By Mr Maggoo on

I'm a noobie when it comes to doing drupal i've been doing php for a while but drupal is something else alltogether.
But i want to know this:
How would i write a module that allowed people to sell stuff on my site?
it does not need to have any crdit card facilities on it because it's more to tell people that it is for sale than for people to acutally buy stuff online. Sort of like the freeads website.

The user needs to be able to upload an image of what they have to sell and also how much it would cost.

I have't got a clue how to do this. could someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Mr Maggoo

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Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Drupal already has such a module avaiable, which you can extend for your own needs:

http://www.drupal.org/project/ecommerce

Mr Maggoo’s picture

Mr Maggoo commented

How do i make the module do pictures of the items?
it's for a boatyard so no one is going to wan't to buy the boat then and there. But they would like to see a picture of the boat they are interested in.
Thanks

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KeithDaniels commented

1. Until version 4.5 of Drupal comes out you need to use the CVS version of Drupal instead of the current version 4.4.2. Hopefully by the time 4.5 comes out the ecommerce module will be finished and there will be new documentation for it.

2. To use picures you need two modules, which you can get from the contributed module pages. They are:

image.module (must be installed first)
img_assist.module

3. for help with installing image.module (it's a pain) check my post at: http://drupal.org/node/view/8677

img_assist is easy to install and makes inserting pictures much easier and faster but requires image.module to function.

Pictures eat megabytes -- make sure your web hoster gives you plenty of space.... (;-))

Hope this helps...

Keith Daniels