News

The most important features of this new release:

1. PayPal subscriptions module. Now directory listings and banners owners do not need to prolong their ads each time they have been expired. They may choose to pay one time fee for one acive period of the advertisement or open subscription and pay automatically by recurring cycle.

The most interesting feature of this version is the Mobile theme. We worked hard for this feature for a long time, experimented with 3 frameworks for development of mobile functionality. But we stayed on our custom solution, because these 3rd party's frameworks can't satisfy all our and our clients requirements. Here is the list of requirements and options those must be implemented in frontend theme for mobile devices:

• The weight of pages. The most important thing for mobile devices, our lightweight solution fully match this requirement. When combining of all javascript static files into single large file and compressing that file using gzip enabled in config.php file - average weight of pages is less than 100 Kb.
• Usability of directory mobile site. Reducing the weight of pages sometimes may cause many problems in usability, the balance between the size of page and information on that page must be saved. For instance: we placed vertical slider on index page, it shows 8 listings by default, but doesn't occupy lots of space on the page. Each section of any listings, such as map, images, videos, files galleries, reviews & comments, email owner or friend, they all places on separate pages, images gallery has its own slider.
• Navigation and indication. Navigation between pages must be easy and fast (as always and for any kind of sites), but navigation on mobile sites requires special loading indicator, in order users may easily understand is the link/button was clicked or not (for touch screens devices this feature especially desirable).
• Design and layout. In mobile theme user interface must be not only attractive, but also has special fonts, buttons, links, menus, inputs.

You may install mobile theme in the backend of your system on 'Settings/Themes list' page. Note, that mobile theme available only in commercial package of the script.

Look at our demos:

http//www.salephpscripts.com/demo2/theme/mobile

http//www.salephpscripts.com/auto/theme/mobile

New functionality and features:

• Banners targeting by locations and categories. Now users may choose whether to show banners in all locations and for all categories or build special list of locations and categories where banner will be shown.
• New version of Google Maps supported + improvement of search by locations. So as old v2 version of google maps API will become deprecated soon, new version of maps was integrated into the script. Also some useful features were released with this new version, such as "Get Directions" on listings page options and "Show on Google Map" button. Now users have an ability to select geocoded name from the suggested list. In previous version of Web 2.0 DIrectory script it was selected by the system as the most relevant. On Locations settings page appeared new options "Use districts" and "Use provinces", they also promote for better search of listings by locations.
• New caching system. Enabling caching may increase rendering of pages up to 5 times. Also the script combines all javascript static files into single large file and compresses that file using gzip, this speed up loading time. But enable these options only after development and customization works were finished.
• Improved search engine. Search on the base of MySQL Full Text search engine gives much more accurate results for both 'What?' and 'Where?' fields. The search processing inside listings titles, descriptions, meta fields and inside names of categories. Also search in radius now displays the range on Google Map.
• New Internationalization module. As Google Translate API service had been closed, now the script supports only 8 languages by default (English, German, Spain, Russian, French, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish). But site managers still may easily translate inteface into new languages.
• DateRanges content fields for better search of event dates. DateRanges content fields now have possibility not only set one exact range of dates (from-to), but also exact dates and cyclic dates (every Monday, every Tuesday, every Wednesday, ....). This feature is really helpful for events listings. Also an important option was added to levels settings: admin may allow to edit active period of listings for users, those have 'Edit listings expiration date' permission. Users may set exact expire date of every listing, so when event was finished - the listing remove from public.
• AlertPay payment gateway.
• Anti-spam webservice integration + blacklists. Mollom.com is a web service that helps you identify content quality and, more importantly, helps you stop spam on your site.
• Facebook connect module. Recently Facebook had changed their authentication methods, there is a fix in new version.
• And of course, were made lots of small fixes and improvements inside directory for better customization and usability.

New version of Web 2.0 Directory script was just released.

New functionality and features:

• Membership packages module. Now site admin may concatenate listings levels in packages, this allows users to pay onetime only for package which contains different numbers of listings or include unlimited number of listings. Also packages settings allow to choose 2 modes of packages functionality: 1. only membership packages; 2. both methods of listings creation - under membership packages and standalone/independent listings.
• Discount coupons module. Using it admin opens giant marketing resources of website based on Web 2.0 Directory script. Discount coupons configuration includes following settings: goods types (listings, banners, packages) which allowed to recalculate price according to discount; percents or exact value type of discount; active period of discount; total usage count limit and per user usage count limit (be carefull with these options when you assign coupon to user - total usage count limi must be greater than per user count or unlimited); you may allow users to use coupons only when they assigned with these coupons or set to use without assigning (for example you may public coupons somewhere outside the site); also set assigning events (discount coupons send to users when these events raise + any coupon may be assigned manually by admin).
• Predefined locations. Now locations of directory divided into 2 types: predefined and global. When the site connected with google maps - users may choose locations for their listings globaly. Also site admin may manage predefined locations by levels (e.g. coutry, state, city). When predefined locations are in use - labeled locations will apper in navigation block on the home page. Also search by location available.
• Claim listings option. Listing author is able to set ability to claim to any listing during creation or edition. When 'claim listing' option checked - users allowed to make claim request. Then listing author may approve or decline claim. So site manager may delegate full rights for any listing to any user.
• Content permissions. In this version site manager can set up permissions not only to directory functions, but also to content types. For example 'News' ot 'Blog' listings types - typically such listings may be created by certain groups of users, so usual members just allowed to view such listings, site editor allowed to add/edit/manage.
• Remote banners + flash banners feature. Advertisers add remote banners either of images formats (jpg, gif, png) or of flash format (swf).
• Titles templates. This feature quite usefull for SEO. Listings may have titles other than entered by user, configure titles using provided templates: %CUSTOM_TITLE% - title entered by user; %LISTING_ID% - unique listing ID; %USER_LOGIN% - listing author's login; %USER_EMAIL% - listing author's email; %FIELD_field seo name% - value of additional content field; %CATEGORY_1, 2, 3, ....% - categories by number assigned with this listing; %CATEGORIES(glue)% - all categories assigned with this listing, concatenated with 'glue'; %LOCATION_1, 2, 3, ....% - locations by number assigned with this listing; %LOCATIONS(glue)% - all locations assigned with this listing, concatenated with 'glue'. For example with such template "%CUSTOM_TITLE% - %FIELD_PRICE% | %CATEGORIES( - )% in %LOCATION_1%" the result may be: BigMc Cafe - $ 10.00 | fast food - hot dogs in Chicago
  
• Users pages and users logos. According to users groups settings - each account of group may have own page at the frontend. Users may upload images as logos or assign facebook logos to their accounts.
• Internationalization design themes and other settings. Any language in the system may have different design theme, decimals separator, thousands separator, date format, time format and flag icon.
• Lots of other new and improved features like: report listing option, 'Listings of user' block, 'Similar listings' block, new images gallery, improved reviews block with richtext editor option, ability to order listings by reviews/comments number, by last review/comment date-time or randomly. 90% of source code was refactored and improved. This makes customization more easy.

Upgrade instructions are in 'updates/update_v251_to_v300/readme.txt'. Documentation for new version will be rewriten and completed quite soon.

We are proud to announce the improvement of users area for full license owners. After purchase customers will receive login credentials, using it they may manage their licenses and download any full version of the Web 2.0 Directory script.

License owners may list their domain names with installed script. Enter 'localhost' if it is in development yet, but don't forget to fill in active sites. Do this in order to avoid problems with terms violations of the script.

Existed license owners either may log in using received account credentials.

Also at the 'My account -> edit -> forum settings' page users may connect their forum's profile with full license account. Just fill in your foum's name and password. After that you will be able to post personal requests on forum.