Publisher review:Entergal MX - The Ultimate PHP/mySQL software for Web Directories entergalDirectory is a professional, powerful and feature packed piece of software, allowing you to easily create a user-friendly directory or classifieds system. It includes complete support for submitting listings, PPC banner adverts, product image galleries, blogs, e-cards and much more. entergalDirectory can be used for businesses of any size, whether it be integrated into a personal/small business website or as a stand-alone, fully featured directory. Installation
- Automated installation wizard.
- Entire process can take as little as 5-10 minutes depending on your setup.
Categories
- UNLIMITED LEVELS of sub-categories!
- Unlimited number of categories.
Search
- Search engine uses same technology as Google™ to provide accurate results.
- Search listings, images and blogs!
- Advanced listing search page.
- Index Search - search by index letter of listing name.
- Search results are divided up into manageable pages.
Membership System
- Accept cheque/check payments
- Paypal IPN support (beta)
- 2checkout support (beta)
- Paypal and 2checkout orders can automatically update listings (beta)
- Membership comparison page
- Favorites System allows users to record links to their favorite listings
- Users can see all the reviews they have posted from the Members’ Area
- Simple registration form with optional security image to prevent automated bot spamming.
- Users can submit multiple listings from one account, thus no need for the same user to signup again.
- Users can submit blogs (if enabled).
- Users can submit their banner to advertise on your directory for a fee (if enabled).
- Users can change their password.
- Passwords are stored md5 hashed, for added security.
- Forgot password feature.
Listing
- Listing details can include complete business addresss, Google Map link, business logo, business description, link to company website, news articles, rating, reviews, your own customized fields, image gallery and see other listings by the same member.
- Ability for each user to have multiple listings.
- Users can upgrade their membership type (if enabled) allowing you to charge a fee and give the listing more visibility/features in return.
- By default listings are sorted alphabetically by name and according to the membership type.
- Limit the number of listings shown per page, making pages easy to navigate and saving system resources.
- Recent listings, popular listings and featured listings can be displayed at the side of every page in the directory.
- New status codes for listings – Published/Queued/Unpublished
Blog
- Blog articles can easily be submitted from within the Members' Area.
- Option to only allow paid members to submit blogs.
- Product Image Gallery
- Allows each listing to have its own online product image gallery.
- Image gallery can be enabled/disabled based on the listing membership type.
- Administrator sets maxium amount of images allowed per listing.
- Image name and description are stored.
- Fast loading thumbnail images are automatically generated.
E-cards
- Send an e-card of a product image to your friends.
Banners
- Advanced PPC (Pay Per Click) banner advertising system.
- Charge a fee for advertisers to place banners on your website.
- Once a user has registered, they can purchase an advertising slot.
- Advertisers can login to the Members' Area to view live stats for their banners.
- Each member can have multiple banners.
User Interface
- Smart, clear user friendly system.
- Uses template system to easily change interfaces.
- Contact form so you can be contacted without your email address being made available. Reduces spam.
- Visitors can send a message to friends about your site or any listing in your directory.
- Frequently Asked Questions addon available.
- Remote search feature.
Admin Control Panel
- Displays system summary and statistics.
- Admin can add/reject new listings manually or have them them automatically approved.
- Ability to alert admin by email when a new listing is added.
- Admin can add/reject news articles from members manually or have them them automatically approved.
- Admin can edit/delete members' reviews.
- Admin can send a newsletter to all members.
- Admin can change password.
- Ability to easily create multiple administrator/moderator accounts.
- Admin can add/update/remove advertising banners.
- Admin can edit membership types and costs.
- Admin can batch add categories.
- Admin can specify main sub-categories to show in directory.
- Admin can edit listing data.
Powerful Customization
- Template System
- Easy to create your own template just using HTML. Fully change the templates to match your website theme - whole look of directory can be changed just by editing three files. Ability to set the number of listing results to display per page.
- Language Packs Download and create language packs. Allow your visitors to change the language of the interface. English, French, Spanish and Swedish language packs included!
- Email Template System Admin can login to Admin Panel at anytime and easily change the subject and content of all automated emails.
Importing/Exporting
- Batch import users and categories direct from CSV files.
- Export member, listing and category data direct to CSV files.
- Generated CSV files are Excel compatible.
Optional Extras
- Copyright Removal
- FAQ System
- Search Engine Optimization
Other Features
- Get 1-year of free minor updates and email/forum based customer support.
- Some of the PHP code is optimized and encoded for increased performance and security.
- The admin Control Panel can not be modified and is only available in English.
- We guarantee that you will not find any other product on the market with all the features and low cost as entergalDirectory.
Requirements: · Hosting - you need to install the software on a web server. Although dedicated servers are recommended, the script will happily work on shared hosting. Apache is required with mod_rewrite enabled if you wish to rewrite the URLs to create search engine fri · FTP Access - to install the software on to your server you need FTP access to transfer files. You may use an FTP client software such as Windows or SmartFTP. You must have read/write access to the website directory. Please make sure you can use the CHMOD · PHP - Entergal MX is written in PHP. To run the software you need a PHP version of 4.3 +. Please note: Entergal MX has not been tested on PHP 5. Please make sure that your server can run PHP scripts and that you have PHP setup to use the mail, magic quote · mySQL - to store data in Entergal MX. It is the fastest, most suitable and the most reliable database type to use. To run the software you need mySQL version 3.23.23 +. You will need permissions to create tables. You may use an existing database which is · Paypal Account is required to process payments made through your website for paid services.
Entergal MX is a PHP script for Top Sites scripts design by RedShift.
It runs on following operating system: Windows / Linux / BSD.
Entergal MX - The Ultimate PHP/mySQL software for Web Directories
Operating system:Windows / Linux / BSD
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