BizBookDirectory & Listings Template

Server & Hosting Requirements

Our Bizbook template create with latest PHP vesion. So kindly check your server support with PHP & MySql.

1. Recommended hostings: Bluehost, Hostinger, Hostgator, GoDaddy, and other top branding hostings.
2. While you using some Free hosting or low-quality hosting we got some issues like "Data not insert" and mailing issues.
3. Some low-quality hosting having very limited options are there, if we face any issues means very hard to rectify, and hosting support is also hard to contact, so please go with above recommended hostings.

Installion

Follow these easy steps to install the template from scratch:

Install on live server

1. Step 1: Create new DB & Import our demo DB - Demo video
2. Step 2: Upload files - Demo video
3. Step 3: Configuration(admin\config\db.php) - Demo video
4. Step 4: Htaccess file configuration - Demo video
5. Step 5: Admin configuration - Demo video

Install on local server

1. Step 1: Extract your downloaded Zip file

   You can extract your donloaded file into local machine preferable path.

2. Step 2: Install Xampp local server software.

   Download Xampp. This Xampp helping for run your directory template into your local server. You can download and install into your machine. If you install this on IOS meand you can use MAMP server.

3. Step 3: Start SQL server

   Once you done your Xampp installation then open Xampp and click to start SQL

4. Step 4: Copy and Paste your files

   Copy your Directory template files and past into htdocs folder(folder path: C:\xampp\htdocs)

5. Step 5: Create new Database

   Kindly open this(http://localhost/phpmyadmin/) into your web browser, then create new Database. Note: kindly note your DB name.

6. Step: Import DB files

   Import our DB files into your new DB. Choose your new Databse and click Import on top bar and Upload your DB file then click Go buttom.

7. Step: DB Configuration

   Open db.php configuration file on this path(C:\xampp\htdocs\business-directory-template\admin\config)

   define('DB_HOSTNAME','localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME','DB_username');
define('DB_PASSWORD','DB_password');
define('DB_NAME','DB_name');
$webpage_full_link = "http://directoryfinder.net/demo/business-directory-template/";

   1. Change the username "DB_USERNAME" as "root"
   2. Change the password "DB_PASSWORD" as make empty
   3. Change the DB name "DB_NAME" as "YOUR DB NAME"
   4. Change the website full path "https://directoryfinder.net/demo/business-directory-template/" as "YOUR LOCAL HOST PATH NAME (htts://localhost/business-directory-template/)"

   define('DB_HOSTNAME','localhost');
define('DB_USERNAME','root');
define('DB_PASSWORD','');
define('DB_NAME','my_dbname');
$webpage_full_link = "http://localhost/business-directory-template/";

8. Step: Save the changes

   Kindly save your changes and open your local host path in your browser(htts://localhost/business-directory-template/)

9. Step: Done

Support

Thank you for using our template our support team is always with you and very happy to help you.

While you are getting any installation or other issues you can send your C-Panel details to us. We instantly help you to solve an issues.

1. WhatsApp support: +91 79044 62944(we recommended)
2. Email: rn53themes@gmail.com

Remote Desktop Support

Our team always helsp you to support Remote Desktop Support kindly follow the below procedures.

1. TeamViewer: Download TeamViewer
2. Install TeamViewer.
3. Send us your Your ID and Password.

Editing

To edit the files in this template, you need a text / code editor software installed on your computer. Below, there are some popular free code editor softwares:

• Sublime Text (Recommended)
• Notepad++ (Windows)
• TextMate (Mac)

How to access Admin panel?

Once you successfully complete your installation, kindly find the below steps to access your Admin-panel.

1. Open your website on browser www.yourwebsite.com/
2. Enter this admin/index.php path after your domain name like below.
3. www.yourwebsite.com/admin/index.php
4. Done

Tutorial video

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Oops something wrong issue(Data not insert)

Reason for the issue:

1. SQL: Set default value to NULL for all columns without default value

Symptoms of the issue:

1. Oops something wrong - message
2. Forms not working

Solution for the issue:

1. Disable the MySQL strict mode
2. Then upload our demo Database
3. Done

Steps to check MySQL strict mode enbled or not:

1. Goto phpMyAdmin -> Select your Database -> Click SQL tab, now you getting Run SQL query/queries on database window then copy & paste the below code and run.
2. ->To check strict mode run the this sql: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'sql_mode';
3. Done
4. ->If one of the value is STRICT_TRANS_TABLES then strict mode is enabled, else not.

If strict mode is enabled means:

- To Change it permanently, If you have WHM access do the following

1. Type in command line/Terminal sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf
2. Then add the following
   [mysqld]
sql_mode=
3. Save the file and restart the MySQL server

- If you don't have WHM access do the following

1. Please contact your hosting/server provider.
2. Inform them to Disable MySQL strict mode

How to Enable or Disable MySQL strict mode in local server:

1. Goto phpMyAdmin -> Select your Database -> Click SQL tab, now you getting Run SQL query/queries on database window then copy & paste the below code and run.
2. ->To Disable strict mode run the this sql: set global sql_mode='';
3. ->To Enable strict mode run the this sql: set global sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES';
4. Done

How to turn on/off MySQL strict mode in localhost (xampp)?

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Importants of Setting page

Once you successfully complete your installation, you must complete your basic setting in your Setting page.

1. Login to your admin panel
2. Go to Appearance -> Site Setting page.
3. Website name: Just enter your website name.
4. Admin Email [For All Mails]: Enter your website admin email id(Each and every email notification received this email only)
5. Currency Symbol: Update your Currency Symbol here
6. Name: Is this the admin profile name.. We can show this name in the top right corner of the admin panel.
7. User name: Enter the new user-name of your admin panel.. this helps you to access your admin panel.
8. New Password: Enter your new password of your admin-panel.. this helps you to access your admin-panel.
9. Recovery Email [For Password reset]: Enter your secondary email id.. this helps you to receive forgotten passwords.
10. Fav Icon: Upload your FAV Icon here
11. SEO Title: Enter your website name(Max length 60-65 characters. ) here... This only index in all search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and all
12. SEO Description: Enter your website descriptions here(max length between 120-150 characters)... This only index in all search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and all
13. SEO Keywords: Enter your website keywords here... This only index in all search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and all
14. Home page Banner: Upload your home page banner here.. This'll show on the background of your home page.
15. Done

Tutorial video

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Logo upload and resize

Make your logo size 200px X 30px. While you uploading your logo in Bizbook template, you get some alignment issue or size issues, so you need to resize the logo, kindly find the resize instructions below.

1. Login you admin panel
2. Go to Appearance -> Website logo page.
3. Upload your logo(Format accept .png, .jpg, .jpeg)
4. Set your logo size like width 190px, height auto
5. Done

Tutorial video

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Language not support or Words not display

Some times words or Languages not support or not display issues. kindly find the instructions below.

This kind of an issue happend from DB not accept different language and words.

1. Go to your phpMyAdmin
2. Select your Database
3. Select the Operations on top of the page.
4. Scroll down to Collation section.
5. Choose utf8_unicode_ci and Save or Go
6. Done

Tutorial video

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How to change currency symbol

Easy to change your currency symbol via your Admin panel. kindly find the instructions below.

1. Go to your Admin panel -> Site Setting
2. You can view the Currency Symbol field on the page.
3. Now you can change your currency symbol here.(We put some dummy symbol here "$" you can can change it)
4. Click "Submit changes" button below and save.
5. Done

Tutorial video

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Mail not trigger or mail received

If trigger mail not works means, kindly find the solutions below.

1. Go to your Admin panel -> Site Setting
2. Change your "Admin Email [For All Mails] :" id.(We put some dummy "rn53themes@gmail.com" email you can change it)
3. Click "Submit changes" and check now... Now emails received or not(How to check? Ex: Register a new user)
4. If the email does not works means
5. Open mail_check.php file on your website www.yourwebsite.com/mail_check.php file on your domain. or Click here to Download the file here
6. Enter your From and To email id and click the "Send test" button.(This is for testing purposes).
7. If the mail does not work again, please contact your hosting service provider and tell him to Enable mail functions
8. Check after a few hrs and it works.
9. Done

Tutorial video

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How Sub-Admin works?

Sub-Admin helps you to simplify your works. You can able to create multiple sub-admins with different credencials.

Tutorial video

How SEO works?

Once you launch your website means Search Engines index it seems to take as little as 4 days to 30 days.

When you publish a new listing, events, blog post, site page, or website in general, there are many factors that determine how quickly it will be indexed by Google. For example, site popularity, whether the content is crawlable, and your overall site structure.

Google or other Search Engines Index

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"Google Search Console" help you to improve SEO score

1. Google Search Console help you to manage and indexing your website fast and easy.

Google Search Console Tutorial

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How to solve "Not Found" or "404 issue"?

Some times you getting the 404 issue.. It happent from mis-configuration or you missed any installtion steps while you installing the template.

Kindly recheck below steps you done or not before contact us.

1. : Create new DataBase
2. : Import our demo DataBase to your DB
3. : Configure your DB information in db.php(admin\config\db.php) file
4. : Configure your folder path in .htaccess file.

2.10.1 How to find the .htaccess file in server?

1. Login you c-panel
2. Click Setting on top right corner button
3. Preference window will open
4. Enable Show Hidden Files (dotfiles) option
5. Click Save it.
6. Now you find your .htaccess file then replace Bizbook .htaccess file

Complete template update(All files replace)

First you need to know what version you currently using... so you go and check our product details page on Themeforest.

3.2.1 Download latest files from Themeforest

First you Download all our latest PHP files from Themeforest then replace all existing PHP files... after you need to update MySql DB

3.2.1 Before update take Backup your old files:

Before updating the template you need to backup all your files from server.

1. Backup you Database from phpmyadmin
2. Backup your all project files from your server like PHP files, all_texts.php, .htaccess
3. If you customize or edit any files you can backup that files too.

3.2.2Replace all files(PHP files & all)

1. Replace all the existing files with your new files before that you need to backup if you edit or configure files like .htaccess, admin/config/db.php, admin/config/all_texts.php and images/ folder
2. We hope you have done lot of edits in all_texts.php file. So you need compare this file with latest all_texts.php file. You get the latest file from Themeforest. And use this tool to comparing the file and update.

Latest version update

Download latest files below and replace your existing files.

3.2.1Download latest version files

If you using the older version you need to download the all higher version tables

Ex: If you using version 3.8 means you need to download version 5.3 & 5.7 & all latest version tables

3.2.2Mysql tables import

1. Step 1: Go to phpmyadmin
2. Step 2: Select your Database
3. Step 3: Click on Import tab
4. Step 4: Upload the above downloaded file(If any database attached) or latest table one by one.
5. Step 5: And Click Go button

Tutorial video

Html Files

In the unzipped archive, you will find the following html template files:

The main html template file is index.html

Php Files

In the unzipped archive, you will find the following php template files:

The main html template file is index.html

Sql Files

In the unzipped archive, you will find the following sql template files:

Css Files

In the HTML/css folder, you will find the following structure:

• css/
  • style.css
  • bootstrap.css
  • fonts.css
  • jquery-ui.css
  • icon.woff2

The default css stylesheet of the theme is style.css

Script Files

In the HTML/js/ folder, you will find the following structure:

• js/
  • bootstrap.min.js
  • custom.js
  • html5shiv.js
  • jquery.min
  • respond.min.js
  • jquery-ui.js

The main javascript files of the theme is custom.js

Icon Files

In the HTML/css/ folder, you will find the following structure:

• css/
  • Materializecss Icons
  • fonts.css
  • icon.woff2

The above fonts are same font family and it's support all browsers.

view more Materializecss Icons MaterializeCSS Icons

3.1: SOURCE CODE STRUCTURE: HEADER SECTION

The header section defind for meta tags, website title, fav icon, google fonts and style sheets(css files)

1. Meta tag : The meta tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable. Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document and more
2. Title tag : Title for your website
3. Fav icon : Favicons appear in the browser tab, address bar, browser history, bookmarks bar, etc
4. Google Font : A simple and easy way to add custom google fonts to your website.
5. Style Sheets(CSS Files) Style Sheet files

3.2: SOURCE CODE STRUCTURE: BODY SECTION

The body section defind for header, slider, band, services, free consultant and more..

1. Pre loader : This division shows from before website loading.
2. Header : Contain logo, login details and search options
3. Services category : This section showing the service category
4. Trending cetegory : Contain the trending categoy listings
5. Top service providers : This section showing the top service provider details
6. Feature events : This section showing the feature event with image and caption
7. Footer add business banner :
8. Footer : This footer section common for all pages and it's covered quick support, top category, trending category and more quick links.

3.3: SOURCE CODE STRUCTURE: FOOTER SECTION

The footer section defind for tips before travel, popular travels, contact details and copyrights

1. Tips before travel This section contain Tips before travel, customer testimonials and Arrangements..
2. Footer 1 This section show Offer tour packages and Popular Vacations
3. Footer 2 This section show Address,Subscribe,FAQ,Locations and Social Media.
4. Footer Copyrights Copy rights section
5. Script files All Jquery and JavaScript files here.

Tutorial videos

HOME PAGE

3.1.1: Change logo

1. Open up index.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. On find this class".ic-logo ", here update your logo path.

3.1.2: Searchbox value update

1. Open up custom.js from the /HTML/js folder
2. Go to search function
3. Common search: Update your search terms one by one.
4. City search: Update your city names one by one.

3.1.3: Home page services box

1. Open up index.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Image size: Service category image size should be 640 X 480 px
3. Image format: You better to use .JPG, .PNG or .JPEG image format
4. Image compressed: Please compressed your images before upload to server, it's helpful for increase page loading time. You can use this website for compress your images www.tinypng.com

3.1.4: Home page trending category

1. Open up index.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Image size: Trending category background image size should be 640 X 960 px
3. Image size: Trending category tail image size should be 150 X 150 px
4. Image format: You better to use .JPG, .PNG or .JPEG image format
5. Image compressed: Please compressed your images before upload to server, it's helpful for increase page loading time. You can use this website for compress your images www.tinypng.com

3.1.5: Youtube video

1. Open www.youtube.com
2. Get iframe code from your video(Ex:Right click over the video and copy your iframe code)
3. Open up index.html from the /HTML/ folder
4. Find the class name ".country-inn" and replace your ifame code to execting code

ALL LISTING

3.1.6: All listing page: Add new feature in LHS feature filter

1. Open up all-listing.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. You can copy one "li" tag and page it the same place.

3.1.7: All listing page: Add new sub-category

1. Open up all-listing.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. You can copy one "li" tag and page it the same place.

3.1.8: ADS banners on LHS

1. Open up all-listing.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Image size: Service category image size should be 590 X 300 px
3. Image format: You better to use .JPG, .PNG or .JPEG image format
4. Image compressed: Please compressed your images before upload to server, it's helpful for increase page loading time. You can use this website for compress your images www.tinypng.com

3.1.9: Add new listing in all listing page

1. Open up all-listing.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Find this class name "all-list-sh".
3. Each and every listings inside the "li" tag
4. If you need any additional listing means you just copy and past "li" tag like below

3.1.10: Listing quick view

1. Open up all-listing.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Once you clicking the "Quick view" button then showing short information on right panel.
3. Mouse leaveing option disable: Just remove below code from js/custom.js

3.1.11: Listing rating

1. Open up all-listing.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Rating icons you can refer this link www.materializecss.com/icons.html

LISTING DETAILS

3.1.12: Listing detail: profile and banner image

1. Profile image size: listing banner image size should be 250 X 250 px
2. Banner image size: listing banner image size should be 1600 X 400 px
3. Image format: You better to use .JPG, .PNG or .JPEG image format
4. Image compressed: Please compressed your images before upload to server, it's helpful for increase page loading time. You can use this website for compress your images www.tinypng.com

3.1.13: Listing detail: slider

1. Slider image size should be 700 X 450 px
2. Copy "carousel-item" div and paste it bottom
3. Image format: You better to use .JPG, .PNG or .JPEG image format
4. Image compressed: Please compressed your images before upload to server, it's helpful for increase page loading time. You can use this website for compress your images www.tinypng.com

3.1.14: 360 Degree MAP

1. Find this class name("list-360") on listing-details.html from the /HTML/ folder
2. Copy your code from execting code
3. Open your 360 image on google(click share or embed image)
4. Get your iframe code from google and paste execting code
5. Note: Remove all inline css

3.1.14: GOOGLE MAP

1. Open up listing-details.html from the /HTML/ folder

2. Get your iframe code from google map
3. Note: Remove all inline css

LOGIN AND REGISTER

3.1.6: Login

1. Open up login.html from the /HTML/ folder

3.1.7: Register

1. Open up login.html from the /HTML/ folder

3.1.8: Forgot password

1. Open up login.html from the /HTML/ folder

Template customizations

Any customization regarding our template like design, additional functionality or new module anything we will help you to implement.

If you need any customization please contact rn53themes@gmail.com

Template issues or bugs

Maximum no issues in our template if you found any issues or bugs kindly let us know our support email rn53themes@gmail.com we will help you to solve.

Script Sources

• jQuery
• Bootstrap

Font Sources

• Google Webfonts
• FontAwesome

Css Sources

• Bootstrap 3

Image Sources

• Allfreephotos

Note: Images used in the theme preview are only for demo purposes and not included in the main download.