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10-03-2006 01:47 PM

juven14

Yes, I do a bit of custom coding and make modules for this script, so I try and stay as involved as possible.

10-03-2006 01:23 PM

Unregistered

Sorry John,

I thought you were directly connected with the development of 68Classifieds (probably as a result of your comprehensive & knowlegeable reply to my original post) - The script is entirely Eric's baby then I assume:-)

Cheers

Mike

10-03-2006 11:23 AM

juven14

Oh, it's not my script, I'm just a customer like everybody else. There for a minute I was thinking that your were talking about my module demos.

I believe this bug has already been submitted, though I don't know the status.

10-02-2006 06:08 PM

Unregistered

Hello John,

Just checking out your demo & found that it appears to suffer from a similar problem that the other company's script suffers from.

If you include the " double quote in the title of items for sale, immediately after editing a listing in admin, when the screen refreshes, everything after the first double quote is missing from the title!

The whole title appears to be stored in the database though & it is correctly displayed on the user end.

I 'fixed' a similar issue with the other script by substituting double quote marks with the entity " in submited fields.

Same problem does not occur when including double quote marks in the description fields.

Mike

10-02-2006 05:30 PM

Unregistered

Hi John,

Thanks for your comprehensive reply - all fair comments. I am very impressed already with the responsiveness to queries on this forum. I'll take a long look at the product & run it past my prospective client (or it may actually potentially be 2 clients - one wants to offer real estate another wants an auto sales site)

Cheers

Mike

10-02-2006 05:02 PM

juven14

No, but the code is clean and you have access to all the source you need with the developer version. Further, the support in this forum is outstanding (if I'm allowed to say so myself, lol) so you wouldn't be competiting with hundreds of free users for forum support. You are allowed to test the script at one domain and run it live at another. You can also run it from your home computer for testing before you upload it to your live site.

While, there is no free trial, the code is clean and easy to follow so, it is really up to your skills with php, if you get the developer version, and how much you really intend to change the way the program works.

Plus, there is a module system which allows you to upgrade without much effort, if you do decide to work make changes.

There is a live demo so you can fully understand how the script works for both the front-end and admin areas. You could also buy the hosted version, if you don't want to commit to the full price of the script until you are sure.

10-02-2006 03:48 PM

Unregistered

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the further info. Yes I found such a script too which checks & unsets globals at the head of scripts. I thought about editing the other company's script (they allow user customisation of the code) & inserting such code but not sure I want to get into that.

One reason I downloaded and tried their script (although I had already seen that yours was maybe the top product in this area) was that I could get a free copy for localhost use & so could test it out on my local machine, try a few customisations etc & make sure it was what I needed. You don't offer your product, keyed/licensed to localhost only, which users can freely evaluate on their local PCs do you?

Cheers

Mike

10-02-2006 02:49 PM

suzkaw

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By the way Eric - one of your main competitors have written their script for register_globals OFF & it will NOT run properly with it set ON? As you have demonstrated with your code, you can, with care, write PHP code to ensure that scripts run just the same with setting ON or OFF

I have just checked my test server and our live server and both have it set to off. In our init.php file which is ran everytime a page is loaded I have a small if statement that checks for register globals then if you have them turned on it unset all the variables and allows access to them through post, get, session, etc.

10-02-2006 01:59 PM

Unregistered

Thanks all for your replies to my question - very quick & helpful.

Just to clarify matters, unless I jump hosting company, I am currently stuck with register_globals ON - hence my question. My hosting company, for the moment (soon to be remedied I hope), offers no way to overide the PHP register_globals setting - they run (quote) 'a CGI version of PHP using an
advanced suexec wrapper script' on their shared hosting platform.

In situations like this .htaccess is not unfortunately available - only individual folder level php.ini files can be used to overide the main server php.ini. Folder level php.ini files can only contain directives not set in the main server php.ini so they would have to remove the register_globals directive from the main server php.ini thus revert to the default register_globals OFF & fix everybody's site needing register_globals ON with local folder php.ini files. All rather messy & not a minor undertaking for them.

Anyway that's all pretty academic since 68Classifieds runs with register_globals ON.

By the way Eric - one of your main competitors have written their script for register_globals OFF & it will NOT run properly with it set ON? As you have demonstrated with your code, you can, with care, write PHP code to ensure that scripts run just the same with setting ON or OFF

Thanks for your help once again.

Mike

10-02-2006 01:19 PM

Lhotch

I have it running fine on a development server running PHP 5.1.4 and MySQL 5.0.21

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