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You can check out the demo here! Admin access: name: admin, password: admin

Benefits

  • Easy to install
  • Easy to use
  • Highly flexible
  • Customizable
  • Search engine friendly
  • Internationalization
  • Joomla bridge :!:

Administration

  • Defining categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, ordering and reorganizing them with drag-and-drop :!:
  • 'Locking' a category from submitting any more ads,
  • Categories where only admin can submit ads,
  • Defining custom fields for the advertisements per categories,
  • Cloning categories with all their properties and custom fields,
  • Accept and reject ads, or let them appear immediately - handling the list of accepted and pending ads,
  • The admin gets email notifications about the new ads, the user get emails about the acceptance or rejection of their ads
  • Notification management: all the emails sent by the system are customizable - the admin can change their text, or disable them completely
  • The admin has full control over a lot of system property such as the ad expiration time, size and dimension limit on the uploaded images, thumbnail dimensions, and many more.
  • Expiration times can be overridden per ad,
  • Viewing and handling the list of users,
  • Easy URL to a user's all ads,
  • Check for new releases and update possibility from the admin interface, :!:
  • Basic content management possibilities,
  • Customizing sections of the site pages via built in HTML editors with preview and instant save options,
  • Possibility to move ads into other categories,
  • Possibility to add spam protection (CAPTCHA) to the most vulnerable forms

Custom field management

  • Unlimited number of custom fields per category, :!:
  • Specifying the order of fields,
  • Deciding weather a field is mandatory, searchable, sortable and controlling its appearance in the ad lists,
  • Specifying a default value,
  • Practically all ad fields are custom field - even the title, pictures and the description. This allows full control over them.
  • Support of field types such as text, textarea, boolean, checkbox, selection list, multiple selection list, separator, picture, media file, web link, date,
  • Flexible display formatting for number fields (e.g. to display currency values),
  • Make fields only visible for admin in the ad create/modify form,
  • Make fields only visible for either only admin, only the owner of the ad
  • Admin can add custom fields to the user profile and registration form (Phone number, Zip code, City, Picture, etc.) :!:
  • The fields of the owner of an ad can be displayed directly in either the ad list or on the ad details page.
  • If you add user fields to the ad custom fields, it is possible to search for ads by the fields of their owners! E.g. searches based on ad locations are possible.
  • Advanced operations on the whole list of custom fields of a category: you can delete all custom fields of a category at once, you can clone all the custom fields of a category into the sub categories, you can clone them into selected categories, or you can clone the custom field list of an other category into this one!

Notifications

  • HTML notifications, notification templates :!:
  • Possibility to use an SMTP server to send out the emails
  • Notifications can be CCd or disabled,
  • Notify ad owners when their ad is approved, about to expire, or deleted,
  • Notify admin when an ad has been created or modified
  • Initial password email after registration
  • Password reminder email
  • 'Reply to ad' and 'Send to a friend' emails

User functions

  • Submit, modify and delete ads,
  • Upload multiple images per ads - thumbnails will be generated automatically, :!:
  • Browsing the list of recent, or most popular ads
  • Browsing 'my ads'
  • Modifying the user profile
  • Prolong expiration date
  • Search in the classifieds database: simple search and category specific advanced search
  • User search
  • Searching for ads by the fields of the owner of the ads - e.g. search by Zip code is possible
  • Reply to an ad, or sending it to a friend
  • 'Add to favorities' feature,
  • RSS support: users can add the feed of latest ads to their RSS reader, :!:
  • Password reminder,
  • Remember password,
  • Auto notify: users can subscribe for getting automatic notifications if new ads are submitted in a category. :!:
  • Change theme on the fly,
  • Change language on the fly

Search Engine Optimization

  • System wide TITLE, KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION tags,
  • The per category TITLE, KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION tags can override the system wide ones
  • The per advertisement TITLE, KEYWORDS and DESCRIPTION tags can override the category specific ones
  • Nice URL feature to support better indexing

Customization

  • Theme support: there are two themes - classic and modern - switching between them from the interface :!:
  • Template based markup
  • CSS based style
  • Full UTF-8 support
 
features.txt · Last modified: 2008/10/31 03:06 by admin
 
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