A while ago, I started the Category Project to allow people to design their ideal category structure for directories. However, the project was surprisingly under-utilised. Therefore I went ahead and designed my own ideal directory category structure, and released it as one of the Category Dumps.
I’ve seen this Category Dump in almost all new directories, and it features over 700 categories. So thank you to everyone using my category dump!
I’ve now updated the Category Dumps package to contain a dump for phpLD V3.10. In reality, the V3.10 dump is identical to the V3.06 dump which I verified this weekend. So if you’re starting a new directory off on V3.10, you can now use the category dump from Directory Spy.
I’ve had a couple of questions on how to install a category dump. In short, its best you know what you’re doing. However, the basic process is to install the phpLD as usual, locate the database used by the directory, then use the Import or SQL option of phpMyAdmin (depends on version). There should be a browse button that allows you to upload a file, where you choose the database dump version that matches the version of phpLD you are installing. Click upload, and it should work fine!
Hint: If any directory blog owners want to write a tutorial on category dumps, it would be very useful!
The second release of the Category Dumps is now available. V1.01 contains MySQL dumps for phpLinkDirectory V2.00, V3.06 and now the newly released version of V2.10.
If you want to see more categories in the dump, you can submit your category suggestions to the Category Project. All accepted suggestions will appear in later category dump releases.
Directory 4U is the first directory I’ve seen using categories from the Category Project. Am pleased to see it being used in a production directory!
The first release of the Category Dumps is now available. V1.00 contains MySQL dumps for phpLinkDirectory V2.00 and V3.06. Thanks to Colbyt on the Digital Point Forums for his help in verifying the V2.00 dump works correctly.
If you want to see more categories in the dump, you can submit your category suggestions to the Category Project. All accepted suggestions will appear in later category dump releases.
To speed up the state of the Category Project, I have used the existing database dump that’s been circulating for a while now. I will then add categories to that.
I have modified the behaviour of the Suggest Category feature so that it allows you to suggest many categories within a sub category without having to click on the back button on your browser. This should make it less irritating for you to suggest a category!
Please suggest as many categories as you can!
The Category Project is no-where near ready yet, so in the meantime, if you need a category dump, you can download categories for V3.0.6 from marcinnowak.se. He has basically updated the already existing V2.0 category dump to match the new category tables.
I have started a new project, which aims to create the best structure of directories for use in link directories, such as phpLinkDirectory. When there are a certain number of directories in the Category Project, I will provide a snapshot download of the current state of the categories for use in newly created directories.
So please feel free to submit as many categories as you wish!
