Robert Sammoms sent out an email on his list today about dirtsearch 3.0 (links 2 in php3)...and it seems that mostly all the mods in this forum for links will be integrated into dirtsearch using php3
As I work to develop Version 3.0, I've put an in progress script on my
website. It's located at http://www.dirtdobber.net/ds31/ Feel free to
visit and check out the progress as it goes along. Once I get more on the
administrative scripts, I'll open that up to you as well. Keep in mind, not
everything there will work at this time.....I think most of it works as
DirtSearch 2.0 except for the modify scripts which should be working
tonight. I'm taking a different approach to this in that if a user wants to
modify his/her site, they will need the username and password they used when
adding it. I am also going to allow a user to add more than one site under
the same username combination so they can update all their sites at once, or
manage them easily within the engine. With that, the username will also be
their webmail account if you have that activated (and once that portion is
working). Some of the things I've added that you will be able to see once I
get the admin section up and running is that there are now easily set
variables for:
days to keep something listed as new
hits required for a site to be popular
number of listings to list in the high flyers section
number of links to return on each page by default
ability to have subcategories listed as links under main categories instead
of the description, or use the description as always
ability to force someone to be in a category to add a site, or allow the
user to add a site from anywhere on the engine
still in the works:
comments section (with the rating, a user can add comments)
detail page (for reviews, etc.)
banner ad program integrated into the engine
more levels of new sites
allow mass e-mails of new sites or site information
webmail
language translation template packages
ability to build static pages or use dynamic search pages
and more!
If you have any comments/questions about what you see, please let me know.
If there are any parse errors, database errors, etc. on anything other than
the modify section at this time, please let me know. I do already know
about the cookie problem on the vote, that should be fixed soon as well.
Thanks,
Robert
All I know is that once dirtsearch comes out...it's going to blow away links....especially since it will be able to use all sql databases including flat text...and it's free!
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DirtSearch Help and Information - http://www.dirtdobber.net As I work to develop Version 3.0, I've put an in progress script on my
website. It's located at http://www.dirtdobber.net/ds31/ Feel free to
visit and check out the progress as it goes along. Once I get more on the
administrative scripts, I'll open that up to you as well. Keep in mind, not
everything there will work at this time.....I think most of it works as
DirtSearch 2.0 except for the modify scripts which should be working
tonight. I'm taking a different approach to this in that if a user wants to
modify his/her site, they will need the username and password they used when
adding it. I am also going to allow a user to add more than one site under
the same username combination so they can update all their sites at once, or
manage them easily within the engine. With that, the username will also be
their webmail account if you have that activated (and once that portion is
working). Some of the things I've added that you will be able to see once I
get the admin section up and running is that there are now easily set
variables for:
days to keep something listed as new
hits required for a site to be popular
number of listings to list in the high flyers section
number of links to return on each page by default
ability to have subcategories listed as links under main categories instead
of the description, or use the description as always
ability to force someone to be in a category to add a site, or allow the
user to add a site from anywhere on the engine
still in the works:
comments section (with the rating, a user can add comments)
detail page (for reviews, etc.)
banner ad program integrated into the engine
more levels of new sites
allow mass e-mails of new sites or site information
webmail
language translation template packages
ability to build static pages or use dynamic search pages
and more!
If you have any comments/questions about what you see, please let me know.
If there are any parse errors, database errors, etc. on anything other than
the modify section at this time, please let me know. I do already know
about the cookie problem on the vote, that should be fixed soon as well.
Thanks,
Robert
All I know is that once dirtsearch comes out...it's going to blow away links....especially since it will be able to use all sql databases including flat text...and it's free!
