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It has come to our attention that some people apparently have doubts about the ability of Santa to circumnavigate and complete the global delivery of presents in a single night. Clearly these people are under-estimating the technical specifications of Santa’s sleigh.

A new version of CBRocket - our script for displaying ClickBank search results, and ClickBank ads on your site, has been released. The new release works with the latest version of the ClickBank site.

The new version is 2.02 (not 2.01 as previously mentioned), and is available free to customers who previously purchased CBRocket. Please contact us if you need download instructions.

ClickBank have changed (in the last day or so) something in their site which has broken CBRocket 2.00 - our script for displaying ClickBank search results, and ClickBank ads on your site. The good news is that we already have a fix.

The symptom of the problem is:

1. You log into the Admin screen
2. You click the link "Grab Data from MarketingRocket + ClickBank"
3. The MarketingRocket items are retrieved, but you get 0 items back from ClickBank.

We will release a new version of CBRocket (2.01) that incorporates the fix ASAP, but as the fix is trivial (if you edited a PHP file before), more advanced users can implement the fix themselves.

Here are the instructions.

1. Open cfutil.inc.php in a plain text editor (Notepad, EDIT or similar)
2. Scroll down to line 1774.
3. Lines 1774 to 1775 read :-

   /* New URLs for redesigned clickbank site */
        $url = ‘http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.html?method=Sort&s= [..etc.. - sorry I left out the end of line from the blog, because there is no space to fit it all in]

4. Change line 1775 to read (what I have done is removed the lower case L from the word html. In other words, the bit that read marketplace.html?method=, is edited into marketplace.htm?method=)

        $url = ‘http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm?method=Sort&s= [..etc.. - sorry I left out the end of line from the blog, because there is no space to fit it all in]

5. Save the file, close your text editor, and upload the new version of cfutil.inc.php to your web host.

That’s it - really - I’m not kidding - the fix involves deleting a single character.