Travis,

Havent heard of dolphin before... Is it a development platform?

The results come back as an xml reponse, check out there example reponse:

http://api.oodle.com/api/v2/listings?key=TEST&region=chicago&category=vehicle/car

I'm not sure what your refering to when you say template...

I developed my application from scratch using ASP.Net/AJAX/SQL 2005

All my the categories, attributes, regions, cities and states are stored in my SQL database.

(I have over 43,000 cities in my database; it contains city, state, zipcode, lat and long)

Using what I have in my database I used that for the api request.

It really depends on what kind of UI you are going for, you can download their categories and regions XML documents and just use those to start.

Hope this helps, let me know of any more questions.

Thanks,

Brice
http://www.adoodles.com

--- In oodleapi@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Tsiga <atsiga@...> wrote:
>
> I have used dolphin in the past, paid all the money to get the script an
> modules,
> but the problem with dolphin is that hackers love it and they will have a
> field day
> on your site...
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:29 AM, T travis@... wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Brice,
> >
> > I decided against trying to pull the api into wordpress and I am instead
> > going to use another platform called Dolphin.
> >
> > My main concern is how to get the classifieds to lay out properly
> > in their categories, subs, and then on the details page.
> >
> > Is there a default layout the results come back in when you call the api?
> > Or, do you have to build a template first?
> >
> > I guess the only way to learn is to dive into it. But any tips you could
> > give me would be great.
> >
> > I want to start with the states (top) cities (sub)
> >
> > Then the full blown category list. pulling in paginated results.
> >
> > Well i hope that gives you an idea. I will try to run a few tests to see
> > how it works.
> >
> > Thank for the response
> >
> > Travis
> >
> >
> > --- In oodleapi@yahoogroups.com <oodleapi%40yahoogroups.com>, "bricerice2"
> > bricerice2@ wrote:
> > >
> > > I developed my solution in Visual Studio, SQL 2005 and image design in
> > Fireworks.
> > >
> > > I am a .Net guy and have zero knowledge on wordpress.
> > >
> > > I didnt use a template, just started everything from scratch, I did not
> > create a dll; so no open source just yet...not sure when I will get time for
> > that.
> > >
> > > If you have any specific question around anything developing in .net and
> > using the oodle api I can help you out.
> > >
> > > Let me know how I can help you out,
> > >
> > > Brice
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>