[cam]

Time to share those Open-Source solutions to web development problems you've found with the rest of us. I'll kick off with these six -


FCK Editor
"This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word."

PHPDig
"PhpDig is a web spider and search engine written in PHP, using a MySQL database and flat file support."

OSCommerce
"osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community."

TextPattern
"A flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs."

dotProject
"dotProject is a PHP web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions and themes."

phpDocumentor
"phpDocumentor is the world standard auto-documentation tool for PHP." (think JavaDoc)

[beseku]

bee hive forums - http://beehiveforum.sourceforge.net/

Free PHP based forums, based on the Delphi forum software, and part worked on by lovely me.

[oli]

This is really good, should you need banner ad management :

http://phpadsnew.com/two/

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. You can even integrate banners from third party advertising companies.

[Mr Fred]

excellent advertising oli.,

next - a million banner ads

[Luke Redpath]

Originally Posted by i_am_cam

FCK Editor
"This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word."

Don't you think that its ironic that a piece of open-source software like this needs a piece of proprietory software (IE) to run?

[roto]

Originally Posted by i_am_cam

dotProject
"dotProject is a PHP web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions and themes."

Must...get...this...installed on server ASAP.

[Brown]

Originally Posted by Luke Redpath

Don't you think that its ironic that a piece of open-source software like this needs a piece of proprietory software (IE) to run?

no. its for people who want to keep ther web content up to date whilst using a familiar interface and not having to enter any code. i doubt those people will be using anything other than win ie anyway. i think its a great tool.

[Luke Redpath]

Originally Posted by Brown

no. its for people who want to keep ther web content up to date whilst using a familiar interface and not having to enter any code. i doubt those people will be using anything other than win ie anyway. i think its a great tool.

Who its for is irrelevant though. To make a piece of open source software reliant on a piece of propriatory software is contradictory in its very nature to the idea of open source. To say that people will just be using IE is an assumption and nothing more.

[roto]

Originally Posted by Luke Redpath

To say that people will just be using IE is an assumption and nothing more.

Get over it...

[Brown]

Originally Posted by Luke Redpath

Who its for is irrelevant though.

are you sure about that? i don't think so. surely everything we (as developers) do is about who is going to use it. a tool such as this is written for the user?!?

Originally Posted by Luke Redpath

To say that people will just be using IE is an assumption and nothing more.

my point was that people who will be using a tool like this are not coders but people who want to use a word style interface to update their web content. they ARE using windows and they ARE using ie.

(bugger, you made me use caps...)

[grafiks]

Personally I thank you for posting these tools, keep em coming they seem to fill the slot that I had for a customer so its all good I needed a cheap affordable CMS for a very very VERY LOW PAID job - the cheek of some clients who ask for a basic HTML site then expect and all singing all dancing site for £200

thanks again matey - like I said keep em coming

[roto]

Originally Posted by grafiks

the cheek of some clients who ask for a basic HTML site then expect and all singing all dancing site for £200

Good to see that clients are still arses and demand high-priced work @ cheap prices outside the U.S., too!