CNCat 4.3.1 Features
User Interface
- Links and Articles Display:
- Unlimited number of links and articles.
- A separate page for each link/article (detailed description).
- Two levels of a link/article description (standard and detailed).
- Counting of statistics of jumps from/to the catalogue (with uncontrolled jumps protection).
- Counting of Google PR and Yandex CY ratings.
- Favourite links (several levels; displayed at the top of the list; marked by stars depending on the level).
- User warnings about broken links.
- Rating and comments from users for links and articles.
- Full-text search.
- Links/articles sorting by various attributes.
- Statistics for the whole web directory and for each category.
- Possibility to create additional sorting modes.
- Displaying links and articles on several pages (the number of entries per page is set up on the admin page).
- Selection of a link/article display mode (direct; redirect; direct+JavaScript) for all the catalogue links/articles and for each link/article.
- Enabling/disabling of detailed description for all links/articles and for each link/article.
- Displaying new links/articles in each category.
- Possibility to create additional fields of various types for a link/article description.
- Displaying the site icon (favicon).
- Elements of links/articles management in the user interface.
- Categories:
- Unlimited number of categories.
- Unlimited level of categories nesting.
- Unlimited number of links and articles in categories.
- Cross-categories (@ links to categories).
- Filters ("through" categories) (for example: language, city, country etc.)
- Dynamic calculation of links/articles number in categories depending on the chosen filters.
- Icons for categories.
- The site map (categories tree).
- Elements of categories management in the user interface.
- Display of links/articles in the current category and in its subcategories.
- Broadcasting the categories contents in RSS.
- Adding Links and Articles:
- Possibility to add links and articles to several categories at a time.
- Two add modes for a link/article (wizard/one-step form).
- Usage of CAPTCHA test for spam-protection.
- Check of link efficiency when adding.
- Check of backward links availability when adding.
- Automatic links/articles submission by the checking results.
- Adding links/articles without CAPTCHA for automatic recorders (with a hidden code).
- Interface Elements:
- Multi-language interface (language and encoding are selected by the administrator).
- Support of UTF-8 encoding (provided that mbstring module is available on the server).
- Various design templates (support of condotions; functions call; variables display).
- Banners at any place of a page (for example, between the links/articles).
- Miscellaneous:
- URL friendly to search engines (two types).
- Standard URL mode for servers without mod_rewrite support.
- Notifications for site administrators by e-mail.
- Original code of web directory user interface is open. new!
Administrative Interface
- Categories:
- Category tree management (creation, editing, deletion, movement).
- Ability to add cross-categories (@ links to a category).
- Manual and automatic categories sorting.
- Ability to disable adding links/articles to specific categories or its subcategories.
- Ability to move and delete groups of links/articles in a category.
- Detailed description of categories (META-tags; icon; textual description).
- Filters:
- Management of filters list.
- Management of filters values.
- Manual and automatic sorting of filters.
- Mandatory/optional filters (when adding links/articles via users' interface).
- Links and Articles:
- The list of new links/articles.
- The list of submitted links/articles.
- The list of deleted links/articles (recycle bin).
- The list of users' warnings about broken links.
- The list of duplicated links.
- Links/articles search by various attributes, including full-text search.
- Links/articles estimation by a moderator/administrator.
- Automatic links checking.
- E-mail delivery.
- Previewing sites directly on the admin page in the list of links and/or articles.
- Links/articles editing.
- Submitting, deleting, and estimating links/articles without page reload (AJAX).
- Batch links/articles adding.
- Ability to add images from the database.
- Automatic Links Checking:
- Links efficiency checking.
- Checking links on schedule (CRON).
- Retrieving Google PR and Yandex CY ratings.
- Retrieving the site icon (favicon).
- Automatic links/articles submission by the checking results.
- Queue for links/articles checking (adding links to queue from all sections of the administrative interface).
- Checking report.
- Moderators Support:
- Unlimited number of moderators.
- Moderator can manage links within the categories assigned to him/her.
- The administrator can grant access to categories and subcategories (with inheritance) to the other moderator.
- Permission/prohibition to manage categories.
- Settings:
- The directory display settings (language, design theme, sorting modes etc.).
- Links/articles settings (displaying, adding, checking etc.).
- Setting up additional fields for links and artiles.
- "Black" and "white" lists of addresses (with regular expressions support).
- Service operations with the database (optimization, complete cleanup etc.).
- Ability to manage banners displaying and layout in the directory.
- E-mail send check.
- Ability to edit e-mail templates via web-interface.
- Plugins new!
- "Static Pages" plugin intended for additional text pages creation.
- Design:
- A new engine of design templates with conditions support, global variables enabling etc.
- Export & Import:
- Export of data (links, articles, categories etc.) to XML file (GZIP).
- Exported data storage on the server, or file transfer to the client.
- Data import from CNCat 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x.
- Design import from CNCat 2.x, 3.x, 4.x.
- Miscellaneous:
- Possibility of PHP-code execution (plugged-in php-files at the beginning and at the end of user interface pages).
- E-mail notifications for the catalogue administrator and moderators.
- E-mail notifications for the site administrators.
- Ability to set up the way categories contents will be displayed in RSS.
- Ability to add and to store images in the catalogue database.
- Sitemap in XML format (sitemap.xml).
