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SimplePie with 68 Classifieds

Integrate SimplePie with 68 Classifieds

by Eric Barnes on September 1, 2009

This tutorial is meant to show you how to include SimplePie into your 68 Classifieds site.
SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the ’simple’ back into ‘really simple syndication’. Flexible enough to suit beginners and veterans alike, SimplePie is focused on speed, ease of use, compatibility and standards [...]

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Import Listings into 68 Classifieds

by Eric Barnes on August 18, 2009

Recently I needed a way of importing listings from another site into a 68 Classifieds site. As of right now 68 Classifieds doesn’t have an api so the only real way of doing it is to create some custom code to interact with the script. In this post I will outline how I got [...]

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68 Classifieds – The Power of Includes

by Eric Barnes on July 2, 2009

One great feature that I don’t see used all to often is include templates. These give you the ability to break your template down into small workable sections and include them as needed. For the latest site I built I used these in lots of places and it made my job a whole [...]

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Building a news module – 68 Classifieds

by Eric Barnes on July 1, 2009

Today I decided I should share how I built the news module for a recent site I worked on. The goal of this tutorial is to hopefully help you better understand the 68 Classifieds module system and how to build your own modules. For this tutorial I kept the module pretty basic but it should [...]

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68 Classifieds – TextMate Bundle

by Eric Barnes on June 29, 2009

I am not sure how many people using 68 Classifieds that also use TextMate but I wanted to share two of my favorite bundles that have saved me numerous hours over the years.
The first one is PHP Smarty available from the TextMate SVN and Mike Zornek has instructions for installing it. This one has [...]

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Project – Suzuki Kawasaki of Gastonia

by Eric Barnes on June 24, 2009

Suzuki Kawasaki of Gastonia

I just finished up doing a complete overhaul on Suzuki Kawasaki of Gastonia’s website. The new one is now running completely on a stock 68 Classifieds Developer edition with a custom template, custom modules, and plugins. I was amazed but I didn’t have to make any core code changes to build this site and from [...]

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