V4.1.x Best way to create a directory w/in classified site

[Offshoreboat +]

Hello Everyone,

Looking for recommendations for the best way to build a directory within a classifieds site.

Examples:

Car site:

You have a car site, where users can post their cars for sale. Within the same site, there is a directory of car manufacturers or dealers, with address, contact information, links etc on each car manufacture or local dealer to help users get the necessary information & research.

i.e. www-autotrader-com with "Cars for Sale" & "Find Dealers" links.

Users can post their own ads but directory listings can only be entered by admin.

What is best way to acheive this & does anyone have example sites?

Thanks in advance!
Jessie

[Lhotch +]

I would Just create a top level directory category and then subcats for the different areas of business. If non of your ad packages have those directory cats selected then no one can place ads in them but admin.

[Offshoreboat +]

Thanks Larry. I appreciate the feedback.

[seymourjames +]

You will also need to turn the price field off for those categories of course and depending upon what you wish to do make them searchable or not. The price filed comes into several template files but you should be able to search across the directories to get them all out for just those categories by testing the categoryIDs. There is quite a bit on the forum about manipulating the price field.