Astanda Directory Project 1.3b

Astanda Directory Project [ADP] is a directory, search engine, and spider/crawler software. Your own little breed of DMOZ and Google. ADP is the only software in its class ever to be written in PHP with MySQL database support.

Supports virtually unlimited ammount of links and pages. Powered by Smarty template engine, ADP can run in both dynamic and static modes. Proper full text boolean search with keyword relevance can chew on gigabytes of data.

Features:- Supports virtually unlimited number of links and pages without any loss of performance.
- Fast web spider crawls any given URL, follows links within, and records site information to the database.
- Extremely fast proper FULLTEXT search with keyword relevance support.
- No PHP/MySQL knowledge required to install & operate ADP.
- Web-based Admin area that helps manage ADP.
- Admin area is protected with encrypted passwords and .htaccess/.htpasswd files.
- ADP templates are fully customizable with Smarty template engine.
- ADP is completely search engine friendly.
- Users can suggest URLs to directory.
- Admin can add, delete, modify, and ban any URL.
- Unlimited sub/categories with proper SEO structure.
- Every category in ADP has its own editable title, description, keywords, and web path.
- Category names support any odd and non alpha-numeric characters like: ~!@#$%^&*()_ -=|;:"'|?/.>,<
- ADP supports any language that MySQL can support. Thats basically any language in the world.
- Web links information can be either automatically fetched or manually edited.
- Any link can be set to be in/visible to the public.
- Proper recip link checking.
- Google Page Rank support.
- Google SiteMaps
- Mod Rewrite for SEO friendly pages.
- Link validation.
- IP, Domain, URL string, and Keyword banning.
- Compatable with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
- Reciprocal links can be required (optional).
- Set links per page.
- Open links in new window (optional).
- Easily move and/or rename links, pages, and categories.

Requirements:

· Apache web server 1.3.37 +
· MySQL 4.1.21 +
· PHP 4.4.3 + with sockets enabled