Phil, have you looked through the available software at http://sourceforge.net/ ? Try a search on "classified", there are a few that look to be in the ballpark of what you are wanting to do. - tom e. ---------- On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Phil Mattison wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:18:51 -0700 From: Phil Mattison Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: New Open Source Project My company recently launched a new online classified ad site (http://www.finderz.net) and I'm thinking of creating an open-source version of the software using PHP & MySQL. I've seen a number of classified ad packages on download forums, but most of them were either relatively expensive, fairly cheesy, or both. I'm sending out this message to gage the interest in developing such a package, and would like to hear from anyone who might be interested in participating on a volunteer basis. I can provide a fairly substantial code base to start from. This idea came to me as I was looking at phpbb.com, which is a really excellent PHP/SQL open-source forum package. I contacted the lead developer, who said, "We created phpBB because we believe in the principals of Open Source and we enjoy writing code that people can use. We all have day jobs and any costs involved in the project we handle ourselves." I figure there must be others out there of the same mind. I can provide web hosting etc. for the project. If anyone is interested I can provide substantially more detail regarding what I have in mind, though looking at Finderz.NET should give you a pretty good idea. I am located in the East Valley, Chandler area, though I suppose that doesn't necessarily matter. -- Phil Mattison Ohmikron Corp. mattison@ohmikron.com 480-722-9595 602-820-9452 Mobile -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss