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Old 11-30-2005, 07:53 AM
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Default Business Directory script - advice sought

Hi,

Hope someone can help?

I'm looking for a script to run a small business directory. I've checked out http://www.phpmydirectory.com and http://www.softbizscripts.com but wondered if anyone can recommend an alternative, that is easy to implement.

I've no knowledge of php, or any other scripting language other than a bit of html & css.

I need to be able to offer visitors the opportunity to submit their link etc.

The software available is stated as being very easy to install and set up. Is this usually the case, or can it get very messy?

Any help/advice much appreciated.

Paul
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Old 11-30-2005, 02:44 PM
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Well...... If all you want is to be able to set up a links directory, take a look at the one we set up on our site - http://websitegurus.us/links - and see if it looks like what you want. It was easy to set up, but you can always try it in a non published folder to play with it befor going public(that's what we did). It allows the person who submits a site to alter it when needed by use of a password they set up, and lets you to decide if you want them on autopilot or if you want to aprove all links. It has some pruning abilities as well. We set it up for anything and everything dealing with websites, programming, headhunters, training, etc, and that's what we try to limit it to. Your site could fall under the heading of "Supplies ad Equipment", so if you want to add your link to try it, go ahead. I set up a catagory named that just for you to try it.

Oh yea, it was free as well. Being as we treat the job board as a public service(meaning free if you follow the guidlines), cost was an issue for us.

It's worked for us so far, the one and only thing I've not been totaly pleased with is the spiders follow the "report dead link" link. That's probably just because I've been unable to sit down and redo the robots.txt file corectly though.

If it looks like it will do ya, it's from http://www.dbmasters.net I believe, though there is a link to them at the bottom.
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Old 12-01-2005, 04:20 AM
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Hi Brendgard,

Many thanks for the great information. Unfortunately, dbmasters have taken the directory off the scripts page at the moment but I did read in their forum that they are planning another release so I will keep my eyes open for this.

Thanks again for such a helpful response.

Best regards

Paul
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http://www.esyndicat.com/

I've just begun playing around with it and have nothing in production yet, but I am incredibly impressed with the code it's producing. It's smarty templating, so it's easy to customize. Forum help is quick and good, which is important. There's a free version that's link supported, and a "pro" version that is relatively inexpensive.

I'd suggest avoiding phpLinkDirectory. They refuse to fix old code problems and just keep piling more bells and whistles onto a foundation made of quicksand. Don't bother asking questions on the forum unless you plan to pay for the answers. The script may be free (at least for the mo) but any real tech support is not.
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