I wanted to grab a look at how the other members' sites looked. Searching through the forums is good enough to retrieve the address of their websites. However, quite a few of the links are dead.

So, I decided to make a script to do this job for me. Here's a screenshot of the directory listing process.



Astahost Directory Lister

This post has been edited by turbopowerdmaxsteel: Aug 4 2007, 04:24 PM

Very interesting, I'm wondering how it works though? I just notice that it found 108 members when I went to the site, although that can't be them all since I'm not on the list But yea it's pretty cool and would be useful for people trying to actually explore the world of asta

Basically, it simulates browser activity, navigates through the forums and grabs the names of the members along with the site address. Not all of the Hosting requests are properly structured and moved to the APPROVED ACCOUNTS forum. As a result, many users are not listed. In your case, the approved request does not exists under the approved accounts forum.

Another technique I employed was to get the list of all the hosted members through the memberlist panel and look for their account request posts. Actually, that was the prototype to the current directory listing process. It can be accessed at http://ntek.astahost.com/test/astahostdirectory/method1.php

Very nice. I see you have me on it Too bad some of the urls don't work and even still not .astahost.com urls. I should put an index page on my site so I could get hits off of this list lol. Very good program in my opinion. It will come in useful some time I am sure. Im looking forward to the perfected version.
Thanks,
Sparkx

astahost webhosting is great. I wonder how could i include my site in the list?
I tried submitting my site to google for them to index it and i think that it would
take for a long time before they can index my site. is there any way to build
traffic into my site?

Nice job my friend, congrats.

I have two questions:

1. When you are not logged to the forum the script seems to not work, is it is a bug or the script only works when you are logged in for security reasons???
2. Tell me the progress bar that you implement is made with ajax or in pure php???

I have one suggestion: Add some text to the status image by using the ALT or TITLE attribute, better if you choose both of them.

Best regards,

Thanks for the feedback.



It is not necessary for me to be logged in to the forum. The script seems to hang once in a while because of relying heavily on Java Script.



Pure HTML, I should say.



I'll make sure to do that.

Very interesting work dude!!
Good use of Ajax Technology!
Its interesting to see checking the accounts and site status dynamically!!
But, For me, its showing as site not working!
But I can able to open my site!
All the best for your works!

Thanks,
Niru

The script has now been updated with the following changes:-

> Added new technique to search for hosted members.
> Validates link address and only shows the links if the link appears valid.
> Patched Non Internet Explorer browser bug - Non IE Browser will show site status as text instead of the Green and Red images.
> Improved Overall Speed of operation.

View Script

Wow, I really like it, checking out the new changes now. And don't worry I didn't hold it against it that I wasn't on it, was just curious which method you were making use of But yes the technology is very cool indeed. once you get it to a stage where you feel it is "complete" (I know we all have different stages of development that we feel our own creations are done heh) you could probably show it to M^E or OpaQue and see if they're interested in throwing it somewhere on the site. It'd be a cool feature to have especially for new prospective users interested in seeing what astahost offers thus far.

Again, great idea and great job.