Doing my due diligence on deciding the correct CMS to use. I have use Wordpress a lot and it is not bad for many sites, but not sure if it is for this site. My Drupal knowledge is limited, and Joomla even less.
I am looking to make a classified site for selling large equipment, much like machinerytrader.com does.
Input end: So a user can list equipment from several different categories. each of these are quite different so they will each need their own input forms & fields. Would like as many of these as we can to be a dropdown selection, and there will be a need for there to be some dynamic dropdowns based on the selection of another dropdown. Of course there needs to be a payment associated with this, would like to be able to assign the price by category. Having a reoccurring cost (I.E. by month until item no longer listed). And have a choice of extra cost for a featured listing.
User end: If we can we would like to be able to search a category using( a number of the input fields, dropdowns populated only with the options that are in the current listings, and dropdowns that are populated with what is listed but that are also dependant on what is selected in another dropdown). --or-- more simply like machinerytrader.com where there are just pages that "drill down" (category/make/model) then once on that page you can sort the results based on some fields.
Any help/thoughts/ideas/advice or if you know of any examples of Drupal sites like this would be greatly appreciated.
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Can't really speak to wp or joomla since i've long since abandoned them, but you should be able to do with drupal np. Check out the commerce module and in particular the commerce_kickstart distro.
Could this one work or is there a better one?
Thanks, does anyone have any knowledge or opinions on this premium module?
http://www.moneyscripts.net/tutorials/pay-publish/how-build-paid-classif...
http://www.moneyscripts.net/drupal-pay-to-publish
I seems to be the closest/best option I found so far. This was their reply about it, any other input/advice?
Pay to Publish can handle a lot of the functionality you are after, but there are some things it won't that would take some custom coding to cover.
You can currently create different pricing plans based on Content Types, but not Taxonomy (Categories). So you would need to create content types for each category you foresee selling (which can get cumbersome if there are a lot of them) or build in some functionality that will change the price based on category selected.
Dynamic and Hierarchical drop-downs can be handled by other contrib modules on Drupal.org.
not sure about monsey script module
I checked the moneyscript module as per given by you in above comment. Since these are third party paid module, so I am not sure .
But definitely you should check out the commerce module and in particular the commerce_kickstart.
Also as per your need lots of contrib module would be available but you need to search those. Also as compare to joomla you can easily manage contents in drupal.