Creating a link to view ad in users admin panel

[HorseOptions]

I noticed in the Browse Your Listings window under My Account that there isn't a place where the user can click to view their ad. I've been trying to accomplish this by putting a link under the title of their ad , but I seem to have hit a speed bump. Here's what I have in the Template Editor > Default > Users > usersbrowselistings.tpl (using hosted Developer's edition 4.0.9):

<a href="{$smarty.const.URL}/listing/{$entry.id}/{$entry.title}.html">-View Your Ad</a>

which produces

http://www.horseoptions.com/listing/180/FREE%20Ads.html

it should be

http://www.horseoptions.com/listing/180/FREE_Ads.html

Everything is good, except for the "%20" that it uses instead of the "_". Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Rob Shurtleff - Marketing
On behalf of Lin Shurtleff - Webmaster
HorseOptions.com

PS. Eric Barnes & 68Classifieds Rocks!

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Originally Posted by HorseOptions

I noticed in the Browse Your Listings window under My Account that there isn't a place where the user can click to view their ad. I've been trying to accomplish this by putting a link under the title of their ad , but I seem to have hit a speed bump. Here's what I have in the Template Editor > Default > Users > usersbrowselistings.tpl (using hosted Developer's edition 4.0.9):

<a href="{$smarty.const.URL}/listing/{$entry.id}/{$entry.title}.html">-View Your Ad</a>

which produces

http://www.horseoptions.com/listing/180/FREE%20Ads.html

it should be

HorseOptions.com - Online Classifieds for Everything Equine � FREE Ads

Everything is good, except for the "%20" that it uses instead of the "_". Any suggestions?!

It creates the "%20" because that is the HTML equivalent of the <space>. If you had a <space> in an actual URL it wouldn't work. What I'm confused about is that your posted URLs versus the code, the link itself in viewing the page should actually be "-View Your Ad". I assume that is what is actually showing, but your talking about the actual link that it produces.

I haven't tested this, but I believe you can use the built in Smarty function to replace the "%20" that is generated like this:
<a href="{$smarty.const.URL}/listing/{$entry.id}/{$entry.title|replace'%20':'_'}.html">-View Your Ad</a>

-Mike

[HorseOptions]

Thanks for the help. I gave that a try, but it just made that whole portion of the page go blank. Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

[HorseOptions]

I figured it out. What made is work was to use the following:
<a href="viewlisting.php?view={$entry.id}">-View Your Ad</a>

[seymourjames]

Yes you got it but just something I do - <a href={$smarty.const.URL}/viewlisting.php?view={$entry.id} target="_blank">{$entry.title}</a>

The target="_blank" puts the advert up in an new window. It seems to make a better workflow rather than going back and forth in my opinion - your choice.

Also as a search engine is not accessing behind the login (well it shouldn't be) then the fact that you lose your search engine friendly url does not really matter. I say that for completeness to save the question being asked by somebody else.

If you do want to have a search engine friendly url then you will need to consider not just replacing those spaces but stripping out a range of other 'special' characters like the comma, etc to format all the possible links correctly. Examples of this can be found in several other places in the system (e.g; look at feature_listing plugins and I think external.php has some stuff to do that or did). It will be a little more complicated as well because I notice you are using iso-8859-1.

[HorseOptions]

Very good ideas and thoughts. Thanks so much!!