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April 6th, 2009 #1

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Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
New features in 2.8 look great.

The ability to edit/delete is important, but custom fields are crucial for me. The ability to search by those fields of course would be presumed.

Tags would be helpful, but in many cases a tag search is not enough of a filter.

I know you just released 2.8, but what do you have planned for 3.0? Do you have a roadmap for upcoming updates? Timetable? I know I sound spoiled, but classipress is just a few features short of being perfect!

Thanks for the hard work.

ps. I assume you'll give us fair warning before you increase the price?
April 7th, 2009 #2

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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
2.8 now uses custom fields for all ads. It also includes a search function which includes those custom fields in search results. Try searching for names or phone numbers in the demo to see how it works.

2.9 will be released in the next few months and 3.0 will follow suit. Lots of the requested features will be added to 2.9 and in 3.0 ClassiPress will break out into a couple new products. More details will come later. I still have a 2.8 headache.

Regarding the price, yes some sort of warning will be given.
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
Really? So if I wanted to add a custom field such as "condition" (used or new), where would it appear?
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
Yes. That's why v2.8 was important in making this move to using custom fields. So you would have to edit a couple files in order to get that working. For example in v2.8:

Edit post-form.php and create your new field. Make sure the field "name" is unique such as "condition".

Next edit the form_process.php file in two places and paste the following code below line #33 and #157:
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// this captures the form submitted value and sets it equal to a variable. Does some general data scrubbing too. Add below line 33 $condition = cp_filter($_POST['condition']); // this line saves the new custom field to the ad you just created. Add below line 157 add_post_meta($post_id, 'condition', $condition, true);
Now that should take care of adding a new custom field and data to the ad in WordPress. Next you need to pull back that field on the single.php page. Below line #103, paste in the following code:
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<div id="condition"><?php _e('Condition:');?><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "condition", true); ?></div>
Now go look at the classified ad you just saved this to and you should see it show up on your site. You can of course put the results in a different location on single.php but that should generally do it. That should get you at least started in the right direction.

This should actually work for any version of ClassiPress but the line numbers will be different depending on the version you have. This is based on v2.8.
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
Seems simple enough to follow.

So, it's not just a matter of adding a field on this page: http://wpclassipress.com/wp-content/...tom-fields.gif

Even still, this is fantastic.

Thanks!
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
No, I wish it was that easy but the truth is you need to map those fields in a couple of spots.
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
So, my next question is:

Where do I add the custom field values? So I created a new field called "exact location", but I want it to be specific values ( such as just four cities ). Where do I type in these cities? Do I just add the values through the post page? I would want them to drop down in the form.
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
Still on the googlemap integration trail and have tried the above.

All works well in that the tags that I need wrapped around the custom field load fine BUT not the contents of the field.
When I check the test ad in the admin the extra field is listed but without the contents.

post-form.php
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<label for="location"><?php _e('Google Map','cp'); ?> <span>*</span></label> <input type="text" id="gmap" name="gmap" maxlength="100000" value="<?php echo $gmap; ?>" />
form-process.php
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add_post_meta($post_id, 'gmap', $gmap, true);
single.php
Code:

<div id="gmap"><?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "gmap", true); ?></div>
My feeling is that post-form.php is disallowing html to be posted (even though it is turned on in the settings) but I could be wrong.

Any ideas will be welcome.

test site is:
http://spacespare.com/new - (using v2.8)
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap

Originally Posted by redsoxmaniac

So, my next question is:

Where do I add the custom field values? So I created a new field called "exact location", but I want it to be specific values ( such as just four cities ). Where do I type in these cities? Do I just add the values through the post page? I would want them to drop down in the form.

I am also looking for such a feature so that we can add custom drop down fields. For example I have a category called Real Estate I would then want it to be a drop down with values "Property, Estate, Apartment, Villa, Commercial etc" or for Cars I would want "BMW, Ferrari etc." In short when a custom field is added we should be able to specify if its going to be a drop down in which case we should also be able to enter the relevant drop down options for the field while creating the same.

The suggestion above is so that it upholds the ability of classipress to be ported to any classified requirement.
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Re: Custom Fields, Future Feature Roadmap
I've got custom field additions on the roadmap for later this summer but for now, you'll need to manually create the new fields. Dropdowns or text fields are easy. Just view the source on the form to see how categories are being done. I do plan on writing a more detailed tutorial on this later but I've been heads down the last several weeks trying to finish up v2.9 which is going to be an amazing release.

btw, it includes google maps integration.

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