By macrodesign on

http://www.Expatriates.com website is well built with ease of use. How can a website like this be built using Drupal?

Key features of the site:
- No registration required, no captcha, post your ad in the desired section with an email address and only click on a link in email confirm it to activate it. it gets published in a proper category.

Can someone please shed some light on it.

Thanks
Danish

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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neokoenig commented

Creating a classifieds style site in Drupal?

I guess the key would be to create a new content type called "advert" (or something) and allow anonymous (or preferably registered) submissions.

You could use CCK to add any custom fields, such as category, and views to display the results, which could easily be filtered / or use arguments to display the category.

You could also lock down the CCK fields, and assign a group of moderators who have permissions to remove spam posts, and / or approve existing ones.

The trickiest part would be doing the whole email verification bit for each advert - but I'm sure there's a module out there to do that (either that, or there may well be a way of leveraging existing Drupal hooks).

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macrodesign commented

Thanks Neo your reply is very much appreciated,

Do you suggest one content type would be enough for all kinds of categories?.

And how about the submission which is very categorically done on expatriates i.e.

1. Place an ad link (click)
2. Step 1 of 3 "select one of the following categories" (page)
3. "select one of the sub categories" (page)
4. Step 2 of 3 "Select country / location" (page)
5. Step 3 of 3 "Submission form" (page) followed by custom instruction page

Please pardon my ignorance, I am sure this kind of website is probably very simple to do for experts, but am not yet an expert. Do you know any posts / case study for such a site on Drupal where I could start from ABC.

Thanks and best regards
Danish

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neokoenig commented

You could do this all on one page - look into CCK: you'll be able to add custom fields such as "Category" to your custom content type and predefine the selectable values.

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macrodesign commented

Thanks again, sound very simple, I will definitely give it a try this weekend...

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solutiondots commented

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