The Contester User Manual
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1. SS SY The Contester User Manual Updated version 1 2 This manual is supported on version 1 2 of the Contester Henrique Mouta Mouta org In case of questions or bugs regarding this particular software please send me a email to henrigue mouta org with details of your bug and or with your question Summary Summary of this manual The Contester User Manual ccccccsscccssccsscssecceescesseessenseensess 1 SUMMA Y oosstsaa vonsceestoebaten erat deaneons A 2 Wnatis CONTESTED sssaasncrsnscaneosrenntacisaenseasmesameecaeecnsectiaaneactaetadenanine 3 Installation cee ccc cecccescececcceeceeeeceuceseeccaeeeceusessecesseeseusessuseneeeeas 4 The Basic Usage Of Contester cccccecccesceseeseeseeseeseeseeseusensenss 5 Tne BI ICS aeren EEE E E EEE E S 5 WV TIE aK e 5 TAG FON ENO seeren are E T 6 TING BI KENO oe E E E 9 Administrators ManageMent ccccccescssescesceseeseeseeseeees 10 Contest management CCPanel esesssssssrssrsresreseerrsrreens 11 COMES UAC IY aerei RE EEEE EEEE NET EEEE EEEE EEA EEEE 16 Pages management CMS cccececececscscscseseseceececeeeeesees 18 UTS CONV FI GN OS are E EEEE 20 The Global Settings ccccccccecseceeeeseeseeseeseeseeseeseeseseeeees 21 HOW WO sag ion a eectace 23 we Make a new Contest cccecccsecceecceecccseeseeeeseceeeceeeeeeseeneees 23 w DOWA CONTOS eee ee ere 26 Configure the Facebook ceccesceeccecceseeseeeeesseecee2. using a random algorithm and also will select who gets the consolation prize That s it the basic usage of this software If you have any doubt regarding the usage or some more technically issue contact me to henrique mouta org and l Il reply to you as soon as possible 3 Installation The installation of this software is very easy and understandable Instead of writing boring and long text we have provided a short video that will describe all the steps for install this software You can watch it on YouTube on http youtu be ugVqH4qMAfs If you have any problem installing your Contester software contact me to henrigue mouta org and lIl reply to you as soon as possible The Basic Usage of Contester In this section we will describe the basic usage of Contester software explaining all its features First we will start with the front end and then we will go to the back end following the menu order But first let s explain some basics The Basics What s a Key Your secret freshy contest key Is d203daee5b027368a548c93306236e57 A key consists on an md5 hash generated using a secret random algorithm The keys are store on Database and have two Statuses If they are already reclaimed and if they are selected Using you backend you can check every detail of a particular key on the Contest Control Panel The Front End The front end have a very simple design which tries to offer the best intuitive inte
3. can see more details about the current contest manage it or even close it down If you like to you can also create a new contest You are actually managing the contest id number 7 Your contest is still active and running for 20 days So what do you want to do Finish the submissions Edit Podium Test a key Settings gt Ah See all the participants See the selected participants Export Farticipants 11 You have six icons that may vary depending on contest status activated or not The first icon is the finish submission function On this page you can finish the submissions and get your contest ready to the final draw Once you finish the submissions you can t reopen it And if you try to finish the submissions without having enough participants the number of participants are less than the number of podium places you will get an error The podium module is obviously You can edit the podium places Each podium place has a Name a description and a picture that you can upload This data is accessible by the public on the frontend of the script Once the submissions are finish you cannot edit the podium places anymore On the test key section you can submit a key and get all the details regarding that particular key A key s chart will appear telling you if the key is a In the see all participants module you have access to selected if has been claimed yet and by who all the parti
4. you are about to create Contest name Test Codes to generate 2000 codes Percentage of selected codes 10 How many final winners 1 winners How many participations per user 1 participations There ts a consolation prize There is not any consolation prize I m not happy Go Back This is the final step Check if everything is like you want and press the big green button Once you press it the contest generation can take a while to generate 50 000 codes can take about 30 seconds or more to generate Please stand by and do not stop the loading That s it Your fresh brand new contest is now created Draw a Contest To draw a contest you must finish it To finish your contest go to the Contest management section and press the finish icon 26 As said earlier to finish the contest you must have at least as many participants as podium places Once you finish the contest get back to the Contest management and press the big green button So what do you want to do ih Ast Once you do that you will start the draw wizard Just keep following the wizard and the system will automatically draw the winners and the consolations prizes for you Once you got a winners list you can press the button to start the mailing First we will mail the winners and then we will mail the consolation prize winners and the rest of the participants Remember you can change these emails on the settings Check
5. Contest Wizard Step Three Setting up winners details We are almost there Now you have to setup the contest details regarding the final winners How many winners will you have how many participations each person is allowed to submit and if you have a consolation prize and how many participants will get this prize How many final winners How many of the selected codes will be the final winners There will be 1 winners How many times can each individual person submit a code This will be validated using cookies and email Each user can play 1 A times There will be any consolation prize Consulation prize will be randomly draw for everyone who didn t win a prize No There will be no consolation prize Once you configure this settings you may proceed to the next step l m not happy Go Back Next step On step three you can configure other contest settings How many places there will be on the podium the amount of final winners and how many times each participant can submit a code You can also set here how many consolation prizes you want to attribute Once you are done press next to go to the final step 25 New Contest Wizard Step Four Verify all the settings It s all done If the settings below are acording to your preferences just click on the green button to create a new contest If you want to change something click on the Grey back button or start over Details about the contest
6. Please choose one of the old contest from the list below to get access to all the details regarding that particular contest Contest Name Started a Finished 2 Teste 12 02 2012 02 10 AM 12 02 2012 02 19 AM View amp 16 You will have a list of contests and once you press View you can get an interface where you can check some basic details regarding that contest and some statistics Archive of The Ultimate Contest Hello Welcome to the archive of The Ultimate Contest contest with ID 4 Your contest had 10000 keys which 70 were selected There were more 9991 keys to play This contest had 9 total participants and 6 selected partiapants which means that 66 67 percent of the participations were selected to the next phase Your contest was active for 3 days What do you want to check See the Podium See all the participants See the selected participants Export Participants au ve Y ii 5 C gt See the settings Each of these functions doesn t need any more explanation 17 Pages management CMS This is a section where you can manage the pages of the frontend In this section you can edit the rules page and make it fit as you like You can see on the image below the basic interface of this module In the coming version a menu manager will be included to an even easier management Pages management ell Manage the pages of the frontend You can create new pages edit the old pages or even d
7. above for more details Once the draw is done the contest is officially over You may now create a new contest or do nothing else Configure the Facebook lve made a very simply and understandable video guide where you can see how can you easily configure the Facebook Integration Keep in mind that this is an easy procedure but may be a little complex You can see the video on YouTube here htto www youtube com watch v nhPPps9F1LY 27 If you have any problems with this configuration feel free to contact me 28
8. cebook Wall Post Description The description of the post on the Wall Participate now on our contest and be able to win alot s of Facebook Wall Post Image The Image URL to the wall post http labs mouta org concurso admin images wi iis Save the configurations When a user submits a code Contester will publish this on Wall N Web Gclismo pe T just participated in this awesome contest They are offering some cool free Web Ciclisme Stuff _ http fabs mouta org concurso i My Contest Play Now l Participate now on our contest and be able to win alot s of very cool prizes Check this out Like Comment 13 seconds ago via Contester 15 When you close your contest your control panel will change to this Welcome to the Contest management Hello In this section you can see more details about the current contest manage it or even close it down If you like to you can also create a new contest You are actually managing the contest id number 4 Your contest ts closed and were active for 2 days So what do you want to do See all the participants See the selected participants Settings Later on we will see how to draw the contest Contest Archive In this section you can check the old contests you generated Welcome to Contest Archive Hello
9. cipants list and check every individual detail of each participant with information like the submitted key if has been selected IP etc The see all the selected participants section is almost like the above section but instead of i 5 displaying all the participants it will just display the h selected ones 12 In this section you can access the Exportation section You can export the participants in three ways You can export all the participants export only the selected ones or even export only the podium winners Sud This icon takes you to the Settings where you can E J change the settings of this particular contest You can 2 edit the name of the contest the maximum submissions per participant the amount of keys etc This section is divided in two parts the global contest settings and the codes settings Contest settings of My Contest E A Possible actions Change the settings Manage the codes Facebook Settings In this section you can change the specific contest settings regarding the contest My Contest created on You can add a batch of codes or change some basic settings To save the settings don t forget to press the Save buttom Name of the contest This will change the contest name to something else Current name ts My Contest My Contest Number of winners This will change the amount of podium places 5 winners Number of submissions per person Change ho
10. e Enter in Contest Rules Prizes This is the menu You have four items e The Home that is your front page e The Enter in Contest where the user can press to enter the contest it goes exactly to the same place as when you click in the Join the contest bottom on the front page See image above e The Rules where the rules of the contest are To edit this page is very simple You have to login in the backend and go to the Pages Manager From there you are able to edit this page e The Prizes where you can check the current prizes a picture and a description of it Regarding the prizes configuration we will talk about that later When the draw is done there is also another menu item e The Podium where you can check who won and in which place each person stayed The rest of the frontend is very intuitive and don t need any explanation If you want to change the text of the Enter in Contest you should edit p ay php but be careful the code is well documented but it is a little bit complex If you have Facebook Integration activated user may need to connect with his Facebook account before submit a code You decide if it s mandatory or not You can read about this later on this document The Back End We are now going to review the Back end functions The following image is the main dashboard and it s what you see when you login in admin backend Logout ra Ll oe The Ultimate Cont
11. e T Te john John Duo Global Administrator amp Go Back K administrator page where you must fill the form to n add a new administrator Clicking on the small buttons on the right of the table you can edit or remove that particular administrator Remember that you Clicking on the big Add icon will open the add are unable to remove the first administrator Now let s talk about the administrators access There are three access levels e Global Administrator It has access to everything yet cannot delete the default administrator neither change its password e Sub Administrator It can do everything except o Manage the administrators o Manage the website pages o Change the global configurations e Contest Manager It can only manage the current contest but can t change the contest s settings 10 Currently at version 1 0 these access conditions are not fully implemented but the version 1 1 will be released as soon as possible with this fix Contest management CCPanel This is the main function of the whole Contester The CCPanel Contest Control Panel also known as Contest management it where you can manage every detail of your contest It has a bold colored and big text line that will resume the status of your contest If the contest is active it will be green if it s been finished the text will be red Welcome to the Contest management Hello In this section you
12. elete pages that you want to delete Although you PEREA are unable to delete the protected pages bold ID PID Page Title Page URL o dlo 1 ene 7 amp 2 Enter The Contest play amp 3 Rules rules amp a 4 Prizes prizes amp 5 Podium podium amp 6 Debug Page debug amp The first 5 pages are protected against deletion and some crucial editions like the page URL and the php file that should be included Above you can see the edition add interface with a brief explanation 18 Editing page Debug Page You are about to create a new page on your contest website Please fill the form below and press the Create buttom to add a new page Debug Page Page URL http labs mouta org concurso debug BF 4 Advanced configurations Keywords The page keywords divide using commas eg eggs breakfast food Meta Descnption A small description of the page Page file replacement It will include a PHP page instead of the text above The file must be on base directory of the site debug php Edit this page The first field it s the page name you should write something Below there is the page URL and it has to be unique and you can t change it on the protected pages The following space is where the text goes This area is ignored if the Page file replacement field is filled with a valid php file 19 On the keywords and meta description you can write some SEO details like the key
13. est Mtanhges Welcome to Contest Manager Welcome to the Contest Manager dashboard Select one of the links on the menu amp p Administrators to proceed You are running Contest Manager version 1 2 EPEE managemen You can go to E contest archive Pages Manager S Custom Fields Ls 5 Configurations Contest Control Panel Access the Archive Manage Administrators Global configurations Tip To change the Rules page just go to the Pages Manager or simply dick here Some statistics about Teste FB Your contest have 2000 keys which 70 are selected There are still remaining 1993 keys where 1395 of those keys are selected Actually we have 7 total partidpants and 5 selected participants which means that 71 43 percent of the participations are selected to the next phase Your contest ts fully active and running In this page you have some shortcuts statistics and a fast tip On the left side you have the navigation menu and you can manage everything using this functions We will see about each one of that functions later on this manual Administrators Management When you need to manage your administrators you can use this panel to easy manage everyone that has access to your backend Administrators management on Manage the administrators of this Contester installation Every en administrator account will have access to this control panel and will be nap able to manage the contest Username Nam
14. he Global Settings The global settings page which you can see it on the next page it s where you can change settings regarding ALL the Contester installation You can change the installation URL the global email the email from where the emails are sent and for where participants will be able to send emails and some front end settings like the page title and the page description as seen on header Finally you can disable the Details header module if you don t want to have your users knowing the current contest statistics You can also enable here the Facebook Integration In this page you can change the Global settings regarding the facebook integration 21 Global settings of the Contester 1 2 Possible actions G oba Settings Email Settings Facebook Settings In this section you are able to change the global configurations of this Contester installation Each of this configuration will be independent of the current contest that you might be running To save the settings you must press the Save buttom Save the configurations General configurations This configurations are about this particullar Contester instalation and will afect the behave of this software Contester full website This will be the URL that the Contester will be running on DON T CHANGE THIS UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING http labs_mouta_org concursa Global e mail Email from where users will recive the emails a
15. nd where they can send you e mails Frontend configurations This configurations are about some details that are visible by your visitor This will mainly affect the frontend of this software Website Title The text that will appear on the header of the frontend My Contester Installation Website description The description that will appear on the header of the frontend The Ultimate Contest Manager Show Details module on header Define if you want to show the Details Module on the header of frontend Show the module 7 Save the configurations 22 Clicking on the Email Settings on the top you are able to edit all the emails that the Contester Software will send to each participant This also applies to the Facebook Settings Clicking on it you can change settings regarding the Facebook How To In this section of the manual will teach you how to do some things with this software Make a new Contest To create a new contest you can t be running any other contest If you want to force close your contest check above how to abort a contest Once you have any contest enabled go to the contest control panel and you will see the following options Welcome to the Contest management Hello It seems that you have no contest running at the moment You can create a freshy new contest or you can check all the details about the last contest The last contest was 4 Your aren t running any co
16. ntest at the moment You can also check informations about the last contest e See all the participants See the selected participants Check the Podium 23 To create a new contest press on the big green button You will be taken to a wizard to create your contest On first step you have to choose a contest name Once you do that press Next New Contest Wizard Step Two Setting up the codes Test Seems like a pretty good name for a contest Now it s time to configure the little details about the code generation Remember those are the codes that the partiapants will obtain and that will select the first batch of possible m winners How many codes to be generated recomended to small medium contest 2 000 codes 2 000 codes to generate What is the selected percentage how many codes are selected to the next phase this will be the odd also Make 10 of the codes selected ones Once you configure this settings you may proceed to the next step Bah Change that name Next step On the step two you will configure the code generator settings You can choose how many codes you want to generate we recommend from 2 000 to 99 000 depending on audience size and the selected winner percentage This percentage is the amount of codes that will select the users to the next phase the Draw phase This will be the odd of getting selected Once you are ready press Next 24 New
17. percentage of selected codes Attention that changing the percentage of selected codes will reset all the codes selected status but will keep the codes the same When you go to the Facebook Settings you can change the settings regarding that particular contest To be able to change 14 those settings you must activate the Facebook Integration You will learn how to do this later on this manual Contest settings of My Contest E a Possible actions Change the settings Manage the codes Facebook Settings In this section you can edit the settings regarding the facebook integration If you don t have the facebook active you should active and configure it first Facebook Integration Active on This Contest Activate or deactivate the Facebook Integration on this contest Facebook Integration is active l It s mandatory to submit a code with Facebook If not users can bypass the facebook login if so non facebook users cannot play It s NOT mandatory to submit with Facebook L Facebook Wall Post Title The title that goes with Wall Post My Contest Play Now Facebook Wall Post text The text that user will write on his Wall I just participated in this awesome contest They are offerir Fa
18. rface to the participant Details about the contest My Contester Installation iii peoptesuinsesscoue l You will have 50 chances to get a winning The Ultimate Contest Manager key Enter in Contest Rules Prizes Welcome to My Contest Contest Welcome to this contest Thank you for your preference and we hope you like this contest The rules are simple You have to generate a code which you can generate unlimited ones and then submit the code which you can only do 2 times If the code is selected as a winner you will be selected to a future draw where we will draw all the winners and their respective prize You can check all the prizes clicking here Are you ready That s it I want to play Remember You can generate unlimited keys but you can only submit 2 keys Developed by Mouta org All your copyright information here XHTML CSS This is how the public main page of the Contester looks like You can easily edit this page by going to your FTP client and edit the start php file The entire file is well documented and you will quickly understand how to edit this file Creating and managing your online contest was never been so cool and easy With contest manager you can do a draw and configure every detail of your contest The contest consists in two phases the first phase where the user submits a code and can be selected to the next phase and the draw phase where all the selected codes are draw Hom
19. sensensss 27 What is Contester This software is a simple yet powerful contest manager The basic usage of this software consists in two parts the first part where are thousands of codes user can tell the Contester how many codes he she wants and the participant will generate one of the codes He will be able to submit from one to three codes depending on what the administrator configured Once the code is submitted it can be selected for the next phase and if so the participant will receive an email informing that he is one of the selected participants to the next phase But if the code is not selected the user may submit another code again it depends of the settings or may be able to win a consolation prize Regarding the consolation prizes it is one single prize that will be offered to 1 to 10 participants or just to everybody One example is want to offer every single participant an exclusive discount coupon to my online store so can activate the consolation prize and give the Contester this information The first phase is now explained The second phase starts when the administrator close the submissions on the control panel as you can see later on this manual Since then no one is able to submit any more code and the administrator is now able to do the final draw of the contest When the draw is being done the system will select from 1 to 10 winners depending on what administrator defined when created the contest
20. w many times each person can submit a code Each user can play 2 times Consolation Prize Change the settings regarding the consolation prize Yes Make 5 consolation prizes Current Save the settings Current value 13 This is the main settings page The red button should only be used in emergency case and will abort the contest It s not recommended to abort a running contest instead just abort that contest that you created wrong Remember that the aborted contests will not show on the archive Changing the number of winners settings will also change the number of podium places Contest settings of My Contest E a Possible actions Change the settings Manage the codes Facebook Settings In this section you can manage the codes database You can add a new batch of codes or you can change the percentage of the selected codes Take in mind that changing the selected percentage will restart the old selected codes but the codes will keep equal How many codes to add remove Press one of the bottons Add 1000 Add 2000 Add 5000 Remove 1000 Remove 2000 Remove 5000 Change the selected percentage how many codes are selected to the next phase this will change the current selected codes The current value is 70 Make 70 of the codes selected ones Save the percentage This is the codes settings window You can add a batch of codes and you can change the
21. words of this page and it s description Finally in the Page file replacement you can write a file name of a php file that must be on the installation directory of the Contester that will be the page content title and text will be replaced by this Custom Fields In the version 1 2 you can now create custom fields that you want to user s to fill Click on the Custom Fields link on the menu to get on the custom fields manager Custom Fields managment p Add new Field You may want to get some details from the participant You can create a custom field so that participant can fill that field when submitting the code Mandatory Address Text field 30 chars and 4 lines Yes Teste Normal Input 123 chars No Go Back By default there is not any custom field created Those fields are just for testing purposes To add a new field you can create on Add new Field icon on the top right corner and fill the form When the participant submits a code he will see the custom fields as you can see in the image below 20 Step Three Redeeming your Key This ts it The moment you have been waiting for The moment when you can submit your you will recive a email with more instructions We wish you the best of luck You are about to submit the code 6b b9cdf bc amp 36de1d6c646 a48634Tfe4 Your name Your Email Address Teste Every field with a is mandatory Do not leave that field blank T
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