Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

MattBango has shared his approach to creating a timeline out of CSS and HTML. The Pure CSS Timeline is a simple and clean looking timeline with some very straight forward markup. We have a nice looking timeline styled completely with CSS, but what happens if the visitor doesn’t have CSS enabled? Since we used unordered lists, we still have a nicely accessible list of events.

The Pure CSS Timeline may not be the perfect solution markup wise and CSS wise, but it gets the job done and is still quite accessible for all users. Take the timeline a step further. You could add some Javascript interactions, tooltips, animations, etc.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://mattbango.com/notebook/web-development/pure-css-timeline/
License: License Free

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UNIQLO has just released a Calendar Blog Parts, which displays a beatiful Flash calendar with the weather forcast. You can select the country appears on the calendar. You can also set the Background Music On/Off. There are Small and Large size available at the moment.

UNIQLO Calendar Blog Parts has been tested on Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 1.5+ and Safari 1.3.2+. You can easily integrate the calendar on your blog, Myspace, Facebook, iGoogle and etc… Simply paste the generated code on your site, you will get a pretty calendar as follow.

Requirements: Flash Required
Demo: http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/
License: License Free

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dhtmlxScheduler is a web-based event calendar which provides simple in-browser scheduling solution. With smooth Ajax-enabled interface dhtmlxScheduler allows users to add, modify or delete events without refreshing the web page.

Intuitive drag-n-drop behavior gives the possibility to change events date and start/end time by simply dragging the event boxes. The calendar events can be displayed in Day/Week/Month views.

dhtmlxScheduler is very lightweight (about 19KB gzipped), cross-browser and highly customizable. Each aspect of the calendar interface can be configured through JavaScript API. Developers can easily add/update events, change date format, time scale or calendar language.

Although dhtmlxScheduler is a pure JavaScript solution, it can be easily connected to the backend database with the help of dhtmlxConnector, a PHP extension that enables data communication between client-side interface and server-side datasource.

You can also use your own server-side code written in any language (PHP, Java, ASP, etc.) to bind scheduler content to the database. dhtmlxScheduler is distributed under GNU GPL and commercial licenses.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dhtmlxScheduler…
License: GPL and Commercial Licenses

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FullCalendar is a jQuery plugin that provides a full-sized, drag & drop calendar. It uses AJAX to fetch events on-the-fly for each month and is easily configured to use your own feed format (an extension is provided for Google Calendar). It is visually customizable and exposes hooks for user-triggered events (like clicking or dragging an event).

FullCalendar is great for displaying events, but it isn’t a complete solution for event content-management. Beyond dragging an event to a different day, you cannot change an event’s name, time-of-day, or other associated data. It is up to you to add this functionality through FullCalendar’s event hooks.

Requirements: jQuery and jQuery UI Framework
Demo: http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/
License: MIT, GPL License

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One of the most common requests from clients when it comes to Wordpress personalization, is to add a basic event calendar to their website. Finding a good place to position a big table like a calendar within your Wordpress template is always a taught work. In addition, the <table> tag itself is often quite difficult to style in a good way.

Therefore, Stefano Verna came up with astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery. All the magic takes place with some ninja CSS. In addition to the plain calendar structure, You can see a lightweight Coda-like effect for events description popup as well.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.stefanoverna.com/wp-content/tutorials/ical_like_calendar/
License: License Free

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Jamie was looking around many of the tutorial sites there are hardly any Calendar systems. Therefore, he has developed a Calendar System using MySQL and Script.aculo.us. There are 3 main parts, the Javascript, the HTML and the PHP script. You can change the date with the form and it will update the calendar without having to reload the entire page, AJAX style.

Setting up the Calendar System is easy. Simply copy the entire calendar into whatever directory you want. Create your database and import the “databaseSQL.sql” file into it, this will create the default data for running it. And then, alter the “databaseConnection.php” file to show your connection details.That should be it.

Requirements: Prototype, Script.aculo.us Framework, PHP, MySQL
Demo: http://nodstrum.com/wp-content/plugins…
License: License Free

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Date Picker jQuery Plugin allows users select a date or a range selection of dates easily. It hasa lot of options and easy to fit in your web application. It supports multiple calendars in the component. We can mark dates as special, weekends, special days. More importantly, we can easy to customize the look by changing CSS.

Implementation of DatePicker jQuery Plugin is easy. You just need to attach the Javascript and CSS files to your document. Edit CSS file and fix the paths to images and change colors to fit your site theme, and then select the elements in a jQuery way and call the plugin.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.eyecon.ro/datepicker/
License: License Free

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jMonthCalendar is a full month calendar that supports events. You simply initialize the calendar with options and an events array and it can handle the rest. It is compatible with jQuery 1.3.0.

jMonthCalendar has extension points that allow the developer to interact with the calendar when the display is about to change months, after the display has changed months and when the event bubbles are clicked on. By default the events would each have a URL supplied that would link to a details page.

Requirements: jQuery Framework 1.3.0
Demo: http://www.bytecyclist.com/SourceCode/jMonthCalendar/1.0.0/Index.html
License: License Free

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Filling a time field in a form is relatively annoying. There is a bunch of JavaScript “time” pickers, but they seem to always stick to the same approach, most of them sucks in term of user interaction and usability .

Above all Haineault thinks a time picker widget should not alter the way users input data, if they want to use the field as a plain text field and enter “8:00″ manually they should be able to. But there is still room for innovation, so he has determined a set of goals and tried to design his own widget around it:

• It should be unobtrusive
• It should degrade gracefuly
• It should require maximum 2 clicks
• It should allow intuitive keyboard navigation
• It should be touch-friendly (think iphone, tablet pc, etc..)

I love the idea and how it works. You can check the demo here. However, this project is experimental and in its very early stage, so there is probably still a handful of bugs to fix. Please feel free to give him some feedback.

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://haineault.com/media/examples/jquery-utils/demo/ui-timepickr.html
License: MIT License

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ClockLink provides fashionable yet free online clocks made from Flash that can be easily embedded in your web page or in your blog. All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page. You can choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time, and they also provide a variety of selection, including Analog Clocks, Digital Clocks, Count Down Clocks, Count Up Clocks, World Clocks, and many more. Decorate your website or blog with ClockLink’s clocks now.

Requirements:-
Demo: http://www.clocklink.com
License: License Free

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