2.2 version which should come around August 1 st.

* Forums integration. You can install vBulletin, phpbb or Simple Machines Forum(SMF) and share the users and comment links with your site.
* Admin panel template editor. No need to go to the FTP to change template files anymore, you can do it right from the admin panel.
* Improved E-mail/Subscriptions management.
* Shopping cart functionality for the store owners. People who want to publish deals on your site could register, select a payment plan, pay for it and get their very own store to publish deals and coupons. Administrator could set up a payment plans and prices in the admin panel.

It could be something else. We will keep you posted.

The most frequently asked question is “How flexible your template system are? Is it possible to make my site looks like XXXXXXXXX-DEALS.COM?”

The answer is always yes, but it hard to prove without an example. Now we can give you that example! We decided to take the most popular deals/coupons websites and create as close as possible replicas using our script.

So please welcome the first addition to our “Template Demo Library”.


http://demo.owsdeals.com/DealCatcher/

AND


http://demo.owsdeals.com/DealNews/

Disclaimer:
Please do not ask us to share or sell this templates. They are here for demonstration of possibilities purpose only. All layouts, images, logos, trademarks, etc. are property of their respectful owners and not intended for any kind of commercial use.

Please contact us if you have any questions or you like to get your very own custom template.

Our greatest version 1.2 is officially released. The exact release build number is 1.2.0.95.

If you want to have Deals/Coupons website and you have waited for the script to become more mature - now it time to get it! The new version reflects our vision of the Deals/Coupons Website that we have from the beginning combined with experience and feedback that we’ve got during this 6 months since the first release.

Release process:
1. Sales server will be updated later today.
2. Everybody who is hosted on owshosting.com will get the new version automatically installed within the next several days. If you are using one of our default templates it will be upgraded, otherwise you need to contact us for the list of new template features.
3. Starting next week we will perform upgrades for the people hosted on their own servers. Please contact support if you want your server to be updated.
4. Contact support for the instructions If you like to do upgrade by yourself.

We add another Direct Access Method to retrieve affiliate product info right from the source.

Amazon Direct Access - it looks and works pretty similar to the CJ Direct Access:

We are getting closer to the release. Today we finally put together update this new digg style voting system. That was the last key piece of functionality that was missing. Now we just need to polish templates, fix all bugs. create upgrade/installation script and we will be ready to release!

owsdeals.com clone was requested at one of the feelance sites?

http://us-freelancer.com/2008/03/22/dealscoupon-site/

I don’t know who you are, мой дорогой украинский друг, but if you really need a script just talk to us, and if you just раскручиваешь свой юс-фрилансер, то спасибо, порадовал.

Mike.

Main Script functionality:
- New Admin panel. Clean, easy to operate layout and new features.
- Dashboard. Shows some technical and statistical data as well as latest released version on OWS Server and most useful shortcuts.

- All settings have appropriate controls. (you don’t need to type you template name anymore, you could just select it from the drop-down list)

- User management. You can add/delete users and manage theirs publishing rights.

- Delayed publishing. Specify start time and you can publish seals and coupons in advance.

- New! Smart RSS Import tool. System will try to guess tags and categories during import based on the deal title.
- New user management system. We dropped mytoppix forum from the installation. By default script will come with its own user management system.
- New simple comments system instead of forum. (registered users can just post comments, guests have to enter anti-spam captcha code).

- Add/Manage Custom pages. Add “About Us”, “Privacy Policy” or any other custom page right from the admin panel.

- Template Based e-mail system. Customize the layout and contents of e-mails from your site using the same smarty-based templates.

Site functionality:

Site functionality is completely based on templates so we could not called this new features.
We just add new template examples to show how powerful is the system. A lot of people asking for “Coupons only” configuration, so some of this features mostly suitable for this type of sites)

- Coupons by Store, Coupons by Category

- Deals can be grouped by Dates with Collapse/Expand functionality.

- New category template with Sub-Categories and Stores

- Vote for deals/digg style functionality