Features :: PHP Link Directory

Features

Author: admin

Added: March 8, 2006

Features	Version 2	Version 3
Unlimited Categories and Subcategories (tested on 2 million+)
Available in a dozen languages
Mod Rewrite for SEO Friendly Pages (optional)
Paypal Integration for Selling Featured Links
Set Expiration for Featured Links (ex. sell monthly, annually, lifetime)
Powerful Emailer for Link Exchanges
Create Reports of Link Request Emails sent to show your customer
Admin Notifications on New Links (optional)
Notify Submitter of Link Submission Receipt
Notify Submitter of Link Acceptance
Link Validation
IP, Domain and Keyword Banning
Business Listings with Google Maps new in 3.3
Google Pagerank (note: banned on some servers)
Google Sitemaps Integration (auto ping google server)
Yahoo Sitemaps Integration
Show Latest Links
Show Most Popular Links
Sort Links by Alphabetical, Hits or PageRank
Visual Confirmation (improved in version 3)
Display RSS Feed for Each Category (optional)
Compatable with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera
Category Search Results (as on DMOZ)
Database Backup from within admin panel
Encrypted Database Passwords
Limited Access for Editors
3-Way Linking Ability (require reciprocal link to 3rd site)
Reciprocal Links can be Required (optional)
Set Links per Page
Open Links in New Window (Optional)
Boolean Searches (optional)
Limit Hits on Links from a single IP to prevent "hit spamming"
Edit Templates from Admin
Lots of Free Templates Available for v2 and v3
Templates Easy to Edit Using Smarty
Link Details Page (separate page for each link)
Easily Move or Rename Categories
Links are Searchable in Admin to Help Manage Large Directories
Compatable with PHP 5
Active Support Forum
Many Mods Avaialble
Import Links from XML Source (per category)
Continously being improved and updated
Category Search in the Admin Area
Mass change links and category on a page with checkbox selections
Each user can select their preferred language
Paypal subscriptions available for payments
Three category selection methods for submiot form (default, auto-selected and AJAX category selection)
Link validator in admin panel will mark links with reciprocal link pages expired
Send status notifications to link owners with expired link pages
Change currency for payment (ex.: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, JPY)
Option to rebuild all meta tags on admin maintenance page
link to personaly watch reciprocal link page on link edit (admin area)
Template switcher and ability to manage and use more templates per installation
Allow users to submit custom META tags for links
Articles Module allows articles to be added into categories new in 3.3
Article Submission by Users new in 3.3
Users can comment and rate articles like a blog
Language editor makes editing language files easier
Quick subcategory adder makes adding categories faster
Improved search capabilities from within admin
Contact Us page with captcha

Easy Installation:

Just upload the files to a folder, go to that folder, and follow the instructions. The only requirement is you must setup a mysql database name, login and password. The actual database table creation is performed by the script.
Customizing the look and feel is also easy. Just modify the header and footer files in the templates folder.

Compatibility:
Tested on PHP 4 and 5
Tested on mySQL 3.23 and up
Tested on Fedora, RedHat, Windows 2003 and FreeBSD

Note to windows users: mod rewrite (seo friendly urls) may not be possible

Admin Configuration Settings:

URL Rewrite (yes/no)
Show Link and Category Counts (yes/no)
Show Subcategories below categories on main index.
Show PageRank of links in the directory
Sort links in each category by PageRank, Alphabetically or by number hits. Hits are counted with js, so no jump urls are used.
No Follow Tags (prevent search engines from following links) - there are 3 options: disabled, all or only if no reciprocal link.
RSS feeds may be enabled so that all categories have an xml feed.

Link Submission:

Visual Confirmation may be enabled to prevent spamming of your directory by bots.
Reciprocal Links can be required if you wish. If required, then when they click submit it spiders their site to make sure the link exists.
Multiple submissions from the same site can be either allowed or disallowed.

Emailer:
If you are looking for a way to make it easy to have a system for seeking and managing reciprocal links, this is a strong point of this program. Furthermore, the system makes it very easy to hire freelancers to help you do the work yet maintain a level of quality, and also be able to see exactly how much work was done.

Enter site name, url and email of webmaster and click submit and an email is sent using the email template you created.
Multiple Email Templates can be used if desired, so it is easy to send a variety of messages efficiently.
When submitting, a variety of methods are used to check and then warn you in the event you are trying to email the same person or website. This becomes especially important on large link campaigns over periods of time.
The PHP Mail Function, Sendmail or SMTP can be used by selecting the preferred method from the drop down menu.

Validation:

Check all your links to make sure they are valid. Spider also follows 301s and 302s.
Check all your reciprocal link partners (if using this feature) to see if they are still linking to you.
In both checks you may elect to set links that don't validate to inactive.

There are many other features, and there has been much attention in the details to insure that everything works great for you, and we look forward to getting your suggestions, as we prepare for even more coming soon!