V3.1 RELEASED

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.