Posted by Captain Paralytic on 02/12/07 14:50

On 12 Feb, 14:25, "white lightning" <crescent...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering how to make a classifieds ads website using PHP. I'm
> thinking it'd be much easier to use CMS such as Joomla to create
> something complicated like this rather than coding from scratch. The
> site will have login features, search features, ad listings for
> selling and buying, ads for personals and cars, send emails to friend
> features. Does this site look too big? It's smaller than ebay, of
> course. So do you think it's better to code from scratch or use CMS
> such as Joomla/ Mambo? What are your thoughts? What would you choose
> and why?

I would use Joomla/Mambo and I would probably just use (or possibly
modify) one of the many existing classified ads components that have
alerady been written for it.
This is because I am experienced with mambo/joomla and because using
an existing component meanse that all/most of the work has already
been done for me.

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