Publisher review:Cars Portal is a software solution for running auto classifieds portals. Car Portal is a software solution for running auto classifieds portals. It provides functionality for the private sellers to signup, list their car for sale and make changes in their ads online using the private sellers administration space. The product provides special functionalities for the dealers to work and manage multiple ads.
An affiliate functionality is also included, affiliate partners may signup and earn commissions on all the sales done through their links. The product comes with a very powerful back office application for the administrators, allowing them not only to manage the cars portal settings, the dealers, affiliates etc. but also providing them full control over the website, its structure and content, statistics, search engines functionality and many others.
Car Portal is a web solution written in PHP and it uses a MySQL database for storing the data. In order to run it on your server/hosting package you need both PHP and MySQL running and also mod_rewrite (if you plan to use the functionality for SEO links, it can be turned off if this module isn't present).
Car Portal is composed by five main parts:
- front site (easy customizable and template based)
- private sellers administration space (allowing the private sellers to manage their profile, ads and others)
- dealers administration space (providing functionalities to the dealers to work with multiple ads)
- affiliates administration space (allowing them to manage their profile and monitor their earnings reports)
- back office application (accessible only to the administrators, providing full control over the website - its structure and content and the car portal settings and users)
The registered private sellers have access to their personal administration space where they can: edit their profile, manage their car ads, consult their private messages, manage the settings for their ads (for example if their email is visible for the other users etc.), contact the support center and others. The dealer users have some special functionalities allowing them to work with ease with multiple job ads. After logging in to their personal administration space, the affiliate partners may see statistics for their earning reports and perform the other standard actions like editing their profile, contacting the support center etc. Standard WebSiteAdmin functionalities coming with Car Portal:
- big list with available extensions and custom modules
- multilanguage websites support
- add new pages to the website (and delete/activate/deactivate them)
- edit the content of the pages with a powerful WYSIWYG editor
- set custom extensions to be executed for selected pages
- unique interactive help functionality, right click on a page or element and get immediately help information for it
- use different templates for the website and a powerful templates functionality
- extend the application with ease with new Back office modules and application extensions written by yourself
- use standard, multiple levels and customized predefined menus, which are automatically generated according to the website structure
- set music files to played (for example in .mp3 format) on the pages of the website
- manage the URLs of the pages of your website, setup for example search engines friendly URLs to be used
- cross browser WYSIWYG editor to edit the website pages content
- define custom template tags and set custom extensions to be executed for them
- create custom server side forms, like Contact pages or product information request forms, with and integrated WYSIWYG forms designer
- consult the data sent by users through the published forms on the site
- see statistics and charts for the visits of the website
- optimize the site for search engines, set custom titles, meta keywords and description for the pages, check the queries that the visitors used in Google to find your website
- submit your website to the major crawler based search engines, like Google and Alltheweb for example
- check search engines index report
- see search engines popularity report for a selected page
- consult history for your login/log outs to the Back office application
- security features to protect your website and the Back office application
- define custom welcome messages for the Back office users
- detailed security reports for the Back office
- define multiple groups and users for the Back office and assign them different access settings for the resources of the application
- consult history reports for the different users
- customize the interface of the Back office application (individually for every user)
Car Portal 2.0 is a PHP script for Portal Systems scripts design by NetArtMedia.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris.
Operating system:Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris
Car Portal 2.0 script details 
