Question Location of Ebay Widget code ?

Here is their code, this is ONE of 6 replacements they are doing in kunena.parser.php The campid=5336042350 is their, or someone's campaign ID with eBay Partner Network. If you know how to read regex, you can see that they are parsing out the eBay Item ID and then inserting that into the link with their campaign ID. So even if you put a link into the editor that has your campaign ID, it will remove it.

This same replace is done to items, sellers, and searches and has 6 spots in their code where it can be done. Maybe the developers aren't aware that someone slipped this in? who knows...

I confirmed this is in Kunena 2.0 as well, but the code is newer and is in /com_kunena/libraries/bbcode/bbcode.php

Instead of accusing people we could just ask them:

Are the Kunena devs aware the ebay widget adds an ebay affiliate ID? If so, can we expect an option to add our own affiliate ID.

(Even an open source project needs funds to operate, hosting, organizing meetings etc costs money. Adds in the forums are visible ways to compensate the costs somewhat. The affiliate links are not visible and should have been documented somewhere to avoid discussions like this.)

John wrote: Instead of accusing people we could just ask them:

Are the Kunena devs aware the ebay widget adds an ebay affiliate ID? If so, can we expect an option to add our own affiliate ID.

(Even an open source project needs funds to operate, hosting, organizing meetings etc costs money. Adds in the forums are visible ways to compensate the costs somewhat. The affiliate links are not visible and should have been documented somewhere to avoid discussions like this.)

Agreed, i may be a bit quick to accuse here.. but i was shocked to find this.

Yes this should be disclosed, and if anything something like this in the config portion of the admin:

eBay Campaign ID: 1234567 (1234567 is the default ID, if you choose to support Kunena's development please leave this # as it will help generate revenue for further development. You may change this to your own Campaign ID, if you do so, consider making a donation to us.

Problem solved if that was the case.. again I apologize if i'm coming off accusatory but after running another site w/Kunena for years i now know what $$$ i've lost..

I was unaware of this until very recently (just before RC1) when I rewrote the widget code to use the new URLs. The code has been there forever (FireBoard 1.0.5); need to check who owns the campaign ID ASAP.

Wow, so someone has been making some mad cash! I'd contact eBay Partner Network, they may help you find out who it belongs to.

One of the original programmers of Fireboard....just a long forgotten piece of coding.

Maybe following wdwms98's suggustion is a good idea to help raise funds and give users an option:

Yes this should be disclosed, and if anything something like this in the config portion of the admin:

eBay Campaign ID: 1234567 (1234567 is the default ID, if you choose to support Kunena's development please leave this # as it will help generate revenue for further development. You may change this to your own Campaign ID, if you do so, consider making a donation to us.