Features Ads

[loudmouthclassifieds]

Is there a way to show featured ads under different categories or is it only possible to show them on the home page?

Thanks....Ray

[Eric Barnes +]

Sure you can use the featured listings plugin in any of your template files:
Feature Listings Horizontal - 68 Classifieds

[loudmouthclassifieds]

what if you want to post say only the "auto" featured ads in the auto category and only the "pet" featured ads in the pet category?

Thanks....Ray

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by loudmouthclassifieds

what if you want to post say only the "auto" featured ads in the auto category and only the "pet" featured ads in the pet category?

Thanks....Ray

Thats currently not supported by the plugin but if you know PHP you should be able to use the existing plugin as a base and add that functionality in without too much trouble.

[berg]

I have the same challenge - I want the featured listing(s) for a a specific category to show up in that category, not in all categories because they don't apply and tend to look "over" advertised or like an error.

Right now my site is empty (WakeTrader - New and Used Wakeboard Boats, Wakeboards, and Watersports Gear For Sale) but when I had listings it also seemed like the categories were empty when someone would first arrive because the default text is "We are sorry no items were found.
". I need to change that wording as well. I turned of the counter option because I wanted visitors to go exploring.

A few category specific featured listings on the front page of the category/sub-category would definitely help.

How many featured listings will show at one time anyway? Is there a way to control that? I've also been thinking of moving the featured listings above the Browse Categories on my main/index page but don't want to totally fill the page with listings and knock the categories way down out of sight.


Thanks-
Berg

[bedouin]

Hi guys,
In order to achieve this functionality, I edited a few lines of code in plugins/function.feature_listings_horizontal.php

Simply replace this code (starting on line 78)

$sSQL="SELECT id,title,price FROM ".PREFIX."listings WHERE display = 'Y' AND expiration > NOW()";
if($featured=='Y') 
{
	$sSQL.=" AND featured = 'Y'";
}
if($owner > 0)
{
	$sSQL.=" AND owner=".$owner;
}

with this modified code

$sSQL="SELECT L.id, L.title, L.price FROM ".PREFIX."listings L WHERE display = 'Y' AND expiration > NOW()";
if($_GET["cat"] != NULL) {
	$sSQL="SELECT L.id, L.title, L.price 
		FROM ".PREFIX."listings L 
		LEFT JOIN ".PREFIX."categories C ON (L.section  = C.id)
		WHERE L.display = 'Y' 
		AND L.expiration > NOW()
		AND C.name='".$_GET["cat"]."'";
}
if($featured=='Y') {
	$sSQL.=" AND L.featured = 'Y'";
}
if($owner > 0) {
	$sSQL.=" AND L.owner=".$owner;
}

Even though it is not the most elegant solution, I tried it and it seems to work...
Perhaps it can help create a true user-friendly plugin or get included in some future release.

Cheers!