CNCat Versions History
CNCat 4.4.2
Source code is open now. CNCat is distributed under GNU GPL v.3.
CNCat 4.4.1
Added
- New type of links was added (Friendly URL).
- Now, when deleting an item, moving to quarantine or to spam, the text field opens under the current block without reloading the page for you to enter the reason of the action. The specified comment then will be displayed under the link description on the Administration page. In case the new comment is not specified, then the existing comment (if any) will be deleted. In case the new comment is specidied, then the existing comment will be overwritten.
- When deleting or moving multiple links, the form for the comment appears.
- Now you can use "{$CNCAT[item][action_comm]} tag - comment for the operation performed with the link;" for use in notification e-mails.
- You can specify the minimum number of pages for the system to display the shortened row of pages index (of the type 1...5,6,7...10) for function $CNCAT_ENGINE->render->renderPageNavigation($CNCAT_ENGINE->url->createUrlPageIndex ("{PAGE}"), $CNCAT["page"]["page_count"], $CNCAT["page"]["page_num"],8);
- Ability to use reCaptcha, keyCaptcha.
- The following administration settings: web directory URL, use of transliteration in the links, choice of links appearance in the web directory (direct link or link to the detailed description).
- New template for web directory pages (W3C validated).
Fixed
- A number of errors occurred at links check and web directory pages generation.
CNCat 4.3.3
Added
- Quarantine for the links.
- Ability to set up the main menu items view via the administrator site.
- Ability to search for the sites by the check date (administrator site).
- The links to static pages can be automatically displayed under the main menu links now.
CNCat 4.3.2
Added
- Actions log for web directory entries.
- Backward link check when adding via one-step form.
- Sorting order by default setting for each category.
- Sorting order by default setting for administrator page.
- Automaticlly moving doubtful sites to the black list ("Spam" link).
- Informer "New Links".
CNCat 4.3.1
Added
- Check of minimal PR and CY values when user adds a link.
- Expandable tree of categories (in admin interface and on the add form).
- Fields for the following entries "Adding method", "Submission method" - manually or automatically. Search according to these fields.
- Ability to select the type of the displayed entries on the main page (all/links/articles).
- Ability to import data from Scripto.
- Banners: additional PHP condition.
- Backward links check: check of robots.txt.
- Admin page: Search for links according to the date of the last check.
Improved
- Link check: search for favicon in the root directory, if not specified on the page.
- Editing category: fields rearranged.
- Minor fixes done.
CNCat 4.3
Administrator Interface
- Original code of web directory user interface is now open!
- Plugins support added.
- "Static Pages" plugin added for creation of text pages.
- Ability to load images can be added as a field.
- Ability to hide category in the list of categories.
- HTML implemented for article abstract and link description fields.
- Sorting according to the user rate.
- Backward links check: <noindex> tag is considered.
- Links check: ability to specify the User-Agent.
- Macro with the link to the detailed description ({$CNCAT[item][_ext_url]}) added for the mail notifications.
- Ability to organize filters in columns (see Frequently Asked Questions).
- When interface language is changed, you are warned to change database coding in configuration file.
- Search in administrator interface: two filters added for links ("validity: any, working, broken", backward link: "any, with backward link, without backward link").
CNCat 4.2
Administrator Interface
- The scheduled links check added (CRON).
- Added web directory and categories statistics.
- Added ability to add banners only on the first page of the category.
- Warning displays while exporting/importing with XML module disabled.
- Fixed jump.php processing as cncat_jump.php.
User Interface
- Users comments added.
- Added ability to rate for users.
- The limitation of 255 symbols for the directory rules (right before the add form) has been removed.
- Minor fixes done.
CNCat 4.1.3
Administrator Interface
- Added management interface for additional fields.
- Operations with entries (submit, delete, check, etc.) now there is no need to reload the page contents (AJAX is used).
- Preview sites that the links are given to in the list of items.
Miscellaneous
- Solved license check problem on some server configurations.
- Documentation is removed from distributive. Now it can be downloaded from the official site.
- Some minor bugs are fixed.
CNCat 4.1.2
User Interface
- Catalogue:
- Sitemap in XML format (sitemap.xml).
- Design themes enhancement.
- Displaying category description below its name.
Administrator Interface
- Links and Articles:
- E-mail delivery.
- Settings:
- Editing e-mail templates via web-interface.
- Checking e-mail send (see Service Options).
- Ability to display new links/articles for specific time interval (not by certain number).
- Ability to define the number of new links as a separate option.
- Installation
- Czech language added.
- The message informing why the license key cannot be applied is added.
CNCat 4.1.1
Administrator Interface
- Links and Articles
- Ability to add images from the database.
- Settings:
- Ability to add and to store images in the catalogue database.
- Ability to manage banners displaying and layout in the catalogue.
CNCat 4.1
User Interface
- Catalogue:
- Ability to add articles.
- Broadcasting categories to RSS.
- Ability to display only articles on the current catalogue page.
- List of new articles (displaying articles submitted recently).
Administrator Interface
- Links and Articles:
- Ability to add articles.
- Settings:
- Ability to set up parameters for adding articles.
- Ability to import design themes from CNCat 2.x, 3.x, 4.x.
- Ability to import directly from the database of CNCat 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x.
- Ability to set up the way categories will be displayed in RSS.
- Installation:
- Detecting the already installed old version of the program and upgrading up to the current version.
CNCat 4.0
General
- Only PHP and MySQL are required for CNCat functioning. It is not necessary to install and support Zend or ionCube.
User Interface
- Categories:
- Cross-categories (@ links to categories).
- Filters ("through" categories) (for example: language, city, country etc.).
- Dynamic calculation of links number in categories depending on the chosen filters.
- Icons for categories.
- The site map (categories tree).
- Display of links from the current category and its subcategories.
- Links Display:
- Favourite links (several levels; displayed at the top of the list; marked by stars depending on the level).
- Full-text search.
- Possibility to create additional sorting modes.
- Selection of a link display variant (direct; redirect; direct+JavaScript) for all the catalogue links and for each separate link.
- Enabling/disabling of detailed description for each link.
- Display of new links in each category.
- Possibility to create additional fields of various types to a link description.
- Display of the site icon (favicon).
- Links Addition:
- Addition of links without CAPTCHA for automatic recorders (with a hidden code).
- Interface Elements:
- Support of UTF-8 encoding (provided that mbstring module is available at the server).
- Various design templates (conditions support; functions call; variables display).
- Banners at optional area of a page (for example, between links).
- Miscellaneous:
- New design of URL pages, friendly to search engines (the old one is also supported).
Administrative Interface
- Categories:
- Possibility to move categories.
- Addition of cross-categories (@ links to a category).
- Prohibition to add links to certain categories or its subcategories.
- Possibility to move and delete groups of links in a category.
- Detailed description of categories (META-tags; icon; textual description).
- Filters:
- Management of filters and their values.
- Manual and automatic sorting of filters.
- Mandatory/optional filters (upon links addition by users).
- Links:
- Links search by various attributes, including full-text search.
- Links estimation by a moderator/administrator.
- Automatic Links Checking:
- Obtainment of the site icon (favicon).
- Queue for links checking (addition of links to queue from all sections of the administrative interface).
- The last checking report.
- Moderators Support:
- Unlimited number of moderators.
- A moderator can manage links freely in categories, assigned to him.
- The moderator can grant access to categories and subcategories (with inheritance) to a moderator.
- Permission/prohibition to manage categories.
- Settings:
- "Black" and "white" lists of addresses (with regular expressions support).
- Service operations with the database (optimization, complete cleanup etc.).
- Design:
- A new engine of design templates with conditions support, global variables involvement etc.
- Export/Import:
- Export of data (links, categories etc.) to XML file in more compact format.
- Export with GZIP compression.
- Exported data storage at the server.
- Import of data stored at the server.
- Data import from CNCat 2.x, 3.x.
CNCat 3.1
- Links Addition:
- Step-by-step method of a link addition;
- Checking of a link upon adding;
- Checking of a backward link upon adding;
- Adding a link by the checking results;
- Automatic link submission by the checking results;
- Prohibition to add links to specified categories.
- Backward Links:
- Several variants of backward links;
- Checking of a backward link by a set expression;
- Checking of a backward link presence at the same domain;
- Administrative Interface:
- Links filter by categories;
- Search;
- Backward links management.
CNCat 3.0 Pro
- Adding One Link into Several Categories;
- Links Checking:
- Link correctness;
- Backward link;
- Links rating (Google PR, Yandex CY);
- Redirections;
- Links group checking by filter.
- Detailed Links Description:
- Individual page with a link description;
- Fields "Full description" and "Keywords" have been added.
- Categories:
- Manual categories sorting;
- Displaying subcategories of the 2nd level;
- New editing form;
- Columns autofit in the categories list;
- Correct display of categories without a path.
- Templates:
- New templates, extending page interface settings, have been added;
- Templates of upper and lower parts of a page have been added;
- New template parameters have been added;
- Templates order in the editing mode is brought into accordance with sequence of their usage.
- Administrative Interface:
- Parameter settings via web interface;
- Settings import&export;
- Appearance of the links list has been changed.
- Installation:
- Simplified installation;
- Multi-language interface.
- Security and License System:
- The administrative interface is available only provided that the license key has been activated;
- The administrative scripts are encrypted with Zend.
- Miscellaneous:
- User interface PHP-files structure has been simplified;
- New page navigation interface;
- New script for protection from automatic links submission (a picture with digits).
