|
Fully Automated Traffic Trading System Freeware Version 1.4 Description Features • Updates the ranks daily. • Cheat protection against someone clicking their own link. • Fully customizable. • No experience required to set up (pretty easy!). • Emails you each time someone adds a link to you. • Password protected admin area. • Preview or delete links in the admin area. • Minimal load on the server (very efficient...) • Generates code for your trade partners automatically. • Does it all for you. • One link of SSI includes the ranking box on your page. • Best of all - it's FREE! :-) Working Example There's a few pages to look at with this script. So let's go through 'em one at a time. The page that contains the ranking box: Example This is your regular webpage. This is where the rankings are displayed. There's also a link where they can submit their sites. NOTE: There's also something that says "Powered by easy rank" - if you want to edit that out, no problem. The submit page: Example This is where the other webmasters add their link to you. It's a regular HTML page - so add on your logo, colors - anything you like here. There's nothing special. When they press submit - the info is placed in a queue and you are emailed that someone has added their site by 'Easy Rank Bot'. The Admin Area Example Username: user Password: pass This is where you can preview and either ADD or REJECT new links. Or you can delete existing links. It's all done online and there's no FTP'ing. Heaven for anyone who has experience 'doing it by hand' LOL! Download & Installation Download the latest version HERE. This script has a lot of files but don't let that fool you. It's actually pretty easy to get it set up. We'll take it one step at a time - and please post on TNB if you have problems. I'll help you get this beast workin' on your server. ;-) This is a PHP script - so you'll need that on your server. MOST have that - so assume that you do and proceed with the rest of the installation. 1) Download the file (above). 2) Unzip it with something like Winzip. 3) Create a folder on your webspace for this thing to live in. I recommend calling this folder 'easy-rank' or something similar. 4) Create the following folders INSIDE OF THE ONE YOU JUST CREATED: current_links data new_submissions NOTE: You are not required to upload ANYTHING into those folders. 5) Open settings.php in your text editor. This is the largest part of the installation so brace yourself. Go through each of the settings and alter them to your own details. For the most part - they are optional. There's instructions in the file as to what to change. 6) Upload the following files: ips.txt day_number.txt current_number.txt add-top.html rankings.txt index.html delete.php rank.php submit.html record.php display.php settings.php admin.php add.php link_admin.php rank_stats.php 7) CHMOD the following files to 777: ips.txt day_number.txt current_number.txt rankings.txt And the following folders to 777: current_links data new_submissions 8) You're DONE! Submit a site to yourself, see if you can get into admin.php in your browser and test the thing out. NOTE: Here's a tutorial on CH MOD if you've not done it before... NOTE: On any page where you'd like to include the daily gallery, you need to put the following SSI line (the page must be able to run SSI). <!--#include virtual="display.php" --> You can run this on either .shtml pages, OR add the following line to your htaccess to run it on html pages (as I've done here...) AddHandler server-parsed .html That's about it. Give me a shout if you get stuck... Version Updates: Version 1.1 (Same download link above...) Updated 16th January 2002 Simple stats area has been added. Here's a screen shot of what it looks like: Screen Shot The idea is that this will let you see how many clicks the different sites are sending to you. Upgrading from an older version: Download the zip file again. The ONLY FILE THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED IS: admin.php There's also a new file: stats_rank.php So you'll need to upload those 2 files into the same place that the other files are in - where record.php and the others are. This will update you to the latest version. You'll then have a link in the admin area which will say: "Show Statistics". This is your new area... Version 1.2 (Same download link above...) Updated 6th February 2002 Fixed a problem whereby email was not being sent out correctly to you - telling you that someone had added their site. Upgrading from an older version: Download the zip file again. The ONLY FILE THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED IS: add.php So just upload the add.php from the zip file over the top of the older file. Version 1.3 (Same download link above...) Updated 28th February 2004 Corrected an error with new installations whereby an error message was displayed when no links had been added. Version 1.4 (Same download link above...) Updated 15th March 2004 Corrected a bug in the file record.php to fix a problem with counting traffic. To upgrade from an older version, download the latest ZIP file above and upload record.php over the one on your webspace. Enter Tom's Newbie Booster here More tips, scripts and help... |