I'm looking for a low cost or even better FREE script, that I can use for a local business directory/portal, it is run as a none profit organisation, hence free script!
Depends on what aproach you decide to make, you can start based on a free directory script and customize it with mods , you can try this for a free script with many free mods http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/articlescript/phpLD_version_2.php or you can start with a free cms and put a directory within, for this one i would suggest joomla http://www.joomla.org/