Ebay Affiliates and Blogger

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You may experience issues when trying to add your ebay listing from your affiliates account to your blogger blog, this is caused by the way Blogger compiles the elements of the blog at runtime.

To fix this is quite simple.

For example if we have the following code from Ebay

<script language='JavaScript1.1'> document.write("<sc"+"ript language='JavaScript1.1' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55972/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55972&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=728x90&def=u7v&n3y=1&a3h=1&u7v=1&mpvc='></sc"+"ript>");</script><noscript> <a href='http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-53481-19255-15/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55972&customid=&def=u7v&n3y=1&a3h=1&u7v=1&mpvc='> <img border='0px' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/710-53481-19255-15/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55972&customid=&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]&adtype=1&size=728x90&def=u7v&n3y=1&a3h=1&u7v=1&mpvc=' alt='Click Here'> </a></noscript>

It looks pretty complex, b ut all we need to do is firslty ignore the <noscript> section as thsi will work as it is, in all browsers as there is no complicated stuff going on here.

So the bit we are interested in is the first bit

<script language='JavaScript1.1'> document.write("<sc"+"ript language='JavaScript1.1' src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55972/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55972&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=728x90&def=u7v&n3y=1&a3h=1&u7v=1&mpvc='></sc"+"ript>");</script>

The problem blogger encounters is that is cannot encode this into the existing structure, so all we need to do is play around with the JavaScript a bit and turn the above code into the following

<script language='JavaScript1.1'> document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='http://rover.ebay.com/ar/1/55972/1?campid=5335857286&toolid=55972&customid=&mpt=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999999999) + "&adtype=3&size=728x90&def=u7v&n3y=1&a3h=1&u7v=1&mpvc=' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script>

As you can see what we are doing is using a slightly more complex method to do the same job, by using the unescape command we are asking the browser to do the work and not blogger.

So all you need do is replace the necessary parts of your ebay affiliate code with that above and everything should be fine.

If anyone has any problems doing this, just drop me an email and I will show you how.

Happy Ebaying.

Thanks
Sean J Connolly
Visit AJAX Web Development Store

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