relist ads and ads expiring

[PanamaRed]

Man I'm feeling like a complainer here sorry.. The ads other than auctions don't seem to be expiring. So I have had no chance to see the relist feature.

[Chuck S]

Cron Job: sendnotice.php

You are just not versed on the application yet no big deal buddy. To expire ads you need to run that cron task

Only time your going to see a relist feature is if someone sells the ad or the system expires it

[PanamaRed]

The ads are not expiring, I put some test ads up for 3 days and they never expire..

[Chuck S]

If you set up that cron task ads will expire that is why I placed the link above for you to read.

[PanamaRed]

OK, I just reset one of the email functions on the VB 3.5 to yes on this setting and it sent me all of the emails I have been trying to get..

Enable "-f" Parameter
Some sendmail servers may require the "-f" parameter to be sent with email calls from PHP. If you are having problems with users not receiving email, try enabling this option. In all likelihood, your problem will not be caused by this setting.

[PanamaRed]

Working like a champ!! very happy with the ads now. thank you Chuck I appreciate all of your help.

Question now is if I relist ads they don't get bumped to the top of the list is that normal? Is there a way to bump them to the top of the list when they are relisted?

[PanamaRed]

Just a note, the relist and expiation are linked to the auto responce, once that was set right it all works.

Still wondering about bumping the relisted ads though.

[Chuck S]

yes relisting them is not going to bump them to the top cause all your doing is changing the expire date not the date posted etc.

[gmptp]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

yes relisting them is not going to bump them to the top cause all your doing is changing the expire date not the date posted etc.

Is there an expiration variable in the db to show the expire date in showcat, I know there's a duration variable in db that can be retreive that show 7 days 10 days, 15 days etc

Instead of displaying the duration of the ad in showcat, I like to display the expire date in addition to the date posted.

I found the enddate below, but the format for the enddate is "1315249683" <- what format is this and how can I convert to normal day, yy and month?

I've added below line to showcat.php and showcat.tmpl, but the output is in 1315249683 on my website, how can I convert 1315249683 to ->day yy and month? Help.


$ppdate = formatppdate( $date );
$pptime = formatpptime( $date );
$ppenddate = formatppenddate( $enddate ); <- I added this in showcat.php but doesn't convert.

--------dbase
SELECT *
FROM `pp_products`
ORDER BY `pp_products`.`enddate` ASC
LIMIT 0 , 30

-------- showcat.php
$gallery['ppenddate'][$count] = "$enddate";

-------- showcat.tmpl
{$gallery['ppenddate'][$x]}

[gmptp]

Originally Posted by gmptp

Is there an expiration variable in the db to show the expire date in showcat, I know there's a duration variable in db that can be retreive that show 7 days 10 days, 15 days etc

Instead of displaying the duration of the ad in showcat, I like to display the expire date in addition to the date posted.

I found the enddate below, but the format for the enddate is "1315249683" <- what format is this and how can I convert to normal day, yy and month?

I've added below line to showcat.php and showcat.tmpl, but the output is in 1315249683 on my website, how can I convert 1315249683 to ->day yy and month? Help.


$ppdate = formatppdate( $date );
$pptime = formatpptime( $date );
$ppenddate = formatppenddate( $enddate ); <- I added this in showcat.php but doesn't convert.

--------dbase
SELECT *
FROM `pp_products`
ORDER BY `pp_products`.`enddate` ASC
LIMIT 0 , 30

-------- showcat.php
$gallery['ppenddate'][$count] = "$enddate";

-------- showcat.tmpl
{$gallery['ppenddate'][$x]}

Problem solve above, just add below to showcat.php and tmpl

php-> $ppenddate = formatppdate( $enddate );
tmpl-> {$gallery['ppenddate'][$x]}

[Chuck S]

Yup you need to format the unix timestamp into a date that can be displayed