Classifieds

part of the ArsDigita Community System by Philip Greenspun

User-accessible directory: /gc/
Moderators' directory: /gc/admin/
Site administrator directory: /admin/gc/
data model : /doc/sql/classifieds.sql
Tcl procs: /tcl/gc-defs

The Big Idea

The ArsDigita Community system contains the photo.net classified ads module, which has processed more than 100,000 ads since its inception in 1996. The module includes the following features:

multiple domains per ACS installation, e.g., photography and travel can cooexist
multiple categories per domain, extendable by user or by site administrator, depending on configuration
multiple moderators per domain
auctioning available, configurable by site owner per domain and also by user per ad

Publishing Decisions

Via the ad.ini file, you can enforce a lot of publishing decisions, e.g., "don't allow anyone to mention eBay" or "how many bids does an ad have to get in order to be considered a hot auction?"


[ns/server/yourservername/acs/gc]
SystemName=Classifieds
; SystemOwner=  (defaults to global system owner)
PartialUrlStub=/gc/
ProvideLocalSearchP=1
ProvideEmailAlerts=1
; send a reminder to people to edit or delete their ads?
NagAdOwners=1
HowManyRecentAdsToDisplay=5
HotAuctionThreshold=2
; some stuff to deal with annoying photo.net abusers
; don't let people put the word "reduced" in subject line
DisallowReducedInSubject=1
DisallowExclamationPointInSubject=1
DisallowAllUppercase=1
DisalloweBay=1
IncludeBannerIdeasP=1
IndexPageDecorationTop=
IndexPageDecorationSide=
DomainTopDecorationTop=
HotAuctionsDecoration=
PlaceAdDecoration=
PlaceAd2Decoration=
EditAd2Decoration=
AddAlertDecoration=

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