Nickel
Nickel is a web application that allows students to post ads for textbooks they wish to sell, and have other students make them an offer on the textbooks. Nickel (V.3) currently powers SFSSBookswap, and V.4 is currently under development and sports the following features:
Features
- Google book search integration via DOJO
- Search indexing and querying provided by Zend Lucene
- Searching by book isbn, class, author, and title
- Browsing based on Subject and class
- Viewing of users’ profiles
- Ability to post comments on textbook ads
- Protection of user’s privacy by not exposing email of seller to potential buyers
- Cashing of search results and browsing pages to increase performance
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