I notice that postings to this site must be approved by the site moderator. How can I find out about adding the same functionality to my own classifieds web site?

Dear Friend,

when you install the classifed Kit, You obviously become the owner/moderator
of your own website, so you can easily update/delete/moderate any ad posted on your site.

I hope you have understood. If not then pl., install and check it yourself.

 

Thanks
 

I want to control the site proactively -- before the "ads" are posted rather than after. Users can, after all, post some very untasteful material that I might not see for hours or days unless I become married to the site. I need the ability to inspect material before it is actually posted which is, of course, the way this site works (at least with regard to original thread postings although not these response postings -- I wonder if that does not sometimes cause some problems).

As Paggy was saying you do have the ability to do this. If you go to Site Administration, Manage Settings, and check the box: Ads require activation before appearing on the site.

Each Ad that is not activated will not be displayed but obviously is still in the database.

 Then you or someone as an Administrator have to go in activate the ad.

What I did was just hooked the site up with paypal, then once they enter in a payment the ad gets activated automatically. I figured most people will not post untasteful material if they have to pay for it

You also have the option to allow users to edit the ad once it is activated. If you dont want them to edit uncheck the box: Allow Users to edit their Ads:

justin0501:

You also have the option to allow users to edit the ad once it is activated. If you dont want them to edit uncheck the box: Allow Users to edit their Ads:

Dear Justin,

I doubt this option is safe enough. If you allow users to edit, they will again post nasty things on the web. I dont think there is a facility
in this startkit, when ad ad comes for activation every time it is posted or edited. If it comes for activation, even after (1) Uploading a
Photo or (2) editing an advt it is nice, other wise it is dangerous.

Are you aware about this scenerio for activation after editing.

Bye the way, i have already posted my erorr for the email, as you have guided me.

Thanks

Paggy4u

That is why I suggested to turn that feature off. If one wanted to I think it would be rather easy to require activation after editing as well, just change the ad status after they save the edited ad

This has been quite helpful. I will require activation as has been suggested. And I will look into the same activation for edits. What I really need, however, is to be able to email an activation code to those who register so I can be sure about their identity (their email address) -- and this should be done automatically by the site so I do not have to monitor things. Since identity would be determined before activation, malicious entries should be deterred. I know all this is a big job and I do not expect anyone out there to do it for me but send any tips that you may be able to offer.

I have not done this but an idea might be to change the IsApproved field value in the aspnet_membership to False when they register, then generate a validation key for that user, save it to the database, and send it off to his/her email address. Then once they validate your generated key, change the IsApproved value to True so they can log in.

The IsApproved value for a membership user is checked during the call to ValidateUser by the SqlMembershipProvider. If the IsApproved property returns false, the ValidateUser method returns false even if the supplied user name and password are correct.

Good tip. Thanks, Justin!

justin0501:

I have not done this but an idea might be to change the IsApproved field value in the aspnet_membership to False when they register, then generate a validation key for that user, save it to the database, and send it off to his/her email address. Then once they validate your generated key, change the IsApproved value to True so they can log in.

The IsApproved value for a membership user is checked during the call to ValidateUser by the SqlMembershipProvider. If the IsApproved property returns false, the ValidateUser method returns false even if the supplied user name and password are correct.

Is there a way to set the IsApproved Flag to False in the CreateUserWizard?  I get the concept here, but not the implementation.  Please be explicit, you've got a newbie here. :)

Thanks,

 

Bob

How about a BadWords filter? ... which would be a text file, one badword per line.

BarryZ

barryz:

How about a BadWords filter? ... which would be a text file, one badword per line.

BarryZ

Barry,

I hope you get a better response to your post than I did.  I didn't get any. :)   I'm still trying to figure my situation out.

 

Bob

Hi Friend

go through this link

http://www.asp.net/downloads/starter-kits/classifieds/

 

Which one of us were you responding to?

 Thanks,

Bob

Ok, here is my 2 cents..

I have not implemented the membership approval just yet...however it can easily be implemented by:

1. In Register.aspx.cs|vb, after the user is created you can set the IsApproved to false

protected void CreateUserWizardControl_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e){
...
      Membership.GetUser().IsApproved=false;   //this will return the current logged in user

}

2.You can then generate and email an activation code to the new member and after the member enters the code, you can then set IsApproved back to true

      Membership.GetUser("username").IsApproved=true;

regarding "bad words" you are trying to filter, Again i did not implement that "yet"....you might want to consider an anti-spam framework....check http://www.akismet.com (Its what wordpress use in their blogs)

Good Luck!