DOINS is an interactive web site wherein anyone with common interests may share news. News stories are submitted to the webmaster, who then posts them onto the main page. Then other people can make comments on them. Right now, DOINS is basically a feature-incomplete replica of slashdot.org. DOINS is a heavily database-driven web application, powered by the Linux operating system, Apache webserver, mySQL database, PHP, and a bit of Perl.

Squash is a news forum system based on the web using PHP/SQL. This works in a similar fashion to that of sites like Slashdot. It features: small, simple to administrate, article posters, commenters or just plain readers, unlimited forums/topics, a search engine and flexible API.

phpMNews is a German News Posting system, based on PHP3 and MySQL. It features: allow others to post news which you can verify before making them publicly available, option to display all news or a predefined set of news, a Web form-based news posting and editing, an installation script and more.

WebNews is a set of PHP scripts that allows you to setup and manage news segment on your Web site. It features: Uses MySQL for storing data on backend, Supports multiple user levels, Template-based easy customization, and more.