phpAlbum is a open source PHP script which allows you to create photo galleries on your web hosting space. Besides images, you can also place audio and video files in phpAlbum.

While this might not have the bells and whistles of a full-fledged Gallery script like Menalto’s Gallery, it’s quite useful for the intended purpose of managing photos for display in your web site.

Features:

• Automatic generation of thumbnails and resized
• Commenting of pictures with antispam security code
• IPTC Support, import of keywords and picture description, showing other IPTC-tags
• E-Card - you can now send e-cards to your friends and family
• Screenshots for files to be downloaded, movie, audio, exe or whatever
• Password protection for your private galleries
• Admin section for creating new directories, uploading photos (works even with PHP safe_mode=on),Uploading ZIP Files preserving directory structure
• Short and long description of galleries/directories and photos
• Highly customizable layout, separated layout (HTML) from functional code, this allows easy creation of new themes
• Caching of all generated thumbnails and resized photos
• Transparent logo and icon processing with any background color, including IE6
• Access logging, with exclude strings

Homepage | Official Demo

Current Latest Version: 0.4.1.14.fix03

Below are the step-by-step instructions to install, configure and administer phpAlbum on a typical shared hosting webspace:

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This is a step-by-step tutorial on installation of KnowledgebasePublisher, an opensource PHP/MySQL knowledge base, FAQ script that you can install on your web site.

KnowledgebasePublisher is an opensource knowledge base software, FAQ software, or just content manager about any other type of article that you want to publish on your website. It’s so easy to use that you can be managing knowledgebase on your website right from your own web browser.

Official Demo | DonationCoder.com Demo (as a visitor)

Features:

• Unlimited Categories
• Glossary Terms
• Powerful WYSIWYG
• Instant Response
• Searching
• Add attachments
• Five different admin role
• Protect categories
• Commenting / Rating / Send to friend
• Users can ask questions
• Related Articles
• RSS

While the instructions that comes with the script are better than most others’, it still leaves some to be desired. So here are the installation instructions:

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Those who are behind strict corporate firewalls might not be able to access their web host-provided cPanel. The solution is to install cPanel Proxy on a sub-domain (like http://cpanel.yoursite.com).

cPanel Proxy is a small PHP script that gives access to your cPanel at port 80 by acting like a proxy. Its installation is as simple as uploading the files to a sub-domain.

Below are the steps to set it up:

1. Download the latest version (current: 0.4.1) from here and extract the contents to your local disk.
2. Create a sub-domain. Now, for this you will need to have access to cPanel. So create this when you are at your home or any other place other than the restrictive firewall location.
3. Upload all the files to the root directory of your sub-domain. Ex.: public_html/cpanel

That’s it! Now you should be able to access the cPanel at your sub-domain.

If you are reading this, chances are that you already know what SMF is. If not, here you go. Quoting from their homepage:

Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes.

Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.

SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!

SMF is the best free forum script in our opinion.

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This tutorial explains the steps using which you can install phpESP on your site. It is a free PHP/MySQL script for survey management. The installation document that comes with it gives more info than is needed, is aimed at those who have shell access and kind of makes it unnecessarily complicated for those of us who know FTPing, what a MySQL database is and how to use phpMyAdmin.

phpESP lets non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization.

Official Demo: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/demo/admin/manage.php

Current latest version: 2.0.2

Below are the installation instructions for phpESP:

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