This page will include all the modifications I have created for 68 Classifieds. I am also using Google Code to host the files so if you are interested you can use SVN to check them out or report any issues.

All of the ones listed are designed to work with v4.1 beta.

Download MarkItUp^v1
Released on November 15, 2008

If you need any help with this module please comment below.

This module will allow to use TinyMCE in the administration.

Download TinyMCE^v1
Released on November 14, 2008

If you need any help with this module please comment below.

On that note what are your predictions for the 09 season? I have to think it will be James Stewart all the way but I would really like to see Chad Reed blow his socks off.

In the lites I have to go with Austin Stroupe and Ryan Dungey. I like both of them.

1. Search all documentation first.
This is a very important step when asking for support. Always search first and try to find the answer to your question on your own. If it is a common problem or a basic problem then chances are your question has been answered before. Also if the company you are wanting support from has user forums it is a good idea to ask their first. The reason for this is users in all different time zones visit forums and you may get a quicker response.

2. Keep emails short and to the point.
Basically do not get long winded and instead try to keep your email on point and also include as much information about the problem as possible.

3. Include steps to reproduce the issue.
This one is very important. We are not mind readers so the more specific you can be the better. Having to swap three emails just get some information slows down the process for both you and the company.

4. Be Kind and Courteous
There is nothing more that will cause a delay in a response to your problem than being rude. We are all humans and if you say something to make me mad you are moved far away from any high priority. It is just a fact of life and I am being honest here.

5. One question at a time
Please try to ask one question at a time. That includes waiting for a response to the first question before asking others. This is a common problem with our ticket system. Some people will submit 5 different tickets and that causes us to have look through each one before a reply is sent.

Hopefully these tips will help you out and if you have any of your own please post a comment.

With gmail whatever it finds at the beginning of the email is what it uses to show in your inbox. For the newsletters I have been sending it would be something like: “Having trouble reading this email? Click here to see it in your browser”. Not very friendly and not one that jumps out and makes you want to read it.

The tip from Nettuts is:

Insert a 1px x 1px image as the very first element in your email. Wrap the image in span tags setting the font color to the same as the background. Whatever text you put in the ALT tags for your 1px x 1px image will now replace that google snippet in the users inbox.

Truly brilliant and some nice outside the box thinking. For the other tips visit: 6 Easy Ways to Improve Your HTML Emails.

I have spent the last week rebuilding all the modules I have personally developed and released and will be posting them for download when beta 3 is released. In the meantime if you are a 68 Classifieds customer please download the beta and give it a try. The more testers the better.

Change Log

• Moved to jQuery
• Upgraded to latest release of Smarty
• Added Smarty Caching - Very Experimental and no documentation
• Upgraded to latest release of phpMailer
• Added new fields to page editor
• Add css forms throughout admin.
• Added ability to private message from viewmember page.
• Moved custom Smarty plugins to root/plugins/
• Reworked User Notes
• Translated email templates
• Added jQuery thickbox for large image display
• Added new includes/format folder - For strings, filter, date, arrays, etc…
• Added paging to userbrowselistings page. For folks with lots of listings.
• Reworked Feature Listings Horizontal plugin. Added two new fields. owner and featured.
• Added version comparison so if your version is out of date you are warned.
• Added new Template Settings page.
• Added check for initial install to display a link to a quick start guide.
• Added ability to search by date extra field.
• Added usergroups and active/inactive for products.
• Reworked forgot password routine. Now it sends an email to confirm the change and another with the new pass once they have confirmed.
• Moved captcha system to a module. This will allow other captcha systems to be included.

The joys of golfing in North Carolina in the fall. Of course I must have been to busy looking at the leaves changing and that is the reason for my high score.

When I first started out I started creating snippets for common email reply’s. Thanks for contacting us, instructions for resetting a password, etc. That alone is worth the money to buy this app but I have since added lots more snippets that I use.

The first group of custom snippets I use is for our forums which uses vBulletin. Some common tasks on it is typing [quote], [code], [php], tags. It doesn’t take that long to write them out but typing ,[q is a whole lot quicker.

So I have bundled up the snippet group and added it as a download to hopefully benefit some of you. Keep in mind this is really basic and only includes a few tags. Mainly the ones that I use most.

Here is a list of the ones included:

,[q - [quote] [/quote]
,[c - [code] [/code]
,[b - [b] [/b]
,[p - [php] [/php]
,[l - [list] [*] [/list]

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If you have any to add please pass them along.

For example in regular javascript I had:

function deleteit(id) {
  alert(id);
}
<a href="#" onclick="deleteid(1)">Delete</a>

So with a little help I found out how it can be accomplished with jQuery:

$('a.delete').click(function(event) {
	event.preventDefault();
	var id = this.id.replace('del_', "");
       alert(id);
}
<a href="delete.php?act=delete&amp;id=1" id="del_1" class="delete">Delete</a>

I know this isn’t anything revolutionary but it sure had me stumped for a little while. Hopefully this will help someone else just learning jQuery.