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phpLD – Adding suggest a category on the submit page!

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Hi,

Browsing old threads, stumbled upon a thread with people talking about this idea! amamzingly no one had worked on this! shot a quick PM to the mods, just to confirm whether someone has worked/ is working on it or not….. and wallah… got a green flag there.

 I present to you, how to suggest a category on the submit page!

Features:
1. Admin configurable -> Disable | Show only Text Box | Show Text box and Suggest popup!
2. Does not allow you to edit/ Approve listings with suggested categories. You may delete.
3. Tested with phpLD 2.1.2, phpLD 3.2.0 (Requesting feedback on other versions)

Login and download

here are a few screenshots i took!

1. Main Admin Page:
Main Admin Panel of 2.1.2

2. Approve Page:
Clicking on Approve, you get an error message!
however, you can delete listings.
Approve Section phpLD

3. If you goto directory-> links, and then try to edit a link with a suggested category, there also you will recieve a error message
Link Edit screen - phpLD

Hope you like it! :)

M.

http://www.dir.vc/phpld-mods/

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The Directory Industry and the Asian Connection!

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Seeing the amount of Web Directories on the web, is just mind baffling. Googling for the keywords ‘Web Directory‘ gets me 740,000,000 results!

What amazes me is there are nearly a dozen launched a week, and people who are already in the business, generally have more than one directory! A case to see was where I came accross a guy who had 50 directories!

I wondered how many of these were my side of the globe? Posting a thread here, i find that we do have quite a few from the active members at DP.

Heres the compiled list,

NOTE: Although these directories originate from this end of the Globe, they may NOT necessarily target the same audience.

India:

1. Dir.vc – Web Directory – PR n/a (msolution)
2. Gii Web Directory – PR 6 (amitpatel_3001)
3. Noble Directory – PR 4 (amitpatel_3001)
4.DWS Directory – PR 4 (amitpatel_3001)
5. www.bestinternetresource.info – PR6 (jhnrang)
6. www.pagerankluck.com – PR4 (jhnrang)
7. www.dbestdir.com – PR3 (jhnrang)
8. http://www.idirectorynetwork.com - PR n/a (kiviniar) – (Directory Network)
9. http://www.spillbean.com/ – PR 4 (kiviniar)
10. http://free-web-directory.koollog.com – PR 4 (kiviniar)
11. http://www.sutradirectory.com – PR 3 (kiviniar)
12. http://www.jeffbrowninc.com – PR4 (Freewebspace)
13. http://www.west2002.org – PR4 (Freewebspace)
14. http://www.indianwebdirectory.info – PR3 (Freewebspace)
15. http://www.freewebportland.com – PR2 (Freewebspace)
16. http://www.action-3.com – PR2 (Freewebspace)
17. http://www.webcolor.org – PR1 (Freewebspace)
18. http://www.zendir.net – PR4 (dhruv37)
19. http://www.directoryworldonline.com – PR0 (dhruv37)
20. http://www.dirworldonline.com – PR2 (dhruv37)
21. http://www.onlinedirectoryworld.com – PR3 (dhruv37)
22. http://www.directorycheap.com – PR0 (dhruv37)
23. http://www.onlinedir.org – PR1 (dhruv37)
24. SubmitFree – PR2 (Amrendra)
25. http://www.web-directory.net.in – PR3 (Sachin410)
26. http://www.gobiddy.com – PR0 (Sachin410)
27. http://www.zetalinks.com – PR n/a (Red_Virus)
28. http://www.bigdirectorybid.com – PR n/a (Red_Virus)
29. Harmu bidding web directory – PR1 (uttoransen)
30. Friends cyber club web directory – PR n/a (uttoransen)
31. http://www.maddirectory.com – PR3 (inderpal)
32. http://www.opendooryouth.com – PR0 (inderpal)
33. AAA Paid Web Directory – PR3 (TheBest)
34. World Wide Web Directory – PR2 (TheBest)
35. ActionDir Seo Friendly Web Directory – PR1 (TheBest)
36. Ace Web Directory – PR2 (TheBest)
37. LinkPedia Quality Web Directory – PR2 (TheBest)
38. Abstract Directory – PR2 (TheBest)
39. ShareNGain Directory – PR3 (abhishekdaaga)
40. Link1Directory – PR0 (abhishekdaaga)
41. BQTM web Directory PR4 (MeetHere)
42. Health and medical directory PR5 (MeetHere)
43. Best free web directory. Pr2 (MeetHere)
44. http://directory.seohyd.com PR4 (seohyderabad)
45. http://directorycentral.info PR n/a (seohyderabad)
46. iMobilecentral Directory PR3 (vic msn)
47. D4Y Directory of Directories PR3 (vic msn)
48. Rich Directories PR0 (vic msn)
49. Web Directory 9 PR N/A (vic msn)
50. http://www.gujaratclick.com PR 0 (rushikesh)

Afghanistan:

1. http://www.linkwide.info – PR n/a (fear)
2. http://www.blingdirectory.com – PR0 (fear)
3. http://www.webdirectory.nu – PR0 (fear)

Bangladesh:

1. Allthelink Directory – PR5 (vegabond)
2. Directory Monster – PR6 (vegabond)
3. Moz7 Directory – PR5 (vegabond)
4. 3wlink – PR5 (3wlink)

China:

1. Bakie directory – PR 4 (xaxecom)
2. Oriency directory – PR 3 (xaxecom)
3. X93.net directory – PR 0 (xaxecom)

The Maldives:

1. http://www.leadingdir.com – PR5 (maldives)

Pakistan:

1. http://www.web-dir.com – PR5 (HaXan)
2. http://www.geoall.com – PR5 (HaXan)
3. http://www.bitextra.com/directory/ – PR5 (HaXan)
4. http://www.webhosting-directory.org – PR5 (HaXan)
5. http://www.dirjournal.com - PR n/a (HaXan)
6. Elegant Web Directory – PR6 (coolweb)
7. High Stuff – Web Portal – PR5 (coolweb)
8. Arise Web Directory – PR n/a (coolweb)
9. AllinfoDir Web Directory – PR5 (coolweb)
10. e-Topic Articles Directory – PR6 (coolweb)
11. AblazeDirectory – Free Web Directory – PR5 (coolweb)
12. DirectoryDice Free Web Directory – PR0 (coolweb)
13. Best Web Directory – PR1 (Fastian)
14. MySpace Links Directory – PR 5 (Khushal)

Philippines:

1. Dpbloggers Paid Directory – PR2 (ichigo)
2. Dirsensei Web Directory - PR5 (popotalk)
3. www.dirsurfer.com – PR5 (popotalk)
4. www.indexsniff.com – PR6 (popotalk)
5. www.indexwide.com – PR4 (popotalk)
6. http://www.kojakdirectory.com – PR6 (kojakfilth)
7. http://www.ezlinksdirectory.com – PR5 (kojakfilth)
8. http://www.linkmarketdir.com – PR6 (kojakfilth)
9. http://www.aplusdirectory.org – PR6 (kojakfilth)
10. http://www.healthydirectory.org – pr6 (kojakfilth)
11. http://www.aplusdir.com – PR6 (kojakfilth)
12. http://www.validlist.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
13. http://www.validdirectory.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
14. http://www.bentalinks.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
15. http://www.widewebdirectory.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
16. http://www.webdirectoryresource.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
17. http://www.webmastersindexdirectory.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
18. http://www.wownaman.com – PR n/a (gary1974)
19. http://www.articlegain.com – PR 0 (affiliategirl)

Drop in your list, if i missed you, will be happy to include it :)

Regards,
M.

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Adding your Search Button to Google Toolbar!

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Google is by far the leader in online search, and its success shared by all. For me it gets me more than 70% of all my traffic, between all my websites. And with its recent launch of Google Toolbar4.0 Google has opened doors to all developers to try their hands on developing XML based search buttons on it.

The toolbar is now not just a tool to check page rank anymore, but has a whole new features to it. The custom search button being one of many. No more does one has to worry of making heavy toolbars to advertise their company/website, where the customers are always suspicious of adware/ spamware and privacy considerations. Google Toolbar erases all those fears.

Reading about the toolbar, gave me plenty of ideas, and have at best tried to implement them in my new offerring for phpLD Directory script. The custom search button widget, which can be downloaded here. One can easily edit the XML file and other files, as per the [readme] given there in, and wallah…. you have your own search button for google toolbar, right on your site, a new and unique offerring to all your clients.

Regards
M.

Our  Button:
Dir.vc Google Toolbar button

Toolbar:
Google Toolbar snapshot

Refrences:
1. Google toolbar 4.0
2. Google Toolbar Button Gallery
3. More Features

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phpLD – How to highlight featured links!

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

To highlight featured links in your top pages use the following code,

1. Open /templates/link.tpl, and find the following code:

<table><tr>

change it to:

<table width="100%"><tr {if $link.FEATURED} class="feature_list"{/if}>

2. Open /main.css add the following to the end of the file:

tr.feature_list, td.feature_list{background-color:#dcdcdc; padding:5px;}

Done!

hope that helps someone!
M.

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phpLD – Listing featured links above normal links in your top pages!

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

phpLD – This mod will list Featured Links above other links in New Listings, Popular Listings, and Top Rated Listings.
(http://phplinkdirectory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1536)

I found this intersting mod listed here, wrks gr8 for one. just made a quick hack to seperate the two!

Open index.php, and change:
Code:

case 'd':
	$links = $db->GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 $expire_where ORDER BY DATE_ADDED desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
	$path[] = array ('ID' =&gt; '0', 'TITLE' =&gt; _L('New Listings'), 'TITLE_URL' =&gt; '', 'DESCRIPTION' =&gt; '');
	break;
case 'h':
	$links = $db->GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 $expire_where ORDER BY hits desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
	$path[] = array ('ID' =&gt; '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Popular Listings'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => '');
	break;

To:


case 'd':
	if (FTR_ENABLE) {
		$feat_links = $db->GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 AND FEATURED=1 $expire_where ORDER BY DATE_ADDED desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
		$tpl->assign('feat_links', $feat_links);

		$links = $db->GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 AND FEATURED=0 $expire_where ORDER BY DATE_ADDED desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);

	} else {

		$links = $db-&gt;GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 $expire_where ORDER BY DATE_ADDED desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
	}
	$path[] = array ('ID' =&gt; '0', 'TITLE' =&gt; _L('Top ' . LINKS_TOP . ' New Listings'), 'TITLE_URL' =&gt; '', 'DESCRIPTION' =&gt; '');
	break;

case 'h':
default :
	if (FTR_ENABLE) {
		$feat_links = $db-&gt;GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 AND FEATURED=1 $expire_where ORDER BY hits desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
		$tpl-&gt;assign('feat_links', $feat_links);

		$links = $db-&gt;GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 AND FEATURED=0 $expire_where ORDER BY hits desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
	} else {
		$links = $db-&gt;GetAll("SELECT * FROM {$tables['link']['name']} WHERE STATUS=2 $expire_where ORDER BY DATE_ADDED desc limit 0, ".LINKS_TOP);
	}
	$path[] = array ('ID' => '0', 'TITLE' => _L('Top ' . LINKS_TOP . ' Popular Listings'), 'TITLE_URL' => '', 'DESCRIPTION' => '');
	break;

Hope this helps someone!

M.

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Dir.vc Now open to ALL

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

« Dir.vc now Open to ALL »

Thats right, we have opened www.Dir.vc to ALL, just link to us using the following format

http://www.dir.vc/Site:myDomain.com
(no http:// or www. required)

Don’t forget the ‘:’ in between, and you can use capitalisation as u want!

And youll get a free details page on our site!

Terms:
1. Must comply with our terms and conditions, and listing policies,
2. The Page where you place our link must have a Page Rank more than or equal to 0.
3. The Site should not be a Page Rank 0 site
4. Just the domain, no deep links allowed

Enjoy!

PS: Free listing is still Beta, please drop in a note if u find bugs!

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Custom Meta Tags Mod for phpLD – Dir.vc

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Hi,
for those of you who dont know! phpLinkDirectory.com aka phpLD is a fantastic software, used to create directories, just like te Yahoo directory or perhaps DMoz!…. well a little bit like those… but you do get the picture dont you!

what is fantastic about this script written in PHP is its modular design, you can add your own mods or use from an array freely/ and paid available on various websites!

there is a whole community in itself which makes mods and sells them and some offers free download also!

i made a couple…. and am offerring them for free!

heres the post i posted on phpLD forums:

Custom Meta Tags Mod for phpLD
Hi,
wanted to share my mods with the community!
1. Custom Meta Tags on individual pages
2. A Better way of showing Google Ads
3. Show category tree on details page

the above i have applied to phpLD 2.1.2, and are tested, requesting feedback on other versions,
http://www.dir.vc/free-phpld-mods/

Demo of all Mods: on my site Dir.vc

1. Google ads mod:
This Mod is a slight enhancement of the Mod by Jim Westergren
phpLD Forums
Where he has shown a gr8 way of putting google ads in phpLD, i have gone
just a tad step further of using his googleads.tpl, to show ads all over the site with diffrent formats!
instead of
{include file=”google.tpl”}
i have
{include file=”google.tpl” ad_type=”728_90″}

2. Show category tree on details page
This Mod is built on the Mod found here for version 2.x
goodprlinks.com
This Mod enables you to show split categories in details pages
like
Home
|__Category1
|__Category2

the tree structure with links to categories.
Demo: on my site details page

3. Custom Meta Tags on individual pages
For example: you may want Title, Description and Meta Keywords on the details page
to be diffrent than the rest of the site, also if you have other pages like shop,
or you’re trying to cross sell some other site you would want the title to be totally diffrent,
Demo: on my site details page

More to come…
check out http://www.dir.vc/free-phpld-mods/ for complete list!
Hope this helps someone

Regards
M.

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A lousy day!

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

Hi,

Seems there is no business without a blog, and why not!
Blogging is a better way of letting people know what your business is all about, and what you plan to do with it!

Sorry have been lazy on putting this up, so ill quickly copy paste all my posts ive made on other forums!

BTW, i never planned on making a directory, it was a fluke that i stumbled upon a domain registering website, and another fluke that i got a three letter domain name!
www.dir.vc/

It was a lousy day, and i was just browsing the net….passing time!

And Seems .vc is still a new ccTld, so good domain names are still available!

M.

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