OpenFree Directory

**peter** · 10-28-2006, 10:55 PM

I have just finished testing a links directory add-on for OpenFree to which members can recommend links to their own sites.

Please take a look and let me know what you feel. If it looks OK, I'll make it live next week.

Any suggestions for new categories or criteria for inclusion would be welcome.

**Ashcrow** · 10-29-2006, 04:26 PM

Cool stuff. Did you write it yourself or is it from a FLOSS project?

**peter** · 10-30-2006, 03:00 AM

Unfortunately it's not FLOSS. I had a hard time finding a package that supported CAPTCHA and had cron based automatic reciprocal link checking. I also wanted something that was supported by more than one individual. The Sourceforge packages came out lacking.

The product is called eSyndicat and cost $49. I tried installing linkautomate, but it required 777 protection on files, even if the apache group had rwx. I also tried the Comdev software link directory product, but it didn't have a search engine friendly feature and was slow in rendering pages. Both had the CAPTCHA and reciprocal link checking.

I could have written something in PHP if I had a couple months of after work free time, but I'm in the middle of a big project at work and I'm also enrolled in a basic Java course. I figured the $49 was very reasonable.

Let's see how it stands up.

**peter** · 10-31-2006, 05:23 AM

The directory is now open. Please add your links and let me know how it works for you.

If there are any problems, please post it to this thread.

Thanks.