random listings - SEO

[seymourjames]

Thought this may be useful for somebody who is into SEO and wishes to avoid duplicate empty pages which can get generated by searchresults. Details of this plugin can be found here

http://classifiedmods.com/viewlisting.php?view=32

[Fatih67]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

and create a function in the plugins directory as follows:

sorry , i didnt understand here.

can you say here with details.

what will i create ? what will its name ?

Cheers

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Originally Posted by Fatih67

sorry , i didnt understand here.

can you say here with details.

what will i create ? what will its name ?

Cheers

The code that was listed should be saved in a file called "css_random_listings_horizontal.php". The file should be uploaded to your smarty plugins folder in your site.

So it would live here:
yourclassifiedsite/includes/classes/smarty/plugins/css_random_listings_horizontal.php

-Mike

[Fatih67]

Originally Posted by Mike-N-Tosh

The code that was listed should be saved in a file called "css_random_listings_horizontal.php". The file should be uploaded to your smarty plugins folder in your site.

So it would live here:
yourclassifiedsite/includes/classes/smarty/plugins/css_random_listings_horizontal.php

-Mike

thanks for your reply ,
but i didnt do it

i created css_random_listings_horizontal.php
and i add some codes to style.css but when i open my site i encountered white page...
by the way i dont have seo module


thanks Mike

[seymourjames]

Thanks Mike for making it clearer about file creation and placement.

It works well for me (visit the link to see) whether the SEF module is on or off. Google is biting as well. It is seeing lots of fresh and non-duplicate content.

Perhaps someone without the SEF module can quickly try. It really is a nice way to proceed when there are empty results pages, etc.

[HotAir]

I just added this to my V4.1.0 Beta 2 test.

There were two minor changes I had to make for this to work:

1. Line 3 in the code above has an extra space that needs to be removed. The correct line is:

function smarty_function_css_random_listings_horizontal($params, &$smarty)

(original code had "$pa rams" -- it should be "$params" as shown above)


2. The correct file name is:
function.css_random_listings_horizontal.php

It works great without the seo mod with those two changes.

Regards,
Jim

[seymourjames]

Thanks, I did not spot that. I just dumped it in too quickly. Nice to see someone else got this working.

[HotAir]

Now that I have this working, I've like to change what is shown. I've got some extra fields that I'd like to display in the output of this mod.

I've added the extra fields in showlistins.tpl per this thread: Link

But now I'd like to do the same for this 'function.css_random_listings_horizontal.php'. I don't know how to pull the extra fields and assign them to variables so I'll have access to them - anybody care to give this a go??

Regards,
Jim

[seymourjames]

First of all, the downloads are to be found here. Better to use the maintained source than copy the code out of the forum pages.

http://www.68classifieds.com/forums/...s-styling.html

All these modules do work with and without the SEO module with quite a bit of testing now. Secondly, the error in the file was commented out so I am unsure if that was the reason why one of the plugins was not working for one or two people. However, most people seem to have it working.


Unfortunately, I am not sure if there is a quick answer to your request but it would seem to be possible with a bit of trial and error.