I've been running this on my site for a bout 8 months and have had no problems, a few glitches that the new version has now worked out. It now integrates with my version of JS which adds that extra "needed" feature to classifieds.
Easy to install, easy to update, easy to canfigure... Definately recommend it!

Some of the comments here don't see to be fair to this component at all. The v2.2.2 stable version works perfectly under J1.5 with legacy support turned on.

Perhaps some of the more negative reviewers were playing with the *release candidates*? Those do have problems with j1.5, but that's why they are labeled rc1, rc2 etc. I imagine. They're just not ready yet.

I'm very happy with v2.2.2 as it suits our little ski club perfectly. I'd give it a 5 if it was j1.5 native, but it certainly deserves a solid 4 stars. Thanks for the nice addon Thomas.

Too many bugs and still no native support. Forum is scant and many issues are not addressed. Sometimes you get what you pay for. I'm gonna spend some money and get adsfactory.

I still do not understand why this component is not made for 1.5 native...

Did someone say support? there is none. Questions go unanswered on a daily basis. Extension is good except for requiring legacy. 1.5 native is in discussion but they can not confirm a date. One guy has recoded and made changes to original code, it would be nice if he released a paid version of his own.

I just wanted to say that AdsManager is exactly what I was looking for… VERY easy to install and use!!

Is there a way that I can manage different groups with a limit of how many ads they can post and with or without images?

I downloaded the extension and had it up and running in no time. Easy to configure and customize. If you're looking for a free classified extension this is it. What would make it great is if the developer offered a way to charge for ads, even if the extension came with a price. I know PaidSystem exists, but forcing the user to buy credits first before they can pay for ads just doesn't seem very attractive or efficient. Again, this is a great extension as is for free classifieds. A commercial version would be even better.

Easy to install, configure, and add ads. Only issue thus far is that once an ad expires it disappears entirely. Clients don't have the option to re-activate an expired ad.

Great free extension!!!

Its very good extencion! I love it but I have one problem and I cant solve it. I want to change money unet $ to €, but it is impossible. I have changed en components/com_adsmanager/lan/lang_english.php $ to €(euro) but there are no changes on my webpage. Please help me , mail: tihane1@hotmail.com Thank you!

Ive been incorporating AdsManager in my site now for 6 months and am yet to have any problems. It was a case of open, install and get goin. Great stuff. My only issue is the lack of availability to configue titles such as 'Latest Ads' and 'Ads'. These are fine, if it is actually ads that the site is displaying - but not if using this as a tool for displaying other indexed information.

Good stuff ;-)

I posted questions in Joomla Forum, this is the link:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=471&t=431415

Kindly reply to the issues that I encountered. thanks.

I downloaded and installed this component a few weeks ago. Even though I am Joomla novice it went pretty well and was working with a basic format quickly.

Regrettably the support forum has been down for two and half weeks and I have not been able to fully customise the component as I would like.

I looked around and this appears to be the best non-commercial Freeads component by far. Hopefully in time the community will grow and support will improve. The component on its own warrants 5 stars but the full potential is currently limited by support especially as the forum is down. Understandably as this is a non-commercial component the developer probably has paid work to undertake.

Nonetheless. A great component !

Hi..
It is fair to say that, this is a unique Component.
Everything is fine.. Only the Admin Configure & Add new Category are shown without the Joomla Admin style, without save/apply/Cancel buttons to end the job. Am using Joomla 1.5.14-clean installation.

I installed this last week and so far so good! It does require a bit of extra knowledge if you want to make additional customization, but it's not overly complicated and the code is clean and detailed for the most part.

I have it setup so site visitors reply to ads via the form method, however I can't seem to figure out change the text displayed after you click "send" when replying to an ad. Can anyone help? As it stands, it just shows the ad component copyright info and no other text.

Also - I have the "Latest Ads" module on my front page...when a visitor clicks the ad, it displays it on the front page...is there a way to change this so it appears on a new/clean page instead?

Keep up the great work! :)

Well, as the title suggests I liked it quite a bit. Does exactly what it supposed to do and integrates easily.

The reason I'm giving it 4 stars and not 5 is, really, by July 2009 you could have got rid of legacy issues and make it 1.5 native. At the moment it's the only component on my site that prevents me from switching to native mode. Also, can't seem to get SEF to work.

Extension easy to install and apply. Not as straight forward as some extensions to customise, but does the job really well.
Thank you for a good extension.

I had installed SOBI before reviewing. I was looking for category specific user defined fields and this has implemented it full power. When you add new field, you can select categories by name those will display this field. Simple yet effective. In SOBI I chosen to add new field (after turning on category specific fields in other config), I could not see at all where to specify affected category for this new field.

This also has ready modules just to upload and activate which lets you publish Adsmanager menu, Adsmanager Ads, AdsManager Search. However, plugins install for Gmap plugin and Youtube plugin generates error that it could not find XML file. (in their latest version also). I am sure it will be worked on soon.

My site have working forms now to let people publish ads.

Man, some of the reviews here are hard to understand... are you people for real? one person posted that he never bothered asking for support, because of the posts here, and uninstalled? and that review made it through? lol is there another component's author at work here?

This is by far the best component for classified's that you will find for Joomla. The Forums are very active, with a wide variety of issues, and implementations covered. I can honestly say that any problems I have had (not many), I always found a solutions to, or had an answer provided.

I would suggest anyone turned off by some of the ridiculous negative comments here have a second look, the author is currently back and breathing new life into an already awesome component.

Thanks for this great piece of work Thomas.

Oh Well as the saying goes "if it's free" you can guarantee headaches.
Headache to install, missing folders/missing images...dead links..blah blah.
Lets get real, You need to be more than a average computer user to get this thing to work.
Clost Expert FTP knowledge and php.
Spent hours on this so far...and trying to find support answers is a joke.
Otherwise if all is promised would be a fantastic product.

Joomla is a fantastic product...but damn slow at loading and hard on servers as my host tells me...not change much at all since last version..a pity.

I've switched from Noah's Classifieds to this one and they're very similar. Things I currently have issues with and are trying to figure out how to change code for:
- The way it uses email addresses out in the open, with no way to hide them. I'd like a to have an email form to contact sellers with no visible email address. What if a spammer logs in and starts harvesting user email addresses?
- The email message sent to sellers through the form can be confusing. I'd like to have some sort of header in the email telling sellers that this email has come from my website from AdsManager, possibly from my website email address.
- I only have one category, yet I have to select a category from a drop-down box.
- I want to have 'price' in the Short Display Mode, or people will try to write the price in the title, which looks awful.


I love how it integrates into Community Builder. I love the look of it and the customisation I can do with CSS (I had to change a lot, as I have a white font on black background). I've customised AdsManager for people to sell their old books and it works very well for this purpose.