AD in forum thread

Simka · September 22nd, 2010, 01:08 AM

Hi Chuck.

Is it possible to have classifieds 4.1 to post new ads in a forum thread?

Chuck S · September 22nd, 2010, 07:54 AM

Our product has nothing to do with forum code.

If your forum product has an RSS feed manager you could try using our RSS file external.php to load a thread on the forum via rss. I know vbulletin has that ability.

I beleive that forum would have tutorials on how to use there products features.

Badger · September 24th, 2010, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simka

Is it possible to have classifieds 4.1 to post new ads in a forum thread?

Yes, it is ....

We use the RSS feed system of vBulletin 4.04 along with Photopost Classifieds inherent RSS capability (plus Chuck's gracious guidance) and we got it working well ...

When someone posts an ad in Classifieds, the RSS feed posts it in our general WTS or WTB forums. It even puts a link in to point to the formal ad in the Classifieds area of our site.

Regards,
Doug

Videx · September 24th, 2010, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Badger

We use the RSS feed system of vBulletin 4.04 along with Photopost Classifieds inherent RSS capability (plus Chuck's gracious guidance) and we got it working well ...

Now if someone could write a tutorial aimed at a person from Mars, maybe the rest of us could have this!

Chuck S · September 24th, 2010, 11:03 PM

well you can go to vbulletin.com and see if they have tutorials on how to use there rss feed manager function since that is what is being discussed.

Badger · September 26th, 2010, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Videx

Now if someone could write a tutorial aimed at a person from Mars, maybe the rest of us could have this!

As Chuck said, there's no magic to this ...

Just ADD an RSS feed in vBulletin and pic up the link to the Classifieds category ....

It's a standard feature in Vbulletin ...

Regards,
Doug

Chuck S · September 26th, 2010, 05:57 PM

Yes as stated vbulletin has tutorials on the proper operation of their software.

vBulletin Manual

That should tell you how to operate there software.

Videx · September 26th, 2010, 05:58 PM

Nope, not working. When I preview the feed I get

Quote:

XML Error: not well-formed (invalid token) at Line 5

.

A search shows you having a similar problem (but at line 2). I have verified Guests can view thread content. However, I'm not sure the rss is working either because the feed shows the last post as a week ago, and I know there was a post earlier today.

http://www.shannondale.org/pp-classifieds/external.php

Videx · September 28th, 2010, 07:25 PM

Bump. Any clues? Line 5 of what?

BTW, now I see that ad from a couple days ago, so I guess RSS is still working.

Chuck S · September 28th, 2010, 07:32 PM

Shannondale & Beyond

your feed is empty which is probally the issue

my question would be why is it empty

Chuck S · September 28th, 2010, 07:33 PM

Like yours is not empty but I see nothing but viewing the source shows content.

Videx · September 28th, 2010, 07:40 PM

Oh, there's clearly content (see attached My Yahoo feed). Any idea what's on line 5? Some sort of clue for me to look at?

Chuck S · September 29th, 2010, 08:00 AM

well that is an error coming from your vbulletin not our rss feed so I can not tell you what that means.

Clearly your saying our rss feed works. Your having issues with the vb rss feed manager.

Videx · September 29th, 2010, 09:38 AM

Yes, I can fetch the raw feed in Chrome and line 5 is very innocent looking:

Quote:

<title>Shannondale & Beyond</title>

Pages full of search results at vb.com for this error, but no solutions yet.

Chuck S · September 29th, 2010, 10:02 AM

What I am saying is this is only an issue trying to run the rss feed manager in vb or our script?

Videx · September 29th, 2010, 03:16 PM

To test it I tried adding http://www.fark.com/fark.rss. It previews fine, no errors. Likewise Reeftalk.com - no errors.

Now I see what you mean that mine is showing 'empty' in Firefox. I didn't know it was supposed to list the feed when clicked, but yours does.

Oh here's something interesting! IE8 actually gives me an error:

Quote:

Whitespace is not allowed at this location.
Line: 5 Character: 29

<title>Shannondale & Beyond</title>

The & character is 29. wtf?

Chuck S · September 29th, 2010, 03:28 PM

Okay so your saying you have a problem viewing the feed in a browser.

HMM are you using the latest downloaded code? what version are you using?

Videx · September 29th, 2010, 03:53 PM

Where do I find the version? The admin page just says "Classifieds 3.13 Update!" at the top.

Wait here it is in the footer: "Powered by: PhotoPost Classifieds 4.1 vB3 Enhanced"

Chuck S · September 29th, 2010, 04:00 PM

HMM so somehow it has a problem with &

if you remove that from the ad title does the issue go away?

Videx · September 29th, 2010, 04:05 PM

How do I do that? I have the rss feed title set to "Classifieds".