Answering a listing in a DIFFERENT screen

[philoo]

Hi all,

After some weeks of running my new 68C website, I have some questions...

Many of the listings I have on my classifieds website are large. Many of my customers does not see the "answer this add" section below the content of the add.

So I would like to add a link "Answer this Add" in the links section of the add (favorites, email a friend, print this add ...) that open a new screen, with the same as below the Add.

Any idea to make this easy ?

Cheers
Philippe

[Lhotch]

Why add the complexity of a different screen? Why not just create your link to an anchor for the contact form on the existing page?

[philoo]

This _technically_ a good idea.

BTW, there is an other issue. Mostly of my ads are free an our income are made with publicity programms (like adsense but also direct sales) based on viewed screens.

Our previous classifieds software used a different screen for answering an add, and as we notice a significative loss of viewed screens (around -15%) since we switched to 68C we would like to try this...

[Lhotch]

I dont have exact code for you to use because I havent done this but 99% of the code you need already exists.

Creat a new script file named what you like to call the layout template and your body template. You can look at how pages.php works to accomplish this. Then cut/paste the contact section of your viewlisting template where the contact form is and place it in a new template that is called by your new php script modelled after pages.php and then place the link in your viewlisting template so people can get to your new page/contact form.

[philoo]

I seems that if I call "http://demo.68classifieds.com/contact.php"

... this allready open the user contact form. Only missing are the variables that allow to identify the member and the listing concerned ....

[philoo]

Originally Posted by Lhotch

I dont have exact code for you to use because I havent done this but 99% of the code you need already exists.

Creat a new script file named what you like to call the layout template and your body template. You can look at how pages.php works to accomplish this. Then cut/paste the contact section of your viewlisting template where the contact form is and place it in a new template that is called by your new php script modelled after pages.php and then place the link in your viewlisting template so people can get to your new page/contact form.

Does your solution carry the variables that allow to identify the user and the listing ?

[Eric Barnes]

This is how I think it can be done.

1. Create a new link to contact owner from the viewlisting page. Like this:
<a href="contact.php?lid={$ownerid}&listingid={$lid}" >

2. Edit the contact.php file and change this at the bottom:

else
    {
        $class_tpl->assign('title',$title);
        $class_tpl->assign('name',$_REQUEST['name']);
        $class_tpl->assign('fromemail',$_REQUEST['fromemail']);
        $class_tpl->assign('message',$_REQUEST['message']);
        $class_tpl->assign('lid',$_REQUEST['listingid']);
        $class_tpl->assign('owner',$_REQUEST['ownerid']);
        $class_tpl->assign('body','contact/contactowner.tpl');
    }

[philoo]

Eric,

It runs very fine if you link this from viewlisting page :

<a href="contact.php?ownerid={$owner}&listingid={$lid}" >

thanx to Smarty debug mode