eBay Integration Mod

This extension allows users to enter their eBay username, and will then have a link in postbit that will show all the users current eBay Auctions.

Does require a couple of template edits, and edit of a file (not native to vB).

Based off of the idea and hack from 3.0.x which can be seen: here.


1.0.1 Updated XML to parse two templates, saving two queries (thanks to Zachariah).

1.0.0 Initial Release


*To Update*
Reupload all files, Re-import product, making sure to allow overwrite.
-- Make sure you replace fieldx with your field# in the XML before updating.

[xtreme-mobile]

Originally Posted by tokenyank

when an auction is just listed, it doesn't always show up in the 'users' list until some time after... Remember, eBay has HUGE data farms so it will take a bit of time for one server to update them all.. If it isn't there after a few hours, then it could be a problem.

been about 40 hours lol

any ideas what the problem is?

one of my members has over 30 items for sale yet the only thing showing is the random ebay thing

[silurius]

I figured out the random eBay thing and changed my snippet to show nothing if there are no auctions, however there is still a problem. When clicking the link to view someone's eBay auctions, I am told "This member has not given their Ebay ID" even though I had entered a valid ID (with auctions running) into the user's account. Is this also due to the delay mentioned above?

[xtreme-mobile]

does your actuLLY show the auction up cos mine dont

[silurius]

Originally Posted by xtreme-mobile

does your actuLLY show the auction up cos mine dont

Only "This member has not given their Ebay ID" and that's it.

[tokenyank]

The installation and/or snippet must have been generated wrong then...

It is working for me...

Here is an example of a member who has active auctions:
http://www.mumsonline.net/forums/mem...ns&userid=1767

And one that doesn't have any active auctions, thus its displaying most watched items from the 'baby' catagory from ebay.co.uk:
http://www.mumsonline.net/forums/mem...ons&userid=578


Here is my snippet code if it helps you debug your issues... (feel free to use it yourself, it has my affiliate code in it! )

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://ilapi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?EKServer&amp;ai=teaodUskda&amp;bdrcolor=666666&amp;cid=0&amp;eksize=1&amp;encode=ISO-8859-1&amp;endcolor=FF0000&amp;endtime=y&amp;fbgcolor=EFEFEF&amp;fntcolor=000000&amp;fs=0&amp;hdrcolor=00FFFF&amp;hdrimage=7&amp;hdrsrch=y&amp;img=y&amp;lnkcolor=0000FF&amp;logo=9&amp;num=25&amp;numbid=y&amp;paypal=n&amp;popup=y&amp;prvd=1&amp;r0=4&amp;shipcost=n&amp;siteid=3&amp;&si=$userinfo[field14]&amp;sort=MetaEndSort&amp;sortby=endtime&amp;sortdir=asc&amp;srchdesc=n&amp;tbgcolor=CCCC99&amp;title=MumsOnline+-+Where+Parents+Talk%21&amp;tlecolor=CC3333&amp;tlefs=0&amp;tlfcolor=FFFFFF&amp;track=1781835&amp;watchcat=2984&amp;width=570"></script>

EDIT:
there is spaces rendering in the above snippet code that are not in the orginal code... Quote this message to get the snippet code as it appears in my ebay_member template

[Marv]

that did the trick :bunny:

[davidw]

Ok, I finally got it working...

Things I noticed that I had to change...

In the readme, it says

	**NOTE** When adding your Ebay Sniplet Source Code to the template, find this bit &si=whatever and add your 	profile field: &si=$vbulletin->userinfo[fieldx]

To get it to work, I would have needed it to read like this:

	**NOTE** When adding your Ebay Sniplet Source Code to the template, find this bit &siteid=whatever and add your profile field after: &si=$userinfo[fieldx]

I had to remove the " vbulletin-> " part

[davidw]

This is something else I did (integration)

Edit your MEMBERINFO Template

Find

PHP Code:

                  <if condition="$userinfo['showyahoo']">
                    <tr>
                      <td>$userinfo[yahooicon]</td>
                      <td><a href="#" dir="ltr" onclick="imwindow('yahoo', '$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200); return false;">$userinfo[yahoo]</a></td>
                    </tr>
                    </if>
                 </if>
                 </table>
             </fieldset>
            </if> 


or if you have the skype/gt/etc. mods in place
Find:

PHP Code:

                     <tr>
                      <td>$userinfo[skypeicon]</td>
                      <td><a href="#" onclick="skypewindow('$userinfo[userid]', 400, 200); return false;">$userinfo[skype]</a></td>
                    </tr>
                    </if>
                </if>
                </table>
            </fieldset>
            </if> 


Add, after:

PHP Code:

            <fieldset class="fieldset">
                <legend>$vbphrase[miscellaneous]</legend>
                <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="$stylevar[formspacer]" border="0">
                    <if condition="$post['fieldx']"><a href="member.php?&do=memberauctions&userid=$post[userid]"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/ebay.gif" alt="$post[username]'s Ebay Auctions" border="0" /></a>
                    </if>
                </table>
            </fieldset> 


Don't forget to replace x with your field number.

Also note that I chose to put this under Contact Info (I do this as I am going to have other things with ebay - for references) - You may want to choose to put this under Addtional Information.

[silurius]

For the life of me, I am not getting this to work. I have re-generated the snippet a few times, pasted the new code over the old, made the change as per christanb's post, added the memberinfo stuff from his other post, and I keep getting the same error.

[davidw]

What is it doing?