Features :: Newstopica

Features

Author: Admin

Added: May 23, 2006

Features
Unlimited Categories and Subcategories (tested on 2 million)
Import RSS 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0, and Atom 0.3 and 1.0 Feeds
Use Cron to automatically import feeds as often as you wish
Mod Rewrite for SEO Friendly Pages (optional)
Items from feeds are stored in mySQL
Admin Notifications on New Submissions (optional)
Notify Submitter of Link Submission Receipt
Notify Submitter of Link Acceptance
Link Validation
IP and Domain Banning
Google Pagerank (note: banned on some servers)
Google Sitemaps Integration (auto ping google server)
Yahoo Sitemaps Integration
Show Latest Links
Show Most Popular Links
Sort Links by Alphabetical, Date, Hits or PageRank
Visual Confirmation (improved in version 3)
Display RSS Feed for Each Category (optional)
Compatable with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera
Category Search Results (as on DMOZ)
Database Backup from within admin panel
Encrypted Database Passwords
Limited Access for Editors
3-Way Linking Ability (require reciprocal link to 3rd site)
Reciprocal Links can be Required (optional)
Set Number of Links Displayed per Page
Open Links in New Window (Optional)
Boolean Searches (optional)
Limit Hits on Links from a single IP to prevent "hit spamming"
Edit Templates from Admin
Compatable with most PHP Link Directory Templates
Templates Easy to Edit Using Smarty
Link Details Page (separate page for each link)
Easily Move or Rename Categories
Links are Searchable in Admin to Help Manage Large Directories
Compatable with PHP 5
Active Support Forum
Continously being improved and updated

Easy Installation:

Just upload the files to a folder, go to that folder, and follow the instructions. The only requirement is you must setup a mysql database name, login and password. The actual table creation is performed by the script.
Customizing the look and feel is also easy. Just modify the header and footer files in the templates folder.

Compatibility:
Tested on PHP 4.2, 4.3 and 5.0
Tested on mySQL 3.23 and 4.1, MsSQL, and Postges
Tested on Fedora, RedHat, Windows 2003 and FreeBSD

Emailer:
If you are looking for a way to make it easy to have a system for seeking and managing reciprocal links, this is a strong point of this program. Furthermore, the system makes it very easy to hire freelancers to help you do the work yet maintain a level of quality, and also be able to see exactly how much work was done.

Enter site name, url and email of webmaster and click submit and an email is sent using the email template you created.
Multiple Email Templates can be used if desired, so it is easy to send a variety of messages efficiently.
When submitting, a variety of methods are used to check and then warn you in the event you are trying to email the same person or website. This becomes especially important on large link campaigns over periods of time.
The PHP Mail Function, Sendmail or SMTP can be used by selecting the preferred method from the drop down menu.

Validation:

Check all your links to make sure they are valid. Spider also follows 301s and 302s.
Check all your reciprocal link partners (if using this feature) to see if they are still linking to you.
In both checks you may elect to set links that don't validate to inactive.

There are many other features, and there has been much attention in the details to insure that everything works great for you, and we look forward to getting your suggestions, as we prepare for even more coming soon!