A Glance at cPanel - Easy Script Installation with Fantastico

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Fantastico is a third-party add-on for cPanel that allows users to quickly install various open source scripts. It can be easily purchased and added to the cPanel interface. By installing Fantastico, you can easily add many useful features to your website. Below are some of them:

  1. Scripts for content management, including:
    • Drupal: a portal that has complete features, including online help, content search, blogging, thread watching, etc.
    • php-Nuke: a popular community-based portal that has many language choices and modules.
    • SiteFrame: a CMS that is dedicated to document sharing. It is a good choice for rapid deployment of community-based websites.
    • Mambo: a professional CMS that uses a WYSIWYG content editor. It has many features, including newsfeeds, RSS, content archiving, etc.
  2. Scripts for weblogs, including:
    • Wordpress: the popular personal publishing tool.
    • Nucleus: a blog script that allows users to have multiple blogs and multiple authors, keep drafts or future posts and bookmarks.
    • B2Evolution: a blog script that allows users to have multiple blogs with different categories, changeable skins, search function and a selection of languages.
  3. Scripts for customer relationship, including:
    • Help Center Live: an all-in-one help center that has unlimited operators, visitor monitoring system, visitor information collection system, auto save chat transcripts, unlimited FAQ, etc.
    • osTicket: a customer relationship software that supports unlimited e-mail addresses, POP3 login, e-mail piping, etc.
  4. Scripts for discussion boards, including:
    • Invision Board: a popular open-source bulletin board that has a simple and clean user interface.
    • SMF: a powerful bulletin board that has many features but spends little resources.
  5. Scripts for e-commerce, including:
    • Cube Cart: an easy, modifiable shopping cart that comes with plenty of features, including unlimited products and multiple payment gateways.
    • Zen Cart: an open source shopping cart system that is free to use.
  6. Scripts for image galleries, including:
    • Gallery: an image gallery with many features. It can thumbnail a specific area of image, create image captions, mirror albums, rotate and reorder pictures.
    • Coppermine: a popular image gallery that can create albums, categories and thumbnails for images. It also has a search function and can receive user comments.

The add-ons listed above are only some of the many interesting add-ons that you can choose when you install Fantastico. With these add-ons, you can spice up your website and attract more visitors.

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