Getting Open-Source is Easy - Here’s a List
Some of the scripts and web site tools:
Below mentioned tools are supported by Fantastico and if you are using
cpanel you could find the latest version supported by Fantastico from
below mentioned URL:
URL: http://www.netenberg.com/fantastico_scripts.php
Also DreamHost offers one-click installation and updating as need. They have a great system and great support.
Blogs
b2evolution: A blog script featuring
multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function,
multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
Nucleus: A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
pMachine Free: This is a features limited version of pMachinePro
WordPress: WordPress is a personal
publishing tool with focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool,
password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple
authors, bookmarklets.
URL: http://wordpress.org
Content Management
Drupal: An advanced portal with
collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles,
full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control,
blogging, news aggregator.
URL: http://drupal.org
Geeklog: A portal system with a wide range of modules.
Joomla: Joomla! is one of the most
powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is
used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex
corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage,
and reliable.
Mambo Open Source: A professional
level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline
WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing
users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based
content, 20 languages, modules and components.
PHP-Nuke: One of the most popular community-based portals with a
big choice of modules and languages.
phpWCMS: phpWCMS is perfect for professional, public and private
users. It is very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to
separate layout and content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented
features assists publishers and web developers too.
phpWebSite: Very powerful Content Management System with document
manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ,
web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link
manager, form generator.
URL: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
Post-Nuke: A Content Management System with focus on flexibility
and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an allround tool.
Siteframe: A straightforward content-management system designed
for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
URL: http://siteframe.org
TYPO3: TYPO3 is a free Open Source
content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in
intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring
an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
URL: http://www.typo3.com
Xoops: A very popular advanced portal system.
URL: http://www.xoops.org
Customer Relationship
Crafty Syntax Live Help: A Live Help
chat system featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a chat
session, multiple chat sessions, referer tracking, page view tracking,
multiple operators, canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments
each with different icons, leave a message.
URL: http://www.craftysyntax.com/
Help Center Live: Very powerful
all-in-one help center including Live Help,Support Tickets and FAQ.
Features include unlimited operators/departments, monitor visitors,
initiate chat, collect visitor’s information, track visitor’s
footprint, autosave chat transcripts, canned messages, leave a message,
auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics.
URL: http://www.helpcenterlive.com
osTicket: A Support Tickets system featuring email piping, pop3
login, unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, avoid
autoresponder loops, limit maximun tickets user can have opened, accept
attachments and limit size, pager alerts for admin.
URL: http://www.osticket.com/server/
PerlDesk: PerlDesk is a feature
packed browser based help desk and email management application
designed to streamline the operation of managing emails,support tickets
and customer comminications, with built in tracking and response
logging it is an ideal help desk solution for companies with one or
more members of staff or for those who want to organise client
communications URL: http://www.perldesk.com/
PHP Support Ticke: A simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments
URL: http://www.phpsupporttickets.com/
Support Logic Helpdesk: A
Support Tickets system featuring multiple email addresses,
admin/staff/user panels, canned responses, HTML tags support, email
limit on a per user/day basis, attachments.
URL: http://www.support-logic.com/
Discussion Boards
phpBB2: A widely-popular open-source
bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin
panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
URL: http://www.phpbb.com
SMF : Elegant. Effective. Powerful.
Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community
software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same
time having a minimal impact on resources.
URL: http://www.simplemachines.org
Ecommerce
CubeCart: An easy to use yet powerful shopping cart featuring
unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products. The design is very easy to modify.
OS Commerce: A power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules
and support of almost every payment gateway. A big developers community
is ready to offer custom solutions depending on your needs.
Zen Cart: Zen Cart truly is the art
of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system.
The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners,
programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be
and should be done differently.
F.A.Q.
FAQMasterFlex Unlimited categories/questions/answers, web-based administration.
URL: http://www.technetguru.net
Guestbooks
ViPER Guestbook: The ViPER Guestbook
is a high end guestbook script that is versatile, reliable, very
comfortable and easy to use. The perfect choice for the ambitious
webmaster!
URL: http://www.vipergb.de.vu/
Hosting Billing
AccountLab Plus: AccountLab can
lookup over 180 TLD’s, have unlimited hosting plans, offer monthly,
quarterly, six monthly and yearly payment options, handle tax.
AccountLab works with PayPal, WorldPay (FuturePay), NoChex, 2checkout
and offline payments such as checks or bank transfer.
phpCOIN: A full billing/invoicing application, perfect for webhosting resellers.
Image Galleries
4Images Gallery: An Image Gallery
system featuring unlimited categories /subcategories, web-based and FTP
images upload, auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture, rate a
picture, random pictures, extensive administration panel.
URL: http://www.4homepages.de/
Coppermine Photo Gallery: An Image
Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and
intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user
management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature,
slideshow viewer.
URL: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net
Gallery: An Image Gallery system
featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area,
captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album
mirroring.
URL: http://gallery.menalto.com/
Mailing Lists
PHPlist: A powerful mailing list featuring multiple mailing lists and attachments.
URL: http://www.tincan.co.uk/
Polls and Surveys
Advanced Poll: A highly windows-inspired poll script.
URL: http://www.proxy2.de/
phpESP: PhpESP is an effective,
capable, web-based survey application that enables businesses to create
complex and advanced surveys, view results in real time, and carry out
advanced analysis.
URL: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/
PHPSurveyor: Develop, publish and
collect responses to surveys. Display surveys as single questions,
group by group or all in one page or use a dataentry system for
administration of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor can
produce ‘branching’ surveys (set conditions on whether individual
questions will display), can vary the look and feel of your survey
through a templating system, and can provide basic statistical analysis
of your survey results.
URL: http://www.phpsurveyor.org/
Project Management
dotProject: Project Management
featuring companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums,
files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, language support,
user/module permissions, themes.
URL: http://www.dotproject.net/
PHProjekt: Project Management
featuring optional group system, privileges, calendar, contacts, time
card, projects, chat, forum, request tracker, mail client, files, notes, bookmarks, to-do list, reminder, voting, language support
URL: http://www.phprojekt.com/
Site Builders
Soholaunch Pro Edition: From basic,
informational websites to robust e-business applications, this script
vastly simplifies the creation and management of cutting-edge internet
solutions. It installs at the end-users web site and empowers novices
and seasoned developers alike with a streamlined development and
management process unmatched by any other software product.
URL: http://www.soholaunch.com/
Templates Express: Use Templates
Express to install static templates to your website. You will need to
use FTP and edit the html files, replacing the default text with your
own text. Standard information like title, name, address and similar
will be collected during installation and placed into the installed
template in the appropriate locations.
Wiki
TikiWiki: TikiWiki is designed to be
an international, clean and extensible Content Management System and
Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of web applications,
sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a
web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki has a lot of native options and
sections that you can enable/disable as you need them.
URL: http://www.tikiwiki.org/
PhpWiki: PhpWiki is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database.
URL: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/
Other Scripts
Dew-NewPHPLinks: A Link Directory featuring categories, reviews, popular links, new links, links approval.
Moodle: A course management system
designed to help educators create quality online courses. Available in
34 languages and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The teacher has full
control over all settings for a course. There is a flexible array of
course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices,
Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.
URL: http://moodle.org/
Noahs Classifieds: A classifieds
system featuring categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, image
upload for categories and classifieds, variable fields per categories,
customizable email notifications, locking categories, classifieds
approval, auto-thumbnail generation, classifieds management by user,
send classified to a friend.
URL: http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/
Open-Realty: Real Estate listing system featuring attachments, flexible search, template system, Yahoo Maps interface.
URL: http://www.open-realty.org
phpAdsNew: A highly professional complete ad server
featuring different types of ads, display based on keywords, zones,
hour of the day, day of the week, extensive statistics, client
statistics.
URL: http://phpadsnew.com/
PHPauction: The GPL version of
PHPauction featuring email notification of bids, attachments, reserve
price, minimum bids, standard and dutch auctions, bid history, send
auction to a friend, highest bids, auctions ending soon.
URL: http://www.phpauction.org/
phpFormGenerator: A form generator
featuring up to 100 form fields, all kind of input fields incl. file
upload, customizable fields attributes, send submitted data to an email
address or store them in a database, admin panel.
URL: http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/
WebCalendar: A very powerful webcalendar featuring private and public calendars.
URL: http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/
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August 13th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
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