Enthusiast
Enthusiast is a full-featured member listing collective management script. It is geared towards fanlisting owners who own multiple fanlistings, but easily customizable for other types of listings as well–cliques, physical listings, taboo listings, and the like.
Earlier versions are meant for standalone/single fanlistings, but Enthusiast now has grown into a bigger project, encompassing management of multiple listings using one administrative panel as well as maintenance of a site that lists all these listings in a directory format (i.e., a collective).
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Enthusiast 3
Enthusiast 3 (Enth3) is a full-featured, linkware multiple listing management system. It allows an administrator the ability to manage multiple member listings via a single administration interface as well as manage a central website directory of these listings. From listing creation to the templates used for the public pages of the listing site, Enthusiast 3 allows list owners to focus on what’s important: adding more value-added content as opposed to getting hung up on managing member lists.
Enthusiast 2
Enthusiast 2 (Enth2) is a standalone listing management system that was the precursor of Enth3, allowing the administrator to manage one fanlisting through an administrator panel, allowing management of members and affiliates and easy customization of the forms and lists. While development and active support for Enthusiast 2 has stopped, it continues to be placed here available for download mostly for archival purposes.
Corinne
I love Enthusiast! I use it for all my FLs, so much easier to use than Fanbase. Thanks again! :-)
Claudine
Too bad I don’t know MySQL, so I can’t use Enthusiast. I can tell that it’s nice, though. The password feature is cool, because it’s secure.
Joey
With the help of my host, the lovely Shannon, I’m converting my fanlistings to Enthusiast. I don’t know why I didn’t do this much, much, MUCH sooner. It’s a wonderful little script, and I could have used this back when I owned the Happy Bunny fanlisting and sometimes had to approve over 100 members one-by-one. So yes, I’m a total fan of this script now!
Aerith
Enth3 is totally awesome. Easy to use, visually appealing and secure as well. Keep up the good work!
Keitorin
Enth3 is amazing. I use it for all my fanlistings, and wouldn’t know what to do without it! I love the feeling I got when I figured out how to use it. Like Aerith said, easy to use and visually appealling.
Hikoto
I recently converted all my fanlistings to run on Enthusiast. It was never a better decision! I received more than what I had expected. The Dashboard tells me everything in a flash about my fanlistings and the lower announcement portion allows me to keep up to date with important Enthusiast updates. This is great but the best thing has got to be the reminder that pops out when your fanlistings has not been updated for 2 months. <3 <3 Previously I had to manually make a reminder on my mobile phone to remind me to do so.
I am absolutely surprised at how easy the conversion was. I had expected something really difficult and something that I could not get right at initial tries. (Not to mention getting errors that I didn’t understand.) But no! I managed to get it right on my 3rd try and there were no funny errors. Converting my fanlistings were a breeze! <3
Also, I’m loving how easily you can edit the email templates sent out to the members and how all pending members appear in the “Members” section.
In short, I think Enthusiast is perfect for a busy person like me. It helps cover my back especially when school starts to get really hectic. I have not tried out its true collective features but I’m sure that will be awesome too. ^_^
Ally
To run my collective before Enth3, I used…three different scripts to manage one set of sites. It was a constant struggle to manage my fanlistings because everything had a seperate admin panel and installation of a single fanlisting was hopelessly complicated. With over thirty fanlistings at the start of beta testing, that was thirty individual admin panels and individual logins, plus one each for joined and owned fanlistings. It was quite an involved process to manage everything.
Angela promised that Enthusiast3 would simplify the process and she more than delivered.
Enthusiast3 removes the need for multiple scripts to manage the one collective. It incorporates a joined fanlistings management tool, a collective manager, affiliates manager and fanlisting management scripts, all accessible from one clean, simple interface.
Converting fanlistings…is a snap (all of my thirty plus fanlistings were converted in under five minutes each) and creating new fanlistings a breeze. Managing my collective is much easier and I’m so glad that I only need to login to the one admin panel to do just about everything.
If time is an issue, or you like things compact and simple, then Enth3 is something you *need*. Angela has done a great job of putting it together and ensuring that it meets the needs of fanlisting/collective owners and she’s left a trail of happy customers in her wake!
Mellissa
I just wanted to tell you how much I’m enjoying Enth. … I love Enth so much … tons of features and a much lighter file size. I’ve already noticed a huge different in my file usage. … I also wanted to say that I think my files are a lot cleaner now that I don’t have twenty or thirty files per fanlisting. I love love love that there’s only one file per FL that needs to be added for the fanlisting to work…that it all works from the admin panel. I think that part is just utterly fabulous.
Kyrie
I previously used [another script] for my fanlistings, along with one or two where I did everything by hand. It was always really time consuming to get all the files I needed and customize them to fit, and then I had to set up a completely different script so I could update all of them at once. I really wanted something easier with less files. So when I saw the TFL post about being a Enth3 beta tester I figured I’d give it a shot, and it’s proven to be a great time saver. At first I was kind of concerned about it, because I’d never used it before and thought it was really complex and would be hard to install. It was amazingly easy, and now creating new fanlistings or layouts is just a breeze to set up and customize. Not to mention I can add members, edit fanlisting information, customize the stats and members lists, and all sorts of things all from one admin panel.
Kaci
When I started my first fanlisting, I only intended to have just the one. I never realized they’d be so addictive. So I started out with Enthusiast 2, because it’s more geared towards people who only own one listing. However, once I opened one, I wanted another…and another…and another. Soon I realized that I would need to upgrade to Enth3. I was scared at first, thinking it would be difficult for someone like me who doesn’t understand the errors that could potentially POP up, or who doesn’t really understand PHP scripts and MySQL yet. But it was so easy and such a snap that I honestly couldn’t believe I hadn’t done it sooner. Enth3 is a life saver whether you’ve got one listing or one hundred, and I highly recommend it to anyone out there who is considering using it. I’ve never tried any other scripts other than Enthusiast 2 or 3, so I can’t compare, but I can tell you that you will be glad you made the choice to go with 3. I know I am. (And as a side note, I find that updating my information on listings other than my own is easier if the person is using Enthusiast instead of…well, certain others, so Enth3 is more user-friendly to your members as well.)
Ems
Does Enthusiast use MySQL? Or is it using a flat file like the PHPFanBase?
Angela
Hello Ems,
Please see this page for a list of Enth requirements. From there you can probably surmise that yes, Enthusiast uses MySQL. You must be mistaken as to which fanlisting script uses flat files — maybe you mean Bellabuffs? Fanbase also uses MySQL, while Bellabuffs uses flatfiles.
Yaira
I love enthusiast I highly recomend it to anyone that is going to star their first fanlisting or collective, is just great you manage them all from one panel and get to add afiliates and your own joined list, is just amazing!
Haldir
Enthusiast is brilliant… I love it! I just set it all up yesterday and already I have two fanlistings up and running. It is incredibly efficient, and really organized. I also highly recommend Enth to anyone interested in starting multiple fanlistings.
Sara
Amazing script. Really really useful.
Michelle
awesomness script! =D
Adrienne
My hosting company is upgrading to PHP5. I just wanted to make sure that the latest version of Enthusiast will be okay once they switch? Thanks. I couldn’t run my fanlistings without this script!
Angela
Hi Adrienne, yes, Enthusiast is PHP5 compliant. :) I’m currently running at least 5.1 in Aking Mahal. :)
Adrienne
Oh brilliant. Thank you!!