About the Buy, Sell and Swap demo

This was my major project while I was working at After9. I was given a simple PHP script for posting classified ads that had been downloaded from some open source scripts site and was told to rework it to match the design of the rest of the site. In the end the script that was being used as a starting point proved to be completely inadequate for what the company wanted to do with it so I spent a couple of months creating a new one from scratch. The Buy, Sell and Swap section was the result.

This demonstration is not the final version which was on the site, as my backup of the code wasn't 100% up to date when I left After9. the version on the website was tied into ProTX for credit card validation and allowed users to purchase a bigger ad posting quota and to pay for their listing to be more prominent. The final version also allowed for images to be associated with a listing, a feature that is currently disabled in this demo version, though I intend to re-enable it once I have managed to reverse engineer the database structure from the source code correctly. The final version also had better graphics, as I had lobbied for the site to undergo a design revision before going live as I felt that it still looked like an unfinished prototype version at this point in development.

You cannot sign up for an account or edit account profiles with this version of the Buy, Sell and Swap system, as these features were provided by different parts of the After9 website. In order to allow you to use it I have provided a number of demo accounts you can use to post listings and try the system out. The login details for each account is listed below:

User Username Password
Tim Bisley tim comics
Daisy Steiner daisy colin
Marsha Klein marsha booze
Brian Topp brian twist
Mike Watt mike gutsandguns
Twist Morgan twist prada