First, the most important: it is free and open source. Build with popular technologies such as PHP 5 (OOP) and AJAX (jQuery), the platform uses the MVC architecture.

A different directory script

So, why is this script different to the many other directory scripts around there? Because you can build any type of directories, not necessarily a site directory. A yellow pages site, a job listings site or a directory of your local shops (idea: you can locally promote the site and then ask a fee to your local stores to be listed in your directory), etc. Create any kind of directories with Arfooo 2.0

Interesting features

As they say in the their site, this platform is built with SEO in mind (URL rewriting, not duplicated content, etc). They really took care of this in the architecture of the script.

As the administrator of your new directory you will be able to create new custom fields (inputs, checkbox, etc), allow the submission of images, advanced search and templates easy to modify.

Please, visit the Arfooo Directory site

You will be able to start your own directory with a Wordpress theme! Yes, I also got surprised at the first time, but it works very well to be honest.

DirectoryPress, is a premium theme that allows you to run a directory under Wordpress, and you can choose between a general web directory or a link bid directory. With a link bid directory, the advertisers will be able to choose how much are they willing to pay per click.

Make money with your directory

DirectoryPress allows you to accept paid submissions, and this system makes it very easy. You will be able to accept payments through: Paypal, 2checkout and many more. And believe me, you CAN make money with directories.

Different directory templates

This theme comes with many ready made templates you can use. This is a good thing, as these templates looks very well, but I have to mention one bad thing here, that the XTHML code is not as clean as it could.

DirectoryPress features

Some of the most important features I saw in this “script”:

• it is very SEO friendly,
• its dashboard is very complete, you have a lot of features, you will have a solely module just for your directory full of options to customize it,
• it works on all most known browsers,
• paid submissions are possible and well managed,
• it is very compatible with other plugins, such as wp-pagenavi or the rating plugins; this is mainly because DirectoryPress works as a theme (it will be “installed” in your themes folder).

I can recommend this, see more information on DirectoryPress.

Further reading: I found that WPArena also spoken about DirectoryPress.

Basically, this is a free php script to build a links directory with a modern look and a choice of different templates. It offers many features, some of the most important:

• SEO features for better positioning
• it allows you to offer paid services through Paypal (visitors will pay when they submit a link to your directory, believe me, this could be lucrative if you do it in the right way)
• reciprocal links management
• statistics
• “most visited” list

Remember this script is free, you can see a demo and download it.

Built in PHP and MySQL, PHP Link Directory is one of the best scripts to make a directory online. Some of its best features are:

• Available in a dozen languages
• A very powerful admin backend
• Emailer: it lets you send automatic emails to webmasters when their link is submitted, approver, rejected.
• Mod Rewrite for SEO Friendly Pages

But the best part of it, it lets you charge your visitors for featured or regular links by paypal…

Documentation

There is a lot. Everywhere. Its own site has a full active Forum in which you will get support enough to create your site, and they also have a Knowledge Base section.

But, just google it, or visit some of the famous forums (DigitalPoint, SitePoint, etc) and you will have lots of answered questions, discussions, hacks and everything you need to resolve almost any issue you have with the script.

Templates

Another nice feature, you will find hundreds if not thousands of great designed templates for this script. And the best part… there are some for FREE!

Some places to find good templates for this directory: phpLD.us (find FREE templates), Genuine Templates, FREE phpLD themes & templates and Directory Mix phpLD Template.

Cost

You can download the phpLD 2.2.0 version for FREE.

For the latest version, with a bunch of more better features, the costs are these:

$30 PER directory if you will be including a link back to their site in the footer of your directory
$80 PER directory if you will not be linking back

Examples of Success

Here a list of directories that have succeed:

• Aviva Directory
• Umdum Web Directory
• Best of the Web
• AllBuziness.com (this one is focused only on business)