eSyndicat Directory Script

Description and Review For eSyndicat Script

However, they are coming up with latest release 2.2 , which according to Simon (owner and mind behind the script) , has lots of features and I shall post those features here:

• 1. Full ACL support (Access Control List)
• 2. Modular support (as in Joomla, Drupal)
• 3. IIS Support
• 4. Integrate AJAX data grid widget like in Omega version
• 5. Search by newly added fields (search criterias)
• 6. Graphical statistic (charts)
• 7. Checking reciprocal link if plan is free
• 8. Add an option feature, partner links to go to link details page or not
• 9. Don’t show paypal button if plan is free
• 10. The Features or Partner links as Sponsored
• 11. Drag and drop admin blocks (customizing administrative blocks)
• 12. Autocomplete AJAX feature (live search in the frontend)
• 13. TagCloud
• 14. Pagination (on the pages)
• 15. Image uploading (through the FCKEditor)
• 16. Full I18N support (including assets, javascript error messages)
• 17. Smart Reciprocal checking (whether or not recip url in HTML or javascript comment etc..)
• 18. Multiple categories listing submission
• 19. More easy working with email templates (I18N support, two format support HTML and Plaintext)
• 20. Sponsored functionality improvement. New payment systems addition
• 21. Deep Links Mod

To be frank i am looking forward to testing the script again and check out their new “Sponsored functionality improvement. New payment systems addition” . Plus want to see exactly what sort of deeplinks mod exists.

The pricing structure I feel is better than most scripts I have seen, it has an affordable price for unlimited license $149, not sure if anyone would be buying at higher price of $249 after the release of their new version 2.2 Pro. Plus single domain license is only $49, bit higher at first glance than what you pay for PHPLD, but it comes with support and no footer link, whereas you have to pay additional $10 for phpld to get access to support forum and additional $50 for footer link removal, thus technically phpld costs $85. But wins straight down over esyndicat cause of way better payment module, cause most prefer to have paid links feature on their directory, and a system that can track the same in a better manner.

Hopefully things will improve with eSyndicat regarding support, and the features of their script with time. Please post your comments if you have used this script before.

And remember its eSyndicat not eSyndictae which most people make mistakes at, myself included. :).

Here are some of the comments we have managed to collect from forums like forums.digitalpoint.com.

This is what wildweb posted on digitalpoint :

“PH…I used to use it (paid version) for more than a year on one of my directories. I’ll say from experience that it does offer a great set of features especially in the newer paid versions. I will refrain from listing why I no longer use it as to your request to keep this as a respectable “no bash” thread. I would still recommend it even given those reasons why I changed based on the features and functionality. My only caveat would be to proceed with caution”

Comment from popotalk again from digitalpoint :

“Lot of features and has language integration. But we are building one with an English and our local language version so….”

We had a chance to interview Simon, here is what he had to say :

What is your name and age and where are you from?
My name is Simon. I’m 24 years. Currently I’m in Central Asia.

When was the project started? And might we dare ask what inspired to work on a directory script?
eSyndiCat was started in August, 2005. I used to have some sites and I needed a good link exchange script to promote them. So I tried some script but none satisfied me. So I decided to write my own script that fits my needs.

Initially how many people were involved with the project? And what is the situation today?
There were 2 persons involved in the very beginning. I developed it and there was one guy who helped me with support. After a work of 3-4 months another guy started to help me. Now we have 9 full time employees working on the script.

Do you feel that the project has been successful so far?
Yes I do. And appreciation of more than 10K webmasters really proves that.

What are your expectations about the future of the project?
The only future we can see it’s success. Now we are working on our 2.2 version and it will have plug-ins system. It will be easy to upgrade the versions and development will be much faster.

Do you have any other projects in mind that will come out soon? Or if there are other projects/scripts already released?
Sure, we have several other products. I joined a new company and now we work together to bring some new products in a life. You might want to check intelliants.com to see what other products we have.

Do you plan on increasing the license price? And you think its rightly deserved?
Yes. We will increase the price for unlimited domains license. It will cost $249. We have real reasons for its increase.

Any updates to be released soon? What additional features will be present in the next update? I hear version 2.2 is about to be released!
We will release eSyndiCat 2.2 soon. I have announced new features in the forums so you can find all the information there.

Do you have any plans to recode the entire framework? Also, we have heard about few bugs, are they really bugs or just rumors?
eSyndiCat 2.2 has a new core based on module system. What benefits we get:

1. easier upgrades
2. more modules/plug ins
3. extremely flexible functionality

Personally, I never met a bugless software. They all have bugs, more or less.. Of course we will work to fix all the bugs eSyndiCat has.

Personally, I was not satisfied with the support I received, do you plan to rectify the situation and improve the support? Or would you consider me being just being too anxious and demanding?
Actually, opinion of thousands of happy customers with eSyndiCat means more for me. They give me the power to think we are moving in a right way. Of course we have some disappointed customers and we would like to change the situation. Personally I always appreciate any feedback even negative, though it should be objective at least. It makes us think and improve the things. It’s quite difficult to satisfy a number of all customers we have. I think there is just one way to do this – just make perfect software that does not have any bugs. I hope that’s not a dream.