News Publishing

NewsDaemon is a PHP based news tool. It is designed to allow users to submit news and comment on stories. It is the tool used by Daemon News for its Daily news site at http://daily.daemonnews.org. NewsDaemon is written in PHP and Perl, and uses a MySQL database on backend.

Article Manager is a simple content management PHP program to speed up your activity of adding news, articles or press releases into your site. A number of latest article summaries can be included in your main page or press release page with their links to whole article pages. Installation is very easy; upload the files and make article folder writable, and you are up and running in 5 minutes.

This is a development site for site_foundation, a "post-your-story-here" type application written in PHP using MySQL on backend not unlike slash or Thatware. Its main difference lies in its backend, user levels to determine who sees what and a cleaner administartive interface. Additionally site_foundation tries to encourage users to post longer articles, reducing the signal/noise ratio.

Igloo is a weblog application written in PHP which powers such sites as Mr. Penguin (http://mrpenguin.org) and Class of 97(http://classof97.org). Igloo uses a MySQL database on backend for data handling. It currently features article posting, polls, user registration and management, article commenting, and more.

NUNE is a powerful news script which features complete Web-based administration, Web-based posting, unique user logins with different access levels, a fully-featured comments system, advanced archiving, customizable templates, and ease of use.

Nope is an Open Source, lightweight alternative to the Zope/Slashdot style interactive web page/news source. It's modelled after Zope, but is written from scratch in PHP/MySQL. For an example of Nope in action, see http://www.ibooklinux.net.

Hotnews is a news generator written enterily in PHP. It consists of two parts. A main engine that display's the news and an administrative interface to add, modify and delete news. It is enterly based on templates so it is very easy to change the layout to fit your requirements.

The author writes, "I was looking for a simple what's new database front and backend for my web site. I found all the tools but no ready-made app that would allow me to just drop and go. So to make a contribution to the php community and to help those who are starting out, and to have some fun, I have released this drop and run What's New app". Main features include: Display news items with a date, subject, who posted it, text of news, and a link for email or web page easily, and A admin page to make adding news items very easy.

sips is an integrated Weblog and link-indexing system written in PHP. It is aimed at those with access to databaseless, PHP-enabled Web servers who want to run a Weblog site like Slashdot and/or a simple link index like Yahoo!.

DOINS is an interactive web site wherein anyone with common interests may share news. News stories are submitted to the webmaster, who then posts them onto the main page. Then other people can make comments on them. Right now, DOINS is basically a feature-incomplete replica of slashdot.org. DOINS is a heavily database-driven web application, powered by the Linux operating system, Apache webserver, mySQL database, PHP, and a bit of Perl.

WebNews is a set of PHP scripts that allows you to setup and manage news segment on your Web site. It features: Uses MySQL for storing data on backend, Supports multiple user levels, Template-based easy customization, and more.