Buy Ad Immediately - Not Working?

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 02:49 AM

I've just installed version 3.0 and discovered that although 'Registered Users' can create an Ad with the 'Allow Users to Buy your Ad via Paypal Immediately?' option set to Yes, when the Ad is submitted the 'Buy It Now' button fails to appear.

Admin users can create 'Buy It Now' Ads with no problems.. any ideas?

Many thanks
Ron

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 10:58 AM

No ideas at all

http://www.omegatron.net/pp-classifi...php?product=23

I just tested the default code and see it fine.

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 11:32 AM

I've just found that if a 'Registered User' sets the 'Quantity of Ads' to great than '1' the 'Buy It Now' button appears, but if it's left to the default setting of '1' no 'Buy It Now' button appears, even if the 'Allow Users to Buy your Ad via Paypal Immediately?' option set to Yes.

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 12:37 PM

Your talking about the buy quantity button not the buy it now link. The buy it now link appears with the rest of the buttons.

I had another user who was confused about this as well cause he was looking at the quantity buy it now button not the regular buy it now link.

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 01:34 PM

You're right Chuck...... I didn't realize!

The new quantity 'Buy It Now' button is FANTASTIC.... central page and catches the eye straight away, however the 'Buy It Now' link/image that appears in the same place as all the other 'user options' is far too small for anybody to notice and is pretty useless in my view, sorry to criticize your very hard work.

In version 2.6 I manually edited the 'Buy It Now' link because I used to have a constant flow of emails from people asking me how to buy items via PayPal so I had to keep telling them were the link was, which was a pain. So it looks like I'll have to edit the image and introduce a much larger one again.

Personally in future releases of PP_Classifieds I'd like to see the 'Buy It Now' link in the same place as the current quantity 'Buy It Now' button.

Many thanks for the help Chuck.

Ron

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 01:40 PM

You can redownload the build and upload the templates folder and main php files and the button you want is there

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 01:49 PM

Thanks Buddy....

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 01:54 PM

Yeah no problem. I spent over a week talking with this other guy trying to understand why he did not see the buy it now link and it finally came down to he was looking at something else on my test site so I just changed it to show that on an ad regardless of quantity

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 01:55 PM

Just reading the above again......

Does that mean you've already changed the template design

, or are you just directing me towards the quantity 'Buy It Now' button image so I can replace the 'email_go.png'?

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 01:57 PM

No I stated you need to update the templates and php files from the current build and it will show the link you want as well.

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 02:12 PM

Hi Chuck,
Before I go and upload all the ./classifieds/*.php and ./classifieds/templates/*.tmpl files,
can you tell me if there is a global flag I can tick to remove the

<option value="9999">{$Globals['pp_lang']['noexpire']}</option>

option from all the 'uploadproduct*.tmpl' files?

I only want users of my Classifieds to have a maximum Ad duration of '90 Days' as the 'No Expiry' option just attracts the Spammers.

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 02:13 PM

No you would need to remove those from the uploadproduct and editproduct templates.

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 02:28 PM

Just uploaded the .tmpl files and I have this that greats me from an existing Ads?
Something's not quit right here Chuck....

Wish I hadn't started this upgrade yesterday now, I'm too frightened to upload all the .php files now, which ones have actually changed in the last 24hrs besides uploadproduct.php?

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 02:36 PM

whats not right? Your attachments show me it looks fine.

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 02:45 PM

- There's a problem if your Ad just has a quantity of '1', for Ads with a 'Buy It Now' quantity of >1 it's fine. Where 'Quantity' is set to one you still need a table header that reads 'Quantity', I think that would sort it.

- The middle attachment has suffers from the same problem, as all the values have shifted because of the lack of 'Quantity' header:
- - - - - 'Date Posted' as 17 and the date appears with no heading.
- - - - - 'Buy It Now' price equals '1'
- - - - - Under 'Views' it says 'Best Offer'.

I'd say it doesn't look as intended from where I'm sitting.

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 04:12 PM

http://www.omegatron.net/pp-classifi...php?product=22

Login is testing and testing you tell me what does not look right as it looks perfect to me

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 04:21 PM

I agree that yours looks fine Chuck, it's my site I have a problem with (see attachment below). Can you tell me what .tmpl generates this section and I'll try another update of it.

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 05:10 PM

Ah I see the issue the vb3enhanced template still has the conditional

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

it should be

Code:

Content visible to verified customers only.

Ronseal · March 16th, 2008, 05:26 PM

In the ./templates/vb3enhanced/showproduct.tmpl, I've just cut all the code you've listed above in the top frame and replaced with the code you've shown in the bottom frame uploaded the file and all appears to be working fine now. Are there any other files I need to edit Chuck?

Thanks for the help, I was panicking as tomorrow/Monday is always my sites busiest day of the week and I need more activity in the Classifieds.

Thanks again!

Chuck S · March 16th, 2008, 05:39 PM

Nothing else needs changing