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 also embed video into ad e.g. from youtube.com (try this demo ad). Posting ads, viewing ads details, sending privacy mails can be password protected optionally. If it is necessary, they can update these files; 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 rating; Optionally photos with too large sizes, e.g. from digital cameras, can be resized by the script to optimized sizes before saving in the database; Javascript checking ads submitting form before sending to the server.

  Privacy Mail, which hides the e-mail addresses (optionally set up by admin.) ; Optionally redirect all privacy mail messages for Ad owners to admin. address, sending copies of privacy mails to admin.; Admin can easily get e-mails list of ad owners of each category for using in mail list programs Admin. can specify the time period before ads expire.

  Ability for admin. to modify easily or delete any ad via Web interface. 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. All this should 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;

  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 up ability for ad owners to load preview photos on the first page of the ad; Optionally, layers with ads detailed info can be displayed when a user places mouse over link "details" on the ads index page. Admin. can specify which ads fields will be displayed on ads layers. 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;

  Before browsing ads categories a user can choose a city or country/city and then browse or search ads only from that city. When a city is chosen all ads counters for categories will be recalculated for the chosen city. Two-level city/country fields selection can be set up for search form and for ads placing form.

   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; Highlighted ads can be rotated at the top of ads index additionally to their place in the index; Admin can set up number of ad places at the top of ads index where highlighted ads will be rotated in the random order; Highlighted ads can optionally be displayed on the ads second pages. Admin can manage all highlighting options via web-interfaces, e.g. set up different highlighting levels for ads. Vip status for ads can be set up by admin and it allows to display highlighted ads at the top of ads index in all categories with or without locations limits.

  Optionally verification code can be applied to prevent using automated spamming programs for ads placing, sending privacy mails, membership subscribing. Hidden verification can be set up. In this case users'  activity on submitting forms is analysed without using graphical CAPTCHA method. Protection for ads duplication; 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.  Admin can delete the list of spam ads using search by spam keywords, spammers e-mails or IP addresses.

 Optional activating of ads by clicking on the activation link  in the confirmation e-mail which was sent to ad owner after ad submitting.

   Posting ads, viewing ads details, sending privacy mails can be password protected optionally. Login info of Joomla! registered users can be used for access to these protected areas. So, the same users database can be used for classifieds and for other Joomla components e.g. forums, articles, directories. Login info of Joomla! registered users can be used for access to these protected areas. So, the same users database can be used for classifieds and for other Joomla components e.g. forums, articles, directories.

  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) option allows to optimize and separate script URLs for two types - static and dynamic URLs. Static part for classifieds content is organized by the following directory structure:
http://www.site.com/ct/category_name/page_number.html
http://www.site.com/cities/city_name/ct/category_name/page_number.html
http://www.site.com/ads/ads_number.html 

 This structure allows to include cities and categories names into URLs paths. Services and search modes of the script work with dynamic URLs. Such URLs separation allows to create simple XML sitemaps (e.g. Google Sitemap) and files robots.txt for indexing only classifieds content by search engines without service and search pages. 

  Optionally Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technologies can be used. With Ajax web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. In the Enterprise Edition cities, highlighted and latest ads on the top page are being loaded in the background. On the ads details pages large photos can also be loaded in the background that provides faster photos change. If a user returns on the top page to change a category or location, then cities lists and ads will be loaded from Ajax cache that provides faster pages loading. Also some visual effects (Fade In/Out, Slide Down ...) for menu items, ads layers, photos galleries (on the ads details pages) are added.

Random Ads. The list of random ads with photos can be displayed on the ads top, ads list and ads details pages. The list of random ads is changing periodically while a user stays on this page. Highlighted ads are placed on the first positions of this list. If a user chooses some category or location, then random ads will match this query. Random ads are displayed only if total number of ads exceeds some value.   
Ads Photos Gallery. Users can click on the "Ads photos gallery" link to browse photos from ads which match their query.  

   Additional Ads Map module allows to embed Google Maps into classifieds ads by using Google Maps API. Additional PayPal modules allows to set up fee based ads posting and ads highlighting. Users can highlight their ads by on-line payment via PayPal (with an additional PayPal module).  RSS modules   can be also used additionally.

The advantage of Almond Classifieds Component for Joomla! is that it can be used with many other free and commerce Joomla! components.

To test these features try the   Demo

 Upgrade package for Commerce Almond Classifieds (Joomla Component, version 7.5)  with add-on modules ( RSS, Google Map, PayPal).

You can easily upgrade your Almond Classifieds Component ( version 7.5) with new modules ( RSS, Google Map, PayPal).
Upgrade package with add-on modules can be installed as component.  New admin config area for add-on modules appears after installation. More info about these modules you can find  here