The cPanel (included with every hosting package) is a fully-featured web-based control panel that allows you to manage your domain through a web interface. The idea is to transfer as much of the control and responsibility of managing your web site to you. You have the ability to manage all aspects of email, files, backup, FTP, CGI scripts, and web site statistics!! It also gives you access to your own webmail interface and online organiser!

XController/Fantastico Combo

Fantastico is a powerful application in CPanel XController which allows you to install several popular open source scripts onto your web site with just a few clicks of your mouse.

The open source scripts Fantastico installs are as follows:


Portals / Content Management Systems

PHP-Nuke - (Homepage: http://www.phpnuke.org) "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."

Post-Nuke - (Homepage: http://www.postnuke.com) "PostNuke is a weblog/Content Management System (CMS). It is far more secure and stable than competing products, and able to work in high-volume environments with ease."

Xoops - (Homepage: http://www.xoops.org) "XOOPS is a dynamic OO (Object Oriented) based open source portal script written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more."

Discussion Board

phpBB2 - (Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com) "phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable 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."

Invision Board - (Homepage: http://invisionboard.com) "Invision Board Advanced forum software based on PHP.

Customer Relationship

PHP Support Tickets (Homepage: (visit site) - "Through the admin side of the application you can set up user accounts. These Users may then log into the Client side and write any amount of requests to the system. On submitting a request the request is emailed to the Administrator's email specified within the Config file."

Support Services Manager - (Homepage: (visit site) "SSM is your complete support desk, knowledge base management, and customer relations management solution!."

Other scripts

osCommerce (Homepage: http://www.oscommerce.com) - "osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved."

4images Gallery - (Homepage: http://www.4homepages.de) "4images is a powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and management, password protected administration area with browser-based upload, HTML templates for page layout and design, search engine and a lot more."

PHPauction - (Homepage: http://www.phpauction.org) "Phpauction provides a complete suite of applications and services for building auction web sites. Phpauction auction programs offer flexibility, power, and ease of use for small businesses and individuals."

PHProjekt - (Homepage: http://www.phprojekt.com) "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."

phpLinks - (Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplinks) "phpLinks is an open source project written in PHP for use with MySQL, allowing one to run an extremely efficient Link Farm with full search capabilities. A "simulated" search engine in many ways."

b2 - (Homepage: http://www.cafelog.com) "CaféLog (b2) is a light and flexible PHP blogware which supports multiple users and categories, comments, bookmarklets, RSS syndication, file/image upload, compatibility with the Blogger API, weblogs.com ping, and more!"

WebCalendar - (Homepage: visit site) "WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for one or more persons!"