Craigslist's eXtra Clone.

See also: "Standalone Classifieds" Engine

Written from scratch in PHP (for MySQL)

Main Advantages & Unique Features

• Full user support. Free minor code code changes. Free design applying service.
• Stable self-maintaining script. Designed for minor admin interference.
• 100% Real-time (not waiting for 15 minutes etc, except the comm-xxxx@<domainname>.com forwarding which is done by a scheduled script)
• Much Improved User Area
• Powerful Ad Payment System. Allows you to:
  • have featured and regular ads. The featured ones are listed first
  • set separate ad price for location and ad categories - for any depth of categories. Also: separately for regular and featured ads that gives you the most flexibility
  • the final ad's price = location category price + ad category price (analogically with the featured ads pricing)
  • this allows you to charge different money for same ad category but for different locations
  • this allows you to charge different money for ad subcategories or for different ad categories within the same location
• Ad duration now can be set by location and topic categories! The result duration is an addition of the location category's ad duration and the topic category's ad duration.
• Ads' photos are zoomed in when clicked.
• Photo Titles
• • Listings Sorting
  • Listings Filtering
  • "Beforehand" Ad Renewal - possibility to renew the ad before it expires to prolong its duration
  • Listing Expiration Warning
  • Newest / Recent Listings
  • Hottest Listings
  • The "Your Favorite Ads" Listing (user area)
• Category-based and global searchable ad attributes; location and ad category attributes - allow you to add ANY EXTRA FIELD (drop-down, textfield, checkbox, date field) into the system within a minute and give it the possibility to be searchable. That's why you may set ANY main category to describe absolutely different sphere!
• Automated flagging system
• Ad Comments and Ad Ratings
• Automated "bad words" checking
• Better & more Flexible Search Engine. Can search on custom fields, as well
• Better "View Details" and "Print details" as well as other items' descriptions output - thanks to the templates & items attributes system
• Improved Images Uploading Mechanism: more flexible with automated resizing
• Full pagination in the ads' listings
• Compactness
• Possibility to set the ad's duration separately for any category
• Anti-Spamming: IP logging and limiting the # of sent e-mails of those who "send the ads to friends", who e-mail to the advertisers through an online form
• IP Ban
• Maximum automation. Minimum administration is needed though you may do a full administration from the admin panel
• Security: image verification (CAPTCHA), protection from cross-site scripting (e.g. javascript code injections), email injection. Protection from file upload attacks. Secure persistent login implementation. Brute force login attempts rejecton. Admin Area file renaming is supported for security purposes. "Bad words" warning. Checks the validity of e-mail addresses entered by each user.
• You get free updates of each new version of the software (when available, standard package's functions may be re-applied/patched when new fixed ones are available).

Same CL's Basic Behavior

• Same categories browsing behavior
• Same verification image/words behavior
• Same location change behavior
• Same comm-xxxxxx@<domain>.com e-mail forwarding feature - more secured for the users
• Control for duplicated message bodies
• Flagging system
• But, In comparison to the CL, the categories have been SIGNIFICANTLY RE-WORKED to support category custom fields which allows to have different category- and location- depending field names on the ad posting screen and have the dynamic content through the site.

Our Competitive Advantages

• CL's features are re-worked in PHP with maximum duplication and certain internal improvements.
• Custom item attributes - for location categories, ads' categories, and searchable ads' categories-based and global attributes for ads (allowing you to add new textboxes, drop-down menus, date fields, checkboxes)
• Open php
• Powerful HTML-based templates system that includes the items' attributes support as well
• Highly-skilled paid modification services at the reasonable price (compared with the outsourced programming prices. Professional, fast and reliable)
• Highly-skilled full professional support and free set up and tuning services
• Unlike other developers, WE DO NOT JUST sell the software letting it be "as it is": we know what the words "quality support" mean. Minor modifications are also free
• Free basic SEO services (oriented on your project targeting)
• ...

The system is 100% template-based with easily configurable HTML templates.

Paid Options

• ANY MODIFICATION at all - the price depends on your requirements
• Addition of forums (PHPBB addition is free)
• Addition of the zip radius search feature - $75
• Addition of the ip-to-location feature - depends on your requirements
• Advanced SEO services
• any another modification

Free Options

• Categories entering and overall system configuring (configuring of the ordered options to your needs), including the items' attributes setting
• Your web-design applying
• Templates editing
• Custom attributes (fields) setting
• Minor modifications are free as well
• Basic SEO