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How can I make and organize the classifieds on Drupal?

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budda
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Location Cheshire
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Is a classified advert just a block of text? Use a node such as story or page, or make your own node using flexinode.
Create a taxonomy vocabulary and associate it with your node type from above. You can then insert terms in to your vocabulary to represent various categories.

Now create your classified ads by going to "create content" as usual.
Your node will also allow you to pick a category (one of your vocabulary terms) to associate it with.

Using the views.module you can then list all your nodes in that category, and do lots of other things with them such as filtering the results etc.

The alternative way is to use the Drupal built in taxonomy lists - search the hand book for them.

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imark commented

what the difference in flexinode and flexiblock? I tried to install flexiblock on my site, but I can't arrange the theme for it. What theese two modules used for?

Well, I whant make the text classifieds. And rather with different access for each type of users.

Best regards,
Imark

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hadishon commented

If you want, you can look at my classifieds at http://www.activefarming.com/classifieds http://www.activefarming.com/hay-directory and a few other places if you follow links on those pages.

If you want to know how to produce classifieds like that, let me know and I can give some details.

2 of my Drupal sites:
Small Farm Resource Center
Israel Travel Center

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imark commented

Yes,

it is very interesting how you achieved such classifieds? What the module you used for it?

Best regards,
Imark

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hadishon commented

I made my first attempt for a Drupal Recipe!

You can view it here:
http://www.activefarming.com/classifieds-for-drupal

I'm sure I'll be getting more questions about instructions for this classified recipe. After I answer the questions, I'll make revisions to my main copy. Once I get a final copy, I'll submit it to the Drupal Handbook.

Please leave questions/comments about the classified recipe on the recipe page:
http://www.activefarming.com/classifieds-for-drupal

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coupet commented

Is there a payment scheme associated with the Classified ads recipe?

great use of taxonomy, flexinode and views modules!

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imark commented

Yes, I would like to get payment from companies which use the opportunity to publish their info in the classified.

Best regards,
Imark

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coupet commented

An new module that integrate with Ecommerce and Actions modules may be required.

Would be interested in comments on workflow implementation!

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hadishon commented

I currently don't charge for classifieds. An easy way to charge would be to assign a role with permissions to create classifieds and charge people to become a member of that role. I can think of a few ways that you can create a cost per post but it would require modification of some modules.

My recipe as is, doesn't provide an ecommerce classifieds. It provides free classifieds. Some day I would like to see a full pledge classifieds module for drupal with all the features that a stand alone classified program would have. In the mean time, this recipe works for me.

2 of my Drupal sites:
Small Farm Resource Center
Israel Travel Center

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coupet commented

I can think of a few ways that you can create a cost per post but it would require modification of some modules.

What are your thoughts? which modules would require modification?

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Darly