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Easy Basket is a very original shopping cart application which enables us to sell items inside any web page without any big code/structure updates.

Once installed, the products and basket can be inserted into any part your web page where they will start functioning instantly.

When an item is added to the basket, a sliding + Ajaxed basket can appear to to show the total price and display the checkout options. Also, you can drag 'n' drop a product into the shopping cart as well.

Easy Basket

It is possible to enable the user to choose various details about the product like the "color", "size", etc. and they will be shown in the basket as well.

EasyBasket supports PayPal and Google Checkout where their details can be mentioned inside a simple "settings page" provided.

And, the core comes as PHP and ASP, so, you can choose the one that best suits your needs.

CodeIgniter is a powerful framework for creating PHP web apps much faster. Bonfire, a solid base for the framework, makes the process even speedier.

It is a set of tools (like a ready-to-use user management system, e-mail queue, database backup), all built inside an elegant and customizable UI.

Bonfire For CodeIgniter

The codebase is completely modular and built around HMVC (Hierarchical-Model-View-Controller pattern).

Bonfire has a flexible template/theme system which is capable of WordPress-like parent/child themes.

Also, it comes with several other handy features like extending the CodeIgniter profiler.

There are many resources that ease creating websites with HTML5 (as they are shared at WRD regularly) like JavaScript-based solutions that HTML5-enable older browsers or CSS-Reset files that remove browser styling incompatibilities.

G5 is a framework for building PHP-powered HTML5 websites which makes use of such popular resources (like Modernizr, jQuery, CSS3 Pie, etc.).

G5 Framework

It has many features like:

  • robots.txt / robots meta for the search engines
  • GZip for faster page load
  • preventing CSS caching
  • sticky footer
  • always forcing latest IE rendering engine (even in intranet) & Chrome Frame
  • smooth scroll-to-top
  • shorthand CSS / some basic reusable classes
  • and more..

The design has a 940px total content width and in "F" shape by default but can be updated in anyway desired.

Also, G5 includes widely-used items like an image slider (Orbit), tool tips (Tipsy) and modal boxes (Reveal).

Avactis, an e-commerce application with lots of handy features, was running a giveaway of 3 owned licenses for their application to celebrate the launch of their hosted services and hosting bonuses.

Winners are selected today and announced at the bottom of this post.

If you are not one of the lucky winners and/or prefer not to host the application yourself, here is a snapshot of what Avactis offers with their new services:

Avactis

First of all, the best thing about hosted services is: you know that the application is setup in the best possible way. So you make sure it functions correctly.

The second advantage is "not dealing with any hosting-related issues" as Avactis handles that in a pro and secure way with PCI compatible servers, daily backups and an experienced team.

In addition to those, the hosted services include free forever-support and updates (updates are handled by Avactis automatically).

And, until 28th of April, there are some bonuses offered:

  • Standard plan, 1 month
    • Bonus: Free Setup
  • Standard plan, 6 months pre-pay
    • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
  • Standard plan, 1 year pre-pay
    • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
    • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
  • Professional plan, 1 month
    • Bonus: Free Setup
  • Professional plan, 6 months pre-pay
    • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
    • Bonus: 5 extensions pre-installed for free** (worth $118.75)

Simply, if you already tried the application and liked it, this can be the right time to get it. Otherwise, you can always give it a try for free and find out if the functionality fits your needs.

And, the winners

Here are the 3 winners of Avactis Owned licenses:

  • gediminas (comment #322672)
  • Jeff Szucs (comment #327078)
  • Caner (comment #321414)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks very much to every WRD reader for joining the giveaway.

When creating a web application, if no CMS is used, creating a back-end for managing the system is usually required.

PHPDevShell is a modular, plugin-based "code management system and framework" that offers a ready-to-use administration interface which can be extended with your own codes.

PHPDevShell

It provides most of the popular features that an application requires like:

  • user registration and management (with roles, groups an access rights)
  • presenting system settings
  • cronjob management
  • navigation
  • plugins
  • templates
  • and much more..

The project aims not to interfere with your system, rather, follows a simplistic approach to integrate with it.

PHPDevShell has many other features like a built-in mailing list manager and the ability to view logs for every action.

Avactis, the easy-to-use PHP shopping cart system (now with hosted solutions), is giving away 3 "Owned" licenses ($249/license) to WRD readers with celebrating the launch of their hosted version and hosting bonuses.

What is Avactis?

This previously-shared application is a very flexible shopping cart which can power any type of e-commerce website whether it has few or 1000s of products.

It lets you to create unlimited categories, add unlimited products and define detailed + categorized (thanks to the "custom fields" feature) information about them.

Avactis

The application has many tools to help selling the products like the ability to create any type of promotions (discount codes, price-based or quantity discounts), built-in affiliate system, newsletter management and more.

Its interface is totally customizable with the support for theming, integrated with 40+ payment systems and can be extended with modules.

To sum up, Avactis is a robust enough to create and control an online store. And, besides the paid ones, it also has a free version.

Avactis Payment Systems

Announcement of hosted plans and hosting bonuses

Avactis used to be only a downloadable product where you can install to your own servers. Right now, they are offering a hosted version where setup, backup, optimization, etc. are taken care of.

And, until April 28th, there are special hosting bonuses offered:

  • Standard plan, 1 month
    • Bonus: Free Setup
  • Standard plan, 6 months pre-pay
    • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
  • Standard plan, 1 year pre-pay
    • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
    • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
  • Professional plan, 1 month
    • Bonus: Free Setup
  • Professional plan, 6 months pre-pay
    • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
    • Bonus: 5 extensions pre-installed for free** (worth $118.75)

The good part is, every hosting plan includes free support from the company besides the included license.

The giveaway of licenses

In order to get a chance to win one of the 3 "Owned" licenses being given away, simply comment to this post and winners will be selected with the query below on 26 April 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2202 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all.

Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of 5 Extended Licenses ($47/each) of Ajax Form Pro to WRD readers.

Today, the winners are selected and can be found at the bottom of the post. But before that, let's remember:

What is Ajax Form Pro?

Ajax Form Builder

It is a professional PHP script for creating Ajaxed and real-time validated forms easily.

It has very nice features like:

  • using multiple instances on the same page
  • validation as-the-user-types
  • flexible and built-in CAPTCHA
  • notification e-mails being sent with the mail() function or through SMTP
  • e-mails can be sent to multiple recipients without disclosing all the addresses to each one
  • ready-to-use Lightbox integration and forms inside sliding interfaces

The script is unobtrusive and can be used to create an unlimited number of forms for yourself and your customers.

50% discount to first 10 users

Update: Discount codes mentioned are all expired.

Ajax Form Pro offers a 50% exclusive discount to first 10 purchases using the discount code "afp50" and the links for the related versions:

If the discount codes are all used, you can still use the code "wrd" for a 30% discount for a limited time.

And, the winners

The winners are selected randomly with the SQL query mentioned in the previous post and here they are:

  • Djurre (comment #316399)
  • Zainal Shah (comment #316893)
  • ulysess (comment #316433)
  • Alejandro (comment #316491)
  • Peter (comment #316436)
Congratulations to the winners and thanks very much to everyone for joining.

OSClass LogoOSClass is an open source application, built with PHP-MySQL, for creating and managing a classifieds website.

It can be used to display any type and number of items in a categorized interface. Also, there are some sector-specific extensions (cars, jobs, real estate, dating, etc.) for creating lists easily.

OSClass PHP Classifieds Script

The application has a customizable interface with a flexible theming support (there are already several themes provided).

And, besides the extensions mentioned above, there are few others for extending the functionality like Google Maps or PayPal integration, breadcrumbs navigation and more.

Ajax Form Pro, a professional PHP script for creating Ajaxed forms easily, is giving away 5 Extended Licenses ($47/each) to WRD readers.

There is also a special discount offered where all the details can be found at the end of this post.

What is Ajax Form Pro?

It is an advanced yet easy-to-use PHP script for quickly building Ajaxed and real-time validated forms of any type (like contact forms, employment forms, etc.).

Using Ajax Form Pro, it is possible to use every input type within the forms (textboxes, textareas, single/multiple selects, checkboxes, radios) and style them completely with CSS. Also, file upload feature is on the way.

The script can be used to create multiple forms on the same page or different pages

Ajax Form Builder

Every field is validated as-the-user-types where notifications are shown/hidden instantly. Like many other features, this is also optional.

For a minimized number of spam messages and a secure form, there is a flexible and built-in CAPTCHA.

Once a form is submitted, e-mails can be sent either with the mail() function or through SMTP. They can also be sent to the appropriate contacts depending on the category selected (or to multiple recipients without disclosing all the addresses to each one) and a copy can be e-mailed to the end-user.

It has ready-to-go creative uses like Lightbox integration and forms inside sliding interfaces (from top or left-side).

Ajax Form Pro is unobtrusive, will convert to a standard form if JavaScript is disabled and still function properly.

It is well-documented, comes with all the source code and has a full list of demos.

Simply, a handy resource that simplifies a time-consuming process and makes creating an unlimited number of forms for yourself and your customers a breeze.

The special discount

Update: The discount code is expired.

Ajax Form Pro is offering a 30% discount to WRD readers when the discount code "wrd" is used.

The code is valid by now and will be active only for few weeks.

How to win the licenses?

In order to win one of the 5 Extended licenses given away, simply comment to this post and winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 18 April 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2188 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5

Good luck to all.

For a web designer/developer, having a detailed knowledge about the overall web-related statistics is pretty valuable to better analyze what you're actually doing is right (and better) or not.

HTTP Archive is a website which applies regular checks on 17,000+ websites, collects information and outputs web development -related, up-to-date reports.

HTTP-Archive

The reports are categorized as trends and stats where trends include:

  • average response times
  • HTML/CSS/JS/image sizes and the number of requests
  • Page Speed scores
  • and more..

and stats include:

  • popular JavaScript libraries
  • popular scripts
  • pages using Google Libraries API
  • pages using Flash
  • and more..

HTTP Archive is an open source project where you can easily perform a custom install and run more frequent checks, create new reports and/or get the stats for a different set of websites.

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