Directory software

By purchasing a professional version of our web directory script you get a life-time technical support, free upgrades and free installation . There are several options for you to purchase eSyndiCat Directory Software:

• $49 - one domain license
• $89 - two domains license
• $149 - unlimited domains license

eSyndiCat links editor has limited set of functionality for links directory management. Links editor has possibility to do the following:

• Suggest links to any category.
• Edit suggested links.
• Track statistics for suggested links.
• Edit contact information.
• Edit account password.
• Comment and rate links

• 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 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 4.2, 4.3 and 5.0
Tested on mySQL 3.23 and up
Tested on Fedora, RedHat, Windows 2003 and FreeBSD
1&1 severs can have issues with this script

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, Send mail 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!
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Site Sift

Site Sift Listings - Free Directory Script

Site Sift Listings is a FREE directory script with many features that webmasters want including creation of static pages. Site Sift Listings can be customized to create the look and feel you want from a directory. Many of the functions are easily turned ON & OFF with the push of a button from the admin section.

Site Sift Listings is offered in two versions:

1) Site Sift Listings - copyright link must stay at the bottom of every page.

2) Site Sift Listings Remove Copyright - for $59.95 the copyright links will be removed

To learn more about the requirements please visit our installation guide .

The latest version of Site Sift Listings is V1.31

Featured directories that use our script

Featured directories that use our script:

• Smittyz Web Directory
• Smindsrt Directory
• DirSpace Directory
• World Forum Directory

Templates for Site Sift Listings:

• Site Sift Listings Themes by Aviva Directory
• Site Sift Templates

Site Sift Listings

Features:

• Unlimited categories
• Unlimited subcategories (multi way tree design structure)
• Edit (sub)categories
  • Change category from drop down menu
  • Move categories around (subcategories will be changed as well)
  • Change title
  • Change description
• Delete (sub)categories
• Edit listings
  • Change title
  • Change description
  • Change category
  • Change URL
• Sort listings by alphabetical or date submitted
• Search both listings and categories
• Easily customize colours
• Change site meta title tag
• Change site meta keyword tag
• Change site meta description tag
• Change site default email address
• Change default currency
• Change default domain name
• One click SEO friendly URL's
• Reciprocal links can be required (on/off switch)
• Automatic reciprocal link checking, easily turn on/off
• Require reciprocal link to be from same domain, easily turn on/off
• Integrated for Paypal with Instant Payment Notification
• Offer sponsored, paid, reciprocal, and free listings, easily turn any on/off
• Easily set price for paid/sponsor links
• Sponsored listings can be set to expire after a set # of days or to never expire
• Easily change links from sponsor to regular and set expiration date of sponsor links
• Google sitemap integration
• Set min/max length for site description
• Adjust the number of listings shown per page
• Database backup
• Smart meta tags every category & subcategory page has its own meta tags (keywords,title,description) all dynamic
• Link details page has its own meta tags (keywords,title,description) all dynamic
• Link scan that will check for broken links
• Ready to use for 2CheckOut payments
• Coupons
• Domain banning
• E-mail templates for approval/deny emails
• Paid listings can be set to expire after a certain number of days
• Multiple link approval/delete/renew with one click

Nice script but a little limited but just has the way of spreading PR through a directory which is what you want to get though paid links ! >> Site Sift

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WSN Links

WSN Links provides all the tools to run a search engine optimised links directory and exchange links to build traffic, but its capabilities extend far beyond that. Customize it to create a yellow pages site, classifieds, or most anything else which involves indexing items.

This tour will introduce you to some of the more important features of WSN Links, though it is by no means exhaustive.

The WSN Links administration panel allows you to configure and customize your directory. On the left side you'll find a menu listing the various categories of tasks and settings you can configure. This tour will introduce you to a few of those options.

The possibilities for customizations are endless. Run a business directory, a yellow pages site, a classifieds site (automotive's, real state, personals), or most anything else you can think up which involves indexing items. Note that there are distinct WSN scripts based closely on WSN Links for media galleries , knowledge bases and discussion forums .

Basic Features

• Unbranded. You are not required to display any copyright notice or other indication of WSN Links to your visitors, the linkback is only in the free version.
• Well-maintained. Reported bugs are fixed promptly and maintenance releases are issued regularly. A change log is available and upgrades are painless.
• Setup takes seconds. The setup script asks for your database info, asks you which languages you wish to install, and then automatically sets up your directory for you. If you supply your FTP info all CHMOD matters are handled for you as well. If you don't find it easy, just ask and it'll be done for you, for free.
• The 'Switches' area in the admin panel allows turning features on and off instantly without needing to edit them out of the templates.
• Load management. If the server load goes over a certain level, lock out search engine spiders. Use the caching system to serve selected user groups (such as guests) blazing-fast cached versions of pages, optionally depending on the server load level.
• An image prompt (capatcha) to thwart automated submissions from spam bots.
• Support via email and forum. All support is handled by the script's author, not relayed through customer service reps who would lack sufficient knowledge of the software. Get help and advice with anything related to the script, not just troubleshooting.
• Available services. WSN offers a variety of services to help you complete and maintain your project.

Import and Integration Features

• Import your data from various directory scripts . If you're coming from a script not listed there, ask support about an importer for it.
• Import sections of the Open Directory Project, as described here , to pre-fill your directory with links on your topic.
• Import links via WSN's XML format.
• Import from CSV, TSV or any custom flat-file database format.
• Easily integrate with many MySQL member systems. Pre-supplied integration systems selectable in your admin panel include WordPress, Mambo, phpnuke, Invision Power Board 1.x and 2.0x, vBulletin 3, phpBB, WSN Forum, WSN Gallery, WSN Knowledge Base. Some of these can only integrate the login details (vBulletin 3) while most can also integrate the cookies.
• Create an integration with virtually any MySQL-based script using the simple integration generator in your admin panel to select which fields mean what, how the passwords are encoded, and how cookies are stored.
• Share data from WSN scripts (WSN Forum, WSN Gallery, WSN KB) using toplists. For example, anywhere in your links directory you can show the top five topics from your WSN Forum.

SEO and Traffic-Building Features

• Search engine friendly URL rewriting. If you're on an apache server, shorten your URLs and make your categories, comments and links appear without .php extensions. Make categories appear as yoursite.com/category-name/. Make link details pages show as /links/link-name-x.html to get keywords in your URLs that will boost your search engine position.
• Control search engine spiders by disallowing them from unimportant pages. This way they get deeper into the important areas and don't put as much of a load on your server.
• Throw 404s to any undesirable IPs in order to control rogue spiders or thwart DOS attacks.
• Meta tags. Set meta tags for general use on all pages, and set category-specific meta tags to override the general ones for each category.
• Encourage sites to trade links by offering them top position or a more eye-catching link.
• Catch link partners who stop linking by running the reciprocal link checker. Choose to send them a warning email, and suspend the link if you wish. Suspended links can be unsuspended or deleted later, and emails are sent to the link owner on both suspension and unsuspension.
• Catch sites that have turned to placeholder pages or porn using the content checker.
• When a link is pending validation, simply click the 'check' option next to it to see if it's linking back to your site properly.
• Syndication. Have a java script code generated based on a specified toplist so that other sites can syndicate your content.
• RSS feed. Provide an RSS feed to visitors, containing urls and descriptions ordered in any way you (or the visitor) likes. The RSS feed can also be used to track comments posted. Apply custom templates to feeds.
• Google and Sitemaps.org site map generation. Help search engines find your pages.

Customizations Features

• WSN Links is fully customisable. All of the HTML which is displayed to your visitors (as well the admin panel HTML) can be customized through the templates. You may either edit your templates offline through the HTML editor of your choice, or make use of the online editor in the admin panel which allows you to preview changes, search for text, et cetera.
• Take advantage of CSS. Change the entire colour scheme by editing a small style sheet, so that you don't have to go through the templates individually. Optionally let your visitors choose the style they prefer, without needing to create separate template sets.
• Use the wrapper template to encapsulate the WSN Links content in your design very quickly without needing to search through all the other templates.
• Find your customizations with a glance, as customized templates are displayed in a different colour than uncustomized templates. Click the 'view original template' option to have a glance at what the original version of the template looked like.
• Translatable. With a multilingual install, you can choose from 7 existing languages or use the language system in your admin panel to quickly create your own. Currently there are partial translations of Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Polish, French, and German which you can finish off through your languages section. Simply click 'show all un translated language' to find the parts needing work.
• Add new fields. Add as many new link, category, comment or member fields as you like, no limits. Use a text area, input box, checkboxes, radio buttons, combo box, etc to collect your data. Choose if new fields can be filled in by visitors or only by admin.
• Create a toplist. Anywhere you wish, list the top x links, categories, comments or members ordered by the field of your choice and filtered by a condition of your choice. Works in custom templates, so you can create new pages with toplist content. Use the simple toplist generator in your admin panel.
• Custom templates. Create as many new templates as you need, and use toplists or globally available template variables in them. Also make a custom template for specific links, categories, etc. by specifying the id number in the url. Override the normal template of any page with your custom one, override header and footer with custom ones.
• Easily make a custom template for a special category by editing the category to specify the new template to use for it.
• Easy template customization. Includes [INSERTFILE=yourtemplate] syntax to let you easily insert large amounts of text/HTML/PHP from another file into a particular spot in a template, thus making it easy for you to keep your customizations separate so that upgrading to future versions can be painless.
• Simple conditionals syntax available in templates. Use the power of PHP without needing to learn PHP. Example: <IF {MEMBERLINKS} is greater than 10>You have submitted more than 10 links.<OTHERWISE>You have not yet submitted more than 10 links.</IF>
• Multiple types. Create multiple types of categories, comments or links... each type can use different HTML to display it and may be positioned differently on the page.

E-mail Features

• E-mail queue system can handle sending out an email to thousands of people at once.
• MIME e-mail option. Use HTML in your emails, with it still degrading to text effectively.
• E-mail logging. Review a list of sent emails and the IP addresses of the senders.
• Use the advanced toplist feature in emails, just as in any template.
• Preview emails before sending.
• Create an email signature, that will be appended to the bottom of all mail sent.
• Create standard emails which you can select to re-send in the future.
• Bulk e-mail members. Send a mass e-mail to all members or to members who fit the conditions you specify, and use any member template variables in your message.
• Bulk e-mail link submitters. Send a mass email for all links or for each link which meets the conditions you specify to the owner of the link, using any link template variables in your message.
• Let members e-mail each other. These e-mails are processed through a form which does not reveal the address of the recipient.
• Allow members to opt in or out. By choosing on registration or editing their profile, members can decide not to receive emails from other members or not to receive emails from the administrator.
• E-mail notifications to admin. Get an email informing you of new submissions, containing details of the submission.
• E-mail notifications to user. Let the submitter get an email notification of acceptance or rejection. Optionally send submitter notification that their link is received and pending review, that their link's sponsorship funds have run out, or that their link has expired.
• Send emails from different addresses. If you want validation emails sent by your moderators to contain their email address, for example, this is selectable.
• Subscriptions. Subscribe to be notified of new comments on a link, or subscribe to a category to be notified of new links in it. Member can also choose to be notified by email of every new link in the entire directory regardless of category. Member profiles offer a subscription management area.
• Option to add headers to outgoing emails coming from the admin address. Use this to set a reply-to value or the like .Option to send all email from the administrative address. A few hosting setups require that all mail be sent from the same domain.

File Attachment Features

• Visitors may attach however many files you specify to links (as well as comments and PMs), if you choose to allow it. The number of files per link is configurable by usergroup. Set the allowed file types and maximum size. Hide the real file name, and track the number of downloads. Choose which member groups are allowed to download the file. If it's an image, automatically display it.
• Custom file attachment fields. Add unlimited file fields for links, categories, comments and members. Track downloads, image size, etc for as many different file fields as you need.
• Show image thumbnails. If the attachment is an image, optionally show a thumbnail of any size by using <img src="thumbnail.php?id={LINKID}&attachid={ATTACHID}&thumbwidth=75&thumbheight=75">.
• Convert video files to FLV , like YouTube.
• Check image size. If you're allowing image uploads, limit the allowed width and height. Auto-resize if desired.

Links-Specific Features

• Link sponsorship. Integrate with PayPal, 2checkout or Nochex to allow link owners to purchase priority positioning in their category. Optionally switch this to deducting per unique click instead of per day (a simple PPC option). Use multiple levels of sponsorship if desired. You can require all links to be sponsored if you wish.
• If you wish, generate revenue by integrating paid PPC search engine results (from searchfeed.com, or you can add your own provider). This is fully integrated to allow complete control of the appearance, location, amount of details, number of results, etc of the paid results. Results can be shown in categories and/or search, and the details are customisable by category.
• Bulk-edit all of the links from a category on one page, when it's helpful to speed things up.
• Links can be automatically marked as visited, and associated comments threads as read.
• Create a list of related links for each link, or with MySQL 4 display an auto-generated list of links similar to the one being viewed.
• Visitors can rate each link. Cookies are used to prevent re-voting, and IPs are also stored to prevent the same IP address from voting again. View details of each individual vote cast, delete bad votes. Show mean or median rating.
• Custom rating fields. Let visitors rate as many different aspects of each link as you like.
• Remote voting code generator. Let link owners put a voting code on their site which will direct their visitors to you.
• Grab the META description tag from sites with a button on the 'suggest link' and 'edit link' pages.
• Visitors can report a link, email a link, bookmark a link, or add it to their personal link list.
• Track hits in and out. Set the amount of time between clicks needed to count as a unique hit. Separately track the number of hits in and out over a user-defined number of days (perhaps monthly, for example). For hits in, HTTP_REFERER is used to automatically determine where visitors are from and credit sites appropriately.
• Copy or alias. Copy a link to another category, or create an alias of it so that the link functions as one single link in two categories at once.
• Create a custom formula to determine the importance of a link (a standard formula is included) and sort by that value. Show the rank number of link by this criteria.
• Check for duplicate links, check for dead links, and verify that reciprocal linkers have a link to your site. Marks links as suspect when they fail the check, and can automatically dispatch an email to the owner when a reciprocal link is not found. Suspend suspect links, or unsuspend previously suspended links.
• Avoid URL duplication if you choose. Option to not allow a URL to be submitted when it already exists in the directory, and further sub-option to not allow multiple submissions with the same domain name. Set a list of exceptions, domains for which the rule does not apply.
• Limit submissions by usergroup. Set how many links each usergroup can submit in total, and how many they can submit in each single day.
• Expire links. If you're indexing something which has an expiration date (such as coupons, for example), set links to automatically expire after a certain number of days.
• Comments/reviews system. Allow discussions of each link.
• Rate comments. Visitors can rate a particular comment on a link as helpful or unhelpful.
• PAD file support for software directories.
• Option for members to claim ownership of a link, with automatic verification process.
• Google page rank. Display page rank, and sort listings by it if you wish.
• Option to put links in a frameset. If you wish, use this to keep people from leaving your site.
• Future effective date. Set links to not appear until a certain date.
• Option to require guests to validate the email they supply for their link.
• Switch to auto generate accounts when a person submits a link.
• Feed parsing. If a site has an RSS feed you can display the latest items from it.

Category-Specific Features

• Unlimited levels of subcategories. If you need 1000 subcategories 100 levels deep, it's not a problem.
• Related categories. Select related categories to link to from a particular category.
• For each individual category, you may override the default link order, choice of mixing link types or not, and number of link and subcategory columns.
• Category usergroup permissions. For each category, you can override any of the general usergroup permissions with specific permissions for the particular category.
• Use the category usergroup permissions to select who can submit to a particular category, and the select box on the submission pages will gray out categories which the user does not have permission to submit to.
• Bulk addition of subcategories. Add many subcategories at once by using subname1[,]subname2[,]subname3 etc as the category name.
• Alias categories. Make a subcategory of one category become also a subcategory of a different category.
• Moderators. Appoint moderators/editors to oversee specific categories. Choose if you wish to auto-approve submissions by moderators to their own categories. Moderator inherit all subcategories of their category.
• Moderator control panel. Let moderators handle the validation of links, link edits and comments within their own categories. Moderators can also keep notes on members or search IPs. Moderator actions are logged for you to review.
• Make a category act as a link to a url.

Membership-Specific Features

• Member sponsorship. Allow members to pay for promotion to a more privileged usergroup, or require paid membership.
• A convenient member home area where registered users can manage their submitted links, preferences, subscriptions, etc.
• Visitors can register an account either while submitting a link or from a separate registration screen.
• Registration options. Use direct registration, require e-mail validation, or require manual validation of members by the admin.
• Advanced usergroup permissions. Create custom usergroups, and specify the exact permissions of guests, registered members and administrators. Assign secondary usergroups or special access to a category as well.
• Allow usergroups to edit links they've submitted. Require validation of edits if you wish, based on usergroup.
• Member list and profiles. View all members and various details, make this publicly available if you wish.
• Members may choose avatars and signatures. These appear by comments the member posts, although you could use them with links if you desired. Avatars can be automatically resized to the desired dimensions.
• Member time zone. Members may select to view all dates and times from their own time zone.
• Member ratings. Use a custom formula (or the standard one provided) to determine the value of members, and show their rank ordered by this formula.
• Member rank titles and images, which can be determined by number of links, number of posts, or rating.
• An option for members to be notified of moderator actions on their submissions.
• The total time online of each member can be tracked and displayed.
• Custom permissions restrictions. Via a comment at the top of any template, quickly restrict the viewing of that page to particular usergroups. Or, just edit a category to quickly restrict it from being viewed by particular usergroups.
• Personal link lists for members. Members can make a list of their favourite links, either directly transferring existing links from your directory into their link list or by submitting them manually if you choose to allow it.
• Personal guestbooks, where members can say hi to each other.
• Auction-style feedback system, suitable for marketplace or services directories.
• Registration invitations system, allowing google-style beta marketing.

Search Features

• Simple search boxes. Do a simple search for links, and choose in the admin panel which fields are searched for this.
• Remote search boxes. Allow people to place a search box on their own site which let their visitors search your site, and let their link get credit for a 'hit in' in the process.
• Search in category. Let people refine their searches to all content beneath a particular category.
• Advanced search. Find items where any particular field is equal to, contains the term, has any of the words, has all of the words, is less than, or is greater than the search term... or search for where items are between two numbers.
• Boolean searches. Use 'and' and 'or' operators and group with parentheses in advanced search, or configure the simple search box to be boolean if desired.
• Configure the strictness of the search. If you don't have many articles yet you may set it to be lax and show any results where any of the search words are found even in the middle of a longer word, or if you have more content require the full word to match and require all of the searched-for words to match if desired.
• Highlight search words. On the search result pages, the words which were being searched for are highlighted (this uses the .searchhighlight CSS class so that changing the look of the highlight is simple).
• Sort search results. Order the results by any field.
• Search within results. Refine the results to only those containing a particular term.
• Log searches. Track the searching habits of your visitors by logging their searches to a file.
• Show most searched terms. Display whatever number of most popular search terms you wish in whatever format you wish.
• Search result columns. Put search results in any number of columns per row (default is 1).

Administrative Features

• IP banning. Rid yourself of troublemakers by banning IP ranges. IPs are tracked for each link submission, member registration and vote. Ban from site, or just from re-registering if you prefer.
• Validation. Specify for each usergroup if the admin will have to validate their links, categories, comments, or link edits. When a link edit needs to be validated, the original link remains visible as it was until the changes are approved. Send custom messages to submitter on acceptance or rejection.
• Backup and restore. Use the admin panel to download a quick backup of your WSN Links database content, and then easily restore backups through the admin panel. Have backups automatically generated for you every x days if you like.
• Censor or replace words or phrases. Prevent users from swearing, and/or place links around particular text, etc.
• Mass-replace. Globally replace one bit of text with another across all language items or all templates. Also globally replace according to advanced criteria for links, categories, comments and members.
• Control behaviour of redirects. Decide for yourself exactly which page you want the user sent to after they take a particular action...
• Required fields. Select exactly which fields you wish to require the user to fill in. If it's not filled in, the user doesn't lose any data but has the chance to complete the missing field(s).
• Reset fields. If you wish, select particular link fields to automatically reset to be blank every x days.
• WSN Codes. Disallow HTML in user submissions if you wish, and replace HTML's functionality with custom WSN Codes. Create as many as you like.
• Smilies. Add as many smilies as you like.
• Option to restore default settings, in case you do something which turns out to be a particularly major mistake.
• Restrict administrative account logins to a particular IP range for an extra level of security.
• View stats on registration and submission rates.

Advanced Developer Features

• Use PHP in templates, in addition to the conditionals syntax. If you know php, make use of it in any way you like. This makes it easy to do major changes without having to edit the source files.
• Run scripts at set intervals as simulated cron jobs.
• Source code is object oriented PHP. A short but useful guide to extending the source is available in the manual. Most tasks can be accomplished simply by adding a new function to the appropriate class, as all methods of the class automatically become available as template variables.
• Easily add support for new database types (Oracle, Postgres, MSSQL, etc.).
• Modifications system. Create mod files which keep track of and apply your changes to PHP, templates and language.
• Place files in a /modifications/ directory to have their content auto-inserted into every page. Use the modification generator for more complex changes.

More Features

• Online users list. Optionally display a list of who's currently browsing your directory, including their IP and browser. Show who's in a particular category or comments thread, and show the most ever online stats.
• Calendar system. Schedule events, edit them, join events, or subscribe to the calendar.
• Filters or links and comments.
• A private messaging system to allow members to contact each other.
• An integrated instant messaging system to allow members to chat with each other while browsing the directory.
• Contact form, to allow visitors to quickly email you (without your email being revealed).
• An extensible help system to allow you to write instructions for your visitors.

As you have read its a massive bit of script and very good a bit complicated and for the basic directory user just starting out it might be worth wait to use this next time.>> WSN Links

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