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W-Script is an open source application which is originally aimed at creating "wallpaper download websites".

But, it is a very ideal resource for building any gallery-themed or image-oriented website like CSS galleries, photo galleries ,etc.

W-Script

The application is built with PHP-MySQL & it can handle large number of images.

Some features of W-Script:

  • unlimited categories, subcategories
  • visitors can submit images (and optionally register)
  • images can be rated & commented
  • advanced search
  • auto-thumbnails in various sizes

It has a Smarty-based template engine which makes creating new templates pretty easy.

Also, W-Script can be extended with modules like tag clouds, color browser, user stats or anything custom.

Coda-Slider 2 is a jQuery plugin, inspired from the slider at Panic Coda website, which can present any HTML content nicely by wrapping them into tabs.

The tabs are created from a set of well-formatted div tags & can be completely styled with CSS.

jQuery Coda Slider

It is the new, improved version (old version) which has many features like:

  • automatic slider which pauses when a tab is clicked
  • can be controlled from other custom links
  • the tab to be activated after initial load can be set
  • speed & animation can be selected

The slider also creates SEO friendly URLs for every tab.

xmoovStream Server is an open source http streaming server built with PHP.

It creates a layer between the web & your files to provide you control over them in many ways like:

  • stream Flash videos
  • force file downloads
  • logging of every action
  • hot link protection
  • hide original file locations
  • bandwidth throttling & burst loading
  • & more..

xmoovStream - PHP HTTP Stream Server

xmoovStream is a centralized server which can manage different kinds of content from different urls under a single installation.

Like mentioned, it is not limited to streaming Flash videos, it can simply stream any file type including the video player itself or a thumbnail.

The server also comes with a lightweight video player & an audio player for streaming your content.

P.S. The resource is free for non-commercial website & requires a license for any other usage.

Moousture is a JavaScript mouse gesture library, built with MooTools.

It simply checks the mouse movements & catches them if they follow any given route.

MooTools Mouse Gesture Plugin: Moousture

The library is very customizable. Variables like:

  • miliseconds mouse movements will be traced
  • interval of the number of mouse steps
  • errored movements to be ignored (in pixels)

can be defined.

Moousture DirectionsWith the help of a direction pad, new gestures can be created by simply mentioning their numbers in an order like:

gstr.addGesture([4,3,2,1,0,], functionName); would be a "u" character.

The Moousture is also compatible with most of the mobile devices (including iPhone).

The library website includes a demo worth-checking which can display a menu with a mouse gesture.

DHX Quick Tables is a 1 file PHP script that enables anyone to create a customized backend for MySQL databases with 2 screens:

  • for guests: just view the tables
  • for administrator: view, edit, add/delete pages

DHX Quick TAbles

The script comes with a web-based installer that guides you to define the database connection information.

After that, you can customize the fields of the database by selecting if they can be sorted, edited, in which order they will be displayed & more.

DHX Quick Tables is very functional who wants to build an instant backend for their applications or create an interface that will display a tabular data.

Crystal is a database toolkit for PHP which aims to help developers build & scale reusable, database-dependent, framework-agnostic applications.

It has 3 independent components:

  • Database wrapper – for CRUD operations
  • Validation module – provides a comprehensive data validation
  • Database manipulation module – used for creating databases, tables, etc.

Crystal Database Toolkit

The queries written with Crystal are database-independent which currently supports MySQL & PostgreSQL (SQLite is on the way).

For anyone who is familiar with SQL, learning Crystal wouldn't take no more than 5 minutes.

And, for many developers, it can be an option against framework-specific database layers like Zend_Db and Codeigniter's active record library or complex ORM's like Doctrine.

rsslounge is an open source, full-featured & web-based RSS feed reader application that is built with PHP-MySQL.

It allows you to read your feeds, categorize or filter them, set priorities & more from an Ajax-based slick interface.

PHP Feed Reader: rsslounge

Besides the standard feed items, rsslounge supports images & photoblogs.

For periodically fetching content from feeds, it offers 2 options: cron job or Ajax-based requests (that work while the application is running).

The application makes switching feed readers so easy with the OPML export/import functionality.

Also, rsslounge is a guide-like application for jQuery fans as it makes use of this library fully with the Ajax requests, accordions, sliders, modal boxes & more..

P.S. It works perfectly in all major browsers except IE.

CoolTips is an object-oriented, unobtrusive & lightweight class based on Prototype JS + script.aculo.us frameworks for creating good looking tooltips.

It doesn't need any inline JavaScript coding. Using the title attribute of elements is enough and CoolTips will convert them.

CoolTips: JavaScript Tooltips

The tooltips can be customized using a bunch of parameters or by CSS:

Besides the colors of background, borders & text, it is possible to set the opacity, appear/hide durations or enabling/disabling mouse follow effect.

Uki is a simple JavaScript user interface toolkit for creating desktop-like web applications with few lines of code.

The toolkit is fast. It uses progressive rendering, can render 30k+ lists & tables very quickly (which would normally take minutes in IE).

UKI: JavaScript UI Toolkit

It doesn't offer a complete JavaScript framework. Rather, Uki is totally focused on the layout and, if wanted, can be used with any JS framework.

Uki comes with a rich view-component library ranging from slider to list and splitpane (more is on the way like tree, grid views).

The toolkit works cross-browser & presents a demo for creating the Google Wave interface with 100 lines of code.

It is mostly challenging to build table-less, semantic forms that look good & work cross-browser.

RMSforms is a CSS framework for making this process easier.

RMSforms CSS Framework

Considering forms are a list of elements, the framework uses unordered lists for grouping items & style them accordingly.

The layout of the forms & how labels are displayed can be set to be horizontal or vertical by simply updating CSS classes used.

The demo shows outputs of multiple combinations to better see what can be accomplished with RMSforms CSS framework.

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