Directory Listing Portal

You can improve your website positions with the Directory Listing Services Script. This is a professional, fast and reliable tool to make your visitors get the information they were looking for in the best way!

You can integrate Directory Listing Services Script into an existing site or create a standalone full-featured Business Directory Portal. This script can be installed, configured and easily translated into any language in some minutes without any knowledge of PHP or mySQL. It's a "must have" addition for every successful website.

Directory Listing Services is a multi-purpose script, here are some ideas of where this script can be successfully implemented:

• Professional Yellow Pages Directory (Standalone/Built-in) including company contact information, list of products and services with pictures (thumbnails), logo, banner, map and secure online user/administrator interface to change this information any time and have "up-to-date" database.
• Real Estate Directory. Can store agents and realty offers with pictures and descriptions in countries/states and cities as categories and subcategories. Visitors are able to search for agents in their area or for definite realty offer in the offers database.
• Classified Ads system with catalogued, fast and smart products search with photos, descriptions, prices and seller contact information.
• Books Library with catalogued, fast and smart author / title search with cover photos and descriptions 
• Friend Finder
• Roommate Finder
• Home Rental Finder

Features : 

• GZIP compression added.
• Number of products and images for each listing controlled by the memberships now, so you can set a different number of products and images for each membership.
• Directory visitor can change current system language or template "on the fly". The information is stored using cookies and preserved until the next visit.
• The submission can be approved by administrator or added to the database automatically according to the setting in the config.php file.
• System can be configured to ask user to pay for a listing right after submitting it (automatic new submissions approval has to be enabled).
• WorldPay Payment Gateway support.
• Number of messages sent to the user using the Send Message form is now stored in the database and presented in the statistics form in user and administrator panels.
• Robust Email Checking System.
• Simple memberships comparison chart page.
• Simple contact form
• 3 new configurable input fields are added, administrator can enable/disable and rename them.
• A listings manipulation facility is added into the administrator control panel to move listings between categories.
• Excel compatible statistics report tool is added into the administrator CP.
• The simple search on the index page can work using LIKE or FULLTEXT syntax, according to the setting in the config.php file.
• Banners can be linked to the listings websites now or to the listing detailed page.
• Now banner is linked to the categories where listing is registered, will still show random banner if no banners linked to the category or if called from a different script
• Template system is completely rewritten, now administrator can set different templates for different memberships for the short description page or full listing information page. Templates can be changed using any HTML text or visual editor.
• Most of the code is rewritten, a lot of classes and functions added, optimized and fixed.
• Cron facility is optimized to work faster with bigger amounts of data. (Cron facility is used to update listings every day: downgrade memberships, remove products, images).
• More debug options added (number of sql queries executed and the number of seconds took to execute these queries).

Directory

• up to 3-LEVEL category system
• allows MULTI-CATEGORY listings (may register in several categories)
• supports COUNTRIES and STATES (dropdown menus, can be edited, switched on/off by administrator)
• includes complete business contact information, company logo, banners, products and services with pictures for every listing, upload their images into the Image Gallery
• Supports 1 free and up to 3 paid MEMBERSHIPS (can be renamed, switched on/off, administrator can enable/disable features for every membership, change membership expiration time (in days) for every membership individually, can make paid membership everlasting, and set price for every membership, uses Papal IPN, 2checkout or Authorize. net AIM payment gateways to automatically collect payments, NO admin manual work needed to upgrade or downgrade listings, everything is done automatically.)
• listings are SORTED according to the membership type and alphabetically
• divides listings into pages (you can set the number of results per page in the configuration file), includes smart page navigation, less system time and resources required to create the lists!
• all indexes in the directory are static, the number of subcategories and listings in the categories are not calculated every time the page refreshes, but only when new category, subcategory or listing is added or removed. This makes the system really fast
• includes email messaging system which allows any visitor to send an inquiry even with attached file to any registered business or tell his friend about a listing online without any email software, company's email is hidden (antiSPAM feature)
• supports RATINGS (anonymous voting system) (can be switched off by administrator)
• supports premoderated REVIEWS, visitors can leave their reviews for any listing in the directory. All reviews have to be approved by admin before they appear in the public directory. (can be switched off by administrator)
• includes TOP5 listings (most visited), Featured Listings (paid listings shown in the random order), LAST 5 listings (5 recently added listings), TOP5 Categories (most visited main categories) statistics on every page (can be enabled/disabled)
• includes detailed MAPS and routes for almost all cities in all countries (can be switched off by administrator, powered by MapQuest)
• supports search engines friendly URLS substitutions based on the Apache webserver MOD_REWRITE engine. (converts .php URL with parameters to simple .html)
• supports unlimited templates which are stored in the /templates folder and can be easily switched by changing the setting in the configuration file
• can be easily CUSTOMIZED to suit your needs, you can change categories, countries, states, memberships, colors, fonts etc.
• all pages are documented and designed to be user-friendly with clean, intuitive interface.

Memberships

• Supports PayPal IPN, 2Checkout and Authorize.net AIM gateways.
• supports 4 memberships, 1 free (default, can't expire, may be hidden) and 3 paid ones, administrator can enable/disable any membership except free, rename, enable/disable features and set price for every membership
• when listing is registered it gets Free Membership, user can upgrade to any of the available paid memberships to get more features
• free listings can be hidden by administrator, so only paid listings will be visible in the directory
• administrator can enable/disable logo, banner uploading , description field, address, zip, phone, fax, mobile phone, ICQ UIN, contact name, email link, website link, product picture uploading and thumbnail generation for every membership.
• administrator can set expiration period in days for each paid membership and the number of days before the expiration to inform the user via email about future expiration and ask to reupgrade.
• administrator can change or update memberships manually without using PayPal, 2checkout or Authorize.net.

Search

• ADVANCED SEARCH can search for any listing in the database using fragments of its contact information (uses mySQL LIKE syntax)
• Simple search facility on the directory pages can search for any business registered in the directory by company name and company description fields in definite country or city (depends on script configuration, uses fast mySQL FullText indexing search feature)
• Simple search facility on the directory pages can also search for products and services of definite type or of all types, image gallery images are also searchable
• Simple search searches for complete words only, at least 4-letter words required, cleans the search query of weird symbols and parses it into separate words, sorts the results in order of relevance and according to the membership, doesn't require much server resources
• the Index search on the home page allows to get all listings which start from the definite letter or combination of letters
• divides results into pages

Products & Services

• supports 3 types of offers: offers to sell, offers to buy and services
• stores product / service name, description, quantity, packaging, price, expiration period and picture for every item
• user may define the expiration period in days for the every product or service
• allows picture uploading for every item, system automatically creates a thumbnail using php GD library
• administrator can define any number of products allowed to the user
• all fields can be easily renamed.

Image Gallery

• supports only JPEG images
• stores image name, description
• system automatically creates a thumbnail using php GD library
• administrator can define any number of images allowed to the user.

User interface

• includes fast, secure and user-friendly online business registration
• secure login is based on encrypted sessions
• includes login and password reminder by email
• existing user can change his record completely, including current categories, contact information and password
• user can upload logo image and banners for his listing
• user can upgrade his free listing (D) to paid membership (A, B, C)
• user can edit products and services and upload pictures with automatic thumbnails generation for every item (if allowed by administrator)
• user can edit Image Gallery and upload pictures with automatic thumbnails generation for every item (if allowed by administrator)
• system includes statistics for:
• current rating and number of votes
• number of visitors on the user's record
• number of visitors on the user's website
• number of banner exposures
• number of banner clicks
• number of products and services reviews
• last record update (date, host)
• last membership upgrade (date)
• date and number of days to Paid Membership expiration
• all pages are documented and designed to be user-friendly with clean, intuitive interface.

Administrator interface

• secure login is based on encrypted sessions
• includes vital system statistics
• administrator can add or reject new registered companies (the notify is sent to the registrant)
• administrator can set the type (change membership) of listing manually
• administrator can define the number of allowed product items for every registered listing
• administrator can define the number of allowed images for Image Gallery feature for every registered listing
• administrator can change or completely remove any registered listing
• administrator can edit Products and Services
• administrator can edit Image Gallery
• administrator can approve/edit reviews
• administrator can add, change or remove banners or logos (the notification email is sent to the user)
• administrator can search for registered companies using the fragment of its name, login, administrator comments or ID (good for extremely large databases) OR ANY OTHER FIELD if he uses advanced search
• administrator can submit new listings without any limitations
• administrator can add/change categories, subcategories, subsubcategories, countries (cities), states using simple secure online form
• administrator can send email messages to the group of users from the definite country, state, city, category or membership
• administrator can change his password any time
• includes administrator actions history (log)

Installation

• checks for your current version of PHP and mySQL, reports errors if problems were detected
• reports every action, so that administrator can easily detect the problem and repair the installation

Customization

• you can use COUNTRIES and STATES in your system, or just switch it off and have only cities
• you can enable / disable MAP, BANNERS, REVIEWS, RATING system, paid memberships, hide free membership
• administrator can edit memberships to enable/disable features, define prices and expiration periods. User will be notified about the membership expiration by email and asked to continue the subscription (upgrade)
• you can set the number of results per page in categories or in search facility
• you can hide the Administrator link from the menu
• you can completely disable products and services feature
• you can set maximum size in pixels and bytes for banners, logos and product pictures allowed for uploading
• system includes same header and footer files for all pages, can be easily changed (HTML)
• almost all background colors, font faces styles and sizes can be easily changed (uses configuration files and CSS)
• the top logo can be easily replaced by your own
• the side boxes like menu, help etc can be easily moved to a different side
• system includes a lot of other configurable options, see FAQs for details.