| Fantastico is a 3rd-party cPanel add-on and can be | | | | unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, |
| purchased and added to the standard cPanel | | | | avoid autoresponder loops, limit maximum tickets |
| interface. Fantastico allows you to quickly install a | | | | user can have opened, accept attachments and limit |
| variety of open-source scripts. By selecting a script | | | | size, pager alerts for admin. |
| and providing some basic information for each, you | | | | · Support Logic: A support tickets system |
| can install a script within minutes. Fantastico is | | | | featuring multiple email addresses, admin/staff/user |
| designed so that the script you install is always the | | | | panels, canned responses, HTML tags support, email |
| newest available. | | | | limit on a per user/day basis, attachments. |
| Below is some of the scripts available for installation | | | | Discussion Boards |
| in Fantastico: | | | | · Invision Board: A widely-popular open-source |
| Blogs | | | | bulletin-board package, works well, simple user |
| · b2Evolution: A blog script featuring multiple | | | | interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and |
| blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search | | | | can be customized. |
| function, multiple languages and search engines | | | | · SMF: Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is |
| friendly URLs. | | | | all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community |
| · Nucleus: A powerful blog script featuring | | | | software package and is jam-packed with features, |
| multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts, future posts | | | | while at the same time having a minimal impact on |
| and bookmarklets. | | | | resources. |
| · WordPress: A personal publishing tool with | | | | E-Commerce |
| focus on aesthetics and featuring cross-blog tool, | | | | · CubeCart: An easy to use yet powerful |
| password protected posts, importing, typographical | | | | shopping cart featuring unlimited categories and |
| niceties, multiple authors and bookmarklets. | | | | products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable |
| Content Management | | | | products. The design is very easy to modify. |
| · Drupal: An advanced portal with collaborative | | | | · OS Commerce: A power-user shopping cart |
| book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, | | | | with a big variety of modules and support of almost |
| full content search, site watching, threaded | | | | every payment gateway. |
| comments, version control, blogging and news | | | | · ZenCart: Zen Cart is a free, user-friendly, open |
| aggregator. | | | | source shopping cart system. The software is being |
| · Mambo: A professional level yet easy to use | | | | developed by group of like-minded shop owners, |
| CMS featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, | | | | programmers, designers and consultants that think |
| newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, | | | | e-commerce could be and should be done differently. |
| links manager, statistics, content archiving, date | | | | Image Galleries |
| based content, 20 languages, modules and | | | | · 4Images Gallery: Unlimited categories |
| components. | | | | subcategories, web-based and FTP images upload, |
| · php-Nuke: One of the most popular | | | | auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture and rate a |
| community-based portals with a big choice of | | | | picture. |
| languages and modules. | | | | · Coppermine: With categories and albums, |
| · SiteFrame: A straightforward CMS designed for | | | | thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, |
| rapid deployment of community-based websites. | | | | new and random pictures, user management and |
| Nice-looking templates, oriented toward | | | | user comments. |
| document-sharing, clean interface. | | | | · Gallery: Featuring albums within albums, |
| Customer Relationships | | | | thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, |
| · Crafty Syntax: A Live Help chat system | | | | reorder pictures and album mirroring. |
| featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a | | | | Mailing List |
| chat session, multiple chat sessions, referrer tracking, | | | | · PHPlist: A powerful mailing list featuring multiple |
| page view tracking, multiple operators, canned | | | | mailing lists and attachments. |
| responses/images/URLs, multiple departments each | | | | Apart from the above scripts, Fantastico has a whole |
| with different icons, leave a message. | | | | load of other scripts ranging from PHPAcution to |
| · Help Center Live: Very powerful all-in-one help | | | | WebCalendar. |
| center including Live Help, Support Tickets and FAQ. | | | | If your hosting company uses cPanel with Fantastico, |
| Features include unlimited operators/departments, | | | | you will be able to add attractive features to your |
| monitor visitors, initiate chat, collect visitor's | | | | website free of charge by installing one or more of |
| information, track visitor's footprint, auto save chat | | | | the scripts mentioned above. Without Fantastico, it is |
| transcripts, canned messages, leave a message, | | | | still possible to add these features but you will have |
| auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics. | | | | to manually install and configure the scripts yourself. |
| · osTicket: Featuring email piping, pop3 login, | | | | |