I recently wrote a PHP application named phpLinkCheck. It allows people to scan a given list of websites to check if those sites are linking back to you, which is great for those who do link trades or have affiliates/partners.

I'd like some feedback on the software as I am always looking to improve my code/functionality of the apps I write.

If you have the time, please follow the steps below:

1. Visit http://programming-designs.com/misc/phpLinkCheck
2. Login using the username 'Admin' and the password 'test'
3. Go to the link checker section under the navigation and choose 'Use existing profile...'
4. Select Site-Reference.lcp / Programming-Designs.lcp and click the 'Check Links' button.
5. If you have your own website, try creating your own profile and see if it works for you.

If you've tried it out please reply back and let me know what you think. Also, if you want to download the software and run it on your own website, I've provided the source code + installation here: http://www.programming-designs.com/misc … heckv1.zip

I also have a forum if you'd like to give more feedback: http://forums.programming-designs.com/v … .php?id=30

Thanks in advance!

I've tried it and it looks good, but isn't there a simple query option from Google that does the same thing? Also, you should host it on a website, and allow us to use it by registering an account instead of having to install it.

This works with multiple websites that are specific to your needs. Google only can query one site at a time to check to see if the link exists. If you have 5, 20, or even 100 sites you are linking with this is a fast and easy solution.

In terms of making it a service -- I may do that in future. But since this installs very easily on your website (just filling out username/password and hitting install), it shouldn't be much of a hassle (as no MySQL database is needed). Adding user registration would add a bunch more coding on my end (user registration, access rights, SQL database, etc).

I don't get it 100%. All sites that link to programming-designs
It seems to be checking more than one site right there, or am I misunderstanding what you're saying? o.o

SoraCross wrote:

I don't get it 100%. All sites that link to programming-designs
It seems to be checking more than one site right there, or am I misunderstanding what you're saying? o.o

I said specific websites in my first post. Google lists ALL sites that link back to you. The point of affiliates/link swaps is that BOTH sites link back to each other. It is the whole point you'd check to see if the site is linking to you in the first place. Please read my post more thoroughly next time.

It allows people to scan a given list of websites to check if those sites are linking back to you, which is great for those who do link trades or have affiliates/partners.

A "given list" implies a specified/tailored list for your needs. It also finds links with the nofollow rel attribute which all search engines INTENTIONALLY leave out due to the actual function of the nofollow attribute. Setting any links to rel="nofollow" makes it not indexed by search engines (at least google).

Several points

1 - google don't give you a list of sites that link to yours (the list is skewed and deliberately broken, has been for 4 years now)
2 - even if they did, you have to trawl through the results to find the sites that you want to monitor
3 - I didn't have to install anything

I thought it was a nice clean tool. Not something i'd use - I'm also a php programmer and built something like that for myself a few years back. I never made it public as it's very resource hungry if written in pure php - some sort of C based app would be much better suited

All in all - pretty neat

Thanks for your feedback. I was hoping there'd be more people but I guess most of the forum goers don't know PHP or really just don't have any feedback to give!

sorry mate i dont know much about php  - started learning - but found your program very easy to use and will be added to my list. tracking of my links is incorporated into other software that i use but this felt like I was back in control thanks again