Price checking by Listing Package

[Bucketman]

Is there anyway that when someone is placing an Ad that you can check the price of the item against the package listing.

On my site I have two listing packages -

• FREE Package for items up to $500
• PAID Package for items $500 and over

What is there stopping a person selecting the free package but placing an Ad for an item for say $2500. I have tested this and goes through fine. The only mechanism I can see is to manually check every Ad that goes on.

Is there some way that when someone is placing an Ad to verify the price of the item they enter falls within the pricing of the listing package - as in my case that a FREE Ad listing has a price of less than $500.

Or is this very hard to implement.

[Eric Barnes]

It would require some manual changes.

To do this you would need to find out the package id then edit the usercheckout.php file around line 434.
You should see:
$listingprice = ereg_replace("[^.[:alnum:]]","",$listingprice);

Just under it add:

PHP Code:

if($productid==1 && $listingprice > 500)
{
$listingprice=500;
} 


Basically that says if the package id is 1 and the price is over 500 then reset the price to 500.

[Bucketman]

What I have done is use the following:

if($productid==1 && $listingprice >= 500)
{
$productid=2;
} 

Also, just in case anyone else wants to do this the line was 834 in my usercheckout.php file.

What the above does is check the price and if it is $500 or over, and the listing package selected is for items less than $500 it changes the listing package to the PAID listing package - which should stop anyone getting around paying for more expensive item ads.

I have put several test ads up and it is working.

Anyone see any issues with me doing it this way....

[Eric Barnes]

Ashley,

Good thinking.

The only thing I would see is they might get the same ad features as package 2 has. But then again they are trying to cheat you.

[Bucketman]

But that's OK - because they will be forced into paying for it - so the old saying 'you get what you paid for' will certainly ring true for them.

I guess it all sounds a little silly but I don't want people trying to list expensive items for sale through my FREE listing package - which is only for cheap items.

[e1m2j]

Any thoughts on how I might code this for multiple levels?

i.e. packages 1 and 2 for ads under $20, packages 3 and 4 available for ads $20.01-50.00, packages 3 and for available for ads $50.01-$100, etc.

[Eric Barnes]

Sorry I must have missed your post but I saw it in the other thread.

What you would do is have multiple if elses. For example:

PHP Code:

if(($productid==1 || $productid==2) && ($listingprice >= 20 || $listingprice >= 50)
{
$productid=3; //assign to package number 3
}
elseif($productid==3 && $listingprice >= 100)
{
$productid=4;//assign to package number 4
} 


Of course you would need to edit this to match your package id's and also make sure the logic is correct.

[e1m2j]

Originally Posted by suzkaw

What you would do is have multiple if elses. For example:

PHP Code:

if(($productid==1 || $productid==2) && ($listingprice >= 20 || $listingprice >= 50)
{
$productid=3; //assign to package number 3
}
elseif($productid==3 && $listingprice >= 100)
{
$productid=4;//assign to package number 4
} 


Thanks. Just to clarify, since php isn't my strong suit:

What is the first part saying ($productid==1 || $productid==2) && ($listingprice >= 20 || $listingprice >= 50)?

Is that saying if productid=1 and the listingprice is $20 or more, or if packageid=2 and listingprice is $50 or more automatically assign package 3?

The rest I seem to get
if productid=3 and listingprice is $100 or more, assign package 4

and I can extend those elseif statements along indifinitely.


Can such code handle multiple options, i.e. $20 or less is package 1 or 2, $20.01 to $50 is package 3 or 4, $50.01 to $100 is package 5 or 6?

For example, there could be one package with just text and one with photos at each price level.

[Eric Barnes]

I did see a few errors. Here is an updated if statement with some more details:

PHP Code:

if(($productid==1 || $productid==2) && ($listingprice >= 20 || $listingprice <= 50)) 


That says if they selected productid 1 OR 2 AND the listingprice is greater than or equal to 20 OR listingprice is greater than or equal to 50.

Can such code handle multiple options, i.e. $20 or less is package 1 or 2, $20.01 to $50 is package 3 or 4, $50.01 to $100 is package 5 or 6?

Yes it would be easier this way too.

PHP Code:

if($listingprice < '20.00')
{
$package=1;
}
elseif(($listingprice > '20.00') || ($listingprice < '50.00'))
{
$package=3;
}
elseif($listingprice > '50.00') || ($listingprice < '100'))
{
$package=5;
} 


[e1m2j]

Thanks.

I know I'm being dense and taking up way too much of your time.

But, I don't see where the code

PHP Code:

if($listingprice < '20.00')
{
$package=1;
}
elseif(($listingprice > '20.00') || ($listingprice < '50.00'))
{
$package=3;
}
elseif($listingprice > '50.00') || ($listingprice < '100'))
{
$package=5;
} 


allows multiple packages per price range.

Wouldn't it be something more like

PHP Code:

if($listingprice < '20.00')
{
($package=1 || $package=2)
}
elseif(($listingprice > '20.00') && ($listingprice < '50.00'))
{
$package=3 || $package=4);
}
elseif($listingprice > '50.00') && ($listingprice < '100'))
{
$package=5 || $package=6);
} 


showing my na�vet�, I know.