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XML Flash Gallery (And flickr) 2008-02-08 23:01:55 XML Flash galleries are very easy to use & update. When there is a flickr support too, than it is great as it will be totally automated. Polaroid Gallery is a free flash gallery with splash effect that can get the image data from an XML file or a flickr account. Pictures is automatically scaled, centered and smoothed when they are loaded. Splash loading effect is totally random, this makes the look of the gallery different every time it is loaded. Images can be dragged & dropped anywhere in the gallery. Besides the image gallery SWF file, FLA source can be downloaded too. ...

Test (Sample) Data Generators 2008-02-08 10:27:15 Sample / test data is an effective way to test web projects & applications. Other than meaningless data, real names, addresses, zip codes can make the whole testing stage easier. WebResourcesDepot have collected some nice free test data generators which you may find useful:   GenerateData GenerateData is a free, open source script written in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL that lets you quickly generate large volumes of custom data in a variety of formats for use in testing software, populating databases. Some features: (JS-enabled) browser-friendly. Many data types available: names, phone numbers, email addresses, cities, states, provinces, counties, dates, street addresses, number ranges, alphanumeric strings, lorem ipsum text and more. Option to generate data in XML, Excel, HTML, CSV or SQL. Country specific data (state / province / county) for Canada, US, Netherlands and UK.   DBMonster DBMonster is a tool that generates random test data and insert ...

SilverStripe: Powerful And Free Content Management System 2008-02-07 23:01:06 SilverStripe is a powerful content management system which runs on Sapphire framework (object oriented framework like Ruby on Rails or Django). The framework lets you rapidly code up the "objects" your project uses (e.g. staff members, products, customers, along with their relationships). You then add a few lines of code and find SilverStripe has automatically added tables and columns to the database, let you use them in your website templates, and has added new "page types" and fields into the CMS for the content editor to utilise. Some features: Simple: Intuitive and user-friendly Flexible coding framework Scalable: From 1 page to a million Standards Compliant: Fully XHTML compliant Modular Template Freedom: No restrictions on the look and feel of your site Open source Cross platform easy to install (PHP based) Supported One of the best things about SilverStripe CMS is the active community behind it. You can easily find support from users. There are some very u ...

User Friendly Prototype + Script.aculo.us Popups: Modalbox 2008-02-07 11:57:55 ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating Web 2.0 - style modal dialogs (or sequence of dialogs) without using standard popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs and based on Prototype JavaScript framework + script.aculo.us and valid XHTML/CSS. Content can be loaded with Ajax or just plain-HTML. ModalBox Features Web 2.0-ready. ModalBox uses industry-standard libraries — prototype and script.aculo.us. Offline-mode. Use dynamic- or plain-HTML without any Ajax-calls to fill out your dialog windows. AJAX page loading. ModalBox uses AJAX instead of deprecated iframe for content loading. It’s also more secure — you can’t access pages that are not on your host. Callbacks support. You can attach your own JavaScript events after showing or hiding (and more) the ModalBox Automatic height adjustment. ModalBox adjust it’s height depending on your content. No more height tweaking! Scrolling mode. If your content is long, just defi ...

Online Zip And E-mail Script 2008-02-06 23:01:20 With the increasing number of online web services, if you want to create an online zip and e-mail servive, Online Zip offers it for free. Online Zip is a php script which allows users add files to a zip archive and send the archive to an e-mail address. ...

Connection String Examples For All Data Sources 2008-02-06 16:03:17 ConnectionStrings.com is a website which shows connection string examples for nearly every data source including: MySQL MSSQL Postgre SQL Informix Paradox Textfile & many more Website also provides connection string examples for different connection types like ODBC, OLE DB, OleDbConnection (.NET). ...

jQuery Slideshow Plugin With Zoom, Shuffle And Fade Effects 2008-02-05 23:01:57 jQuery Cycle plugin is a lightweight plugin which lets users to create animated slideshows. jQuery already has slide plugins and this plugin covers most of the effects and some effects are based on other jQuery plugins. The Cycle Plugin is split into two parts: the core engine and the transition definitions. The core engine provides the ‘fade’ transition effect and all the logic needed for defining and using custom transitions. The Transition pack includes all of the pre-defined transition effects for the Cycle Plugin. Slideshow effects includes: pause-on-hover auto-stop, auto-fit before/after callbacks click triggers and many transition effects ...

Manage Files Over An Ajax Interface: CKFinder 2008-02-04 23:02:29 CKFinder is a powerful ajax file manager. Its simple interface makes it intuitive and quick to learn for all kinds of users, from advanced professionals to Internet beginners. For the best integration, CKFinder offers ASP, ASP.Net, Coldfuson & PHP versions. Features: Folders tree navigation: intuitive for all users. Quality image thumbnails, making it quick to find things. Sensitive context menus for files and folders. Full user control: create, rename and delete folders and files. Full developer control: all features can be precisely configured with a powerful ACL and user roles system. Lightweight interface. No page refreshes: quick responses. Secure file uploads: all uploaded files are checked according to the rules set by the developer. Full source code included for the server side integration. Instant integration with FCKeditor   ...

FCKeditor: Powerful HTML Text (WYSIWYG) Editor For Web Applications 2008-02-04 23:01:00 FCKeditor is a full featured, well-documented & simple to use WYSIWYG HTML text editor. It is lightweight, easy to implement. With an integrated powerful ajax file manager, CKFinder, you can control both the media & content of your web applications. Features: Multi browser compatibility Outputs XHTML 1.0 CSS support for better integration with your web site Font formatting: type, size, color, style, bold, italic, etc Text formatting: alignment, indentation, bullets list, etc Cut, Paste, and Paste as Plain Text, Undo and Redo Paste from Word cleanup with auto detection Link and anchors support Image insertion, with upload and server browsing support Table creation and editing (add, delete rows, etc) - one of the best systems on the market. Table cells editing (size, colors, etc) Form fields Right click context menus support Complete toolbar customization Skins support Plugins support Spell checker Multi-language support with automatic user language detection. Including Right ...

Easy JavaScript Date Functions By Datejs 2008-02-04 13:07:47 Datejs is an open-source JavaScript Date Library. With simple to use commands, Datejs provides many useful date functions like: last December next Thursday +10years & many date format conversions. Date objects in JavaScript are generally problematic as they may require complicated calculations to run. Datejs is absolutely a life-saver in this area. ...

Auto CSS Grid Builder - A YUI Tool 2008-02-03 23:01:38 CSS Grid Builder is a web tool which can create standards-compliant grid layouts with a few clicks. Outputs are generated with the powerful Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS which offers pre-built templates & page layout combinations. YUI Grids CSS: Supports fluid-width (100%) layouts as well as preset fixed-width layouts at 750px, 950px, and 974px, and the ability to easily customize to any number. Supports easy customization of the width for fixed-width layouts. Flexible in response to user initiated font-size adjustments. Template columns are source-order independent, so you can put your most important content first in the markup layer for improved accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO). Self-clearing footer. No matter which column is longer, the footer stays at the bottom. Layouts less than 100% are automatically centered. Accommodates IAB’s Ad Unit Guidelines for common ad dimensions. Offers full A-grade browser support. CSS Grid Builder is a quick solution spe ...

Increase Website Loading Speed With PHP Speedy 2008-02-02 23:01:02 PHP Speedy is a a PHP script which increases the loading times of web pages. PHP Speedy automatically joins all the appropriate files together and compresses them which decreases the amount of requests made to the server & sizes of the files. Result is a dramatic decrease in the loading speeds. The script can be used in most of the PHP enabled websites. Installation of this PHP script can be done automatically or manually. After the installation PHP Speedy code must be inserted at the top of the website’s main content generating file (index.php in most cases). There is already a how-to for Wordpress too. Before PHP Speedy (14 requests in 4.44 seconds): After PHP Speedy (4 requests in 1.1 seconds) ...

Tiny Html (WYSIWYG) Editor: NicEdit 2008-02-02 15:26:36 NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor that allows easy editing of web ssd/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing. This lightweight (compressed size is <10kb) html editor is integrated into any website in seconds. Inserting a JavaScript code is enough for all textareas to be converted into WYSIWYG HTML editors. ...

Valentine’s Day Icons (5 Icons) 2008-02-01 23:01:31 Valentine’s Day icons are created by IconDrawer which also has some other free icon sets. Icon set includes 5 icons with 16*16, 32*32, 48*48 & 128*128 sizes. There are versions for Windows & Mac OS X. ...

Website Reachable Alert Firefox Plugin: Mr Uptime 2008-02-01 12:34:47 Mr Uptime is one of the Firefox plugins that I use and love. Everybody has an experience with websites being unreachable because of web hosting or technical problems. After that, we may forget to check that website again or spend so much time to see whether it is online or not. Mr Uptime simply informs the user when an unreachable website becomes reachable again. Usage is also simple. When a website in unreachable at the time you’re trying to browse, a small menu appears which helps you to add the website to the watchlist with 1 click. Another nice feature is watching a website for a text parameter to appear too. If that text appears on the website Mr Uptime warns you. ...