Fantastico

Fantastico is just how the name implies it’s fantastic. It’s one of the more popular 3rd party add-ons that can be added to cPanel. Fantastico is probable one of the most advanced script installer we’ve ever seen. Currently it can install a large amount and array of scripts, ranging from bulletin boards to content management systems.

One of the key features to Fantastico is how easy it makes installing programs and scripts. Simply by selecting a program or script to install and offering a small amount of information for each, a user can have a program or script installed within a matter of minutes and sense the system is designed to update these programs with the newest version on a regular basis, users can be assured they are getting the latest stable version of the software and that it’s installed correctly and properly.

There are a few options users can change and use for the actual program. These can be found at the bottom of the page under Extras.

Language – This option is used to change the default language set by the administrator of the server.

Current Languages Support
Dutch
English
French
Indonesian
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish

Side Menu Appearance – This option can be used the change the side menu appearance.

Full List – The full list option is normally set as the default and is used to list all the programs that can be installed and used in one long list categorized by the type of program each are.

Drop down menus – The drop down menu option is used to list the three main categories, Navigation, Scripts and Extras. This will display each main category as a drop down menu users can select from and then select go. This is useful for users with a slower connection and do not want to load a large amount of information at once.

Email Notification – Users can submit their email address in this section and the system will email them when a new script or program has been installed, modified, or even updated. If it’s been updated it will inform the user so they can login to the system and update the scripts that are currently installed to the newest versions.

Installations Overview – This section will display the current scripts or programs that are installed, there location and version number.

Navigation – This menu has two links, one for the cPanel home page for that account and one for the Fantastico home page for that account. These are normally located at the top of the page.

The next few categories are those for the scripts. Each one of these scripts do different things and function in different ways. We’ll go down the line starting with the first and give the description given in Fantastico about the program.

Blogs

b2evolution - A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
Homepage: http://www.b2evolution.net/

Nucleus - A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
Homepage: http://www.nucleuscms.org/

pMachine Free - This is a features limited version of pMachinePro.
Homepage: http://www.pmachine.com/

WordPress - WordPress is a personal publishing tool with focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool, password protected posts, importing, typographical niceties, multiple authors, and bookmarklets.
Homepage: http://www.wordpress.org/

Content Management

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://www.drupal.org/

Geeklog - A portal system with a wide range of modules.
Homepage: http://www.geeklog.net/

Mambo Open Source - A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
Homepage: http://www.mamboserver.com/

PHP-Nuke - One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages.
Homepage: http://www.phpnuke.org/

phpWCMS - 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.
Homepage: http://www.phpwcms.de/

phpWebSite - Very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.
Homepage: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

Post-Nuke - A Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an all around tool.
Homepage: http://www.postnuke.com/

Siteframe - A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
Homepage: http://www.siteframe.org/

Typo3 - TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendibility while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
Homepage: http://www.typo3.com/

Xoops - A very popular advanced portal system.
Homepage: http://www.xoops.org/

Customer Relationship

Crafty Syntax Live Help - A Live Help chat system featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a chat session, multiple chat sessions, referrer tracking, page view tracking, multiple operators, canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments each with different icons, leave a message.
Homepage: http://www.cslh.com/

Help Center Live - Very powerful all-in-one help center including Live Help, Support Tickets and FAQ. Features include unlimited operators/departments, monitor visitors, initiate chat, collect visitor's information, track visitor's footprint, autosave chat transcripts, canned messages, leave a message, auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics.
Homepage: http://www.helpcenterlive.com/

osTicket - A Support Tickets system featuring email piping, pop3 login, unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, avoid autoresponder loops, limit maximun tickets user can have opened, accept attachments and limit size, pager alerts for admin.
Homepage: http://www.osticket.com/server/

PHP Support Tickets - A simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments.
Homepage: http://www.phpsupporttickets.com/

Support Logic Helpdesk - 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.
Homepage: http://www.support-logic.com/index.php

Discussion Boards

phpBB2 - A widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com/

SMF - Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.
Homepage: http://www.simplemachines.org/

E-Commerce

CubeCart - An easy to use yet powerful shopping cart featuring unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products. The design is very easy to modify.
Homepage: http://www.cubecart.com/

OS Commerce - A power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules and support of almost every payment gateway. A big developers community is ready to offer custom solutions depending on your needs.
Homepage: http://www.oscommerce.com/

Zen Cart - 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.
Homepage: http://www.zen-cart.com/

F.A.Q

FAQMasterFlex - Unlimited categories/questions/answers, web-based administration.
Homepage: http://www.technetguru.net/design/faqmasterflex.php

Guestbooks

ViPER Guestbook - 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!
Homepage: http://www.vipergb.de.vu/

Image Galleries

4Images Gallery - 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.
Homepage: http://www.4homepages.de/

Coppermine Photo Gallery - An Image Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pictures, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer.
Homepage: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/

Gallery - An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.
Homepage: http://gallery.menalto.com/

Mailing Lists

PHPlist - A powerful mailing list featuring multiple mailing lists and attachments.
Homepage: http://www.tincan.co.uk/

Poll and Surveys

Advanced Poll - A highly windows-inspired poll script.
Homepage: http://www.proxy2.de/scripts.php

phpESP - 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.
Homepage: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/

PHPSurveyor - Develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. Display surveys as single questions, group by group or all in one page or use a dataentry system for administration of paper-based versions of the survey. PHP Surveyor can produce '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.
Homepage: http://phpsurveyor.sourceforge.net/

Project Management

dotProject - Project Management featuring companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, language support, user/module permissions, themes.
Homepage: http://www.dotproject.net/

PHProjekt - Project Management featuring optional group system, privileges, calendar, contacts, time card, projects, chat, forum, request tracker, mail client, files, notes, bookmarks, to-do list, reminder, voting, language support.
Homepage: http://www.phprojekt.com/

Site Builders

Soholaunch Pro Edition - From basic, informational websites to robust e-business applications, this script vastly simplifies the creation and management of cutting-edge internet solutions. It installs at the end-users web site and empowers novices and seasoned developers alike with a streamlined development and management process unmatched by any other software product.
Homepage: http://www.soholaunch.com/

Wiki

TikiWiki - TikiWiki is designed to be an international, clean and extensible Content Management System and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki has a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them.
Homepage: http://www.tikiwiki.org/

PhpWiki - PhpWiki 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.
Homepage: http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/

Other Scripts

Dew-NewPHPLinks - A Link Directory featuring categories, reviews, popular links, new links, links approval.
Homepage: http://www.dew-code.com/

Moodle - A Course Management System designed to help educators create quality online courses. Available in currently 34 languages, featuring WYSIWYG HTML Editor, teacher has full control over all settings for a course, flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.
Homepage: http://www.moodle.org/

Noahs Classifieds - A classifieds system featuring categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, image upload for categories and classifieds, variable fields per categories, customizable email notifications, locking categories, classifieds approval, auto-thumbnail generation, classifieds management by user, send classified to a friend.
Homepage: http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/

Open-Realty - Real Estate listing system featuring attachments, flexible search, template system, Yahoo Maps interface.
Homepage: http://www.open-realty.org/

phpAdsNew - A highly professional complete ad server featuring different types of ads, display based on keywords, zones, hour of the day, day of the week, extensive statistics, client statistics.
Homepage: http://www.phpadsnew.com/

PHPauction - The GPL version of PHPauction featuring email notification of bids, attachments, reserve price, minimum bids, standard and dutch auctions, bid history, send auction to a friend, highest bids, auctions ending soon.
Homepage: http://www.phpauction.org/

phpCOIN - A full billing/invoicing application, perfect for webhosting resellers.
Homepage: http://www.phpcoin.com/

phpFormGenerator - A form generator featuring up to 100 form fields, all kind of input fields incl. file upload, customizable fields attributes, send submitted data to an email address or store them in a database, admin panel.
Homepage: http://phpformgen.sourceforge.net/

WebCalender - A very powerful webcalendar featuring private and public calendars.
Homepage: http://webcalendar.sourceforge.net/