Listing expiration

[Juba]

When setting up Fee based listing plans, how can I automate the expiration process?
I would like to set it up so that I don't have to deactivate every listing manually.

[Arthur]

Hello Juba,
By default our products are setup so that listings are expired automatically.
You should set the appropriate Cron jobs.

Regards
Artur

[Juba]

Hi Arthur

What should the cron job look like and what should it contain?
I have the following cron job on my server and is set to "common settings" but it doesn't work:  wget -q 'http://www.mydomain.com/system/miscellaneous/task_scheduler/' -o - > /dev/nul

If this code is incorrect, can you give me the code so that I can just add my url to it with any other necessary settings on hour/day/month/year?

The user manual states that only the subscription based listings expire manually so you might have to change it for other users.

[jperot]

dont waste you time with this people,they will not help you,only if you pay support.
Better you ask your host to help you,they do it quickly and dont ask for money.

[Juba]

I checked the manual and the only cron job it talks about is the one on my site server but it does not work. I have Fee listings which are free on my site which state they are for one year but they have been running for over 16 months and are still activated.
I contacted the host company and they told me this is something the script company should make sure is working before selling it and said it was very unprofessional that people still have this bad habit.
So I guess I have to do everything manually and keep a separate spreadsheet so that I can monitor when listings should expire and deactivate them manually.
Talk about defeating the object of the whole exercise, absolutely useless feature.

Thanks anyway perot. 

[jperot]

What I tell you about this people. they will not help, many complain about bad sarvice to customer. better you try do yourself my friend

[Juba]

I also have a problem with the payment page. I had to change some words because of the very poor use of English.
This is the text I get when a user proceeds to payment:

"Dear customer!

Please make a payment of $currency_sign $product_info_price for $product_info_name.

Please select the payment method below:"


Here is the code:............



[[Dear customer!]]



{capture name=product_info_price}
   [[$product_info.price]]
{/capture}
{assign var="product_info_price" value=$smarty.capture.product_info_price}
{assign var="product_info_name" value=$product_info.name}
{assign var="currency_sign" value=$GLOBALS.custom_settings.transaction_currency}

[[Please make a payment of  $currency_sign $product_info_price for $product_info_name.]]

{if $errors}
<p>
[[The following errors occured]]:

   <blockquote style='color:red'>
   {foreach from=$errors key=error item=error_data}
   {if $error == 'NOT_IMPLEMENTED'}[[There is something missing in the code]]
{/if}
   {if $error == 'PRODUCT_PRICE_IS_NOT_SET'}[[No price is defined for this payment]]
{/if}
   {if $error == 'PRODUCT_NAME_IS_NOT_SET'}[[Product name is not defined]]
{/if}
   {/foreach}
   
</p>
{/if}



[[Please select the payment method below]]:




{foreach from=$gateways item=gateway}

   <form action="{$gateway.url}" method="post">

      {$gateway.hidden_fields}
      <input type='submit' value='{$gateway.caption}'style="width:150px; margin-bottom:5px;" />

   </form>

{/foreach}

[Juba]

I have resolved the Payment Page issue with the help of a developer on a popular forum.
Concerning the cronjob, I have added the missing l to the word "null"  and received my first ever notification of an expiration although I still don't know if it is working correctly as most of the listings on my site should have expired by now.