New Directory Script interest?

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    Hello all. Jer here from the KingBloom Directory. We have been writing our own script from the ground up for the KingBloom Directory so leave the limitations of the current script we have behind.

    That said is there any interest in a commercial version of our script once done? We are still in the exploritory stage so any comments, suggestions or pricing concerns are much appreciated.

    The script will of course include the "Premium, Rush, Super Premium" listing and payment set up, among all the other improvements we have added, like our bot that checks all the pages in the directory to insure they are live.
     
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    I'd be interested, depends on the cost.
     
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    Mia R.I.P. STEVE JOBS

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    We are thinking around the $99 mark for a full blown version... Support would be well,,,, non-existent save for bugs, etc. I mean we would not be instructing people on installing PHP/MySQL, etc. The script would be a no brainer to install, so assuming you already have the requirments, support is really not going to be necessary.

    We would of course do some hand holding, but at a cost of course. Anyway, the full blown version would be comparable to other scripts ranging in the $500 or higher category...

    Anything we add to it in the future would of course be free. It would just require a download and perhaps some small edits on the end users part.

    At least this is around where we are thinking.
     
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    I would be interesed in a script like this. What I would recommend is a function to import other sql web directory databases into your directory script. This will make it easier to switch from one directory script to another. $99,- would seem like a fair price to me.
     
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    Mia R.I.P. STEVE JOBS

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    Well the thing is, if you have MySQL and have some knowledge in it, importing/exporting is not going to be too big a deal. For us making some type of importation system is going to require knowledge of every other script on the planet using MySQL. I suppose we could look at that at some point, assuming we find say the 3 most popular on the market, for example. However doing it yourself would not be painful, you would just have to adjust some tables/names for the most part to get the imporation to work properly.

    Importing the database is simple, it is the fact that the tables in one script are not going to necessarily match the tables in our script. That is where the complication is in making this universal. Again, something to consider down the road though.

    Thanx for the input.
     
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    Jeremy, I'd be interested. You may also want to consider selling all the improvements you've made on the current biz-directory script (if there's a way of doing that). You've added a lot of nice features to the basic script.
     
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    Mia R.I.P. STEVE JOBS

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    Actually I cannot. That would violate their TOS/Use License/GPL. That is the reason we are writting our own. We cannot distribuite any modifications of the biz directory script even if it is for free!

    I like the look and feel of their script, but believe there are many improvements that we have made, specifically in the search arena, ie., cleaning up the code a bit. So we decided to start from scratch since we get asked almost daily for a copy of our mods to the current script. Again, we cannot do that.
     
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    sarahk iTamer Staff

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    Not necessarily. You just need to create a script like

    
class importer extends whatever
{
   var title='';
   var url = '';
   var description = '';
   var email = '';
   // and so on

   function importer()
   {
   //anything you need here
   }
 
   function store()
   {
      //call the parent class store function to save the link
   }
}
    PHP:
    Then all I need to do is create the object, load up the values and store() for each item. So long as I know where I'm coming from I can create the object, and you can ensure the integrity of the data being added.
     
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