Possible Location Bug?

Hello Guys

Can someone explain this issues to me here, i have been testing some new ads on the site making sure that the listing forums i created are correct but what i found was after i cleared my browser cache the site defaulted back to my location which is fine.

Now what i did notice was the ads that i posted where not showing on the site at all even going through the categories that i posted them in, so what i then done was started to remove the extra locations from the url using the location box on the home page and once i got down to just the url the ads shown up again?

Here are example urls that show the ads below

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/

Here are examples of urls that don't show the ads below

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/epson/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/

Why has this happened please?

Thanks
David

I may be wrong here but if those ads did not have locations such as uk/england for example then they would not show up just as a .com location setting.

for example if you wanted to promote to all of the the uk the ad would need to select .com/uk

if an add wanted to show in england it would need to be .com/uk/england but this would not show up in the others ? for example .com/uk ?

I think they all would show up in the .com ? but you would need to run a few tests to check this out.

Hi Pete

I have since disabled the locations box completely and all seems ok at the moment since it's not defaulting to the users pinpoint location and the url is just staying as .com/ so maybe disabling the locations may of sorted this out but not sure yet.

Thanks
David

Hello David,

The problem is that when you have more than one listing field which uses the same multi-field entry, in this case, Countries, the listings are filtered by all such fields when applying some location filter,
in classifieds, by default, there is a listing field Citizenship that also uses multi-field entry Countries
you can remove this field and the problem will be solved
or
if you need to keep this field you should apply some fix: go to ftp > plugins > multiField > rlMultiField.class.php > function prepareGet()

find a row:

PHP Code:

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change "ORDER BY `Key`" to "AND `Key` NOT LIKE 'citizenship%' ORDER BY `Key`"

this problem will be fixed in the new plugin update

Hi Rudi

Sorry i am just a little confused with the change of code you have provided, is it

change "ORDER BY `Key`" to "AND `Key

Or is it

change "ORDER BY `Key`" to "AND `Key` NOT LIKE 'citizenship%' ORDER BY `Key`"

Just confirm this for me please.

Thanks
David

you should change

"ORDER BY `Key`"

to

"AND `Key` NOT LIKE 'citizenship%' ORDER BY `Key`"

or submit a ticket and we'll do it for you

Hi Rudi

So i have this change and listed a new ad but i still cannot view it when on urls below:

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/epson/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/

But i can view ads on below url:

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/

Regards
David

Hi Rudi

Anymore info regarding this problem that i am facing as it's still there.

Thanks
David

Hello David,

I have created new test listing on your site and I see it:

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/
https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/acle/

I don't understand your problem.

Hi Viktor

Thanks for the reply i'll try to explain this for you now below.

1, At the moment i cannot see the ad that you have posted on the site because right now the categories on home page are showing in grey and showing NO listings in them while my url location is showing as:

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/england/epsom/

Now if i delete the epson/ from the end of the url or by pressing the Red X on the location box then i can see the ad you posted in motors and the the motors category will then highlight in black? So you are saying that because this ad is not posted in the area of epson UK this ad will not show to me?

Thanks
David

Hello,

Note that when you filter listings by specific location this location should be also selected in your listing

Hi Rudi

Okay so i have been testing the locations again and still have the same issues so let me try and explain them again below so we both understand each other on this and how it works.

1, Example i am from London UK and post an Ad from London which is fine and the Ad shows okay on the site from url https://www.xxxxxxxx.com

2, Example i land on the website from say Birmingham UK which is about 70 miles apart but once i land on the site the site url is now https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/united-kingdom/ and you cannot see the Ad that was posted from London on the site? To be able to see the London Ad you have to remove the uinted-kingdom from the end of then url which in my eyes is not correct.

It should not matter where in the UK you are you should still be able to see all Ads posted on the site and currently this does not happen on my site as you once the system picks up your location you will not see other Ads on the site.

Thanks
David

Hello David,

since the update of the multi-field plugin is not released yet you should make some corrections to the plugin so that it would work properly,
I already told you before in this thread what you should do,

check it again and follow my instructions bellow

Hi Rudi

I don't see your instructions below so please send them again.

Thanks
David

Here is the link on page 2 of the current thread: http://forum.flynax.com/showthread.p...tion-Bug/page2

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