My dad is always giving me old fruit and vegetables from his allotment, I hate the things and, being a student, live on nothing but junk food. It does however make me wonder if I can set up a website were allotment owners and back garden farmers can sell or trade their surplus produce.
I would like to use free software like Drupal or Joomla to make this website but I'm hesitant to look too much into it until I know weather or not the software is capable of it. Is there anyway I can use Drupal or Joomla (or anything similar) to create a classified ads website similar to gumtree.org?
Thanks, Chris.
decibel.places posted this at 02:58 — 7th April 2009.
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your link for gumtree does not work
Drupal indeed has a classified ads module http://drupal.org/project/ed_classified, approved for D5 but a D6 release exists and - guess what - they are looking for a maintainer if you would like to help out.
I have never tried this module.
There are other scenarios you can use to set up a "trading" community with Drupal.
You could also check script repositories like http://sourceforge.net/ and http://hotscripts.com (you might find a turn-key solution you can use)
IMO Joomla is Drupal's evil cousin
Chris McD posted this at 11:47 — 7th April 2009.
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Mmm I don't know if I'd be the best candidate to maintain the module but I'd certainly pitch in if it does what I need. A free ads system is what it offers and that's what I'm trying to set up here.
Thanks for the reply decibel.places.
articlemaster posted this at 16:54 — 12th April 2009.
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Hi don't worry i will suggest you to go for Drupal instead of Joomla and Drupal is very user friendly software and u no need to maintain it and i just got a drupal Module which can be used for making a drupal site in a classified site, its a drupal classified ad module you can easily add it to ur drupal CMS and use it as a classified ad site you just go to Drupal official site and search for it.you will get this module there freely.
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greg posted this at 16:57 — 12th April 2009.
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Some level of maintenance is required with most software like that. Even if only updates.
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decibel.places posted this at 23:04 — 12th April 2009.
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@greg
Chris McD was referring to the module I linked to that is looking for a module maintainer - you know, fix issues and develop it into an approved D6 version and then D7, all that fun stuff...
I think articlemaster was saying the module they used has a maintainer. It would be nice if articlemaster can provide a link to the module's project page, although I suspect it may be the one I mentioned and articlemaster may not be familiar with the concept of "module maintainer."
milesgillham posted this at 01:19 — 29th June 2009.
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FYI, I'm the new maintainer for Drupal's Classified Ads Module (ed_classified). Presently getting a stable Drupal 6 port together, then onto progressing the module along a roadmap.
Cheers,
Miles
mrgilb posted this at 15:31 — 30th September 2009.
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Try http://drupal.org/node/23991