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phpMyFAQ 2.x is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases to store all data, PHP 4.3.3 (or higher) is needed in order to access this data. phpMyFAQ also offers a multi-language Content Management-System with a WYSIWYG editor and an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support with user and group based permissions on categories and records, a wiki-like revision feature, a news system, user-tracking, language modules, enhanced automatic content negotiation, templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, a backup-system, a dynamic sitemap, related articles, tagging, RSS feeds, built-in spam protection systems, LDAP support, and an easy to use installation script. phpMyFAQ 2.x offers the following features:

• Various supported database systems
  MySQL (libmysql and mysqlnd), PostgreSQL, SQLite, Sybase, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, IBM Cloudscape, Apache Derby, Oracle, Interbase, or Firebird.
• Content Management System
  You can administrate your users, groups, news, categories, FAQ records, comments, and glossary items in the password protected admin area.
• User and group based permissions
  You can assign permissions to users and groups, you can create users and user groups with permissions and category and even record restrictions for viewing and creating/editing content.
• Revision system
  Store the old entries in wiki-like revisions, so you can switch back to old versions of the FAQ entry.
• Community modules
  All users can write questions to the system, so that other user can answer these questions. They can also answer these open questions or add translations for existing FAQ records. All these user-generated entries have to be enabled by the administrators.
• FAQ statistics
  Analyze the way of your users through your FAQ with the built-in user tracking, analyze the quality of your records wioth the statistics of the user votings and the number of views on each record.
• Backup and Restore
  Backup and restore all the database content with one click
• Templating system
  You can easily customize your version of phpMyFAQ to your layout.
• Powerful search
  Your users can easily find questions and answers using the search feature with search in all languages or in one category. Using the Instant Response frontend your users will find questions and answers while they are typing like in Google Suggest!
• OpenSearch and Microsummaries support
  Search through your FAQ using the internal Firefox 2+ or IE7+ search. You can also use Microsummaries in Firefox 3+.
• User comments
  Get more feeback by your users and visitors, by allowing them to comment on your questions and answers.
• Easy to use HTML editor
  Add your FAQ entries using the integrated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor based on TinyMCE and create rich text, links, lists directly through your web browser. Your links will also be automatically verfified during saving your new FAQ record. The Image Manager provides an web interface to browse for image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, and others) on the web server.
• Multilanguage support
  phpMyFAQ supports more than 30 languages and has an extended right-to-left support even for the whole layout for Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew.
• Top 10 Questions and latest Entries
  The start page of the public area shows an automatically created list with ten of the most popular records and of the latest entries. They are also available as RSS feeds.
• Browse by Category or Tags
  you can create unlimited categories and subcategories for your FAQs. Your users can browse through the categories. You can tag all records and an automatically generated tag cloud helps your users, too.
• Search engine optimization
  Support for Apache mod_rewrite, IIS ISAPI_rewrite, and lighttpd mod_rewrite
• Extended sitemap support
  Lists all FAQ articles in a alphabetical order. We also support special sitempas for Google, MSN, and Yahoo! search robots!
• Simple installation and configuration
  Install and set up your FAQ only with your browser!
• 4 different exports for records
  XHTML, PDF, DocBook XML and plain XML
• Advanced spam protection
  phpMyFAQ uses captchas, bad word lists and IP ban lists to prevent spam.
• LDAP integration
  Add your company’s LDAP based user management into phpMyFAQ
• PHP 5.3 ready!
  phpMyFAQ 2.x is PHP 5.3 ready!

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Linux is an outstanding operating system for serving up applications. And there are a ton of possibilities. From content management systems to Web portal creation tools, Linux has just about everything you need. Among those thousands of tools, a select few stand out as the best of the best. Listed below you will find my top 10 must-haves for Linux server/Web/cloud-based tools.

1: Drupal

Drupal is one of the finest content management systems available. It’s open source, based on PHP, and can serve up anything from individual sites to large corporate sites. Drupal is also modular, which means it defaults to a core installation but has a number of outstanding modules you can add. Installation of Drupal requires a database (MySQL is preferred), PHP, and a server (such as Apache). It was originally written as a bulletin board system.

Drupal is simple to install, easy to manage, reliable, scalable, and themeable. Some of the biggest sites powered by Drupal are Warner Brothers Recording, MTV UK, Harvard Science and Engineering, FedEX, NASA, and Ubuntu.

One of Drupal’s best features (especially for the enterprise level) is the efficiency of bug fixing and patching. A large number of developers are working with Drupal, and shortly after a bug or security hole is discovered, a fix is released. Newer releases of Drupal take advantage of an automatic update notifier. As soon as an update of any installed module (including the core) is released, the administrator is informed. If you need a tool to help you quickly roll out quality sites, Drupal is what you are looking for.

2: Webmin

If you need remotely manage a server or a desktop, Webmin is one of the best tools available. Webmin allows you to remotely configure disk quotas, modify applications, configure services (such as Apache, FTP, and MySQL), control multiple machines from a single interface, and much more. The Webmin interface is strictly Web-based and is incredibly user-friendly. Like Drupal, Webmin is modular, which allows you to install modules for nearly any application/task and to write modules of your own. Webmin is one of those tools that every Linux (and now Windows) administrator should deploy to make their administrative tasks far easier. Webmin is released under the BSD license.

3: Nolapro

Although not open source, Nolapro is one of the best Linux-based accounting and POS solutions I have used. Nolapro is another modular system, and it includes order management, general ledger, shopping cart, inventory tracking, accounts payable, payroll, B-to-B, accounts receivable, and POS. Nolapro is simple to install but not quite as simple to use. Of course, any system of this nature is going to have a somewhat steeper learning curve. Tthe software itself is free, but I highly recommend you purchase the printed manuals.

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Opencart

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

Magento

Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce solution offering complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of an online store.

Magento Features:

Site Management

* Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel with ability to share as much or as little information as needed
* Multi-Lingual
* Support for localization
* Support for multiple currencies
* Administration Permission System Roles and Users
* Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
* Flexible tax rate management with support for US and International markets
* Fully 100% customizable design using templates
* Customer Groups
* One-Click Upgrades
* Content Management System for Informational Pages

osCommerce

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease, and is available for free as an Open Source based solution released under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 and has since matured to a solution that is currently powering 14,055 registered live shops around the world.

Today, osCommerce has been taken to the next level, moving towards an e-commerce framework solution that not only remains easy to setup and maintain, but also making it easier for store administrators to present their stores to their customers with their own unique requirements.

prestashop

PrestaShop™ is professional e-Commerce shopping cart software that you can download and use for free

The big advantage of open-source software: you’re never ‘locked’ to expensive commercial software.

Our dedicated team and growing user community join forces to fix bugs and add new functionality at a rate proprietary software companies can rarely claim. Join the Open Source revolution!

Agora Cart

AgoraCart – The powerful “Free” Open Source ecommerce shopping cart software solution that offers a very wide range of “out-of-the-box” features that allow you to setup an online ecommerce solution ranging from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design concept containing all the creative magic of your web designer.

Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software with limitless flexibility in many areas including full design controls through Cascading Style Sheets (css), template systems, customizable layouts, custom individual product category layouts and templates, customization of nearly all cart features for the code hobbyist, modular “drop in and go” code as well as AgoraScript, our own scripting language inside parsed HTML pages, that experienced programmers can appreciate.

storesprite

StoreSprite is ecommerce for web designers a powerful, free php/mysql shopping cart easy to install, customise and maintain, no complex scripting to negotiate design and deploy a top rate store that your
client can manage with little or no training.

freeway

Freeway is an advanced Open Source eCommerce platform which can sell using methods only previously available in enterprise class or niche bespoke systems. Without having to purchase a commercial system and then paying a developer to build a custom installation, Freeway does what you need out of the box. Of course Freeway is great for selling products but it also sells events AND services AND subscriptions. From appointments and time based bookings to event ticketing and subscriptions Freeway is the eCommerce platform for how we want to sell.

UberCart

Ubercart is an exciting open source e-commerce package that fully integrates your online store with Drupal, the leading open source content management system. This is a killer combination for anyone looking to build a community around a product, sell access to premium content, offer paid file downloads, and much much more!

Ubercart was designed to take advantage of Drupal’s major core and contributed systems, providing our users with shopping cart functionality that seamlessly integrates with other parts of your company or community website.

phpShop

phpShop is a PHP-powered shopping cart application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The primary purpose of phpShop is to provide a simple shopping cart solution that is easy to customize to suit any purpose. phpShop has less features that many other shopping cart applications, but is generally easier to customize. All that is required to effectively customize phpShop is a basic knowledge of HTML, PHP, and SQL.

virtueMart

Free Shopping Cart Software for Joomla! & Mambo
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla! (and Mambo). Joomla! and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

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