Noah’s Classifieds Web Hosting

Noah’s Classifieds Web Hosting

Noah’s Classifieds is a Web-based, highly customizable classified ad application that allows users to post advertisements to unlimited categories and sub-categories. In essence, it is a general purpose application that allows users to set up as many ad categories as they want specifying custom fields for each of them. Their visitors can advertise this way practically anything under the sun ranging from hardware to books, from cars to houses, from jobs to even themselves (in a dating category, for example). What’s more! The users themselves can easily advertise their own products.

It is available for download and use completely free of charge and users need to comply with the following terms and conditions:

1. The program may not be sold or re-sold without the explicit and written permission of phpoutsourcing.com.
2. Modified program codes may not be publicized, distributed or sold in any manner.

However, there is a charge for programming time only if the user places an order for customization or modification of the original program. In such a case, the programmer’s hourly rate is charged at $20USD.
Noah’s Classifieds is an extremely powerful software with robust and flexible features to meet the advertising needs. Moreover, it can build in every site; specific additional features the basic program may not contain. These modifications are done by skilled and dedicated programmers o suit the customization needs of the clients. What gives this software package an edge over the others is that it is fairly simple to use and comes packed with robust yet simple and utilizable features, unlike the more complex classifieds ad software packages on the internet.
Explained below is a brief overview of its key features:

• Defining categories and subcategories in unlimited depth
• Image upload for the categories and the advertisements
• Defining variable fields for the advertisements per categories
• Customizable email notifications
• Defining categories and subcategories in unlimited depth,
• ‘Locking’ a category from submitting any more ads,

Defining variable fields for the advertisements per categories:

1. Support of field types such as text, textarea, boolean, checkbox and selection list
2. Specifying the default values of the fields
3. Possibility to activate, or deactivate a field
4. Deciding whether a field is mandatory, searchable, object of bad word replacement, can be kept private by the owner, and controlling its appearance in the ad lists
5. Creating sections of the variable fields by specifying custom separator lines

• Accept and reject ads, or let them appear immediately – handling the list of accepted and pending ads.
• The admin gets email notifications about the new ads, the user get emails about the acceptance or rejection of their ads
• Notification management: all the emails sent by the system are customizable – the admin can change their text, or disable them completely
• Bad word replacement
• The admin has full control over a lot of system property such as the ad expiration time, size and dimension limit on the uploaded images, thumbnail dimensions, and many more.
• Control the appearance by specifying custom header and footer templates, or changing the style sheet.
• Viewing and handling the list of users

User function features include:

• Submit, modify and delete ads,
• Upload images – thumbnails will be generated automatically,
• Browsing the list of recent, or most popular ads
• Browsing ‘my ads’
• Modifying the user profile
• Extend expiration date
• Search in the classifieds database: simple search and category specific advanced search
• Reply to an ad, or sending it to a friend.

The system dependencies and prerequisites are mentioned below. The user needs to make sure that they have the following software components on their unit:

• MySql database server
• Php4 script module

MySQL server may be downloaded from http://www.mysql.com/ and php4 script module may be downloaded from zend.com.
The installation process is very simple and straightforward. The user needs to first unpack the distribution under your web root directory and then locate install.php in their browser. Finally, just follow the instructions and you are done.
In the event that the user wishes to uninstall the software from his/her system, they must delete the classifieds MySQL database and the program files with .php extension.