Directory Component

The Directory Component

Designed as a business directory this useful component can be used for every kind of directory imaginable. It is versatile enough to be used as a directory for companies, clubs, persons, shops or products and by integrating it with Google maps it can easily be used as a store locater, estate agent property finder, or holiday and hotel lettings finder. Search facility can be set up to use a variety of different search criteria.

Vcard Page

Number of listings, columns and lines per page is fully configurable. Option for customer review display and 1 or 2 images

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Details Page

Details can be laid out to suit and include a variety of different Plugins as selected.

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Details Page Image Pop up

From the details page by clicking on an image in the optional gallery plugin, a size configurable light box will enlarge the image for comfortable viewing. This tool will also allow for scrolling through the other images in the gallery.

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Highlights of Directory Content Construction Kit Component at a glance

CCK with different field types and convenient custom fields’ manager.
Multilevel category structure with unlimited nesting depth and convenient category manager.
Extensive configuration possibilities via administrator control panel configuration.
Individual entry form styling in front-end to add and/or edit entries by authors.
Fast script to show the categories in a tree view in administrator panel and entry form.
Built-in image upload with automatic resize of the images to configurable pre-set values.
Different views available to show the content of the directory.
Dynamic page title generation with configurable (SEO) settings.
Entry dependent meta data (keywords and description (SEO)). Various settings for meta data generation for the different directory views.
Configurable search function with built-in category search.
RSS feeds for the whole directory and for each category view. Additional configuration parameters available to generate RSS feeds of newest or most popular entries or for random selection.
Built-in template system for creating own templates of V-Card view, detailed view and entry form.
Send out of emails for various events. Comfortable creation of email templates in administrator panel using place holders for different data.
Integration of Paypal and/or display of account data at the end of a paid entry.
Integration of Google Maps.
A range of modules, plugins are available to extend the possibilities of the directory component.