Tochka http://tochka.co.uk Another blog about web technologies Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:16:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Seagull – Object Oriented CMS Framework http://tochka.co.uk/php/seagull-object-oriented-cms-framework/200/ http://tochka.co.uk/php/seagull-object-oriented-cms-framework/200/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:09:51 +0000 R2D2 http://tochka.co.uk/?p=200 seagull-framework-section-manager
Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.

Many popular PHP applications are already seamlessly integrated within the project, as are various templating engines, testing tools and managed library code. If you’re a beginner, the framework provides a number of sample applications that can be customised and extended to suit your needs. If you’re an intermediate or advanced developer, take advantage of Seagull’s best practices , standards and modular codebase to build your applications in record time.

Once your development cycle is complete, use Seagull’s features for deploying and maintaining your apps locally and remotely. Check out the friendly and active Seagull community and see if Seagull’s a good fit for you.

Features

  • PHP 4/5 compatible
  • compact core framework with basic CMS and other modules included to get you started
  • ease of use: learning curve not as steep as other frameworks
  • enterprise ready, performance conscious design
  • tight integration with PEAR libraries, great for prototyping complex projects
  • integrated ORM for RAD
  • highly configurable, easy to integrate with 3rd party code
  • community support: the project enjoys participation from a large and active developer community, want the documentation in Chinese, looking for Seagull devs near you?
  • loosely coupled components, use template engine of your choice, output to multiple devices or CLI

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IT Mill Toolkit is an open-source framework, providing widgets and tools for the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Deliver web applications without worrying aboutincompatibilities of web browsers, DOM or JavaScript by using standard Java tools. 

LIVE PIPE UI

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LivePipe UI is a suite of high quality widgets and controls for web 2.0 applications built using the Prototype JavaScript Framework. Each control is well tested, highly extensible, fully documented and degrades gracefully for non JavaScript enabled browsers where possible.

iWebKIT

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Iwebkit is the revolutionnairy kit used to create high quality iPhone and iPod touch websites in a few minutes. In the first 4 months of it’s existance the pack has greatly evolved from a basic idea to a project that has reached worldwide fame.

JITSU

jitsu

Jitsu contains an integrated set of tools to enable developers to build and deploy sophisticated user interfaces for web applications. These include an Xml markup language, page compiler, data binding engine, JavaScript runtime, control library, runtime inspector, animation engine, cross-platform library, Ajax, and back button support. Jitsu apps use DHTML and run in most modern web browsers.

MochaUI

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MochaUI is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools JavaScript framework.

Echo Web Framework

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Echo is an open-source framework for developing rich web applications. From the developer’s perspective, Echo behaves as a user interface toolkit–like Swing or Eclipse SWT. AJAX technology is employed to deliver a user experience to web clients that approaches that of desktop-based applications. Echo applications can be created entirely in server-side Java code using a component-oriented and event-driven API (applies to Echo2 and Echo3) or as client-side applications written in JavaScript (applies to Echo3 only).

The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)

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The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX.

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In a market dominated by big advertisers and huge networks, life as a publisher can be tough. Well, OpenX is here to help. We’re an open source advertising community dedicated to helping publishers make more money. Tens of thousands of people around the world have turned to our free ad serving software. With OpenX you’re free to choose banners, campaigns and terms that suit you. And our highly sophisticated tracking system means you can gather statistics and optimise campaigns, all from the same simple interface. The result of this flexibility and reporting means that with OpenX, you can take complete control of your advertising.

Features:

Build on your AdSense revenue

  • Try new ad networks quickly and easily
  • Deliver direct ad sales reliably
  • Rotate banners on your site
  • Compare the performance of different ads and networks

Powerful, flexible ad serving for professionals

  • Meet all your advertisers’ needs
  • Optimise ad revenue using rich targeting options
  • Manage all your websites from one place
  • Integrate with other applications

Customizable, scalable ad network platform

  • Run affiliate, advertiser and publisher networks
  • Scale to billions of ads each month
  • Customize the ad server to suit your needs
  • Control your technology costs

 

Comprehensive, flexible ad targeting and delivery options

  • Target on visitor geography, keyword, website location
  • Target on customer database fields
  • Companion positioning
  • Advanced targeting and optimization techniques

Manage direct ad sales

  • Book impression and click targets
  • Deliver evenly over campaign lifetime
  • Give advertisers direct access to reports

Monitor the performance of your ad space

  • Track and compare the performance of campaigns and creatives
  • Monitor the performance of different parts of your websites
  • Export data to Excel

Advanced trafficking features

  • Manage advertising across many websites
  • User management and activity auditing
  • Automate trafficking processes using the API

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page_structureA growing number of countries around the world have introduced legislation which either directly addresses the need for websites to be accessible to people with disabilities, or which addresses the more general requirement for people with disabilities not to be discriminated against. TYPOlight does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and is thoroughly accessible.

If you run multiple TYPOlight websites, installing updates can be very time consuming, even if they are small. You have to manually connect to each website via FTP, synchronize the files and update the database with the TYPOlight install tool. The live update service allows you to update your installation with only a few clicks in the back end, so you do not have to waste your time on file uploads.

PHP 5 and Ajax are modern “Web 2.0” technologies that you can find in a lot of contemporary applications. TYPOlight has a solid codebase built on the new object-oriented programming features of PHP 5 and can therefore be considered a future-proof software. To ensure back end accessibility, every Ajax feature includes a graceful fallback in case JavaScript is disabled.

Full feature list

  • Intuitive user interface
  • Accessible XHTML strict output
  • Meets W3C/WAI requirements
  • Uses Ajax technology
  • Web 2.0 support (mootools-based)
  • Live update service
  • Accessible administration area
  • Multiple back end languages and themes
  • Generates search engine friendly URLs
  • Multi-language support
  • Powerful permission system
  • Versioning and undo management
  • Advanced search and sorting options
  • Front end output 100% template based
  • Automatic e-mail encryption (spam protection)
  • Supports SMTP in addition to PHP’s mail function
  • Supports multiple websites in one tree
  • Supports GZip compression
  • Print articles as PDF

Cross-browser CSS framework

  • Creates columns automatically
  • Existing CSS files can be imported
  • Supports custom layout sections
  • Supports static and liquid layouts
  • Includes important IE bug fixes

Editing features

  • Clipboard feature
  • Edit multiple records
  • Built-in rich text editor (TinyMCE)
  • Different content elements and modules
  • Multilingual spellchecker
  • Insert tags (similar to server side includes)
  • Manual or timed publication

Page features

  • Different page types
  • Multiple websites in one tree
  • Manual or timed publication
  • Hidden pages
  • Password protect pages

News/Blog features

  • Blog functionality
  • Multiple news archives
  • Syndication via RSS/Atom feed
  • SPAM protection
  • Require login to add comments

Newsletter features

  • Subscription via double-opt in
  • HTML and plain text format
  • Sent newslettes can be listed on the website
  • Synchronize subscriptions with member accounts
  • Import recipients from a CSV file

Calendar features

  • Multiple calendars
  • Calendar and mini-calendar
  • Supports syndication via RSS/Atom feed
  • Multiple views (day, week, month)

File manager

  • Multiple file uploads
  • Image thumbnails and file preview
  • Edit uploaded files with the source editor
  • File operation permissions
  • Copy, move, rename files or folders
  • Delete folders recursively

Form generator

  • Automatic input validation
  • Store uploaded files on the server
  • Send form data via e-mail
  • Send uploaded files as e-mail attachment

Search engine

  • Automatic page indexing
  • Search indexing on protected pages
  • Phrase search, wildcard search, AND/OR search
  • Search result caching and pagination

System features

  • Open Source (LGPL)
  • Web-based administration
  • Platform independent
  • Over 60 third party extensions
  • Multilingual documentation

Links:

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PHPRO.ORG answers these request by providing the follow MySQL database of cities and location with 6,670,778 records. Yes thats not a typo, over six and a half million records provided freely by PHPRO.ORG.

Some data, such as elevation etc may be missing from some records. This database may be mildly or wildly inacurate and is provided AS IS with no warranty of fitness for a purpos.

Database Schema:

  • city_id - integer id of record in geonames database
  • city_name - name of geographical point (utf8)
  • asciiname - name of geographical point in plain ascii characters
  • alternatenames - alternatenames, comma separated
  • latitude - latitude in decimal degrees (wgs84)
  • longitude - longitude in decimal degrees (wgs84)
  • feature class - see http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html
  • feature code –  see http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html
  • country code - ISO-3166 2-letter country code, 2 characters
  • cc2 - alternate country codes, comma separated, ISO-3166 2-letter country code, 60 characters
  • admin1 code - fipscode (subject to change to iso code), isocode for the us and ch, see file admin1Codes.txt for display names of this code
  • admin2 code - code for the second administrative division, a county in the US, see file admin2Codes.txt
  • admin3 code - code for third level administrative division
  • admin4 code - code for fourth level administrative division
  • population - The population calculated at modification_date
  • elevation - in meters
  • gtopo30 - average elevation of 30′x30′ (ca 900mx900m) area in meters
  • timezone - the timezone id
  • modification date - date of last modification in yyyy-MM-dd format

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]]> http://tochka.co.uk/database/geo-spatial-free-city-to-country-geo-data/123/feed/ 0 Trellis Desk – help desk solution http://tochka.co.uk/php/trellis-desk-help-desk-solution/122/ http://tochka.co.uk/php/trellis-desk-help-desk-solution/122/#comments Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:51:19 +0000 R2D2 http://nazzz.wordpress.com/?p=68 td_screenshot_3Trellis Desk is a powerful, robust help desk solution for your business. Improve your company’s service by allowing your customers to quickly and easily submit support tickets to your team. Trellis Desk sports a range of advanced features to revitalize the way your business handles customer support. Even better, it’s completely free; you’ll never have to pay any license fees to use Trellis Desk.

Trellis Desk boasts an impressive set of features that will simplify and expedite the customer support cycle at your business or organization — and you’ll never have to pay any license fees to use it. Listed below are just some of the neat things that Trellis Desk can do.

Features:

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  • Ticket departments - Create an unlimited number of departments to which your users can submit support tickets, like “Sales“,“Billing“, and “Technical Support“.
  • Canned ticket replies - Insert commonly used responses with just one click. Say goodbye to typing out the same old message over and over again.
  • Ticket escalation - Allow users to upgrade, or “escalate,” a support ticket and ensure it receives attention. Set the amount of time that must pass before a ticket can be escalated.
  • Ticket priority levels - Determine which tickets require your immediate attention based on their user-assigned priority levels, such as urgent, high, medium, and low.
  • Group permissions - Restrict users from visiting particular areas of your helpdesk, and prevent staff members from accessing certain administrative functions or ticket departments.
  • Ticket assignment - Assign any ticket to a particular staff member who can better address the issue.

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  • Multi-moderation features - Quickly perform an action on several tickets at once. Hold, move, close, delete, or reopen numerous tickets in a matter of seconds.
  • Helpdesk RSS feeds - Generate an RSS feed of all the tickets in your department. Add the feed to your newsreader and watch the tickets roll in (ideally, not).
  • Skin manager - Change the appearance of your helpdesk by editing templates and CSS from within the administration control panel. Import new skins or export ones you’ve made.
  • Rich text editor - Dynamically apply text formatting to your ticket replies such as bold, italic, and underline. Use spellcheck to locate spelling errors in your reply.
  • Ticket attachments - Users and staff members can attach a file to their ticket reply, if their group permissions allow it. Share documents, error logs, or code.
  • Language manager - (Trellis Desk ships in US English.) Edit language strings from within the administration control panel. Import new language packs or export translations you’ve made.

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  • Manage articles and categories - Create a collection of pre-written articles containing existing solutions to common problems. Group similar articles under the same category for ease of access.
  • Article ratings and comments - Allow users to submit a star rating for any knowledgebase article and leave comments on the article page itself.
  • KB suggestions before ticket submission - Trellis Desk can automatically show relevant knowledgebase articles to users before they submit a ticket, potentially reducing helpdesk ticket volume.

Requirements:

  • PHP - Version 4.3.0 or newer
  • MySQL - Version 4.1 or newer
  • GD2 with FreeType support - For generating security CAPTCHAs
  • Webhost supporting email forwarding - Ticket email piping requires a webhost that supports piping incoming mail through use of a forwarder

Links:

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TypePublish is a website content management system built on PHP, MySQL and a dash of Prototype/Scriptaculous, it is ideally suited for small-to-medium businesses who want to set up and manage their own website.

TypePublish aims to fill a gap in the market for an open-source PHP CMS that is accessible for novice web users while at the same time providing a powerful application framework on which web developers can create compelling, custom web media.

 

Features:

  • Fully validated XHTML 1.1 code – the very latest HTML standard
  • Search engine optimisation (SEO) features including full control over meta data
  • An easy-to-understand interface with plenty of on-screen help
  • Save draft content and queue content for publication at a later time
  • Add unlimited pages with ease
  • Create translations for any of your pages; offer your website in multiple languages
  • Contact form with spam-buster
  • Multi-user content management system
  • Robust, secure but lightweight and bandwidth-efficient code base
  • Full installation routine – get your new website up in minutes!
  • Modular system to allow web developers to easily create custom functionality
  • CSS grid and templating engines to allow web designers to easily create unique, custom web designs

Links:

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Features:

 

  • Internationalization/localization
  • Multi-lingual titles and descriptions
  • Plugin system
  • Slideshow
  • Automatically generated thumbnails, custom crops possible!, and sized-down images
  • Upload via FTP or via the admin interface
  • Move/copy/rename images and albums without loosing any data
  • Upload images, albums (folders) or even zip-archives
  • Comments on images and albums with powerful spam filters
  • AJAX-powered edit-while-you-browse
  • Sub albums; interface for moving/renaming images and albums.
  • Video support for Flash Video (.flv), MPEG4 (.mp4), Quicktime (.mov) and 3GP (.3gp)
  • Audio support for MP3 and MP4
  • Password protection for gallery and albums
  • EXIF and IPTC support
  • Watermarks for images
  • Powerful search with boolean expressions
  • Tags: Categorize you images with tags
  • Image and album rating
  • Dynamic albums: Generate albums from searches!
  • Highly customizable theme engine
  • rss for gallery, albums and comments
  • Multiple administrative users with varying rights
  • Cruft free, search engine friendly URLs with mod_rewrite

 

Links:

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With a few minor changes to your form, you can stop using old-fashioned form-mail scripts and instead store form submissions in a database, instantly providing your clients with a user-friendly interface to manage their form submissions, include options such as mass data export via excel, printer-friendly pages, data sorting, form submission editing and optional email notifications. See the following table for a list of features.

Features:

  • Open Source
  • Re-usable - A single installation can handle as many forms as you wish – even from different websites
  • Very little modification to your web form is needed to allow Form Tools to store its content.
  • Form Tools has a simple, intuitive web interface which you and your clients will appreciate
  • Brandable
  • Extensible – Form Tools was designed to be used in conjunction with other software, such as online credit card payment processing

Links:

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