Archive for February, 2009
38 Coolest Template Engines for PHP
Template engines are designed to allow the separation of business logic from the presentation layer, which means allowing MVC architecture to the developers. With the aid of template engines, we are able to develop websites with different looks but the same logic or the core code. Template engines are lately known as not good ideas because recent platforms already have embedded template engines to separate views from logic, generate code etc…
Here is a compilation of 38 Coolest Template Engines for PHP you can take into reference. Full list after jump.
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70+ Coolest Photoshop Photo Effects
Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it.
Here’s a compilation of 70+ Coolest Photoshop Photo Effects you can take into reference. Full list after jump.
Blog covering Ajax applications, news and techniques
Top 7 Ajax Blog:
- Ajaxian : Ben and Dion’s Ajax Platform
- Ajax Blog : HTML, Javascript and XML coding techniques for Web 2.0
- AjaxDeveloper.org : News for Ajax Developers by Ajax Developers
- Ajax-Powered Blog : to group all the wonderfull ajax websites, tools, javascript functions
- Max Kiesler : roundup articles on Ajax resources
- Software As Shes Developed : Blog and Podcast by Michael Mahemoff
- There and Back Again : The weblog of Joshua Eichorn, AJAX, PHP and Open Source
Getting started Ajax articles and tutorials
Top 34 Ajax Basics:
- Whats Ajax? : Intro at AjaxPatterns
- What is Ajax? : at The Strange Zen Of JavaScript
- Ajax: Getting started : at Mozilla
- An Introduction To Ajax : at Bea software
- Getting Started with Ajax : at A List Apart
- Getting Started with Ajax : at BrainJar
- The Non-Techie Manager Introduction to AJAX : at ITBusinessNet
- 10 Business Reasons to Use AJAX : at AjaxLessons
- How to Develop Web Applications with Ajax Pt 1 : at WebReference
- XML HTTP Request object : at W3Schools
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Top 10 Source Code Search Engines
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Free Icons List From iconeden
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Useful Free Chat and Shoutbox Tools for Your Website or Blog
I am going to build a chatting system and I had referred some free and open source chat/shoutbox tools. These tools can be used to support live conversations between users either in a dedicated hosted chat room, or using a chat or shoutbox on your blog or website. These tools can run stand alone and very easy to integrate to your existing website or blog.
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Using PHP to send SMS through HTTP
There are an infinite number of reasons why you might want to use PHP to send SMS. You might want to add a “send by SMS” option to your headlines, you might want to provide 24/7 support in which your technician is alerted by SMS or you might want to provide your viewers with Free SMS to drive traffic to your site.
Although it is possible to send SMS via e-mail, which we will cover another time, this tutorial will focus on the use of HTTP methods “get” & “post”. For those of us that many not know this, using HTTP basically means the use of forms, just like a contact form, except that these will be submitted automatically as opposed to manually.
Although this tutorial can be used for any gateway that provides access via HTTP, it is based on TM4B SMS Gateway because a) they are the only gateway i know that have a ’simulation’ mode for tweaking your scripts, b) they don’t have any set-up fees and their prices are low, and c) they are reliable and i use them.
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10 Useful WYSIWYG Editors
WYSIWYG editor It’s fairly simple to allow people to add and edit plain text, by using the familiar textarea form elemen.
Following are some features that a useful html editor should have:
- Easy to integrate
- Customizable
- Browser friendly
- Lightweight
- AJAX Compatible
- Multi-language
- Open Source
And you can try to use one of following editors. If you happen to know some good free magazines that I’ve missed. Feel free to leave a comment. I will add it.
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Decorate your desktop with stormy wallpaper
Step 1: Open this pic (i will provide link for download at the end of this tut,so scroll down to download it if you want to try this tut)
