Revolver is a fast image rotation engine built with PHP.
It is just like a slideshow application with features like:
- Play and stop controls
- No database requirement
- RSS support
- Pre-dating images for future publishing
- Produces valid XHTML code
- Different background colors for every image

Revolver is managed with uploading the image files according to the special name format and there is no need for an administraion interface.
You can use it to create a portfolio website, slideshow, sketchbook or a simple image gallery.
Requirements: PHP 4+
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Sending newsletters to 1000’s of users, tracking clicks, unsubscribe links, risk of sending e-mails twice? Yes, these are some concerns of newsletter management.
phplist, an open source PHP - MySQL based newsletter management application makes sending newsletters easy, professional and managable.

Some powerful features of phplist:
- No duplicate messages. No ‘forgotten’ messages.
- View and click tracking
- Templating and multiple subscribe pages
- Dynamic subscriber columns
- User specific content like "name, e-mail"
- Lists
- RSS subscription
- Scheduling
- CVS import and export
- Bounce detection and cleaning
- Auto PDF messages
- Attachments
- Throttling to prevent server overload
This open source newsletter manager can also be integrated with the current subscriber base with the built-in import feature or some coding for syncronazing databases.
Requirements: PHP 4.3+, MySQL 4+
WebResourcesDepot, with an increasing number of visitors & subscribers everyday, has several advertising spots to feature your brand.
Advertising spots include banners & feed text advertising options with 4 different banner sizes:
- 468×60
- 220×100
- 100×100
- 32×32
Here are the statistics for January 2008:
Unique Visitors: 45,000+/month
Monthly Pageviews: 110,000+/month
Feed Subscribers: 500+
Alexa traffic ranks for today:
| Yesterday |
1 wk. Avg. |
3 mos. Avg. |
| 36,526 |
46,039 |
101,984 |
Detailed statistics & other advertising information can be found at "Advertise" page.
Claros, which is a passionate team in creating open source software, has a beautiful software named Claros inTouch.
Clasor InTouch is an ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and RSS reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies.

It is built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.
Claros inTouch is more than a free webmail software with a slick interface & usability.
It is offered under GNU which makes this communication suite software totally free.
Requirements: Tomcat For JSP & MySQL
PHP RSS Parsers are what many PHP developers looking for these days as every web application or website has some RSS input or output.
RSS parsers make the use of RSS simpler as they have overcame the known RSS parsing difficulties.
WebResourcesDepot have collected the most popular free RSS Parsers coded with PHP:
SimplePie is a PHP code library that makes it very easy to use RSS & Atom feeds. SimplePie is fast and standards compliant as it supports:

- RSS 0.90
- RSS 0.91 (Netscape)
- RSS 0.91 (Userland)
- RSS 0.92
- RSS 1.0
- RSS 2.0
- Atom 0.3
- Atom 1.0
This PHP RSS parser class has also plugins for favorite web services.
lastRSS is also a simple yet powerful PHP class for parsing RSS feeds.
- All RSS versions supported (0.9, 1.0 and 2.0)
- Transparent cache (doesn’t cache RSS file directly, neither HTML output, but serialized variable; cached data isn’t parsed every time, but you can still access individual fields)
- pubDate/lastBuildDate conversion to any date/time format
- Character encoding conversion (all encodings supported by iconv library)
- Returns an associative array with RSS fields
- Regullar expression parsing (very quick)
- Strips HTML from description (both hard-coded and entity-coded)
- Optional limit the number of returned items
- Two ways how to proceed CDATA information (get/strip CDATA content)
This PHP RSS parser class also supports well known feed formats like RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 & Atom.
- Easy to use
- Parses most RSS formats
- Integrated Object Cache
- HTTP Conditional GETs
- Configurable
- Modular
Zend_Feed provides functionality for consuming RSS and Atom feeds. It provides a natural syntax for accessing elements of feeds, feed attributes, and entry attributes. Zend_Feed also has extensive support for modifying feed and entry structure with the same natural syntax, and turning the result back into XML. In the future, this modification support could provide support for the Atom Publishing Protocol.