Almond Classifieds Scripts

Demo

Try demo to see main script features. You can submit 'test' ads. Keep in mind - demo ads are not real !

The current release is a Security Release .

Features of Almond Classifieds Component for Joomla! (GPL Edition)

Almond Classifieds can be installed as a component for Joomla! content management system (versions 1.0, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7). This component includes the following main features:

General Features

PHP/MySQL driven classified ads;
Multiple categories for classified ads;
Users can place ads with photos;
Browsing ads sorted by pages, displaying latest ads first;
Preview photos thumbnails can be created by the script automatically;
A lot of parameters for configuring Classified Ads features and layout;
Admin. can specify the time period before ads expire.
Javascript checking ads submitting form before sending to the server.
Password protected editing, renewing, deleting of ads by owners so that only original poster can modify or delete an ad ;
Privacy Mail, which hides the e-mail addresses (optionally set up by admin.);
Optionally redirect all privacy mail messages for ads owners to admin, sending copies of privacy mails to admin;
Ability for admin. to modify or delete any ad via Web interface.
Admin can get e-mails list of ad owners of each category for using it in e-mail list programs.
Admin. can create as many ads categories as it is needed. For each category the set of ad fields (such as price, city, age, area, etc.) can be specified in different formats such as "text", "textarea", "select", "checkbox". For each ad field the search criteria - search for ads with keywords in the field or search for ads with field value in some numerical range ( for example, price field ) can be specified ;
Admin. can set the maximum size of the ad fields, max length of words in the fields, max. size and max. numbers of photos and media file in the ads;

Spam Guard

Optionally verification code can be applied to prevent using automated spamming programs for ads placing, sending privacy mails, membership subscribing.
Admin can delete the list of spam ads using search by spam keywords, spammers e-mails or IP addresses.

Using Google AdSense with Almond Classifieds

Google AdSense matches ads to your site's content, and you earn money whenever your visitors click on them. AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (you can choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your site content-ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful. More info about AdSense Almond Classifieds has three groups of pages which are very attractive for placing AdSense banners on them. These are top pages with categories list for each city, pages with list of ads in each category, ads second pages with ads details. Last two groups of pages have more specific themes of each category (e.g. real estate, auto, services...), so using AdSense for content will be very effective as only appropriate relevant banners will be shown. Using Affiliate Network Classifieds edition allows to place your AdSesne banners on affiliate sites and increase your income. AdSense banners are placed on some of our classifieds demos.

Requirements

All Almond Classifieds scripts are open and not encrypted, so webmasters have full access to all scripts files.

Webhost server running a Unix operating system;
PHP(version 4 or higher) and MySQL, properly configured and installed;

Download

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The current release is a Security Release .

We offer free custom support and consulting without time limits.
Please contact us via e-mail:info@almondsoft.com