Almond Classifieds Scripts (Pro Edition)

Demos

Try demos with different index layouts and config options. You can submit 'test' ads.

Demo 1 Demo 2 Demo 3 (with two-level country/city selection)

Features of Almond Classifieds (Pro Edition)

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;
Optionally, layers with ads detailed info can be displayed when a user places mouse over add title on the ads index page. Admin. can specify which ads fields will be displayed on ads layers.
Users can place comments with photos into ads;
Users can browse top rated ads, top viewed ads, top contacted ads or top commented ads; Only one vote from one IP address can be included into top ads rating;
Protection from ads duplication.
Event Calendar service allows to browse events, nearest events are displayed first. After the date when the events are not actual, they will be deleted.
Multilanguage mode can be set up; all words and comments for user's interface are placed into one file, so it is easy to translate them.
Optionally photos with too large size, e.g. from digital cameras, can be resized by the script to optimized size before saving them in the database.
Users can place attachment file with any type from the list defined by admin e.g. .avi, .mpg, .txt, .doc, .xls, .zip. If users have large video files or archives, they can load them on popular file servers: Youtube.Com, Megaupload.Com, Rapidshare.Com or others, and then place URLs and titles for these files into their ad.
Users can embed video into ad e.g. from youtube.com
Options of search engine optimization are included into the script. Keywords and description of tags for each category can be specified. Keywords generated from ad title and other ads fields are included into meta tag for ads details pages.
List of ads entries can be loaded from Excel tables (.csv files) via web admin interface;
Optionally script can send expiration message to ads owners when their expired ads are deleted.
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;
Ads can be organized into effective multilevel categories structure placed on the top page: e.g. at first, user can choose a city or country/city, then categories, then subcategories (e.g. goal; sex, romance; type of job: wanted, offered). Quick access to the subcategories, search form, cities list on the top page is based on the dynamic html technologies and provides effective layout.
Before browsing ads categories a user can choose a city and then browse or search ads only from that city. When a city is chosen all ads counters for categories/subcategories will be recalculated for the chosen city.
Optional two-level country/city selection. E.g. first a user can choose a country, then the list of cities of this country appears.

Ads Highlighting

Ads can be highlighted with on-line payment by ads owners;
Highlighted ads are displayed at the top of index and they have a special expiration period; Admin can set up a special order for highlighted ads in the index pages;
Optionally only on highlighted ads large photos, attachments and videos can be displayed. Unless ad owner pays on-line for ad highlighting, only one small photo will be displayed on his ad.

Search Features

Powerful database searching capabilities that allow user to search for ads by keywords in the ad fields or by numerical range within fields such as age, price, size, etc;
Optionally, if the same user (it means the same contact e-mail) sent more than one ad, on the second ad details page new link "Search all ads posted by this user" appears; By clicking on this link you can see all ads posted by the same user (with the same contact e-mail);

Ads Moderating

Optional moderating of ad submissions by administrator: the administrator has the ability to look through the ads from a special form, analyze and edit ad information and make a decision about submitting the ads to the index or deleting the ads from that form. It can be done before the ads appear in the index. In this case all edit changes made by ad owners also appear in the index after approval by admin;

Admin can make some ads invisible for some period;

Spam Guard

Bad words guard; Admin can set up list of spam and bad words, ads with such words will be placed to bulk folder in the web admin interface and they can be easily deleted.
Contact e-mails for ads and IP addresses can also be placed into spam list.
Optional membership activation by clicking on the link in the activation e-mail or fee based membership with on-line credit card processing.

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.

Membership Features

Admin can set up password protection for the following services (members only service):
- placing new ads;
- viewing ads details pages;
- sending private mails.
To get access to the following services users have to sign up and become members;
Membership signing up can be free or fee based with on-line credit card processing, ( more details );
Optional activating membership account by clicking on special link in welcome message that is sent to members' e-mail. ( this feature can be useful for verification members' e-mails when free membership is set up );
Admin has the ability to create/edit/delete manually membership accounts via web based interface;
Admin can browse membership database and search members by special fields;
Admin can also inactivate some members' accounts for some time;
Special form fields for on-line membership subscribing can be set up;
Admin has access to the list of members' contact e-mails for using it in the e-mail list software;
In the membership database admin can use special links to browse all ads of each member;
If some members place more than one ad, on the second page of of their ads a special link "browse all ads placed by member 'nickname' " appears; by clicking on this link user can browse all ads posted by this member to different categories;
If sending private mails is password protected, then a mail receiver will be notified about nickname of a member who sent this message;
For login/password verifications cookies are used;
Forgot membership login/password function; login info will be sent to members' contact e-mail (if account with such contact e-mail exists in the membership database).
Admin can set up max number of ads allowed to place for each member per some time period per category. This feature is included to avoid ad spamming.

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.

Additional Modules

The special additional modules can be purchased separately to extend functionality of the Pro version:

PayPal

The Almond Classifieds can work with major on-line payment systems but for PayPal a special module was created. The Instant Payment Notification (IPN) PayPal Service is integrated into this module for fee based classifieds services processing (highlighting or activating ads, membership subscribing). There is an effective option which allows to give a progressive discount for placing multiple ads. This option is useful for the users or companies that post a lot of ads (e.g. real estate companies, recruitment or dating agencies, etc).

Ads Map

Ads Map Module allows to embed Google Maps into classifieds ads by using Google Maps API. Users can also find driving directions from their location to an ad address. You can try Ads Map features on our demos.

RSS Module

This module allows to set up RSS(2.0) feed for classifieds ads. Users can read the latest ads via rss readers. Affiliate partners can place latest ads headlines on their sites via any RSS aggregator. RSS link on the top page outputs the latest ads of all categories. If some city is chosen, then ads only from this city will be included into feed. RSS link on the categories index pages outputs the latest ads for these categories. Small resized ads photos are included into RSS items.
Ads Line Scrolling Module for Almond Classifieds. This module allows to scroll the line with the latest ads on the top page of Almond Classifieds.

Search Engine Optimizing (SEO) Module

Many search engines recommend to create the directories with static pages which are the copies for dynamic pages generated by PHP scripts. E.g. on the page: How can I create a Google-friendly site? it is written:
"Consider creating static copies of dynamic pages. Although the Google index includes dynamic pages, they comprise a small portion of our index. If you suspect that your dynamically generated pages (such as URLs containing question marks) are causing problems for our crawler, you might create static copies of these pages..."
More info can be found at the page: Does Google index dynamic pages? Other search engines have similiar recommendations. SEO module for Almond Classifieds allows to generate static classifieds pages including latest ads. These static pages can be displayed on different sites simultaneously. This module works in a special directory where URLs for categories indexes and ads details pages are displayed as static pages, e.g. http://www.almondsoft.com/sch/ctg/manw.html Other links on these pages, e.g. for search or submitting forms, etc. are directed to PHP scripts. Your web server should allow to use .htaccess file in the html directories.

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;

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