Hot PHP/MySQL open source enterprise projects

Ah! The magic of open source…

If you know your way around the most popular open source projects, you probably noticed these too but for the millions more who don’t have this developerwise view of the world, here are a few scripts to download and play around with…

• LimeSurvey
  • Create your own online surveys, like the pros!
  • Features open/closed surveys, branching, participant administration, quotas, WYSIWYG HTML editor, email invitations & reminders, assessments, basic statistics and more.
• OpenGoo
  • An open suite of CRM tools on steroids.
  • Free and open source WebOffice, project management and collaboration tool. Notice the word “collaboration” because that’s what it really shines at although it’s awesome, all around.
• vtiger
  • A CRM with all the options you need.
  • This easy to install, industrial-strength and business-ready open source CRM provides rich UI, reports, multiple database-type support, sales-management, inventory-management and more.
• FrontAccounting
  • It’ll handle your company numbers like a champ.
  • Pro-level web-based accounting system for the entire ERP chain which is also multilingual and multicurrency.
• Mibrew Messenger
  • If you want to discuss with your site visitors, this is it.
  • A unique script allowing your site’s visitors to chat with your operators (or yourself).

There are thousands of quality enterprise-level PHP/MySQL open source scripts available for download but these should get you fired up pretty good.

Also keep in mind that if you wish to make these projects better, you actually can since these are all open source codes. Nothing is hidden and since code is like poetry for so many of us, bettering these codebases is a lot of fun. It eats up weekends pretty fast but, it’s fun!

So go ahead and explore the ever expansive universe of enterprise open source projects.