Integrated Third Party Products

Even though we integrate or use the below products in H-Sphere, we don't assume any responsibility for bugs in their source code. Should you have any problems with these products, please contact the developers. The packages are listed in the alphabetical order.

BS Counter www.stanback.net/programming/bscounter
"This is a web hit counter/tracker written in Perl, features include: blocking of multiple hits from the same user, insertion of commas, text-based or graphical modes, supports multiple counters from the same script, and tracks users' browsers, operating systems, locations, top 20 referrers, and top 20 search engine keywords. (requires SSI OR GD.pm)"

ezmlm www.ezmlm.org
"ezmlm is a modern mailing list manager. Its purpose is to efficiently send a message to a large number of recipients with minimal delay. It allows automated additions and subtractions from the subscriber database. In addition, it may keep an archive of messages. It can also impose restrictions on what may be sent or retrieved and by whom. Some mailing list managers keep a database of subscriber information and tailor the message specifically for each subscriber. ezmlm sends the same message to all subscribers. This is much more efficient. The benefits to the user are that on average posts to ezmlm lists reach subscribers much faster than they would with other mailing list manager."

FormMail www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html
"FormMail is a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway, which will parse the results of any form and send them to the specified user. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need any programming knowledge or multiple scripts for multiple forms. This also makes FormMail a perfect system-wide solution for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access."

Miva Merchant www.miva.com
"Miva Merchant is a dynamic browser based storefront development and management system that allows merchants to create and administrate multiple online stores from anywhere in the world."

mnoGoSearch www.mnogosearch.org/
"mnoGoSearch (formerly known as UdmSearch) is a full-featured web search engine software for intranet and internet servers. mnoGoSearch software has a number of unique features, which makes it appropriate for a wide range of applications from search within your site to specialized search systems such as cooking recipes or newspaper searches, ftp archive search, MP3 search, news articles search or even national-wide portal search engine."

ModLogAn jan.kneschke.de/projects/modlogan/
"ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer which is able to analyze logfiles from 15 different server types."

MySQL jan.kneschke.de/projects/modlogan/
"MySQL is the world's most popular open source database, recognized for its speed and reliability."

OpenSSL www.openssl.org
"The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation."

osCommerce www.oscommerce.com
"osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with absolutely no costs or license fees involved."

phpBB www.phpbb.com
"phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. Based on the powerful PHP server language and your choice of MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers, phpBB is the ideal free community solution for all web sites."

phpMyAdmin www.phpmyadmin.net
"phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields."

Urchin www.urchin.com
"Urchin is the fastest and most accurate web analytics (web statistics) software available." It is a commercial product and is available for Windows 2000, Linux RedHat, and FreeBSD platforms."

WebBBS www.extropia.com/scripts/bbs.html
"eXtropia WebBBS allows a user to post messages as well as post replies to existing messages. WebBBS keeps track of which messages are posts and which ones are replies and displays them in a hierarchical tree-like fashion. Posts that start new topics are at the top of each tree, and the replies are shown indented beneath the original posts."

WebChat www.extropia.com/opensource.html
"eXtropia WebChat is a useful application that allows a number of people on the World Wide Web to talk to one another simultaneously. The ability to chat on the Web can be a quick way to hold a virtual meeting."

WebGuestbook www.extropia.com/opensource.html
eXtropia WebGuestbook is "configurable so that you can specify what your guestbook file looks like and how the script-generated responses are displayed. If configured to do so, WebGuestbook will email the guestbook administrator the text of new entries as well as add them to the guestbook. The script will also respond to new entrants with a configurable "Thank you" message... Finally, the application comes with the capability of 'four letter word' filtering for a child-safe guestbook. You can censor words by adding them to a list of 'bad words'."

Webalizer www.mrunix.net/webalizer/
"The Webalizer is a fast, free web server log file analysis program. It produces highly detailed, easily configurable usage reports in HTML format, for viewing with a standard web browser."

Supplementary Software

Apache http://www.apache.org/
The Apache web-server is used as the back-end for all of PSoft applications running on the Unix platform. More information about configuring and maintaining Apache is available at the Apache project site.

Postgresql http://www.postgresql.org/
While our products are designed to work with any SQL-compliant database server, PostgreSQL is the server we use for internal development and testing. Their website not only explains how to properly set up this free database, but also has some information about SQL in general.

ProFTPD http://proftpd.net
"Highly configurable GPL-licensed FTP server software."

qmail http://www.qmail.org/top.html
"qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent. It is designed for typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. As of October 2001, qmail is the second most common SMTP server on the Internet, and has by far the fastest growth of any SMTP server."

vpopmail http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail.html
"vpopmail (vchkpw) is a collection of programs and a library to automate the creation and maintenance of virtual domain email configurations for qmail installations using either a single UID/GID or any valid UID/GID in /etc/passwd with a home directory. Features are provided in the library for other applications which need to maintain virtual domain email accounts. It supports named or IP-based domains. It works with vqadmin, qmailadmin, vqregister, sqwebmail, and courier-imap. It supports MySQL, Sybase, Oracle, LDAP, and file-based (DJB constant database) authentication. It supports SMTP authentication combined with the qmail-smtp-auth patch. It supports user quotas and roaming users (SMTP relay after POP authentication)."

Used Libraries and Technologies

CGI (guide | tutorial) cgi.resourceindex.com

Freemarker freemarker.sourceforge.net
Positive Software uses Freemarker 1.5.1 template format for H-Sphere and SiteStudio. Please refer to this site for detailed information about the format and capabilities of Freemarker.

HTML (reference | tutorial) developer.netscape.com

Java 1.4 (Sun's central site | Current API docs) http://www.javasoft.com/

Perl (info) http://www.perl.org/

PHP http://www.php.net/ and http://www.zend.com/

XML (reference | specifications) http://www.oasis-open.org/