BananaPanel

BananaPanel is not without its issues. The biggest one is that it doesn't have an adequate (or existant) GUI for adding and modifying subscriber accounts. Many features can only be set up and tweaked by modifying the database directly. While this doesn't impact the end-user (client) experience at all, it does mean that developers wishing to use the program must know what they are doing. I have included a demo application to get you started, and the table names are all pretty self-explanitory.

Like many CMS systems developed by freelance developers, BananaPanel was built to work for the customers of my company (18th Street Software, LLC in Washington, DC), and has been performing admirably in that function for months now. The lack of a back-end GUI was never really an issue since it was never anticipated that anyone else would see the code. Oops.

At this point 18th Street is pursuing a different strategic direction, so rather than let BananaPanel go into maintanence mode I decided it would be best to open it up to other people to see if they can benefit from it. I'll try to document its quirks when I get a chance, and will gladly respond to questions posted on SourceForge.net.

Enjoy!