They’re expensive. I just created an auto classified script for a client, but I didn’t develop it on a production-based platform. I should probably re-design it for distribution.
I looked for a long time for scripts to work from, but found none. The one you found seems most reliable.
This software is as good as I have ever seen. They have a unique templating system on the Enterprise versions that is excellent especially if you want to have detailed design control.
Even heard that they are writing in horse specific functionality.
Evson is encoded. I would never buy their script. It isn’t even that impressive. Geodesic looks good but is very expensive. In addiiton their email addresses don’t function. Doesn’t give me a good feeling. Their mid range scripts are missing some essentials which is weird. I looked at Almond Classifieds but their mailbox is completely full and you can’t reach the. It looks pretty powerful considering the price and the ability to have multiple parts per cateogory, e.g. jobs different than computer parts.
The last one I saw is chameleon. Has its good parts but I don’t like the framing.
This should be easy. All the good ones are currently in perl and I’m hoping that someone else has a better solution. Evson is absolutely a no go and no reason to go encoded.
As it stands it is hard to believe you pay $500 for it AND you have the benefit of putting up their powered by link on the bottom of your pages or pay ANOTHER $50 to remove. I can’t imagine what it will end up costing for a non-exclusive license…
Surprisingly Noah’s classifieds is excellent. I ended up with deltascripts’ PHP Classifieds which is suprrisingly good and superior to most. It has a few html errors here and there but otherwise pretty clean. The admin interface is extremely awkward but very powerful if you invest some time. In a day I got a very nice site up and running and will hone it this weekend.
Right now, I’d say that phpclassifieds at deltascripts is the best of breed.