wTag is a shoutbox script (mini chat) written in PHP which uses Ajax to refresh the chat.
It uses MySQL to store the data, has a CSS-based smiley dropdown which can be enabled/disabled and a bad words & spam filter.
Other features of this PHP shoutbox script are:
- Replace URLs catched in a message with clickable links.
- UTF-8 encoding for multilingual support.
- Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS.
- Custom designs: it's easy to change the chatbox look by editing the CSS files.
- A form validation and warnings display system.
Requirements: PHP, MySQL
ClockingIT is an open source task – time tracking & project management application (normall a free hosted app. & source code is available) built with Ruby on Rails.
With a slick Ajaxed interface and providing information in every step of creating projects or tasks, ClockingIT is a very user-friendly application.
It is a complete solution for managing projects within a team as it offers nice tools like an integrated wiki, forum & a Facebook-like chat within team members.
Features of this free Ruby on Rails application:
- no restrictions or limits
- time tracking & reports
- milestones & due dates
- tagging & search
- timeline & activity log
- notifications, rss & iCal
- integrated wiki, forum & chat
- multilanguage
This is another coda slider built with jQuery (check YCodaSlider 2.0 – wrd post). As the use of them are becoming common, it is better we have different choices.
To run this coda slider, along with jQuery you need the following plugins:
Some features of this coda slider:
- Degrades perfectly without JavaScript enabled
- Hitting the page with a specific hash (i.e. page.html#preview) shows the right tab, and highlights the right navigation
- Any link on the page that refers back to a panel should trigger the effect and highlight the right navigation – this should happen without any extra work.
Besides the codes, you can find how this coda slider is built in detail.
Requirements: scrollTo, localScroll, serialScroll jQuery plugins
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Google tries to make the use JavaScript frameworks easier and faster with the Ajax Libraries API.
Main idea is hosting the JavaScript framework files on Google servers, serving them faster by Google’s fast & distributed servers, gzipping them when needed and most importantly, preventing several downloads of the same libraries by caching.
Currently supported frameworks are:
The caching mechanism may work great in the future if many websites use the Ajax Libraries API. This way if a user browsing your website, let’s say, if browsed another website using the API with jQuery, that user would have already downloaded the jQuery file and won’t need to download again on your website.
Using it is so simple. To use Prototype for example:
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.2/prototype.js"> </script>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"> </script> <script> google.load("prototype", "1"); </script>
The official announcement can be found here.
AtMail Open Source is an open source webmail client written in PHP.
This lightweight Ajaxed webmail client has a simple to use interface and can be used with existing IMAP mailservers.
Features of this free webmail client:
- Lightweight Ajax Webmail Interface
- Video Mail
- PHP source code
- IMAP support
- Live Spell Check
- Address Book
Requirements: PHP
Compatibility: IMAP Mailservers
easyAlbum is an open source image gallery script built with JavaScript.
This image gallery does not have an AJAX interface but it simply presents the images inside list tags with a Lightbox type browser friendly pop-up and navigation support.
How to use easyAlbum?
- After inserting easyALBUM.js file in your page, create a list with the "ul" tag id equals gallery like
<ul id="gallery"> and add the images inside the "li" tags.
- Modify your "body" tag for onload like
<body onload = "TJK_Gallery('gallery');">.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
LightForm is an AJAX – PHP Contact Form is a simple but handy script for creating charming & secure contact forms.
It uses FormCheck2 for validation and NiceForms for the styling of the form.
LightForm has the "question asking" feature for eliminating spams & it provides the user IP, referrer and browser agent in the message to provide more details about the visitor.
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Control Suite is a set of 6 high quality widgets and controls built with the Prototype JavaScript framework.
Each script is well tested, highly extensible and unobstrusive.
Suite has these widgets and controls:
- Tab
- Modal
- TextArea
- Select Multiple
- Rating
- Progress Bar
Different approach to star rating:
Suite is very well documented. You can easily reach the details of the APIs and this makes the product much more usable.
Requirements: Prototype JavaScript Library
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
fileNice is a free file manager built with PHP that lets users to browse through the files & folders easily.
The AJAX interface speeds up the browsing and it has nice features like:
- Folder specific slideshows of images (without page reloads)
- File details
- Send to Flickr
- Folder comments
- Search
- Prefs based sorting
- Source viewing of code
How to use fileNice?
Very easy. You basically upload the script to the directory to be browsed and that’s all.
Requirements: PHP
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
GoogieSpell is Gmail-like spell checker that you can use in your applications.
It is AJAX based, supports over 27 languages and well-documented.
This AJAX spell checker simply sends a query to Google’s spell checking address: "https://www.google.com/tbproxy/spell?lang=" and displays the results and recommendations according to the result of this data.
GoogieSpell is well tested to work in all major browsers.
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
