Rather than judge me by my overenthusiastic approach to the phpLynx script please feel free to let just some of the features do the talking.
That would be excellent, I own the phpLynx directory script and my features for the free version are many, here are my humble offerings.
The script has been beta-tested for well over 6 months now so bugs are very few and far between. Support it goes without saying is free whether on the free of full versions.
There are of course a few more features such as a built in template editor and and lots of other great features being added, these are being released shorltly.
- Anti Bot Text Captcha: Unique to any Directory script you can use your own Text/Graphic Captcha to prevent spamming.
- Clean and Simple Admin: We deliberately kept the Admin Control Panel simple for ease of use and navigation.
- Description Limiter: Prevents blank description fields being filled. A minimum of 50 characters must be entered.
- Listing Manager: Control how many listings you want on one page whether it be 10 to a 100 or more.
- Paginated Listings: Create paginated listing to prevent overloading a page with too many links, SEO friendly feature.
- Ban Word feature: Ban swear words, or any other words you want eliminating submission of undesirable sites.
- Multi payment system: Use more than one processor, accept PayPal - 2Checkout - Stormpay.
- Currency Management: What currency do you accept? You can add and use whichever you want via the Admin Control Panel.
- Static Pages: Create an unlimited number of static pages covering as many subjects as you desire.
- Location Manager: Build an integrated Country/State/Town category structure to search along subject matter. (Full version)
- Moderation Manager: Allows total control over which files/folders you want to install or uninstall in the ACP.
- Import Manager: Import easily from existing directory scripts like phpLD and eSyndicat.
- Index page Categories: This feature allows you to add unlimited Categories on your index page.
- Reciprocal Linking: Force your submitters to provide a reciprocal link and check for this, you can also notify status to sender
- Logging Manager: Allows you to monitor and log who's been using you, creating a database of the details. (Multi Function)
- E-Mail configuration: Allows you to choose how you configure your e- mail transport method, Send-mail or SMPT.
- Multi Field Search: Allow your visitors to post and search in separate fields, for example: Trade - Name - Location (Full version)
- Unlimited Categories: Unlimited category structure with infinite depth and SEO friendly structure no matter how deep.
- Unlimited link structure: As with the categories, there is an unlimited number of links you can add.
- Customized Listing: Allow users to submit custom META Title, Description, Keywords for their links.
- Paginated Categories: Control how many categories per page to display, ideal for Country and State directories.
- Membership listings: Allow up to Seven paid or free listing levels, manipulate the level of features each listing has.
- Ban Management: Ban those nuisance bots or spammers by blocking their IP address.
- Admin Users: Create Admin and Moderator user accounts, with the ability to restrict control.
- My Site Management: An easy to use but powerful management area where the site owner can manipulate anything.
- Reciprocal Linking: 7 Status levels for reciprocal linking plus the ability to send an e-mail of confirmation of status.
- Dual Category Structure: With this feature you can now display your categories using an ABC structure for ease of navigation.
- Index page Category tree: This feature allows you to add any number of categories and sub categories on the front page without the template auto-adjusting.
- Newsletter Manager: Create newsletters, publicity lists, notifications, and many other notices for your member. (Full version)
- File Manager: Manage every single file or folder on your server from the comfort of you Admin Control Panel.
- Show/Hide Fields: Show/Hide whatever fields you want displayed and made active via the Admin.
- E-Mail Manager: Manage how your e-mails are sent. Govern the transport method, Sendmail, MIME etc..
- Who's Online? Enables you to keep an eye on who's online and what they are browsing.
- Banner Manager: Complete Banner Management system, allows users to define an unlimited number of banner campaigns. (Full version)
- Send E-Mails: Send a pre-formatted e-mails to your users, using the custom template.
- Backup Manager: Backup your entire directory safely with the integrated backup Manager.
- Feedback Subjects: Create unlimited feedback forms and messages to the directory user via the Admin Control Panel.
- Configure required Fields: Allows you to further control what the submitter has to provide in their submission.
- Fully SEO friendly: This about as SEO an optimized directory script as you are likely to get.
- Link Management: Manage your links with up to seven link submission status levels at ACP level, Edited - to Pending.
- Link Notification: Notify Submitter of Link status, pending, declined, under review, banned, and more.
- Symbolic Categories: Create your own Dmoz type category structure and improve site navigation @category
- Link Description: Description management allows you to set min/max title and description field lengths.
- Enable/Disable RSS: Enable or disable your site for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) capability.
- Sitemap Creator: Built in Automatic sitemap creator, creates your Yahoo, Google friendly sitemap maker on the fly.
- Boolean Searches: Configure how you want to search via the Admin Control Panel.
- Suggest Category: Unlike any other directories you can suggest a category while submitting a link.
- Refer Listing: Allows the user of the directory to refer a listing and details to other users.
- Contact Listing: Allows the user of the directory to have a contact page for users to contact them specifically.
- Report Listing: Allows the user of the directory to report a listing, if for example the site content changes.
- Rate Listing: Allows the user of the directory to rate a listing, this can tell the visitor of the quality of the site.
- SEO Friendly URLS: Each Listing is configured to the highest level for maximum efficiency in the SEO Market.
- RSS Feeds: Turn RSS (Really Simple Syndication) on or off via the admin area.
Updated, new features:
- Updater: Allows for ease of update without risking losing all your existing files.
- ON/OFF Reciprocal: Reciprocal linking can be switched on or off via admin any or all packages.
- Anti-Bot E-mail: Eliminates auto-submitted e-mail form filling by using the unique anti-bot text/image feature.
- Enable URL rewrite: Enables generation of search engine friendly and descriptive URLs. (Optional)
- Pending Payments: Ability to 'Auto Delete' time wasting pending payment listings, if you don't pay you don't display!
- GZip Compression: Enable HTTP GZip compression with the ability to select the level of compression you desire.
- Meta Keywords: Allows the submittor to add thier selected Keywords at time of listing, (GREAT SELLING POINT)
- User Accounts: Allow the user to create an account where they can keep tabs/edit on thier listing and monitor favorite searches.
- Minimum Description: Prevents submittors from providing no description, must add a set minimum description.
- Time Limit Listing: This feature allows you to provide a listing for a set period before expiry, e.g, Monthly, Trimester, Semester, Yearly, Unlimited.
- Enhanced Banning: Now you more control over banning, ban IP address', website address, and even e-mail addess'.
There are features that I have no doubt missed and with the full version also being made public shortly I will try and make more postings in line with this.
Thanks.
Hope this list is good enough to entice at least a few of your readers. (Features added Daily).
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