Classifieds Extension

fragicide

I got to thinking today about creating a new site. In my area, we have a facebook page that acts like a classifieds site. Members of the group can post things they want to sell/trade/buy, list a price, add some pictures, and people can comment on them.

It got me thinking how I can use Flarum for this purpose. I mean, it has all the tools available already aside from things like a price field and marking ads as sold/completed.

Here's a list of features I would be implementing, but I'd like some feedback, whether it be adding new features or expanding features I've listed.

USER FEATURES

Labels (ISO/WTB/WTS/TRADE)
Price or Price Range Field
Location
Image Attachments
Custom Secondary Tags only for 'Classifieds' Tag
Mark Post 'Sold' or 'Completed'
Sort By Active Status (Sold/Unsold)

ADMIN FEATURES

Create Classifieds Tag(s)
Set User Restrictions/Permissions
Auto-Prune Inactive/Sold Posts
Custom Post Templates

I'm open to any ideas or suggestions 🙂

jacko

fragicide Is it coming? That would be an awesome addition.

Dominion

Interesting ... sounds like something that a lot of admins might want to get their hands on. 🙂

We're moving this to "Features" for now, because we'd like to reserve "Extensions" for the announcement and support of finished extensions. When you've got some code ready to ship, feel free to post here again!

fragicide

There's not much here yet, but the project will be located here: https://github.com/forum/flarum-classifieds

jacko

I installed your extension but the config tab doesn't appear after enabling it.

Webinsane

Is this valid extension? I followed installation directions and got an error:

Oops! Something went wrong on the server. Please reload the page and try again.

KnownSyntax

I can't wait till this is fully completed since I will be using this extension on my Flarum as well. It looks like you hit all of my major things that something of this nature should have, the only other thing I could suggest is maybe having an option to limit specific usergroups to only X discussion topics in a given time period (thus no one will spam over and over if their product doesn't sell, or will try to include it all in every single secondary tag if there is a limit on how many you can use).

fragicide

jacko sorry man, haven't had any time whatsoever to work on it. I kinda forgot about it actually ?

ron_jeremy that's actually pretty neat!

ron_jeremy

Interesting thread -- I like the idea of a classifieds 'template' so to speak, and recall that http://www.pentaxforums.com also use a predefined template for the classifieds section as seen here:

Dominion

Thanks for the screenshot ron_jeremy ... I've been wondering what the Pentax template looked like ever since you mentioned in your thread about post templates. Of course I couldn't see it without creating an account there.

It seems to me that much of the functionality needed for a Classifieds extension could be realized as a more generic templating extension of the sort that you proposed. A reasonable plan of attack could be to aim for the creation of a Templating extension that everyone can use, then design the Classifieds extension as an addon that would be dependent on the functionality in the Templating extension.

ron_jeremy

Dominion then design the Classifieds extension as an addon that would be dependent on the functionality in the Templating extension

Awesome idea!

0E800

fragicide
Any update? Is this a working extension or still just a POC?
https://github.com/BesrourMS/flarum-classifieds

clarkwinkelmann

0E800 that GitHub repo is literally empty (No JS or PHP) ? So it's not even a POC

However that feature would be nice !

_mhsm

Hey guys, I'm new to the community and I wish to develop this extension, so I would like to have some guidance throughout the development - preferably from someone who has already implemented an extension before. I've read "get started" in the documentation.