| Features | PhpLD Version 2 | PhpLD Version 3 | Phplynx Free | Phplynx Full |
| Import Towns / Cities from Admin | | | | |
| User Defined Categories / Row | | | | |
| Integrated Banner Manager (site wide or per category) | | | | |
| 1 or 3 input search critera | | | | |
| Browse by Business Type | | | | |
| Browse By Location | | | | |
| Integrated Locations and Business type Databases | | | | |
| Integrated alternate Categories per listing per membership package | | | | |
| Integrated unlimited Deeplinks per listing per membership package | | | | |
| Integrated Filemanger | | | | |
| Integrated Newsletter Manager | | | | |
| Integrated Ticket Support System | | | | |
| Import Categories from admin | | | | |
| Symbolic Categories | | | | |
| User can edit his / her own link | | | | |
| Save Searches for later use | | | | |
| Admin approval required for edited links | | | | |
| Can be run as a Business Directory (more then just Title, Name, Description URL) | | | | |
| Import Links from Admin | | | | |
| Add Additional pages from admin using WYSISYG Editor | | | | |
| Category Page Pagination | | | | |
| Categories / Page | | | | |
| Auto Delete Failed Payment Listings | | | | |
| Enable Disable Mandatory Input Fields | | | | |
| Show hide all or none of the form submit fields | | | | |
| Add upto 7 types of membership (listing) Packages | | | | |
| Edit / Adjust Email template per package, unique to that package | | | | |
| Stormpay Payment module included | | | | |
| 2Checkout Payment module included | | | | |
| Add remove currencies and Exchange Rates | | | | |
| Bad Word Filter | | | | |
| Antibot & Captcha Included | | | | |
| Feedback Form Included | | | | |
| Rate Listing Included | | | | |
| Refer Listing Included | | | | |
| Report Listing Included | | | | |
| Contact Listing Included | | | | |
| View who`s online from admin | | | | |
| Free Customer Support | | | | |
| Suggest Category whilst submitting listing | | | | |
| Category Counter | | | | |
| Unlimited Categories and Subcategories (tested on 2 million) | | | | |
| Available in a dozen languages | | | | |
| Mod Rewrite for SEO Friendly Pages (optional) | | | | |
| Paypal Integration for Selling Featured Links | | | | |
| Set Expiration for Featured Links (ex. sell monthly or annually) | | | | |
| Powerful Emailer for Link Exchanges | | | | |
| Create Reports of Link Request Emails sent to show your customer | | | | |
| Admin Notifications on New Links (optional) | | | | |
| Notify Submitter of Link Submission Receipt | | | | |
| Notify Submitter of Link Acceptance | | | | |
| Link Validation | | | | |
| IP and Domain Banning | | | | |
| Google Pagerank (note: banned on some servers) | | | | |
| Google Sitemaps Integration | | | | |
| Yahoo Sitemaps Integration | | | | |
| Show Latest Links | | | | |
| Show Most Popular Links | | | | |
| Sort Links by Alphabetical, Hits or PageRank | | | | |
| Visual Confirmation (improved in version 3) | | | | |
| Display RSS Feed for Each Category (optional) | | | | |
| Compatable with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera | | | | |
| Category Search Results (as on DMOZ) | | | | |
| Database Backup from within admin panel | | | | |
| Encrypted Database Passwords | | | | |
| Limited Access for Editors | | | | |
| 3-Way Linking Ability (require reciprocal link to 3rd site) | | | | |
| Reciprocal Links can be Required (optional) | | | | |
| Set Links per Page | | | | |
| Open Links in New Window (Optional) | | | | |
| Boolean Searches (optional) | | | | |
| Limit Hits on Links from a single IP to prevent "hit spamming" | | | | |
| Edit Templates from Admin | | | | |
| Lots of Free Templates Available for v2 and v3 | | | | |
| Templates Easy to Edit Using Smarty | | | | |
| Link Details Page (separate page for each link) | | | | |
| Easily Move or Rename Categories | | | | |
| Links are Searchable in Admin to Help Manage Large Directories | | | | |
| Compatable with PHP 5 | | | | |
| Active Support Forum | | | | |
| Many Mods Avaialble | | | | |
| Import Links from XML Source (per category) | | | | |
| Continously being improved and updated | | | | |
| Category Search in the Admin Area | | | | |
| Mass change links and category on a page with checkbox selections | | | | |
| Each user can select their preferred language | | | | |
| Paypal subscriptions available for payments | | | | |
| Three category selection methods for submit form (default, auto-selected and AJAX category selection) | | | | |
| Link validator in admin panel will mark links with recipr link pages expired | | | | |
| Send status notifications to link owners with expired link pages | | | | |
| Change currency for payment, available for Paypal are: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, JPY | | | | |
| Category min/max title and description field lengths | | | | |
| Option to rebuild all meta tags on admin maintenance page | | | | |
| link to personaly watch reciprocal link page on link edit (admin area) | | | | |
| Template switcher and ability to manage and use more templates per installation | | | | |
| Allow users to submit custom META tags for links | | | | |
