Interested to know if anyone else has coded a directory from scratch? Mine is written in asp.net. Majority of directories seem to use some sort of php (haven't a clue on the subject so pls excuse my lack of knowledge!) script. Just interested why this is?
I coded one for scratch while I was learning PHP. Was my first real project. I was ugly with no admin functions but it worked.
That's exactly the reason I coded mine to learn ASP.NET although I never thought for a moment I was ever ugly lol (just kiddin)! What's the deal with PHP and wots it all about?
not everybody can code from scratch, thats why people use other scripts. phpld happens to be most popular, thats all. I chose phpld because its flexible.
I coded www.bigoole.com from scratch It can hold as many as listings it could currently the directory is under renovation! also whether the snoop directory has all html pages or with .htaccess?
I have custom coded script with full admin , but just can't find time to make one good skin for it and install it on some domain. I think I am going to do it after holidays, sometime in August I think.
I made my first directory from the scratch, but i don't have time to manage until the domain/hosting expired. Sad I already reformat my hd and not saving a backup of the script. that was late year 2004 i think.
What was it that Carl Sagan said, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." But yeah, I built Stiff Upper List from scratch. There are advantages to using an entirely different script to everyone else, and being able to modify it when I feel like it. I can see why this approach isn't for everyone though.
all ours coded from scratch without PHP http://www.glrsales.com/directory http://directory.classifieds1000.com
I built a directory script from scratch in PHP and MySQL, then used it create both our directories. Lessons learnt from running the directories have then been applied to the design of the directory script. The use of PHP/MySQL is a personal choice, I'm not a fan of Microsoft, not to mention all our servers are Linux based, therefore it was natural to use PHP. I don't think it matters which language you.
I did but a long time ago it was called awiga.com sort of like a search engine directory but I sold it and it is down now, I might put it up again on a different url if I find the script on my old pc.
I built Advantage Content Deep Link Directory from scratch. It uses static HTML along with server side includes - in other words there is no script.
I guess PHP and MySQL are very popular. The reason I wrote squidlinks (first ever site) was to migrate my years of coding to all things web and learn asp.net. Now all I have to do is learn how to market/seo which has become my focus.
I'm in the process of migrating my directories from wsnlinks to my own system using cakephp. I'll end up losing features I might have if I took one of the pay scripts but I'll have 100% control and I'll get the features I want that the others don't offer.
Our popular directories www.hrwebdir.org www.gosubmitdirectory.com was coded 100% from the scratch. we had a lot of effort though in working out.