Documentation Appstore search engine

Introduction

The easiest way to search & view trending apps in your Country. Installation is very simple, just one configuration file to tailor your very own app chart search engine.
Once you configured everything, you can sit down, relax, run your website on auto-pilot and even make money with Apple’s iTunes Affiliate Program!.

Earn Revenue

The integrated support for Apple publishers will help you earn revenue while also adding valuable content to your site for free.

Features:

Customising the script

Once you have installed the software on your website you will notice that it contains the same content found on our live demo. The configuration of the website can be changed in settings.php and also minor modifications to the front-end/layout of your website.

Open /core/settings.php with your text editor and change the settings , when you are done editing you can upload the entire website to your server.  (STEP 3).

// YOUR DOMAIN

$sitename = "Apps Charts";

// YOUR SITE TITLE
$site_title = $sitename.' - ' . $country . ' App Rank Search';

$meta_description = 'View ' . $itunestitle . ' App details, read ' . $itunestitle . ' app reviews & ratings, app screenshots and videos';

// META DESCRIPTION
$meta_title = 'View Top App Chart Ranking in every iTunes Country';

// META TITLE
$meta_keywords = $itunestitle . ' appcharts,appchart,news apps,app store,app search, app search engine,itunes search engine,itunes api,apps,app';

// DEFAULT APP STORE COUNTRY
$default_country = "US";

//AddThis.com ID
$addthis = "YOUR-ID";

// APPLE AFFILIATE ID (Signup here to get your ID https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/affiliates/)
$appleid = "10lFXT";


// DISQUS ID https://disqus.com/
$disqusid = "appcharts";

// Google Analytics

$googleanalytics = "ANALYTICS-CODE";

// THEME SETTINGS - paper,yeti,slate,bootstrap,lumen,spacelab,cerulean,flatly,simplex,superhero,readable,cosmo,cyborg,amelia,journal,united

$theme = "cerulean";

$countries = array
(
    'AR' => 'Argentina',
    'AU' => 'Australia',
    'AT' => 'Austria',
    'BE' => 'Belgium',
    'BR' => 'Brazil',
    'CA' => 'Canada',
    'CL' => 'Chile',
    'CO' => 'Colombia',
    'CR' => 'Costa Rica',
    'HR' => 'Croatia',
    'CZ' => 'Czech Republic',
    'DK' => 'Denmark',
    'SV' => 'El Salvador',
    'FI' => 'Finland',
    'FR' => 'France',
    'DE' => 'Germany',
    'GR' => 'Greece',
    'GT' => 'Guatemala',
    'HK' => 'Hong Kong',
    'HU' => 'Hungary',
    'IN' => 'India',
    'ID' => 'Indonesia',
    'IE' => 'Ireland',
    'IL' => 'Israel',
    'IT' => 'Italy',
    'JP' => 'Japan',
    'KR' => 'Republic Of Korea',
    'KW' => 'Kuwait',
    'LB' => 'Lebanon',
    'LU' => 'Luxembourg',
    'MY' => 'Malaysia',
    'MX' => 'Mexico',
    'NL' => 'Netherlands',
    'NZ' => 'New Zealand',
    'NO' => 'Norway',
    'PK' => 'Pakistan',
    'PA' => 'Panama',
    'PE' => 'Peru',
    'PH' => 'Philippines',
    'PL' => 'Poland',
    'PT' => 'Portugal',
    'QA' => 'Qatar',
    'RO' => 'Romania',
    'RU' => 'Russia',
    'SA' => 'Saudi Arabia',
    'SG' => 'Singapore',
    'SK' => 'Slovakia',
    'SI' => 'Slovenia',
    'ZA' => 'South Africa',
    'ES' => 'Spain',
    'LK' => 'Sri Lanka',
    'SE' => 'Sweden',
    'CH' => 'Switzerland',
    'TW' => 'Taiwan',
    'TH' => 'Thailand',
    'TR' => 'Turkey',
    'GB' => 'United Kingdom',
    'US' => 'USA',
    'AE' => 'United Arab Emirates',
    'VE' => 'Venezuela',
    'VN' => 'Vietnam'
);

Edit .htaccess file

If you run the script in a subdirectory or root of your domain your will need to edit the  .htaccess file. If you don’t see the file, make sure hidden files are shown on your computer. If you run in a subdirectory, make sure you edit this line:
RewriteBase /your_subdirectory_here

Custom banners ads

Open ads/ads.php and place your advertising code.

Change log

v2.10 – March 10, 2020

• Fixed Apple sources
• Fixed all countries
• Fixed HTTPS

v2.00 – May 4, 2016

• 16 New Color themes added
• Chart listings bug fixes
• Template optimization
• Updated Bootstrap and Font Awesome
• Various code optimization

v1.0 – April 10, 2015

• Initial release

Sites in Action

Demo site: App Store Search Engine