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Author Topic: Creating Craigslist clone with Monero cryptocurrency, multilingual,  (Read 139 times)

needCraigslistclone

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Hi everyone,

I am not a programmer, and I want a software that is easy to use. I have created simple websites using Frontpage 2003 and Dreamweaver before, but not anything grand or anything with databases.

I want to create a craigslist like site. No pictures (except the pics which customers will be allowed to upload), no google adsense, no advertising, and no social ads and gimmicks, no popups. I want to make the site as easy to use as possible and i want a site which uses as little CPU power as possible as I want to grow it.

I have some queries and I was also wondering which template could all of these:


1. What are the hosting requirements and what is needed from the hosting package if I host on a virtual server, what is the programming language, database, security, etc.

2.   Does OSclass have the ability to handle high traffic? Can it moved to another server easily?

3.   The ability to have continent, countries, and cities as locations. And subsite urls with the city like Craigslist has eg. Newyork.mywebsite.com. I want to include all the countries and cities of the world.

4.   Double blind email system for customers or the facility to email anonymously.

5.   Multi-lingual. Which languages are supported? Main site will be in English, but translated options on all pages to be available. At least the major languages.


The following two features are the only two I want which Craigslist does not use.

6.   A credit system: customers can purchase say 20 credits for $20 and then use credits to pay for ads and then renew if they need.

7.   Crypto currency payment option for advertisers, mainly Monero for the paid categories. Most will be free. They should be able to buy using Monero if they want, or Paypal or any of the other payment options.


Is there a special OSclass script that can do all of these?


« Last Edit: July 02, 2019, 04:21:55 pm by needCraigslistclone »

WEBmods

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Hello!

1. Official requirements. Source: https://osclass.org/page/download
  • PHP version: 5.6 or newer
  • MySQL database (or access to create one)
  • MySQLi module for PHP
  • GD module for PHP

2. Osclass (probably) can handle a lot of ads, users, visits. etc. But it depends a lot on your hosting as well.
    There are several ways to move to another server. You can backup your database in Osclass admin and all your files via cPanel (eventually FTP). Then import the database to a new server (phpMyAdmin), upload the files and modify oc-config.php with your new database user, password and name.

3. I wouldn't recommend you to import all locations as it makes the site slower and takes a lot of space. On one of my whole-Europe-based sites, I didn't add all countries, regions, cities, etc. but just a Google Places autocomplete field.
    You can have location subdomains if you choose the first option (importing all locations).

4. Not fully sure what you mean here.

5. I think you can see the available languages in Osclass Market page in your site admin panel. You can also make your own translations.

6. Check out payment plugins on Market (paid).

7. Check out payment plugins on Market (paid).

Is there a special OSclass script that can do all of these?

No, but there are plenty of plugins and themes available. You can also add requests in forums Jobs section for custom development from professionals.

Regards.

needCraigslistclone

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Thank you Patrick,

For number 4, I mean when customers reply to a post they can communicate without showing their email. If you havn't used Craigslist, then it is difficult to explain.

When 2 people are emailing each other, their real email does not show, it is something like gu8h5h78th@yoursite.com

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You're welcome. :)

Osclass itself doesn't have that feature, but it's possible for a plugin to do that.

Regards.