CNCat Versions History
CNCat 4.1
User Interface
- Catalogue:
- Ability to add articles.
- Broadcasting categories to RSS.
- Ability to display only articles on the current catalogue page.
- List of new articles (displaying articles submitted recently).
Administrator Interface
- Links and Articles:
- Ability to add articles.
- Settings:
- Ability to set up parameters for adding articles.
- Ability to import design themes from CNCat 2.x, 3.x, 4.x.
- Ability to import directly from the database of CNCat 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x.
- Ability to set up the way categories will be displayed in RSS.
CNCat 4.0
General
- Only PHP and MySQL are required for CNCat functioning. It is not necessary to install and support Zend or ionCube.
User Interface
- Categories:
- Cross-categories (@ links to categories).
- Filters ("through" categories) (for example: language, city, country etc.).
- Dynamic calculation of links number in categories depending on the chosen filters.
- Icons for categories.
- The site map (categories tree).
- Display of links from the current category and its subcategories.
- Links Display:
- Favourite links (several levels; displayed at the top of the list; marked by stars depending on the level).
- Full-text search.
- Possibility to create additional sorting modes.
- Selection of a link display variant (direct; redirect; direct+JavaScript) for all the catalogue links and for each separate link.
- Enabling/disabling of detailed description for each link.
- Display of new links in each category.
- Possibility to create additional fields of various types to a link description.
- Display of the site icon (favicon).
- Links Addition:
- Addition of links without CAPTCHA for automatic recorders (with a hidden code).
- Interface Elements:
- Support of UTF-8 encoding (provided that mbstring module is available at the server).
- Various design templates (conditions support; functions call; variables display).
- Banners at optional area of a page (for example, between links).
- Miscellaneous:
- New design of URL pages, friendly to search engines (the old one is also supported).
Administrative Interface
- Categories:
- Possibility to move categories.
- Addition of cross-categories (@ links to a category).
- Prohibition to add links to certain categories or its subcategories.
- Possibility to move and delete groups of links in a category.
- Detailed description of categories (META-tags; icon; textual description).
- Filters:
- Management of filters and their values.
- Manual and automatic sorting of filters.
- Mandatory/optional filters (upon links addition by users).
- Links:
- Links search by various attributes, including full-text search.
- Links estimation by a moderator/administrator.
- Automatic Links Checking:
- Retrieving the site icon (favicon).
- Queue for links checking (addition of links to queue from all sections of the administrative interface).
- The last checking report.
- Moderators Support:
- Unlimited number of moderators.
- A moderator can manage links freely in categories assigned to him/her.
- The administrator can grant access to categories and subcategories (with inheritance) to a moderator.
- Permission/prohibition to manage categories.
- Settings:
- "Black" and "white" lists of addresses (with regular expressions support).
- Service operations with the database (optimization, complete cleanup etc.).
- Design:
- A new engine of design templates with conditions support, global variables involvement etc.
- Export/Import:
- Export of data (links, categories etc.) to XML file in more compact format.
- Export with GZIP compression.
- Exported data storage on the server.
- Import of data stored on the server.
- Data import from CNCat 2.x, 3.x.
CNCat 3.1
- Links Addition:
- Step-by-step method of a link addition;
- Checking a link while adding it;
- Checking a backward link while adding it;
- Adding a link by the check results;
- Automatic link submission by the check results;
- Prohibition to add links to the specified categories.
- Backward Links:
- Several variants of backward links;
- Checking of a backward link by a set expression;
- Checking of a backward link presence in the same domain;
- Administrative Interface:
- Links filter by categories;
- Search;
- Backward links management.
CNCat 3.0 Pro
- Adding One Link into Several Categories;
- Links Checking:
- Link correctness;
- Backward link;
- Links rating (Google PR, Yandex CY);
- Redirections;
- Links group checking by filter.
- Detailed Links Description:
- Individual page with a link description;
- Fields "Full description" and "Keywords" have been added.
- Categories:
- Manual categories sorting;
- Displaying subcategories of the 2nd level;
- New editing form;
- Columns autofit in the categories list;
- Correct display of categories without a path.
- Templates:
- New templates, extending page interface settings, have been added;
- Templates of upper and lower parts of a page have been added;
- New template parameters have been added;
- Templates order in the editing mode is brought into accordance with sequence of their usage.
- Administrative Interface:
- Parameter settings via web interface;
- Settings import&export;
- Appearance of the links list has been changed.
- Installation:
- Simplified installation;
- Multi-language interface.
- Security and License System:
- The administrative interface is available only provided that the license key has been activated;
- The administrative scripts are encrypted with Zend.
- Miscellaneous:
- User interface PHP-files structure has been simplified;
- New page navigation interface;
- New script for protection from automatic links submission (a picture with digits).
