After like 9 months or so, the latest version of PhpLD (PhpLinkDirectory) has been released! Finally, those people at PhpLD are being forced to release some software which they have been promising for such a long time. And it looks like a big one. Mainly the biggest change is on the article submission. If you need the article submission features, this is a upgrade for you. You can take a look at the new features here.

Some of the new features include a submit article function. I guess this is the same as those article directory scripts which allow your users to submit articles to the directory. This used to be an afterthought by the designers of PhpLD. With this version, it’s a whole new ballgame! So now you can allow users not only to submit links, they can also submit articles as well. You can force users to register or submit articles annonymously. Article writers can also have their very own info page. Of course, users can also comment and rate the articles that was submitted. Wow, that’s good! Finally, PhpLD is throwing away it’s amaetur feel and starting to have very good features, especially when article submission is concerned. Another interesting feature is that the script now allows you to add business listings with their locations included. Yes, exactly like those professional business directories. Furthermore, it allows you to add Googlemaps into your detail listings. If only they have this feature when I first started my business directory. There are also some changes and additionals to the administration pages of the directory script.

As you can see, the main upgrade is the article submission portion of PhpLD. If you don’t need these features and I think a lot of us web directory owners don’t need, then I feel that this upgrade is not worth the effort. Remember, when you do an upgrade, it is very likely that you need to modify your template again. Not to mention all those mods you have already done as well.

Here are more links to information on upgrading PhpLD.

1. Templates changes for PhpLD v3.3

2. How to Upgrade

3. Downloads

Just hope that this version will be stable. I remembered when I started using PhpLD, the version I had had some really serious bugs in it. And after 2 years (I didn’t upgrade) I am still suffering from it. But at least it was usable and I had a very good time with it.