Create a directory with publishing suite?

[AFemaleProdigy]

Hello,

I have been working with vB forum for many years. I am just now getting my hands on the publishing suite. I have plans to make a community site which contains a directory of certain things organized by location (city, state, country). It will be on a separate tab from the forum and blogs. I will want members to be able to add to the directory themselves if they want.

Before I buy the suite and start messing around with it, does anyone know if any sort of plugin already exists to make this easier? Any tips or suggestions on how to pull this off? I do not know enough php to hand code it unfortunately. Otherwise, I have to pay someone to modify the parts that I can't.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jessica