15 Project Open Source Web Application

1. WordPress

is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

To get started with WordPress, set it up on a web host for the most flexibility or get a free blog on WordPress.com.

2. Mambo

Team Mambo announces the release of version 4.6.2 of the Mambo Open Source CMS.

This release marks the completion of the complete revision of the Language Manager that began with the initial 4.6 release. The Mambo core is now fully translatable.

This release is the first under new Project Leader Chad Auld. “I am confident users will be very pleased with the 4.6.2 release,” stated Auld “The Language Manager work we started with the initial 4.6 release is now complete. My hats off to all the developers and translators that helped make this happen.”

4.6.2 also marks an era of renewed community participation — two successful rounds of community bug stomp testing went into the release. Notes Auld, “The bug stomps helped us confirm things were working on as many different environments as possible. I am proud to say the community rose to the challenge and the release is all the better for it!”

Looking forward to the Roadmap, the community and the Mambo Team are focused on finalizing work on the 4.7 branch. The focus is on making Mambo even more standards compliant and accessible than ever.

Mambo V4.6.2 downloads are available on Mamboxchange now.

This minor version release features:

• Stability & security improvements
• Lighter database footprint
• A number of bug fixes
• Improved compatibility with older 3rd party extensions
• Added support for 4.5.x style SEF URLs
• Updates to many of the internal extensions
• MOStlyCE WYSIWYG editor enhancements (many bug fixes and some cross browser compliance issues addressed via an update to TinyMCE v2.1.0)

Mambo V4.6.2 downloads are available on Mamboxchange now.

3. Joomla!

is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody.

Joomla! is used all over the world to power everything from simple, personal homepages to complex corporate web applications. Here are just some of the ways people use our software:

• Corporate websites or portals
• Online commerce
• Small business websites
• Non-profit and organizational websites
• Government applications
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• School and church websites
• Personal or family homepages
• Community-based portals
• Magazines and newspapers
• the possibilities are limitless…

Joomla! can be used to easily manage every aspect of your website, from adding content and images to updating a product catalog or taking online reservations.

4. What is phpBB?

Since its creation in 2000, phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and compliment your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social Networking sites

5. Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

• Content Management Systems
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

and much more.

Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL (”General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Drupal is free to download and use. If you like what Drupal promises for you, please work with us to expand and refine Drupal to suit your specific needs.

6. PHP-Nuke

PHP-Nuke version 8.1 has been released. Preferences administration system has been totaly re-written and reorganized, added BB2Nuke forums 2.0.21, added AutoTheme GPL edition, several security fixes, added more variables check on few modules, fixed several bugs in Topics module, added referers in abridge or unabridge modes, added function to let administrators decide if the users can change the theme or not and many more.

7. What is CubeCart?

CubeCart is a powerful 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.

CubeCart is not open source software and may not be redistributed.

* CubeCart version 3 will continue to have maintenance releases including bug fixes and security patches. CubeCart v4 will continue development with improved functionality and features.

8. osCommerce Online Merchant is an 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, fees, or limitations involved.

osCommerce has attracted the largest e-commerce community that consists of over 168,400 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 4,500 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce Online Merchant online store.

With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 12,700 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

9. Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

Some shopping cart “solutions” seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users’ needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other shopping cart software programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering the level of options, features and support available with Zen Cart™. Even the commercial programs have a hard time competing.

Designed with shoppers in mind.

Developers and designers love it.

A long list of features.

Strong, growing, helpful online community.

10. 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.

Coppermine is free software which you can download and install on your webspace. If you came here from a “Powered by Coppermine” link on a photo gallery, please read these Frequently-Asked Questions.

11. PhpWiki: a PHP WikiWikiWeb

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. I, Steve Wainstead, set up a few while working at the New York Times on the Web, and the technical staff really took to them in a big way. They wrote 500 pages in just a few months (all to document the internal systems).

The addictive quality of a Wiki is that making pages is as simple as making a link to them. If they don’t yet exist, the page link will be followed by a hyperlinked question mark; follow that link and you can define the new page.

With this setup, you can update and create pages from anywhere there is a web browser handy.

Visit the PhpWiki here at Sourceforge. You can try it out yourself!

Installation of PhpWiki is as simple as untarring the source distribution. PhpWiki works right out of the box. You will want to make configuration changes later for better performance and permanence, or to run PhpWiki off a relational database like MySQL, mSQL or Postgresql.

Download PhpWiki: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/

PhpWiki is a clone of the original WikiWikiWeb at http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiWikiWeb.

12. 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 University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.

13. phpAdsNew has a new name: OpenX

OpenX. The open source ad serving software used by more than 30,000 publishers in more than 100 countries

• We are the same team that brought you phpAdsNew, phpPgAds, Max Media Manager and Openads
• We are 100% committed to offering our publisher community free, open source ad serving software so that they can better take control of their advertising – without the cost
• We have built on phpAdsNew to provide you a better product
• We’ve done our best to make OpenX more powerful, scalable, flexible, robust and easier to use than phpAdsNew. We will continue to develop the product for the community

14. TYPO3.org is the main developer resource of the TYPO3 project, a free CMS framework released under the GPL. This site provides lots of information about creating sites, writing extensions and developing the core of TYPO3.

The news below are compiled from our various news feeds. For more news and information how to subscribe to the feeds, please visit news.typo3.org.

15. XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system 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. Read the All about XOOPS page for more details.

The XOOPS Project Development is hosted at SourceForge.net

If you are looking for XOOPS support in your own language, check out the list of International XOOPS Support websites!

Currently the xoops.org sites are suffering from server problems.

In case the xoops.org sites are not available, please visit XOOPS Core Development Forums on

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