Available package on your Virtual Server
phpMyFAQ
phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ system using
PHP and available for many databases.
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely
database-driven FAQ-system. It supports various databases to store all data,
PHP 5.2 (or higher) is needed in order to access this data. phpMyFAQ also
offers a multi-language Content Management-System with a WYSIWYG editor and
an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support with user and group based
permissions on categories and records, a wiki-like revision feature, a news
system, user-tracking, language modules, enhanced automatic content
negotiation, templates, extensive XML-support, PDF-support, a backup-system,
a dynamic sitemap, related articles, tagging, RSS feeds, built-in spam
protection systems, LDAP and Microsoft Active Directry support, and an easy
to use installation script. phpMyFAQ offers the following
features:
Various supported database systems
MySQL (libmysql and mysqlnd), PostgreSQL, SQLite, Sybase, MS SQL
Server, IBM DB2, IBM Cloudscape, Apache Derby, Oracle, Interbase, or
Firebird.
Content Management System
You can administrate your users, groups, news, categories, FAQ
records, comments, glossary items, and stop words in the password
protected admin area.
User and group based permissions
You can assign permissions to users and groups, you can create users
and user groups with permissions and category and even record
restrictions for viewing and creating/editing content.
LDAP and HTTP authentication
Add your company's OpenLDAP based user management into phpMyFAQ for
authentication or just secure your whole FAQ by using HTTP
authentication.
Active Directory support
phpMyFAQ supports LDAP-datamapping, e.g. against an Active Directory
Server, including multi-domain-authentication, e.g. against an
ADS-Global Catalog
Revision system
Store the old entries in wiki-like revisions, so you can switch back
to old versions of the FAQ entry.
Community modules
All users can write questions to the system, so that other user can
answer these questions. They can also answer these open questions or
add translations for existing FAQ records. All these user-generated
entries have to be enabled by the administrators.
FAQ statistics
Analyze the way of your users through your FAQ with the built-in
user tracking, analyze the quality of your records with the
statistics of the user votings and the number of views on each
record.
Backup and Restore
Backup and restore all the database content with one click.
Templating system
You can easily customize your version of phpMyFAQ to your layout by
using XHTML and CSS.
Powerful search
Your users can easily find questions and answers using the search
feature with search in all languages or in one category. Using the
<em>Instant Response</em> frontend your users will find questions
and answers while they are typing like in Google Suggest! You'll
also get a list of the most popular searches and you get a graphical
report about the search in the administration backend.
OpenSearch and Microsummaries support
Search through your FAQ using the internal Firefox 2+ or IE7+
search. You can also use Microsummaries in Firefox 3+.
User comments
Get more feeback by your users and visitors, by allowing them to
comment on your questions and answers.
Smart answering
If an user submits a new question, phpMyFAQ will automaticallyy try
to answer the question by doing a full text search on all existing
FAQs.
Easy to use HTML editor
Add your FAQ entries using the integrated WYSIWYG (What You See Is
What You Get) HTML editor based on TinyMCE and create rich text,
links, lists directly through your web browser. Your links will also
be automatically verfified during saving your new FAQ record. The
Ajax-powered Image Manager provides an web interface to browse for
image files (JPEG, PNG, GIF, and others) on the web server.
Multilanguage support
phpMyFAQ supports more than 35 UTF-8 encoded languages and has an
extended right-to-left support even for the whole layout for Arabic,
Farsi and Hebrew. You can also add missing translation in the
administration backend for your language and you can send your
improved translations to the phpMyFAQ Team.
Most popular FAQs, latest FAQs, and
sticky
FAQs
The start page of the public area shows an automatically created
list with he most popular records and of the latest FAQ entries. You
can also define "sticky" FAQs which always appear on the main FAQ
page. The sticky FAQs are also the first ones in the category FAQ
lists. The most popular and the latest FAQs are also available as
RSS feeds.
Browse by Category or Tags
You can create unlimited categories and subcategories for your FAQs.
Your users can browse through the categories. You can tag all
records and an automatically generated tag cloud helps your users,
too.
Search engine optimization
Support for Apache mod_rewrite, IIS ISAPI_rewrite, and lighttpd
mod_rewrite
Extended sitemap support
Lists all FAQ articles in a alphabetical order. We also support
special automatically generated sitempas for Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
search robots!
Simple installation and configuration
Install and set up your FAQ only with your browser!
Exports your FAQ
PDF, XHTML, and plain XML
Advanced spam protection
phpMyFAQ uses captchas, bad word lists
and IP ban lists to prevent
spam.
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