Thread: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Hey!
I am looking to add another form field to the bottom of each classified advert (between the ad description and Url/stats)
I want just 3 Fields - Name, Email and Sealed Bid. I want it to be like the contact form where the results get emailed to the seller but I do not want it to be in the same form on the side instead in the main part of the advert. Does anyone have any ideas?

Also on the main categorys has anyone noticed that the price sorting does not actually sort the price? It sorts by Ascending/Descending but depending on the first number in the price. so £95 would be above £8500 simply because 9 is higher than 8.

Thanks

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Sorting by price is bugged, I guess because the field is technically a text field, not a number field.

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Is there a way to fix this in the code?

So, the default way the price field sorts numbers is alphabetically,
where 1 is first and 2 is second, but also 210 would come before 30
and 5000 before 6.

Based on the research I've done so far, we need to change something
about the postmeta...I think...in order to sort numerically.

David, can you help us with this? If sorting by price is an option, it ought to work properly, right?

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Yeah, since the price is using a WP postmeta field which only comes in varchar (text), I didn't think it was possible to sort numeric values correctly.......until I did some research and figured it out!

Edit your index.php page and look for the following line:

Now replace that with this code:
That should now sort the numeric values correctly. Remember, the highlighted feature ads will take precedence and sort first. Then your regular ads will come sorted next.

This fix will be included in the next release. Thanks to this wordpress support post for providing the solution.

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Thanks David,
I found that post too, but wasn't quite sure how or where to implement it.

This is a good fix.

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

This fix still fails to fix the problem for me
I can sort by Desc and cars which cost £950 are in the with cars costing £9000-10000. For example:
£10000
£9800
£975
£8000
£795
£7000

I have tried the fix mentioned ^^ and it has not fixed the problem

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

He's right. This did not fix the problem. Any other ideas as to how we can do this?

Am I in the right place? This is where I'm going...

domain.com/wp-content/themes/classipress/index.php

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

If I'm understanding this correctly, the "0" that is added to the code above is a place holder which will prevent 10 from sorting before 02.
Try adding more zeros... I think "00" will prevent 100 from sorting before 002 etc... etc...
I haven't tried this yet, so let me know.

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

Hi!

This hack doesn't work... At least for me! Anyone has the solution?

This is a kind of killer bug for this theme.

Didn't test enough and now have one customer asking me about this...

Any feedback would be great.

Thanks,

António

Re: Adding another Form to Classified Adverts

bump...

Really the more I think about this, the more I think it might be more important. I know when I search for items on Ebay, I like to sort the results by price which makes finding items in your price range much faster than pouring over hundreds of listing to find what you're looking for.

Though this is not a huge issue, but I'd like my members to be able to sort numerically by price. Can look forward to a fix for this in the next version of CP perhaps? Does someone out there have a fix?