myTinyTodo is a free to-do-list application with a very simple & clean interface.

The application is built with PHP & uses MySQL or SQLite for storing data

It has very nice features like:

• adding notes to tasks
• tags (and tag cloud)
• due dates (input format: y-m-d, m/d/y, d.m.y, m/d, d.m)
• priority (-1, 0, +1, +2)
• password protection
• sorting by priority or due date
• search
• smart syntax improves creation of tasks (usage: /priority/task/tags/)
• print-friendly CSS

myTinyTodo has a ready-to-use styling for mobile devices & comes with multilanguage support.

jCore is a free, open source & multi-website CMS which is created specially for webmasters who maintain multiple websites.

It is built with PHP/ MySQL & has 2 parts:

• jCore server (main system which holds all the libraries and modules)
• jCore client (stripped version of the core system which uses the files from the server)

jCore has various great features like:

• multilanguage
• dynamic forms
• RSS feeds
• banner management
• member management
• SEO friendly links
• custom 404 error pages
• & more

The system can be extended with the modules support as there are already ready-to-use ones like photo gallery or contact form.

Adminer is a phpMyAdmin-like MySQL management application which is only 1 file (PHP) that makes it so easy to install.

It is multilanguage with 11 ready-to-use language files & supports most PHP & MySQL versions (PHP 4.3+, MySQL 4.1+).

Adminer can connect to local/remote MySQL databases, create new ones & complete almost every other database transactions like:

• Create, alter, drop indexes/foreign keys/views/stored procedures & functions
• List data in tables with search, aggregate, sort and limit results
• Insert new records, update and delete the existing ones
• Supports all data types, blobs through file transfer
• Execute any SQL command from a text field or a file
• Export table structure, data, views, routines, databases to SQL or CSV
• Print database schema connected by foreign keys
• Show processes and kill them
• Display users and rights and change them
• Display variables with links to documentation
• Manage events and table partitions (MySQL 5.1)

Forums are clearly one of the most standard ways of sharing knowledge on the net. With easy-to-use interfaces & strong community features, they are still very functional & popular.

They can be easily integrated into a website by customizing the look & feel or used as a framework which is sometimes a good idea considering the features they offer.

Here are 9 widely-used, open-source & free forum softwares, where most of them are built with PHP, that you may consider using:

phpBB (PHP)

phpBB is one of the oldest & widely used forum softwares around. It is being updated frequently with improvements in speed, security & features.

It comes with a powerful administrator panel where all aspects of the system can be managed & supports almost any database.

The software has a very crowded community which makes it easier to get support.

MyBB (PHP)

This free forum software works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

MyBB has nice features like calendar/events, mass mailing to members, a built-in theme editor & more.

Besides an admin panel, a moderator panel helps managing the system by multiple users.

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URL shortening services, with the popularity of Twitter, has a very wide usage, probably more than anyone had expected few years ago.

These services not only makes URLs shorter but more readable & trackable. Also, some offer features like password-protecting, custom URLs & more.

Although there are very succesful services like TinyURL or bit.ly, you may still want to have your own as these services can be shut down one day like tr.im (a huge service that is closed yesterday – update: tr.im re-opened which was a good example for the stability risk of these services). Or, you may be asking for more/custom features.

Here are 7 open source & free URL shortener scripts to create your own:

Shorty

Shorty is a free URL shortener script built with PHP & MySQL. It comes with an admin interface where links can be edited/deleted & number of clicks can be viewed.

YOURLS

It is a set of PHP scripts for running a custom URL shortening service.

It can be private or public, custom keyword URLs can be picked, counts clicks & has an API. Best of all, a Wordpress plugin integrates it with your blog & links are shortened automatically.

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CRE Loaded PCI CE is an open source e-commerce software which is the lighter, but still strong, version of a paid solution.

It is designed to run on a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server and offers lots of features which you can add more as it comes with the source.

The application has an unlimited category system, comes with several shipping provider (free shipping logic is integrated) & payment modules.

It is possible to define "special products" on the main page & per category. Products can be sorted by price, manufacturer, etc.

Some features of CRE Loaded PCI CE:

• article manager
• faq manager
• banner manager
• multilanguage support
• wishlists
• ability to checkout without registration
• cross-selling
• & more

It also has a strong admin interface where the store can be managed easily (by multiple admins when needed with the access-level based user system).

A very significant feature of the product is the importance it gives to the security. CRE Loaded PCI CE is compliant with all PCI data security standards (& has a "order fraud screen" in the backend).

GetSimple is an open source XML-based CMS application that is very easy to setup & customize.

The use of XML rather than a SQL database for storing the data makes it ideal for small websites. But this is a "plus" on the performance side as the risk for a "possible slowness while connecting to a SQL database" is eliminated.

GetSimple is built with PHP & offers a great feature which is the ability to "undo" almost every action, a time-saver on mistakes made.

The application has a simple & slick admin interface that is so easy to learn.

With a detailed documentation, it is possible to findout the details of GetSimple like "theme customization" or "how to create a contact form".

And, GetSimple enables you to backup & restore the entire website with just a click.

Open Web Analytics is an open source framework that developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application.

It is built with PHP & besides the standalone usage, it has built-in support for WordPress, Gallery & MediaWiki.

OWA comes with 2 APIs:

• PHP: which makes it easier to integrate into any PHP application
• JavaScript: for usage in non PHP pages/websites

It has powerful tracking/reporting features like heat maps, multiple websites, Google Maps integration, RSS/Atom subscription tracking &standard ones like:

• page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
• unique, new, repeat visitors over time
  
• Click-streams – view the actual click-stream of each visitor
• Click Tracking – Track where exactly on a web page users are clicking and view clicks by browser type
• Click Heat Maps – view a heat map of where users are clicking on your web pages
  
• Visitor Aging – understand the age of your repeat visitors.
• Canned and Custom Time Periods – generate reports using pre-defined reporting periods or custom date ranges
• Refering Page Analysis – View the title, anchor text, and surrounding text of inbound links from refering web pages
• View visits by user agent
• Track entry and exit pages
• Track pages by custom page type

The frameworks uses other open source resources like Open Flash Chart or PHP Mailer & requires PHP 4.2.2+ with GD enabled to run. 

With this 5th & last post of the "WRD E-Commerce Week" we will be modifying "our Ajaxed shopping cart" to create a one which is very ideal for designs with limited spaces.

The shopping cart will:

• be hidden at the top of the page that can be displayed with a show/hide link
• open when an item is added to the basket & auto-close
• require a manual "hide" click if opened manually
• enable us to delete products

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In this 3rd day of the "WRD E-Commerce Week", we will be adding a chic fly-to-basket effect to our previously created Ajaxed shopping cart using jQuery.

Rather than the complete HTML structure & PHP code that adds/removes the products, we’ll be focusing on the details related with  the effect.

To findout the details of the complete HTML structure & PHP code, please check our post: Creating A Slick Ajaxed Add-To-Basket With jQuery And PHP. And, a full working example can be found in the download package.

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