Publisher review:Almond Classifieds main idea - easy to use, configurate and install Almond Classifieds features:
- PHP4/MySQL driven classified ads;
- Multiple categories for classified ads;
- Users can place ads with photos and multimedia file (.wav, .avi, .mp3 ...) (via their own browser). If it is necessary, they can update these files ;
- Browsing ads sorted by pages, displays latest ads first ;
- Preview photos thumbnails can be created by the script automatically;
- 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).
- Users have the ability to click on special link "Best Ads" to browse ads separated and rated by admin. In this folder ads can be displayed in order defined by admin;
- Users can place ads to favorite list;
- 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 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. Layers effects are developed with usage JavaScript technology;
- 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;
- A lot of parameters for configuring Classified Ads features and layout;
- Ads can be organized into effective multilevel categories structure placed on the top page: e.g. at first, user can choose a city (or other option specified by admin), then group of categories (e.g. personals, job, etc), then categories, then group of subcategories which will be opened immediately by clicking the link "more…" (e.g. age, goal, type of job), 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. On the ads index page the search form is hidden and it is opened immediately after clicking the link "search".
- 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. Admin can also choose any other field (e.g. city, country, company, etc) as a global option for ads categories.
- 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;
- Event Calendard service allows to browse events in the order when the nearest events are displayed first. After the date when the events are not actual, they will be deleted. This service can be included into several categories.
- 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 it.
- 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 ads in the index pages;
- 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.
- Optional membership activation by clicking on the link in the activation e-mail or fee based membership with on-line credit card processing (Membership Module is included).
- List of ads entries can be loaded from Excel tables (.csv files) via web admin interface;
- Two types of ads layout; Main HTML layout colors can be changed; Hints for fields on the ads submitting form; Admin can be notified about new ads or new members via e-mail into which edit/delete/moderate links are included.
- In the template version admin can easily edit html templates for main pages by using popular HTML editors e.g. Macromedia Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc.
Almond Classifieds is a PHP script for Top Sites scripts design by Almond.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / BSD.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / BSD
Almond Classifieds script details 
