Craigslist type of site

Hello... The modules I am using are Views2 and CCK, as well as tabs, pathauto, path redirect and a few others. My taxonomy: each vocabulary (for sale, housing, jobs, etc.) has terms (which you can see on the front page, under the heading) attached to it.

To put the ads on the front page, I use this php snippet (I put the code into a block, then set the filter to php) which will generate a listing of all the associated terms and the number of posts attached to that term.

<?php
$vid = 11; /* <---- put correct vocabulary ID here */
$terms = taxonomy_get_tree($vid);
print "<div class=\"item-list\">";
print "<ul>";
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
$tcount = taxonomy_term_count_nodes($term->tid);
print "<li>".
l($term->name." (".$tcount.")",'taxonomy/term/'.$term->tid, array('title' => $tcount." posts in ".$term->name)).
"</li>";
} /* end foreach */
print "</ul>";
print "</div>";
?>

And here is the code for the View that creates the form at the top of the page (just import this in Views2):

$view = new view;
$view->name = 'search';
$view->description = 'Search form';
$view->tag = '';
$view->view_php = '';
$view->base_table = 'node';
$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
$view->api_version = 2;
$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
$handler->override_option('fields', array(
  'title' => array(
    'label' => 'Click to view',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'link_to_node' => 1,
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'title',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'title',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'changed' => array(
    'label' => 'Posted',
    'alter' => array(
      'alter_text' => 0,
      'text' => '',
      'make_link' => 0,
      'path' => '',
      'alt' => '',
      'prefix' => '',
      'suffix' => '',
      'help' => '',
      'trim' => 0,
      'max_length' => '',
      'word_boundary' => 1,
      'ellipsis' => 1,
      'html' => 0,
    ),
    'date_format' => 'raw time ago',
    'custom_date_format' => '',
    'exclude' => 0,
    'id' => 'changed',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'changed',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('filters', array(
  'vid' => array(
    'operator' => 'in',
    'value' => array(
      '13' => '13',
      '1' => '1',
      '11' => '11',
      '3' => '3',
      '5' => '5',
      '8' => '8',
      '4' => '4',
      '12' => '12',
      '7' => '7',
      '2' => '2',
      '6' => '6',
      '14' => '14',
      '10' => '10',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => TRUE,
    'expose' => array(
      'use_operator' => 0,
      'operator' => 'vid_op',
      'identifier' => 'vid',
      'label' => 'Category',
      'optional' => 1,
      'single' => 1,
      'remember' => 0,
      'reduce' => 0,
    ),
    'id' => 'vid',
    'table' => 'term_data',
    'field' => 'vid',
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
  'body' => array(
    'operator' => 'not',
    'value' => '',
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => TRUE,
    'expose' => array(
      'use_operator' => 0,
      'operator' => 'body_op',
      'identifier' => 'body',
      'label' => 'Some text (case sensitive)',
      'optional' => 0,
      'remember' => 0,
    ),
    'case' => 1,
    'id' => 'body',
    'table' => 'node_revisions',
    'field' => 'body',
    'relationship' => 'none',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
  ),
  'type' => array(
    'operator' => 'in',
    'value' => array(
      'forum' => 'forum',
      'communityad_intl' => 'communityad_intl',
      'community_ad' => 'community_ad',
      'job_ad' => 'job_ad',
    ),
    'group' => '0',
    'exposed' => FALSE,
    'expose' => array(
      'operator' => FALSE,
      'label' => '',
    ),
    'id' => 'type',
    'table' => 'node',
    'field' => 'type',
    'override' => array(
      'button' => 'Override',
    ),
    'relationship' => 'none',
  ),
));
$handler->override_option('access', array(
  'type' => 'none',
));
$handler->override_option('empty', '<br>
<hr>
<br>
<h3>Sorry, your search generated no hits.  Please try again.</h3>');
$handler->override_option('empty_format', '2');
$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 0);
$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'table');
$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
  'grouping' => '',
  'override' => 1,
  'sticky' => 0,
  'order' => 'asc',
  'columns' => array(
    'title' => 'title',
    'changed' => 'changed',
  ),
  'info' => array(
    'title' => array(
      'sortable' => 0,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
    'changed' => array(
      'sortable' => 0,
      'separator' => '',
    ),
  ),
  'default' => '-1',
));
$handler->override_option('exposed_block', TRUE);
$handler = $view->new_display('page', 'Page', 'page_1');
$handler->override_option('path', 'search');
$handler->override_option('menu', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
  'name' => 'navigation',
));
$handler->override_option('tab_options', array(
  'type' => 'none',
  'title' => '',
  'description' => '',
  'weight' => 0,
));

Let me know if you have any other questions. david

in views go to edit, in the Fields tab click the plus sign then node post date. Remove the label, check exclude from display, date format make this custom, type in the custom date format box ( l F d ) click update.then on the right hand side of the page you will see (Sort Criteria) click the plus sign. add node post date, click descending, on granularity click seconds, click update and your done.

please post question or comment at http://drupal.org/node/511770

Thanks Brad

I found this module that is supposed to help with a classifieds site (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomyblocks ) They even shave a demo of a site using the module. Please scroll to the very bottom of the page. http://www.pixelclever.com/advanced-taxonomy-blocks-module-drupal-6-rele...
By the way. Thanks BWV.