By zythyr on
Is there a system where like Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist type system where users can post items they are selling? Also is there a way to contact the creators of the listing but also protect their email addresses so they don't get spammed?
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create a content type using the CCK.module and its' addon modules (based on what fields you want)
use views to create listings of content type
enable the contact.module (part of core) to allow users to contact each other through drupal.
How do I get a page to
How do I get a page to display with different types of categories. Like for example: Electronics, Books, Computers, etc?
Also you know how Craigslist has this system where your email address gets encoded. So for example dannyjohnson@somedomain.com will turn into something like sale-4dczj-13124542@craigslist.org. How do I do that?
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use the taxonomy.module to organize and categorise your content and views.module to list it
I don't know that there is a module that does what you ask for drupal. email obfuscator.module maybe
So using the taxonomy module,
So using the taxonomy module, I would have to create different categories right? So I would add the Vocabulary, Market Place Listings, then all the Terms I add (Electronics, Books, Computers, etc) would be the categories?
Is there a way, where instead of the users choosing the category, the system can automatically choose it? Like if the user is currently viewing the all the listings of Books, and he wants to add his own book to sell, he just clicks Add my Listing, then fill out the various fields. So basically the post is created under the category the user was already viewing.
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View vocabulary as a container and terms as categories. yes.
whether there is a way to programatically assign terms to nodes, I don't know off hand. That will take some reasearch in the downloads area or drupalmodules.com (may be a module for it), google.com (may be a tutorial for it) and the like.
I may investigate attacking it with separate content types per "item" attaching a default taxonomy term to the item
or I may investigate the views_attach.module
I searched, but couldn't find
I searched, but couldn't find a module that allowed me do what I want. I just want to save my users the hassle of scrolling through a list of categories to choose from. Any alternative that will let me achieve this?
I created a list of terms
I created a list of terms using taxonomy. But I can't figure out how to get all the terms listed on the page using Views. What do I have to put as the Filter, Argument, Fields, etc?