68classifieds not stable anymore....

[damiun +]

Hi,

i already added a ticket to the support, so they know, and i hope they can find a cure for this.

But since the last few updates i am havind quite alot problems, and i really starting to doubt if 68classifieds was the right choice for a classifieds script (i was confinced i made the right choice for a few months).

I have the problems like i typed down below, are their other people with similair problems?
Or is their a link between the problems?

- after the admin changes (or activates a listing, all the values of the extra fields dissapear)
- people purchase a listing for 14 days, the day after they place a listing they receive an email that the listing has expires
- i made a discount coupon to represent 50% discount, it only gives 30%.
- the link to an listing is incorrect (horizontal feature listing) when i dont use the seo mod.
- if i use the seo mod, the style dissapears on the viewlisting page
- a lot of times i get an english message ( i live in the netherlands and the language is dutch) that the listing doesnt exist anymore, (its not the error message from the sorry.tpl file)
- the status of the listing in the admin isnt right (some listing are active and complete but not shown)
- paid listing are set to wait for approval while i set it to "no approval'" and the authorize free ads"mod is disabled.


Sincerely.
Damiun

Update: Wednesday, 16 september : I officially apologize for this thread. The problems are not caused by one things, but by multple and the person most to blame am I. Because of wrong html editing, the site didnt function as it suppose to be.

[Eric Barnes]

I just replied to your ticket. Your template has code all over the place and that is the reason it isn't displaying properly. You can see this here:
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.damiun.nl/ - W3C Markup Validator

[seymourjames +]

Damium in fairness this may or may not be the case but you have made a very large number of changes to your site and it is difficult to pin point specific reasons for specific problems. You have added things like your chat system and conflicts can easily arise. What I would do is go back to the default template, the NuStyle template or Fluid Template without all the mods you have added. Then see if you get these problems. I think you will find many of them will go away.

Before doing any of that though, I would upload your admin folder again and your core files. I would compare my database with a fresh one which you could quickly set-up on a subdomain with some dummy listings.

[Eric Barnes]

As for the others:

- after the admin changes (or activates a listing, all the values of the extra fields dissapear)

I have not experienced this in any of my tests or heard any other reports about it.

- people purchase a listing for 14 days, the day after they place a listing they receive an email that the listing has expires

This is a setting you can control. Checkout Settings - 68 Classifieds
Renewal DaysThe number of days before the listing expires that you want them to be notified. This only works if allow renewal is set to yes.

- i made a discount coupon to represent 50% discount, it only gives 30%.

I remember answering this on the forums and never could duplicate it.

- the link to an listing is incorrect (horizontal feature listing) when i dont use the seo mod.

I imagine this is from the plugin you are using. The default one should work with or without the seo mod.

- if i use the seo mod, the style dissapears on the viewlisting page

Related to my above reply.

- a lot of times i get an english message ( i live in the netherlands and the language is dutch) that the listing doesnt exist anymore, (its not the error message from the sorry.tpl file)

Please let me know where you see this so we can add it to the language file.

- the status of the listing in the admin isnt right (some listing are active and complete but not shown)

Listings are also tied to expiration dates. So they can be active and complete but not display because they are expired.

- paid listing are set to wait for approval while i set it to "no approval'" and the authorize free ads"mod is disabled.

I am personally not familiar with that module.

[damiun +]

Thanks for your reply.

if i have this code:

<a href="viewmember.php?member={$owner}">{$username}</a>

What can be wrong with that?
especially with eye on the code of the original template:
<a href="viewmember.php?member={$owner}">{$username}</a>

Can you see any difference?

Your template has code all over the place and that is the reason it isn't displaying properly

and that is also one of the errors, because it links to something that doesnt exisit,
is it me to blame: i used the original code (see above)

That link goes to
http://www.damiun.nl/listing/75/member/1.html
and that doesnt exist.

[damiun +]

I looked at the errors that page gives:

my site has one error:

if i let it check 68 Classifieds - PHP Classifieds Script it comes up with 10 errors.
[Invalid] Markup Validation of http://www.68classifieds.com/ - W3C Markup Validator

[Eric Barnes]

I am not saying ours is perfect or any other site for that matter. I pointed out that link because it will show you some of what is wrong. You had the <body> tag in the wrong place and lots of other structural tags wrong. That is the reason some browsers are chocking on the site. For the most part having a few errors will not give you problems but when the base tags are not where they are supposed to be you will have problems.

[seymourjames +]

As for your horizontal listings module can you please check you have a copy which has this in the plugin file

if ($rowData['link'] == '') {
$rowData['link'] = 'viewlisting.php?view=' . $rowData['id'];
}
$rowData['link'] = URL . '/' . $rowData['link'];
$tplData[] = $rowData;

At one time, many months ago there was an extra / in the code. I think if memory serves me correctly it was in the line marked in red . This bug fix was issued within days of the Nustyle template being released. if you turn your SEO module off then you will see a pair of // come up in the code for a viewlisting url.

[damiun +]

@seymourjames
- i set the default template to your (templatecodes) ruby template,
and i ran it: 1335 Errors, 53 warning(s)

But it does work, so i will eliminate the problems, and why the script goes to a different url than the a href points to.

@Eric Barnes
I check my site every other week with -i dont know the name of the site"but it gives you screenshots with the display of your site on other os and with other browsers, and it never was a problem, it started becoming a problem after activating the seo.

[Eric Barnes]

I just took a look at your site again and it looks fine in IE now. But that isn't the same design that was on it in the beginning.