Mini Mods - Ebay Listing widget BB code (with your affiliate id added in)

Hi all, this little bit of code, will allow your members to use the official ebay listing widget on your site...

As seen At my Leicester Talk Forum (first post)

This will automaticly add your affiliate code on the end too, so you can make some money with this.

Theres no products to upload, or templates to edit.. Just follow these steps.

Creating the basic Widget
Go To "Admin CP --> Custom BB Codes --> Add New BB Code"

Enter the following...

Title: eBay Listing
BB Code Tag Name: ebay
Replacement:

<div align="center"  style="margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="355">
        <tr>
                <td class="thead" style="text-align:center">
			<object width="355" height="300">
				<param name="movie" value="http://togo.ebay.com/togo/togo.swf?2008013100" />
				<param name="flashvars" value="base=http://togo.ebay.com/togo/&lang=en-us&mode=normal&itemid={param}&query={option}&campid=Affiliate-ID-HERE" />
				<embed src="http://togo.ebay.com/togo/togo.swf?2008013100" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="355" height="300" flashvars="base=http://togo.ebay.com/togo/&lang=en-us&mode=normal&itemid={param}&query={option}&campid=Affiliate-ID-HERE">
				</embed>
			</object>
		</td>
        </tr>
</table>
</div>

You will need to change the "Affiliate-ID-HERE" for your own in TWO places. If you don't have one just leave the code as is, ebay will just ignore it.

You can get one at ebays partner network site


Example: [ebay=classic cars]170449644305[/ebay]
Description: Add an Ebay listing to the forum. Locate the auction of interest you want, and copy the Item Number from the box on the right, and paste between the [ebay] tags, you should also find a search that you want to perform after the auction has expired (end time + 120 days) and put that in as a option. So the syntax is [ebay=search term]item number[/ebay].
Use {option}: Yes
Button Image (Optional): whatever 20x20 image you want, I've put one at the bottom. Please upload the file and then refer to it...
Remove Tag If Empty: Yes
Disable BB Code Within This BB Code: Yes
Disable Smilies Within This BB Code: Yes
Disable Word Wrapping Within This BB Code: Yes



Thats It Folks..
If you wish to thank me, check out my advertisers or considering you will be making some money off this a donation would be nice

Then maybe I will be able to buy the car in the example listing

I will be putting the other ebay widgets up in a moment too...

[Jesh]

It's installed right, but when I click the eBay icon it says please enter the option for your ebay tag, then I enter the item #, but the tag just says . Shouldn't the item number go inbetween the tags?

[SirSteve]

There seems to be an issue with this and the CMS WYSIWYG editor...

[Scalemotorcars]

Anyway to get this working automatically with the RSS poster bot?

I.E. The RSS feeds auto apply the BB code and affiliate into the feed post.

I really need a way to accomplish this since Dismounted's old eBay rewrite hack isn't working correctly with 4.0.

Thanks...:up:

[nitra1000]

Sorry no, Ebay currently does not pass the ID as a seperate RSS Element.

[Scalemotorcars]

Sorry, let me be a little clearer.

The rss comes in and displays as a normal feed or stylized widget. When someone clicks the link it automatically tacks in the PN number.

I know it works with 3.8.4, Dismounted made it available back on 3.6.0 but he doesnt have the time to update to 4.0.

Right now the old hack works 50%. It tacks on the PN number when a user clicks the feed but the, (add to watch list) is broken and it no longer sends the date for calculating impressions.

[ashley76]

You say add the Affiliate ID, but the actual code is asking for the Campaign ID... So which one do we put in?

[Sean James]

Installed this for 4.1.3 but get this error:

The following BB Code replacement may not be properly formed. All HTML attributes should be enclosed within double quotes.

[Cayton]

Originally Posted by Griffin80

Installed this for 4.1.3 but get this error:

The following BB Code replacement may not be properly formed. All HTML attributes should be enclosed within double quotes.

Mine does the same thing. The button appears in the thread tools, but the ad does not appear in the thread.

[nitra1000]

Make sure everythings terminated correctly.... i.e no quote marks left open at the end

[TenPercenter]

Dev: Thanks for this mod. I have been looking for something like this.

Question: how does the {option} actually get used? when I link an expired auction, I just dont see how this {option} is translating to a search term anywhere in the widget.