Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

jQuery.timepickr was created in a attempt to make the process of inputing time in a form as easy and natural as possible. It is a simple 2-click in place editing time picker and regular time picker.

It is unobtrusive and degrade gracefully. It has intuitive keyboard navigation support as well. jQuery.timepickr has just released Version 0.7 with the support of jQuery UI theme switcher. You can play around it with different themes offered.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://haineault.com/media/jquery/ui-timepickr/page/
License: MIT License

Apigee is a website that provides analytics, protection and control for APIs. Apigee enables API providers to understand usage, protect their app, and enforce API terms of use. Developers using APIs can use Apigee to get visibility into the actual service levels of the APIs they consume. Apigee is for any Web API. It supports SOAP and REST – both XML and JSON. Apigee is not yet for encrypted API traffic (SSL) or OAuth.

You can understand customers, usage patterns and app behavior with detailed analytics and alerts on API traffic, clients, errors, and data volumes. Protect your application and customers from misuse and abuse with API throttling, XML threat screening, and SLA alerts.

Apigee is a ‘Freemium’ service. Apigee’s Basic service is Free up to 10,000 messages per hour. You can create as many proxies for as many APIs as you want.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.apigee.com/
License: Free up to 10,000 Messages per hour

Tweetable is a lightweight jQuery plugin which enables you to display your twitter feed on your site quickly and easily. More than just displaying the feeds you can highlight @replys as well as links being dynamically generated for ease of use.

To use Tweetable simply create an empty div and apply an ID or class of your choice. There are some added parameters that you can pass into tweetable for extra functionality. as default you must enter your username, you can also control the date and set the limit of tweets you wish to display.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://theodin.co.uk/tools/tutorials/jqueryTutorial/plugins/tweetable/
License: MIT, GPL License

CKEditor is a Version 3.0 of FCKeditor. After almost two years of intensive development, the first stable version of CKEditor 3.0 has finally released.

CKEditor is a complete rewrite of our so loved FCKeditor, which got a bit old after six years of great success. Not to say that FCKeditor is doing bad, but there are some new things we could bring to it, and CKEditor is the result of it. There are dozens of new features in CKEditor.

CKEditor is fast to load and fast to use. The development team stayed focused to bring the best performance you can have, using all modern best practices. You’ll be amazed with it.

You’ll note that they have also a brand new UI based on the Kama skin. Other than modern, Kama is colorful like a chameleon, so you can precisely match its color to your needs. This is an innovative and unique feature you’ll find in CKEditor only.

The CKEditor code is also much different now. It’s up to date with the new JavaScript development requirements, offering a rich and powerful integration and interaction API. The editor is totally plugin based, and it can be extended and modified in all senses to fit all needs.

Requirements: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera
Demo: http://ckeditor.com/demo
License: GPL, LGPL, MIT License

Lessn is an extremely simple, personal url shortener written in PHP with MySQL and mod_rewrite. The installation is very simple with full instruction in a readme file. Lessn is offered free, as is, sans support and without warranty (but is really not as scary as all that).

Open /lessn/-/config.php in a plaintext editor and create a Lessn username and password then enter your database connection details. Upload the entire /lessn/ directory to your server. For the shortest urls, place it at the root of your site and rename to a single character. And then visit http://yourdomain.com/x/-/ to Lessn a new url and grab the bookmarklets.

Requirements: PHP 4.4.8+ and MySQL 4.1.25+
Demo: http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2009/08/17/less_n
License: License Free

AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of “featured content” slider, “start/stop slider“, “moving boxes“ and adding new features. In other words, to create a really “full featured” slider that could be widely useful. This is a plugin, which makes implementing it and customizing it much easier.

It supports Auto-playing (start playing or stopped). Pauses autoPlay on hover is optional. Each slide has a hashtag (can link directly to specific slides). Infinite/Continuous sliding (always slides in the direction you are going, even at “last” slide).

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://css-tricks.com/examples/AnythingSlider/
License: License Free

PHP Security Consortium (PHPSC) is an international group of PHP experts dedicated to promoting secure programming practices within the PHP community. Members of the PHPSC seek to educate PHP developers about security through a variety of resources, including documentation, tools, and standards. You can read the PHP Security Guide they have published.

In addition to their educational efforts, the PHPSC engages in exploratory and experimental research in order to develop and promote standards of best practice for PHP application development. PHP Security Consortium has developed PHPSecInfo in order to help developers and system administrators audit PHP environments.

PHPSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of code or app auditing, but can be a useful tool in a multilayered security approach.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://phpsec.org/projects/phpsecinfo/index.html
License: New BSD License

Picok stands for Personal Information Cockpit. It’s an open source software package, aimed at enabling users to build their personal information dashboards. The users content is loaded into small draggable boxes, so called portlets, and layed out in a tabbed column-based interface. There are a quite few standard portlets shipped with Picok, but since it is an open system, maintainers of picok installations can easily create portlets of their own.

Picok is written in PHP 5, uses the Yahoo User Interface Library and Zend Framework Components and supports MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Lotus Notes and is ready to be integrated into your corporate intranet, website or community platform as well.

Requirements: Yahoo User Interface Library
Demo: http://www.picok.org/en/
License: GPL 3.0 License

In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin is a simple plugin that turns properly formatted HTML forms into forms with in-field label support. Labels fade when the field is focussed and disappear when text entry begins. Clearing a field and leaving brings back the label.

There are some major benefits. The input element or textarea never really has content, so validation can proceed without first checking for the field value. It takes one line of jQuery code to implement. And its compatible with all modern browsers (And even IE6, the “not-so-modern” browser).

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://fuelyourcoding.com/in-field-labels/
License: GPL, MIT License