Applications

A lot of the content for this page is still being collected from prior locations, so be patient.

Infrastructure

A PHP Acelerator is a tool that will enhance the performance of web applications written for the PHP scripting language. The free Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is distributed as a PEAR package. If you run your own LAMP server with PHP applications, then please install it. Assuming you already have Apache2 and PHP5 (with dev extensions so PECL can run phpize), it's as easy as

# make sure we have the development headers and apxs2 binary for threaded versions of apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2-threaded-dev
# install the APC extension
sudo pecl install APC
# pecl would have updated my php.ini file automatically, but it didn't know where to look.
# set it for future reference
sudo pear config-set php_ini /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
# do the configuration of php settings file myself
sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
# test and restart apache
sudo apache2ctl configtest
sudo apache2ctl graceful
# make a symbolic link to the system front-end
cd /var/www
sudo ln -s /usr/share/php/apc.php

Business

1. Telephony Asterisk

Office

1. Content Management Drupal
2. Document Management KnowledeTree
3. Wiki MediaWiki
4. Office Suites OpenOffice
5. Customer Relationship Management SugarCRM
6. Project Management

User

1. Photo Management Digikam
2. Music Management Amarok

PHP is the HyperText Preprocessor = the most popular programming language for the web

PHP Extension and Application Repository = a collection of code started in 1999 to enhance the utility of PHP.