<html> <!--AD_DND--> <head> <title>Classifieds</title> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff text=#000000> <h2>Classifieds</h2> part of the <a href="index.html">ArsDigita Community System</a> by <a href="http://photo.net/philg/">Philip Greenspun</a> <hr> <ul> <li>User-accessible directory: <a href="/gc/">/gc/</a> <li>Moderators' directory: <a href="/gc/admin/">/gc/admin/</a> <li>Site administrator directory: <a href="/admin/gc/">/admin/gc/</a> <li>data model : <a href="/doc/sql/display-sql.tcl?url=/doc/sql/classifieds.sql">/doc/sql/classifieds.sql</a> <li>Tcl procs: /tcl/gc-defs.tcl </ul> <h3>The Big Idea</h3> 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: <ul> <li>multiple domains per ACS installation, e.g., photography and travel can cooexist <li>multiple categories per domain, extendable by user or by site administrator, depending on configuration <li>multiple moderators per domain <li>auctioning available, configurable by site owner per domain and also by user per ad </ul> <h3>Publishing Decisions</h3> 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?" <blockquote> <pre><code> [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= </code></pre> </blockquote> <hr> <a href="http://photo.net/philg/"><address>philg@mit.edu</address></a> </body> </html>