ArticleFriendly Scripts

Article Friendly Ultimate our newest and most feature packed article publishing script for php & mysql that allows authors to signup on your site(s) and after their email is confirmed by AF Ultimate, submit their articles for your approval.

AF Ultimate is a complete turnkey site. Simply upload, create a database and run the included installation script, and it's ready to use!

Frontend Features

AF Ultimate's unencoded frontend allows you to showcase your approved authors and articles, and permits additional author signups and article submission to keep your site growing. Also includes a 1 click updating system!

• CSS based design. Easier redesign, faster page loads. Pages also use compression and mysql caching system to make your site lightning fast and reduce resources & bandwidth.
• Bot Stopping Technology. AF Ultimate creates random field name for forms, so remote bot signups and article submissions are stopped!
• Authors can login to their account from any page now.
• Improved author signup system. Email from your site is sent to the new signup's email address for confirmation before approval.
• Article Submit system that allows admin to check out and approve or decline any submitted articles.
• SEO (Search Engine) Friendly URLs. Article titles, categories and author names are included in the page title and article titles and categories full names are in the url of each as an HTML page!
• PM (personal message) System between the author and admin for quick questions etc.
• Separate approved author area. Author can see if their articles have been approved, declined or deleted, edit articles, remove their articles, upload a photo, read admin PM's (Personal Messages), or remove their account.
• Reporting & Rating System on all articles. Visiting readers can report bad articles or give an article a good rating.
• Included Language Translation System! Offer more readers the opportunity to read your site's articles in their language. Gets your pages indexed by the major search engines in not only english, but in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese and Japanese! Simply copy an include to where you want the flags and your done!
• Author RSS Feeds. Allow authors to promote an article rss feed of just their articles!
• RSS Feeds for every individual category and subcategory! Instead of your users having only one rss feed, they can have multiple feeds in any category. This is really handy for niche sites that only want specific content.
• Multi-part emails. Send banners/Ads with your confirmation emails, and admin side author emails! Send to all authors, or just one, as plain text or html!
• Anti-email harvesting "Contact Us" Form. Stops those email harvesting bots dead in their track and reduces spam from your site, and scripts trying to use your site to mass email thru your contact us form!
• Most pages pre-filled in, so all you have to do is edit them the way you wish, or just change the spots for your site name and leave the pages as they are.
• Unlimited Categories & Subcategories.
• Adsense ready. Enter your Adsense Pub ID and your adsense shows floating within each article and left nav.
• Frontend pages are simple HTML, so add any banners, javascript, additional php code or other advertizing services anywhere you wish!
• Easy installation. Create a database, upload the files, enter your database connection code into our included installation script, and you're done.
• Lifetime support! You'll never pay for additional "blocks" of support. We provide both a support forum and email support.

Admin Features

AF Ultimate has the most features of any of our article publishing scripts!

• PM (Personal Messaging) system for quick contact with your authors.
• Banned IP System. Ban ip's from every page on your site.
• Double the site settings options of AF Pro's!
• Fast mass email cueing system.
• SMTP emailing.
• CSV author name & email exporting for other marketing systems.
• Brute force protection. Stops those that try to "force" mass user/passes on your site to break in.
• Test Article Submission Services right from your admin section. Tests your article submission script plugins.
• Secure admin login page
• Search, database, user error logging system. Keeps you informed on what's going on on your site.
• Statistics page of your site and it's performance.
• 1 click updating. AF Ultimate notifies you if there is an available update, click on it and your site is auto updated!
• Bio Dead Links Checker. Checks your author's bio and article resource boxes for dead links. Authors are auto notified of the dead links by PM (personal message) and given a chance to correct them.
• Complete database repairs within the admin section.
• Back up your database (either structure only or full backups) from your admin section.
• Top Author's system. Admin sets number of articles to become a top author, and AF Ultimate tracks each author for promotion.
• Remove noncontributing authors. Remove author accounts that never submit an articles with just one click of your mouse! You set how long without an article submitted by the author before they can be deleted.
• Delete author account with articles. No articles left behind without author names when you delete an author account. Articles by the deleted author are automatically deleted also!
• Delete, decline, approve authors & articles individually or using checkboxes (check all).
• Decline articles, auto pm the author why their article(s) were decline and give them a chance to fix the article.
• Ban Bad Authors instantly. Ban authors thru your admin area quickly and easily!
• SpamBusted.com plugin pre-installed to block known spammers from signing up to your site.
• Easily show banner ads for each category page. Add banners for the top and bottom of the category page depending on the category, and a vertical ad in the right nav bar.
• Add different category keywords to show for each category.
• Approve All Articles By Keywords.
• Add authors & articles in your admin section.
• You can have multiple admins/editors for article editing/approving.
• Onboard Duplicate Content Finder
• Script auto emails you when a new author signs up! Keeps you informed of new signups and if the signup was a spammer or a legitimate author. Plus, it allows you to keep an additional record of your live authors!
• Duplicate Article Deleter. Removes the dupes, but keeps the original. This will keep google from penalizing your site for dupe content.
• Add/remove/edit categories including subcategories!
• Add/edit/delete users, articles, countries and more thru the admin section.
• Much, Much More! Check out the live site from the links above.

Requirements

• Lamp System (linux, Apache Server, Mysql & Php). Windows servers not guaranteed.
• Php Version 5 or greater.
• Ioncube enabled for admin files. Most hosts have this enabled by default.
• Mod_rewrite for SEF URLS. Most hosts have this enabled by default.
• FTP Client (to upload files and edit them).
• webpage or Text editor to edit files (Yes, even notepad will work!).

You can download the test script to verify if your hosting meets the requirements.