FLIR (Facelift Image Replacement) is an image replacement script that enables you to use any font in your websites.
It is similar to sIFR but uses JavaScript + PHP rather than Flash.
Fonts to be used are pre-uploaded and a PHP script creates the image using these fonts. Later on the image is inserted via JavaScript.
PHP GD library can not render some fonts properly. For this reason FancyFonts plugin (optional & requires ImageMagick) is also integrated to FLIR and it can handle almost any font.
Requirements: PHP 4+, GD Library Compatibility: All Major Browsers
WideImage is an object-oriented PHP image library.
It is written in PHP 5 and requires only GD2 library for manipulating images.
The library is very suitable for new generation web applications (for easier mashups) as it supports loading images from any URL besides loading them from a file, string or a valid image source.
haXe is an open source & multiplatform programming language.
A code written with haXe can be compiled to JavaScript, Flash (AS2 & AS3), PHP and NekoVM which is all the idea behind the project: "let the developer choose the best platform to do a given job".
haXe has installers for Windows, OSX & Linux and the platform is well-documented.
For writing haXe code, plugins for several popular editors can be found here.
Requirements: No Requirements Compatibility: Windows, OSX & Linux
Swift Mailer is a feature-rich PHP mailer library for sending e-mails from PHP websites and applications.
It does not rely on PHP’s native mail() class which consumes high resources. Instead, Swift communicates directly with an SMTP server or a MTA binary to send mail quickly and efficiently.
Swift supports event-driven plugins which offer you the opportunity to really take control of the library and set this mailer apart from everything else that’s out there.
Some features of Swift Mailer:
Persistent connectivity improves performance
Internationalization support (i18n)
Load balancing and/or throttling support
SSL & TLS Support - for Gmail servers
Embedded images or other file types
Full MIME 1.0 library included (create multipart messages, attachments etc)
Batch mail processing
Send attachments of any size even with PHP’s 8MB Memory Limit
Support for multiple attachments
Lossless protection against header injection (encode, don’t strip)
Set message priority
Request read receipts
Pluggable SMTP authentication (LOGIN, PLAIN, MD5-CRAM, POP Before SMTP)
Anti-flooding support for servers with limits on emails-per-connection
activeCollab is a feature-rich project management & collaboration application which you can install it on your servers & customize it if you want.
It organizes the project flow both for you & your customers flawlessly with powerful features like document versioning, reminders, discussions & many more.
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LimeSurvey is an open source PHP survey application which has almost every feature you may need.
It enables you to create conditional (questions change depending on the previous answers), open/close group surveys with e-mail invitations, reminders & more.
This PHP survey application is completely multilingual and currently supports 46 languages. Any survey can be created to support more than 1 language.
Templates can be created and any survey can be choosen to work with that template to match the design of the websites.
Some features of LimeSurvey:
Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
Unlimited number of questions in a survey
Unlimited number of participants to a survey
Multi-Lingual Surveys
User-Management
20 different question types with more to come
WYSIWYG HTML Editor
Quotas Management
Integration of pictures and movies into a survey
Creation of a printable survey version
Option for participants to buffer answers to continue survey at a later time
Survey expiry dates for automation
Enhanced import and export functions to text, CSV, PDF, SPSS, queXML and MS Excel format
Basic statistical and graphical analysis with export facility
AutoViewer is a lightweight (11kb) & free Flash image viewer that displays the images horizontally.
It also works as a slide viewer with the play-pause-previous-next buttons and can be navigated both with mouse & keyboard.
AutoViewer preloads the images, so this application is more suitable for galleries with 30 images or less (pro version is optimized for more images).
This Flash image viewer’s interface rescales to fit any aspect ratio images and monitors. And, galleries can be created via Picasa, Adobe Lightroom, a PHP script or manually.
poMMo is an open source maillist manager application for adding a mailing list to your website or to organize stand alone mailings.
poMMo requires PHP & MySQL, offers a very simple web-based setup and it can be ready to use within minutes.
With an Ajaxed interface, you can create custom subscription forms & subscriber groups. After that, it provides you the necessary embed code (or HTML output) for inserting the form.
poMMo is also a smart application as it gets the list of sent-unsent-failed e-mails during the delivery and has an automated "list cleaning" feature by checking the bounced e-mails.
Other nice features of this maillist manager:
Easy creation of subscriber groups
Quickly import and export your subscriber base
WYSIWYG HTML mailing creation
Flexible collection of subscriber data through user defined "fields"
Drag and drop field ordering
Themeable, brandable, multilanguage
Limit the sending of mails - throttle by hour, bytes, and domain limits
Revolutionary AJAX based subscriber Management
Personalize Mailings — e.g. Say "Dear Susan" vs. "Dear Subscriber"
View and Reload sent mailings from the Mailing History page
Mailings can be paused, resumed, and canceled "live"
Mailings take place in the background — you can turn your computer OFF during a sending
Subscribers can unsubscribe themselves or update their own information (including email address)
This mailing list manager application uses very low disk I/O and can be used for big mailing list groups.
P.S. Admin interface has a small compatibility problem in Firefox.
AskPeople is a free PHP survey application that is simple but functional.
It supports most of the entry options with checkboxes, radio buttons, textboxes, textareas & dropdowns. Using AskPeople, a complicated survey can be created in minutes.
AskPeople has a template system where a new design can be implemented for the surveys to match the look of your website.
Some features of this free PHP survey application:
Secure, multi-user admin interface.
Unlimited, completely flexible templates.
Built in file manager.
Multipage surveys using pagebreaks between groups of questions.
Make any question ‘required’ to ensure respondents complete it.
Optional cookie-based protection against repeated submission of forms.
Plain-text questionnaire export.
Raw data editor.
One-click project backup.
This is a handy application for creating & managing a job application form or making a market research & more.
It does not rely on PHP’s native mail() class which consumes high resources. Instead, Swift communicates directly with an SMTP server or a MTA binary to send mail quickly and efficiently.
