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By El Bandito on
Hi
I am trying to outline a module based solution for the following website :
I want to allow site visitors to register for free and create a custom content type advert. These nodes will be published immediately. There will be a limited number of promotional "slots" available called featured adverts, whereby a registered user may "promote" their advert to a more visible position on the site for a fixed and defined period ( e.g. a specific week ) by making a small payment via PayPal. I imagine ( but am definitely open to other suggestions ) that the promotion of an advert node will be done by using a CCK field as a flag, and Views to present the featured properties.
At the moment the many alternatives for payments, scheduling, pay-to-publish, classified adds etc. all appear to address slightly different use-case scenarios. For example most solutions for pay to publish are exactly that - they only publish a node when a payment is made.
Perhaps Ubercart would be a good route ? Perhaps this use case is too specific for existing modules ? All suggestions and comments appreciated.
Saludos
Dave
Comments
Rules may help you
You should check out the rules module, which gives a user interface for describing chains of events to fire off of actions. So you might be able to setup a rule to promote content to 'sticky' status if a variable is set, and then another rule to remove content from 'sticky' status after a certain amount of time passes.
Thanks
I'll definitely take a look at Rules. I've also been investigating The BookingsAPI which looks very promising.
I have a suspicion that my proposed website is more complex than I'd initially thought .......
Cheers
Dave