Different levels of items

[yorweb]

Gave up on Indexu a few years back but I have to create a directory and since I used to know the software fairly well, thought I would check it out again.

Anyhow I am looking at creating a directory with 3 levels of service:- Bronze, Silver and Gold.
- Bronze will be free and list only basic information.
- Silver will be charged and include additional information
- Gold will be charged and include same information as but also allow the customers to review this restaurant and for pictures to appear next to it in list.

Categories will be locations and when viewing a particular category, Gold entries should be listed first, then Silver and finally Bronze.

Any chance Indexu will fit my requirements? I am open to modifying the code but not re-inventing the wheel if you get my drift. I am a hacker, not a programmer.

[Bruceper]

To list an item higher than others, set the bid at a specific level. Then sort the categories by bid and hits. If the bid for all the gold listings are the same then they will show up first, sorted in order of hits. Next comes silver etc.

The way you would do the different levels with IndexU would be to use premium links for gold, sponsored links for silver and bronze would just be a basic listing. Yes IndexU calls these basic, premium and sponsored, but they can renamed easily.

To allow extra information would require a mod of the script to check and see if it was gold or silver. Not terribly hard to do.

Reviews are typically global with IndexU, but you could add a bit of code and only show reviews if the site was gold or silver.

[yorweb]

To list an item higher than others, set the bid at a specific level. Then sort the categories by bid and hits. If the bid for all the gold listings are the same then they will show up first, sorted in order of hits. Next comes silver etc.

The way you would do the different levels with IndexU would be to use premium links for gold, sponsored links for silver and bronze would just be a basic listing. Yes IndexU calls these basic, premium and sponsored, but they can renamed easily.

To allow extra information would require a mod of the script to check and see if it was gold or silver. Not terribly hard to do.

Reviews are typically global with IndexU, but you could add a bit of code and only show reviews if the site was gold or silver.

How much do you think it would cost to do these mods?

[Bruceper]

If you know any php you could easily do it yourself in about 5 minutes. Otherwise you could ask on the forum and see if anyone will help you out.

[yorweb]

If you know any php you could easily do it yourself in about 5 minutes. Otherwise you could ask on the forum and see if anyone will help you out.

I do know some PHP.

BTW I appreciate the downloadable version is limited to 100 links (or something like that) but is it the same in every other capacity to the current commercial version?

[inspireme]

You dont need to hack this is the exact feature indexU already comes with its jsut called :

basic (bronze)
premium (silver)
sponsored (gold)

In fact i jsut did this exact thing for someone on this forum. on the detail pages you jsut need to write :

<% if $premium =='1' | $sponsored =='1' %>
display this bit
<%/if%>

as you can see it would be an easy change. The free verion uses ioncube, so you cannot see the php code and make changes. The features are the same, although maybe its a version behind the full one (im not sure about that, it could be 5.1 instead of 5.4) I have a liscence to sell cheaply if they will let me.

[Bruceper]

Yes licenses are transferrable

[inspireme]

Yes licenses are transferrable

cool , Pm me if you want one of the licenses then