Open Source Software Reviews

PostNuke is a Weblog as well as portal system featuring an extremely easy-to-use Web-based installation script. However, PostNuke is considered as more than a weblog or content management system. It is community, content, collaborative management system, a C3MS.

phpwebtools is a full-featured Web toolkit, containing classes to aid in the development of Web-based applications using standard windowing conventions (such as the GTK notebook) and wrappers and tools for other commonly-used PHP functions.

phpWebSite offers a complete website content management solution (CMS). The client output comes from phpWebSite is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Its web-based administration makes it easy to maintain interactive, community-driven web sites.

PhpPgAdmin is a fully functional web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. It is a perfect administration package for PostgreSQL DBAs and hosting services.

PhpPgAdmin consists of all the basic functionalities require to manage a PostgreSQL server or database. It also includes the ability to handle views, sequences, stored procedures and triggers. The other significant features of this system includes:

PhpMyLibrary is a web based PHP/MySQL library automation application. The program is written in PHP and supports MYSQL as backend database. It consists of three modules namely cataloging, circulation and the webpac module.

Php-MultiShop is an application web server to realize an e-commerce market place integrated with a Content Management System (CMS). It is based on PHPNuke and osCommerce and can be used as a portal for any type of content along with one or more independent shops.

PHPlist is open source mailing list manager or customer relationship management (CRM) system. This web application is written in PHP and uses an SQL database at backend for storing the information.

MyNewsGroups :) is a USENET news client with a complete and easy-to-use Web-based interface. It is written in PHP4 and uses MySQL as backend database. It allows developing useful tools like search engines, SPAM filters, subscriptions, stats, and much more.

My Handy Restaurant is open source PHP-MySQL software written to help restaurant managers, waiters for running full-service restaurant. It is developed to help restaurant waiters and managers in their jobs like take, edit and print orders and print bills and invoices.

Hermes is a web application framework designed to provide help for business tools with an initial focus on CRM. The software is still very much in its infancy. However it allows for database abstraction, library models, and user rights management and other critical areas.