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  1. #1
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    Question Building a control panel.

    Guys I am building a control panel for a company, its my first experience for such project (I am a back-end programmer, never even bothered to check what are control panels, and how they work). The main requirements of the client are
    1- Domain availability check and assigning.
    2- E-mail CREATION on each domain.
    3- WEBSITE Hosting and related stuff.....
    4- E-Shop.


    From the above list task 1, 2 and 4 are clear but task 3 is a bit blurry. Before I ask the client about the details of this task, I myself want to know what the basic features of a control panel are.

    Second thing I want to know is that, is there any free/open source PHP control panel available which provides all these functionality. I am more interested for task 1(domain checking and assigning). And if anyone here can guide me a bit, I will be thankful for him.


    Thank you in advance.

  2. #2
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    ISPConfig (www.ispconfig.com) covers webhosting and that.

    If you want to see the paid professional control panels, http://www.directadmin.com and http://www.cpanel.com are really big now a days.
    AS395558

  3. #3
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    Hi!
    There are other open source control panels that may help you put the pieces together..a few come to mind:

    Ravencore
    Webmin
    DTC

    All three of these have source code available...and are made up of many, many programs. If you have ever built a mail server...you know the drill. Ok..start out with the MTA...then...oh..I need web access to mail...ok..let's see:

    squrrelmail
    horde

    Oh...I need Imap support...etc...etc...

    all the control panals..even Cpanel...are made up like this..lots of pieces.

    Bryon
    Bryon L Harvey
    Soil Relocation Engineer

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