Archive for the 'php apps' Category
an ftp server written in PHP
By Justin Silverton
nanoFTPd is an ftp daemon written in php. as of version 4.2.0, php supports the command-line interface (stable since 4.3.0), which nanoFTPd relies on. nanoFTPd is modular, so it’s easy to add custom modules and other stuff, like different database interfaces (currently supports mysql and postgresql).
Features
- user authentication via a database/textfile
- mysql + posgresql support
- passive mode
- dynamic ip support
- basic ftp commands
- logging
Requirements
- PHP 4.2.0 or above
- A database server (mysql or postgres)
- PHP extension: cli
- PHP extension: sockets
- PHP extension: posix
Note: for best performance, compile php with –disable-cgi
Configuring
before running nanoFTPD, you need to do the following:
1) change variables in config.php
2) change the first line of nanoftpd.php to the path of your php binary
Installing
installing is fairly straight forward. you only have to copy the whole directory (with subdirectories) into a directory of your choice… e.g. /usr/share/nanoftpd
(working on a better structure — e.g. config.php into /etc, nanoftpd.php into
/usr/sbin).
Download
You can download nanoftpd here
Top 5 free content management systems
By Justin Silverton
After looking though many free content management sytems (CMS) over the past month or so, I have come up with a list of the top five.
These are also all written in PHP.
Features
- Easy User and group management
- Group-based permission system
- Admin panel with multiple language support
- RSS module
- Module API for easy extendability
Front-end Demo here
Admin Demo here
username: admin
password: demo
Features
- Built-in photo gallery
- BBcode support
- MMCache and eAccelerator support
- Site-wide cache-based template system
- Debugging system and page query list
Front page demo here
Admin Demo here
Username: admin
Password: Demo123 (Case Sensitive)
3) Bitweaver
Features
- SEO friendly urls
- Content spam protection (automatic no-follows)
- Many formats supported (TikiWiki, HTML, BBCode, Wikipedia (aka MediaWik))
- Hotwords - allow you to specify particular words that can be associated with a URL
- Generate PDF documents from all Content
Front-page demo here
Admin demo here
Username: admin
Password: demo
4) Drupal
Features
- SEO Friendly URLs
- Many community modules
- Role based permission system
- External authentication source support with Jabber, Blogger, and LiveJournal
- Blogger API support
Front-end demo here
Admin demo here
Username: admin
Password: demo
5) Joomla
This is one of the most mature, free (did I mention open source), content management systems available. Also a fork of a CMS called Mambo. How are they different?
Joomla version 1.0 is derived from Mambo 4.5.2.3 but includes many additional bug fixes and security patches. Joomla version 1.5 is an extensive refactoring of the API as is Mambo version 4.6 to its codebase. Both applications continue maintain a similar user inferface (look and feel), similar default component and module sets. Both Joomla 1.5 and Mambo 4.6 will include internationisation support. Joomla will use an easy-to-use ‘ini’ format for their translation files while Mambo uses the ‘gettext’ format. Joomla 1.5 will correctly support the UTF-8 character set. Joomla 1.5 also includes many new features such as additional authentication models (LDAP, Gmail, etc), xml-rpc client-server support. It also natively supports database drivers for MySQL 4.1+ (on PHP 5) and has improved support for MySQL 5 as well as the groundings to support other database engines.
Demo here
Top 5 Free Shopping carts
By Justin Silverton
5) AgoraCart Pro
- written in perl
- shipping modules: ups, fedex, and USmail
- supports many payment processors
- feature list found here
Download here (commercial and open source versions available)
4) Zen cart
- based on Oscommerce
- many template providers such as templatemonster.com support it
- feature list found here
Download here
3) Cubecart
- free version requires original copyright information
- has ability to sell digital and physical goods
- mutiple currency support
- feature list found here
Download here (commercial and open source versions available)
2) Cart97 Pro
- search engine friendly URLS
- template driven
- feature list found here
Download here (commercial and open source versions available)
1) Storesprite
- printable receipts
- order tracking
- discount/gift codes
- feature list found here
Download here (commercial and open source versions available)
The top 50 PHP editors
By Justin Silverton
The following is a list of the top 50 PHP editors (commercial and freeware), with reviewed links to php-editors.com:
| Editor Name | Version | License | Platform/OS | Our Rating | User Rating |
| PHP Edit | 1.2.5 | Freeware Shareware Commercial Other |
Windows | 5/5 | 4.55 (125 votes) |
| Dreamweaver | 8 | Commercial | Windows | 5/5 | 3.98 (58 votes) |
| NuSphere PhpED | 4 | Commercial | Windows Linux |
5/5 | 4.27 (73 votes) |
| Maguma Workbench | 2.6 | Commercial | Windows Linux Mac |
5/5 | 4.11 (9 votes) |
| emacs | 21 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux Mac Other |
5/5 | 4.07 (13 votes) |
| ActiveState Komodo | 3.5 | Commercial Other |
Windows Unix Linux Other |
5/5 | 4.57 (21 votes) |
| PHP Designer 2005 | 3.0.6 | Freeware | Windows | 5/5 | 4.74 (2329 votes) |
| Komodo | 3.1 | Shareware Commercial Other |
Windows Linux Other |
5/5 | 4.13 (22 votes) |
| TSW WebCoder 2005 | 2005 | Commercial Other |
Windows | 5/5 | 2 (4 votes) |
| VIM | 6.1 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux |
4/5 | 4.23 (146 votes) |
| DzSoft PHP Editor | 1.4 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.54 (22 votes) |
| Davor’s PHP Constructor | 1.0 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 3.75 (4 votes) |
| Edit Plus | 2.11 SR-2 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.67 (80 votes) |
| HTML-Kit | 292 | Freeware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.48 (43 votes) |
| PHP Expert Editor | 2.5 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.39 (81 votes) |
| Anjuta | 1.0.1 | Freeware | Unix Linux |
4/5 | 3.66 (6 votes) |
| Bluefish | 0.12 | Other | Linux | 4/5 | 3.97 (34 votes) |
| Quanta Plus | 3.2.1 | Freeware | Linux | 4/5 | 4.59 (61 votes) |
| Zend Studio | 5 | Commercial | Windows Unix Linux Mac Other |
4/5 | 3.93 (143 votes) |
| Kate | 2.2 | Freeware | Linux | 4/5 | 4.11 (18 votes) |
| Maguma Studio Free | 1.1.0 | Freeware | Windows | 4/5 | 3.89 (47 votes) |
| PHP Editor by EngInSite | 3 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 3 (4 votes) |
| PHP Eclipse | 1.06a | Freeware | Unix Linux |
4/5 | 4.28 (70 votes) |
| Xored:: WebStudio | 0.3.4 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux Other |
4/5 | 3.92 (25 votes) |
| SciTE | 1.53 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux Other |
4/5 | 4.57 (56 votes) |
| VS.Php | Beta 3 | Commercial Other |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.57 (19 votes) |
| Maguma Studio Pro | 1.3.X | Commercial | Windows | 4/5 | 4 (8 votes) |
| Macromedia HomeSite | 5.5 | Commercial | Windows | 4/5 | 4.5 (14 votes) |
| TextPad | 4.7.2 | Freeware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.51 (27 votes) |
| PHP Edit | 1.0 Stable | Freeware Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.44 (78 votes) |
| EngInSite Editor for PHP | 2.2 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 4/5 | 4.31 (22 votes) |
| BBedit | 7.0 | Commercial | Mac | 3/5 | 4.47 (17 votes) |
| BBedit Lite | 6.1 | Freeware | Mac | 3/5 | 4.55 (9 votes) |
| Cooledit | 3.17.7 | 3/5 | 3 (2 votes) |
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| Nedit | 5.3 | Freeware | Unix Linux |
3/5 | 4.57 (7 votes) |
| PSPad | 4.3.0 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 4.67 (76 votes) |
| PHP Coder | 3 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 3.89 (64 votes) |
| AceHTML Pro | 5 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 3/5 | 4 (10 votes) |
| Top PHP Studio | v1.19.6 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 3/5 | 4.33 (6 votes) |
| jEdit | 4.1 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux Mac Other |
3/5 | 4.62 (72 votes) |
| SubEthaEdit | 1.1.5 | Freeware | Mac | 3/5 | 4.5 (10 votes) |
| umdev | 2004 | Shareware | Windows | 3/5 | 2.33 (3 votes) |
| Dev-PHP | 3.0 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 4.48 (56 votes) |
| Crimson Editor | 3.60 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 4.70 (47 votes) |
| PHP Processor | 1.2 | Shareware | Windows | 3/5 | 5 (1 votes) |
| tsWebEditor | 2 | Freeware Other |
Windows | 3/5 | 4.61 (13 votes) |
| Svoi.NET - PHP Edit XP | 4.0 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 4.16 (18 votes) |
| ConTEXT | 0.97.4 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 4.70 (24 votes) |
| PHP Side (Simple IDE) | 0.4 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux |
3/5 | 4.07 (13 votes) |
| HAPedit | 3.1 | Freeware | Windows | 3/5 | 4.44 (18 votes) |
| EmEditor | 4.0 | Freeware Shareware |
Windows | 3/5 | 4 (4 votes) |
| Roadsend Studio | 1.1.1 | Commercial | Windows Unix Linux |
3/5 | 1 (1 votes) |
| TruStudio | 1.0.0. | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux Mac |
3/5 | 3.33 (9 votes) |
| Smultron | 1.0.1 | Freeware | Mac | 3/5 | 4.28 (7 votes) |
| PHP backend generator | 0.9 | Commercial | Windows Unix Linux Mac Other |
3/5 | 1 (1 votes) |
| PHPMaker | 3.2 | Shareware Commercial |
Windows | 3/5 | 5 (1 votes) |
| Pidela | 0.1 | Freeware | Windows Unix Linux Mac |
3/5 | 1 (1 votes) |
| Arisesoft Winsyntax | 2 | Freeware | Windows | 2/5 | 4.12 (25 votes) |
| SEG | 1.0.1 | Freeware | Windows | 2/5 | 4.46 (13 votes) |
smiletag 2.3 released
what is smiletag?
smiletag is a free (GPL License) shoutbox written in PHP.Available as general purpose version, WordPress plugin, Joomla / Mambo module and Drupal module version, smiletag is an interactive, easy to use, mini-message board with powerful template system.
Powerful template system, easy-to-modify templates using only simple tags, no programming skills required. Lot of themes available.
features
Smart auto-refresh, automagically refreshes whenever a new message is posted, this is done using Ajax technology.
Message Moderation, if enabled you can take control for every submitted message before they appear in the shoutbox.
Admin Panel, easily edit/delete messages, moderate, ban, add smilies, configure and more. Try the admin panel demo.
No database is needed, uses flat file (XML) for storage.
Profanity filters, easily add your own custom words to filter as well.
Flood guard, stop spammer from flooding your board.
Valid XHTML, outputs Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional code.
IP Address/Nick banning, support for both manual and automatic banning.
Customizable smilies, you can add your own images as many as you want.
Time Zone Control, sets the time zone to any GMT offset.
Multi-language support.
Email/URL recognition, automatically convert any email or url into link.
Custom CSS File, you have complete control for your board look and feel.
Alternate custom text, more than just alternating background color, you can alternate any text to switch for each row.
Filters HTML tags and blank messages.
Message formatting, allow bold, italic and underline.
Custom Header and Footer, put any text at the top and bottom of your board.
Timestamp, easily change the format using simple rule.
Logs visitor IP Address.
Auto rotate each message, in order to avoid a large file from staying on your server.
Configurable number of messages to display.
Configurable message length.
It’s free and comes with complete source code.
smiletag can be downloaded Here