Classifieds
SheilaHoff - June 17, 2008 - 18:04
I'm a total newbie working on my first Drupal site. Is there a simple way to create a classified ad area where members could post their own ads? I was thinking since we didn't need the forum I could use that instead and just relabel it. However for that to work I need to figure out how to change the label on the forum itself. I was able to change all the menu references to it but it still shows up as "Forum". Also, is there a way to make it so users can post photos with their forum listing? I have set it up so they can do attachments but I'd like them to be able to imbed photos in their topic.
Thanks,
Sheila
For simple classifieds use
For simple classifieds use the classifieds module.
http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified
Thanks
You all are awesome. Thanks for the help. I did look in the module listings before posting but I'm using v6 and I didn't really see anything appropriate. This was very helpful. Thanks again.
There is a classified ad module
There is a module particularly tailored to classified application. Check the module download section.
Online Business
Create a content type at
Create a content type at admin/content/types/add to make a classified content type.
You can use CCK to enable images, or just use the image module and have the classified's be the description of the image if you wanted to mandate an image with each listing.
Using taxonomy, you can create ways for people to view the ads in catagories, for instance you can create one vocabulary for Classifieds and numerous terms underneath that for different catagories - thats how the forums work, so you can in a sense make your own forum module using a new content type and views to customize the look.
CCK has many additional modules to add specific fields to a content type. Some of which were images in 5.x at-least.
If you use CCK instead of
If you use CCK instead of the ed_classified module how to do you handle timed expiration of the ads?
Gear Head
www.musclecarsociety.com
http://drupalmodules.com/modu
http://drupalmodules.com/module/node-expire or http://drupalmodules.com/module/auto-expire?
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or scheduler.module
or scheduler.module
Cool, Thanks Gear
Cool,
Thanks
Gear Head
www.musclecarsociety.com
good advise
i am going to try this on my test site. Thanks for inputting this. It appears that you have thought this through and i am just now looking for "classifieds" solutions for my 6.4 installation.