PAD Site Scripts - Launch your own software downloads site!

Features

'PAD Site Scripts' is a commercial set of PHP scripts for maintaining PAD enabled sites for Windows™ software downloads. It was initially based on PADKit (currently suspended), a free PAD enabled PHP/MySQL shareware download site kit, developed and supported by ASP (Association of Software Professionals). Hovewer, all the existing scripts have been completely rewritten and new scripts/modules added to implement several important features missing in the original source:

• Detailed description, download, screenshot and purchase (if available) pages for each listing,
• Downloads counter and affiliate cookie tracking,
• Featured listings section,
• RSS feeds, OPML feed lists and XML sitemap,
• Ability for site visitors to easily rate and review listings without any need of signing up unneeded accounts but still with powerful protection against spamming,
• Google AdSense integration,
• Skins support (the setup pack already comes with 6 ready-to use skins),
• New submissions confirmation via confirmation link in email message,
• Automatically polling for updates via cron job,
• And many more...

Also in Sysop panel all the existing features have been improved and many new features added, e.g. new submissions management, software rating, affiliate partnership management at 4 most popular software payments services (RegNow, Share-It, eSellerate, Plimus), promotion via featured listings, multiple PADs submission, blacklisting by host names for persisting abusers etc.

Licensing

'PAD Site Scripts' license includes:

• One time FTP upload and database setup help (if needed),
• Lifetime bug fixes (if found),
• Lifetime free technical support via email.

Note: By purchasing the scripts you get ONLY the permission to use and modify them for your own needs, NOT the authority and rights to sell them to third party customers!
Also you may NOT modify or remove the paragraph referring to scripts source on "About" page. In exchange, we will add a link to your download site at the list of sites running 'PAD Site Scripts' set.

Server requirements

• UNIX web host (FreeBSD, Linux etc.) *
• php4.3+/php5.3+ ** precompiled with the following extensions (modules):
  • curl (functions used in SEO report inclusion only)
  • date
  • gd (functions used to generate an image with security code in PNG format)
  • mbstring (functions used to convert PAD XML files to appropriate encoding)
  • mysql
  • pcre
  • session
  • xml
  • zip (functions used to read the ip2country source file when installing)
  • zlib (functions used to output XML sitemap in gzipped format)
• MySQL 4.x/5.x (1 database with 6 tables)
• Apache server with mod_rewrite module enabled
• Main domain or subdomain location (NO subdirectories)

* The scripts set SHOULD run on Windows as well if you do not use several features that are not supported on Windows (e.g. cron job to run regular DB updates automatically etc.).

** The magic_quotes_gpc setting MUST be turned OFF. On most servers you can change the default PHP settings by uploading a custom php.ini file and specifying its path in .htaccess file using suPHP_ConfigPath directive, but before doing so you should better ask your hosting provider if PHP settings can be changed in this way.
Note: register_globals, register_long_arrays and safe_mode are not required and can be safely turned off.

Support

If you have any questions regarding PAD Site Scripts, feel free to via email, we will do our best to help you.

Free Stuff

• URL Heads Retriever

Credits

PAD, PADGen, and PADKit are registered trademarks of ASP (Association of Software Professionals).

PHP is a registered trademark of PHP project group.