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Free Directory Script

Welcome to phpLD!  We look forward to building a relationship with you in the coming years as you use our product, and benefit from its use. Since its beginning in 2002, phpLD has been used on nearly 100,000 websites and growing. There are many uses for a directory, and here a few:

1. Create a general directory of the best resources accross the web, and allow people to submit their sites. You can also earn money by charging for the review process, as well as a premium for featured links. Many have profitted from this model, and people continue to do this today.
2. Create a directory centered around your niche. Maybe you already have a website about a topic you know well, and you want to create a well organized link section to help your users find the best resources in your niche neatly organized into categories. phpLD can be a great way to bring better organization to your links, and also also make it possible for your users to submit their favorite links.
3. Create a regional directory. This is pretty big right now, and many are getting in on this, because people are finding ways to build a local directory and profit from it. You can make a directory for your town or city, and then you can promote it, and even sell advertising.

These are just a few of the many uses for phpLD. If you have information you want to organize into categories, and make searchable, phpLD can even be modified for special uses. There are hundreds of mods and templates available, as well as a discussion forum where you can find out more about the exciting uses of phpLD.

This free version of phpLD that you are about to download is used by many, and very powerful in itself. However, we also offer a paid version that has even more features, and it is our hope that as you find success using this version that you will make plans to upgrade to version 3, which only costs $30 with a link back, or $80 without. For more information on the paid version, please see the homepage of our site.

Requirements for use: You must maintain a link back to this site in the footer of all pages of your directory. You may not rebrand the admin section of phpLD in any way, and must display the logo and the link in the admin. At the top of all files with the php extension, there is important license information. This may not be removed. Please be respectful of the requirements, as w depend on users like you in order to be able offer this as a free directory script.

Changelog for version 2

1. People were sometime getting false positives about "link already exists", and a fix has been applied to stop this from happening falsely
2. An improvement was made to the payment system to prevent a possible spoofing attack.
3. Additional checks were added to prevent remote submissions (spam). In constants.php you can check to allow empty user agents or not. We advise "not".
4. Fix for alphabetical sorting
5. There has been an improvement to pagerank checking, and you will find it works on many more servers now! files changed submit.php index.php payment.php init.php /include/constants.php /include/functions.php /include/pagerank.php Files added /include/check_post_rules.php /include/client_info.php To update a modded version of phpLD use a program like winmerge to compare and copy over changes to the files listed as changed if using a non moded directory simply upload all files except for /include/config.php

Additionally, there is an "end of life" announcement for all previous releases of version 2, the free version. As of August 1, 2008, we will no longer be providing support for older versions of version 2.It is very easy to update to the latest version, and we will provide help with update related questions past August 1, but will require the upgrade before providing help. This is both helpful for to keep our support costs reasonable, and free us up to continue developing the product, and it also helpful to you, because you will have the most stable version.

All in all, this latest release is most stable release ever of our free directory script which has been in continuous support and development since 2002, having been tested nearly 100,000 sites. We want to again thank you for your interest in our product, and look forward to seeing what you have done with it. It is people like you that have an idea, and use phpLD to accomplish it that has made phpLD a success. Hopefully, we will see you in the forums soon showing off your new phpLD site!

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Best Wishes,
phpLD Team