XOOPS is a dynamic OO (Object Oriented) based open source portal script written in PHP. According to its developers, XOOPS is the “ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra-company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more”. The developers also tell the following about their goals:

The goal of the XOOPS team is to create a Content Management System (CMS) for users and developers that installs out of the box offering unparalleled ease of use, support and management. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Typo3 Highlights

* Dynamic graphics generation
You will simply love it: Create graphical menus on the fly - with background image layers, typography, overlays, dropshadows, alpha channel masking and much more. Add or remove titles and see the graphics regenerating instantly!
TYPO3 has a long-held reputation for providing a very powerful engine for graphics generation which is still a unique feature among even top-notch CMSs.
(Optional feature which requires certain server software to be available)
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Siteframe is a lightweight content-management system designed for the rapid deployment of community-based websites. With Siteframe, a group of users can share stories and photographs, send email, and participate in group activities. Siteframe enables this by providing web-based content management, so that anyone can create content without needing to learn HTML. Click here for more detailed information on Siteframe and its capabilities. Siteframe is OSI Certified Open Source Software. Read the rest of this entry »

Some may see Post Nuke as a weblog or content management system. But PN is more than that, PostNuke is a community, content, collaborative management system, a C3MS. It’s your electronic toolbox, a set of tools allowing you to build a dynamically generated web site that five years ago would have cost thousands of dollars to launch.

What makes PN unique?
PN is unique because it not only provides you with a wonderful set of tools, but it provides you with a community of users. PN is a community that responds to you when you need help or information.

Why is PN popular?
Because it is easy to install, easy to understand/use, and easy to administer. Anyone from the novice to the expert can install and adminster a PN site. If you can transfer files to your hosting account then you can install PN. Above all these things, you can manage your site’s content and data through any Internet connected web browser, anytime, anywhere! Read the rest of this entry »

phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Web-based administration allows for easy maintenance of interactive, community-driven web sites.

phpWebSite’s growing number of modules allow for easy site customization without the need for unwanted or unused features. Client output from phpWebSite is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Read the rest of this entry »

phpwcms is an Open Source web content management system. It is optimized for fast and easy setup and works on any standard webserver platform that supports PHP/MySQL and was tested successfully on Windows 2000/XP, MacOSX and LINUX. 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.

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PHP-Nuke is a news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets and Internet. The Administrator has total control of his web site, registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases.

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First and foremost, Mambo is a Content Management System (CMS). It is the engine behind your website that simplifies the creation, management, and sharing of content.

The goal of the Mambo project is to meet most of the requirements highlighted in the above article. As each day in development goes by we are getting nearer and nearer, while at the same time building a solid core which can be extended by third party developers.
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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.
Homepage: http://drupal.org/ 
 

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.

Joomla! is a production of Open Source Matters, the same team that brought you the award winning Mambo Content Management System. OSM has taken their final stable version of Mambo (4.5.2.3), given it a spring clean and named it Joomla! 1.0 In addition, several small features that were going to be released in Joomla! 1.1 have been brought forward and included in this release.

Here are some key features of “Joomla”:

· Flexible
· Simple
· Elegant
· Customizable
· Powerful

Geeklog is a weblog powered by PHP and MySQL. It allows you within minutes to set up a fully functioning dynamic website, and has many features to get you started. As of Geeklog 1.3, these features are:

* User-system, allowing members of the public to register for your site and submit stories.
* Comment system, allowing users to comment on posts made to your site.
* Block system, allowing you to put information anywhere on your site.
* Plugin system that allows you to extend Geeklog, without having to code any new PHP. Read the rest of this entry »

SSM (Support Services Manager) is a complete support desk, knowledge base management, and customer relations management solution. It requires an available MySQL database.

The Support Logic Helpdesk is a script to provide an organized support platform for you and your clients. Support requests can be sent by email (if the email pipe got activated) and directly through the helpdesk via “tickets”, which then can be processed by the staff members.

It is 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.

Manage customer queries with this one stop solution for online customer relations.

PHP Support Tickets is a simple, powerful and secure application. PHP Support Tickets is written in PHP5 and utilises a MySQL database both are required on your web server to operate this application.

This application was written following design pattern principles and Object Oriented design. Developers delving into the code may be a bit disorientated at first, because the code doesn’t follow the common php/template pattern. The design is instead focused on expandability and ease of maintenance. Most of the visual aspect of the application is controlled by css stylesheets, while the internal workings are neatly and coherently organised in logical classes and methods. Read the rest of this entry »

osTicket is a widely-used open source support ticket system. Plain and simple it is a lightweight feature packed support ticket tool written mainly using PHP scripting language. An attractive alternative to higher-cost and more complex customer support systems; simple, lightweight and easy to setup and use. The best part is, it’s completely free. Read the rest of this entry »

Help Center Live is released under the GNU General Public License, we do enforce our copyright rights concerning the Help Center Live solution. This means that, while you have considerable freedom to modify and redistribute Help Center Live, there are conditions placed on the Help Center Live copyright notices.

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Crafty Syntax Live Help (CSLH) is an open source live support solution that helps customer support with live help functionality that can be proactively pushed to visitors to your site or requested by the consumer. Crafty Syntax includes a large range of features to allow multiple operators, multiple departments and multiple languages to be used. Read the rest of this entry »

Simple Machines Forum is Elegant, powerful, easy, and free.. SMF is the next-generation community forum software package that is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.

Easy to use

* Easy installation and setup.
* Comprehensible and intuitive user interface.
* Advanced session and cookie support.
* Large support community with support specialists and other users able and willing to help.
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phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites. Read the rest of this entry »

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. Some “solutions” seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users’ needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchant’s and shopper’s requirements first. Read the rest of this entry »

osCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved. Read the rest of this entry »

CubeCart is an eCommerce script written with PHP & MySQL. With CubeCart you can setup a powerful online store as long as you have hosting supporting PHP and one MySQL database. Read the rest of this entry »

FAQMasterFlex is a free, database-driven web-based application for creating and maintaining Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on your web site.

Features

* Unlimited Categories
* Unlimited Questions/Answers
* Web-based Category and FAQ Administration with Add, Edit, Delete Capability

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! Read the rest of this entry »

phpCOIN is a free software package originally designed for web-hosting resellers to handle clients, orders, invoices, notes and helpdesk, but no longer limited to hosting resellers. phpCOIN is used by over twenty-five thousand people worldwide*, including web-hosts, designers, lawyers, accountants, and a school band

The current version is Release v1.2.2. Most questions about features are answered on the forums, and several of our users are contributing to the online manual ~ feel free to add your .02 Read the rest of this entry »

4Images Gallery is 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.

Gallery is a open source web based photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site. Read the rest of this entry »

Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.

CPG is so fully featured it’s not enough to fully list them here. Feel free to have a go with the demo - change the themes, add some comments. Read the rest of this entry »

Noah’s Classifieds is a Web-based, highly customizable classified ad application that allows users to post advertisements to unlimited categories and sub-categories.
Features include an easy install, auto-thumbnail generation, image upload for categories and advertisements, variable fields for advertisements, customizable email notifications, category locking, pending ads, bad word replacement, ad expiration, template and stylesheet based, most popular ads, send classified to a friend and lots more.

DEW-NEWPhpLinks is an open source free PHP script. DEW-NEWPhpLinks allows you to run a very powerful link exchange or a full blown search engine.
It is a Link Directory featuring categories, reviews, popular links, new links, links approval. DEW-NEWPhpLinks has multilevel site categorization, infinite threaded search capabilities and more. Also, is pretty simple to setup.

WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, DB2, Interbase, MS SQL Server, or ODBC is required. Read the rest of this entry »

phpFormGenerator is an easy-to-use tool to create reliable and efficient web forms in a snap. No programming of any sort is required. Just follow along the phpFormGenerator wizard and at the end, you will have a fully functional web form! Read the rest of this entry »

Phpauction provides the most complete suite of applications and services for building auction web sites. More than 7 years developing auction software give us the expertise in the market. Read the rest of this entry »

phpAdsNew is an open-source ad server, with an integrated banner management interface and tracking system for gathering statistics. With phpAdsNew you can easily rotate paid banners and your own in-house advertisements. Read the rest of this entry »

Open-Realty is free web based listing management application. It is intended to be both easy to setup and use. Written in PHP, open-realty is designed to be a fast and flexible tool for your website. With a large open-source community working with this application, and solid management from Transparent Technologies open-realty is the top choice for use on your website. Read the rest of this entry »

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University. Read the rest of this entry »

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.
The open-source phpESP update is a good way for businesses to get high-quality feedback from customers, employees and other parties. Although it’s not as easy to use as some commercial survey software, it also doesn’t carry these packages’ high prices.

Advanced Poll is a polling system with powerful administration tool. It features: multiple polls, templates, unlimited options, multi-language support, IP-Logging, IP-Locking, cookie support, comment feature, vote expire feature, random poll support and more. Supports textfile and mySQL database.

PHP Surveyor is a set of PHP scripts that interact with MySQL to develop surveys, publish surveys and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created it can be published as an online survey (displayed as single questions, group by group or all in one page) or you can use a data entry system for administration of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor can produced ‘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. Read the rest of this entry »

PHProjekt - an open source groupware suite
PHProjekt is a modular application for the coordination of group activities and to share informations and document via intranet and internet.
Components of PHProjekt: Group calendar, project management, time card system, file management, contact manager, mail client and 9 other modules. Read the rest of this entry »

dotProject is a volunteer supported Project Management application. There is no “company” behind this project, it is managed, maintained, developed and supported by a volunteer group and by the user’s themselves.

The software is free to anyone who would like to download it. Day to day support is provided free by volunteers. Read the rest of this entry »

Fantastico De Luxe now comes with Templates Express, a series of static templates which your end users can install and immediatelly start building their website even if they do not want to learn how to manage a CMS. Templates Express is currently not being sold separately. Read the rest of this entry »

Soholaunch Pro Edition 4.8 gives businesses and developers the power to establish an informative and attractive web presence with minimal effort and invested time.

The end-user Pro Edition is an exceptional value-added solution for companies that wish to enable an easy upgrade path for features and functionality while converting more accounts to higher-end hosting packages. Read the rest of this entry »

A WikiWikiWeb 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.

This may sound rather simplistic, but a Wiki is a very unique way to collaborate on the Web. Read the rest of this entry »

Tikiwiki is a full featured Free Software (GNU/LGPL) Wiki/CMS/Groupware written in PHP and maintained by an active and international community of benevolent contributors.

Tiki CMS/Groupware offers a very large number of features “out-of-the-box”, arguably more than any other Open Source Web Application. Read the rest of this entry »