There is a lot of programatic headache that can be accompanied by attempting to tackle the Google Checkout API. With the overhead of any online monetary transactions and three different layers of integration means a lot of documentation to cover. The gCartEncoder is a PHP library that allows you to alleviate some of the headaches and get an implementation of a phase one integration in place.

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Open Source Photo Gallery Designed with Mootools Javascript Library

(E)² Photo Gallery is a open source gallery built with Mootools Javascript Library the compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework. Designed to allow you to upload your photos to a desired folder, tell the (E)² Photo Gallery what folder to look at and it will automatically load the images using PHP.

Features

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PHPBench was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed. You may be surprised at the results PHPBench generates. It was also created so that you would be able to find discovery in these statistics and then maybe re-run these tests in your own server environment to play around with this idea yourself, by using the code examples. You can see some interesting conclusions from PHPBench as follow as well.

Website: http://www.phpbench.com

Query File Tree is a configurable, AJAX file browser plugin for jQuery. You can create a customized, fully-interactive file tree with as little as one line of JavaScript code.

Currently, server-side connector scripts are available for PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, and Lasso. If you’re a developer, you can easily make your own connector to work with your language of choice.

Features

• Produces valid, semantic XHTML
• Fully customizable via CSS
• Ability to style icons based on file extension
• Uses AJAX to fetch file information on the fly
• Easy to configure and implement
• Includes connector scripts for PHP and ASP.NET (C#)
• Supports custom connector scripts for extended functionality
• Customizable expand/collapse event
• Customizable expand/collapse speeds
• Supports jQuery easing functions
• Single- and multi-folder views
• Configurable load message

jQuery File Tree works in all major browsers.

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jQuery.Hotkeys plugin lets you easily add and remove handlers for keyboard events anywhere in your code supporting almost any key combination. It takes one line of code to bind/unbind a hot key combination. It works with all major browsers.

Requirements:jQuery Framework

Download: http://code.google.com/p/js-hotkeys/

Demo: http://jshotkeys.googlepages.com/test-static-01.html

A handy document for PHP developers.

Download jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet v1.0 in PDF format.

VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution to be used together with a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla and Mambo. Joomla and VirtueMart are written in PHP and made easy for use in a PHP/MySQL environment.

VirtueMart is free software released under the GNU General Public License. No limitations exist for VirtueMart. You can create and maintain a site with an unlimited number of categories, products, orders, customers, etc.

Requirements: Joomla or Mambo Framework

Website: http://virtuemart.net

Demo: http://demo.virtuemart.net

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The perfect solution if you want to have a rating script on your page! It uses MySQL as the database & the interface can be styled via CSS.

It has different nice variations to choose from, you can rate using radio buttons but you will get stars as a result.

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Demo can be accessed here

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The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.

When finished, you can view your finalized estimate in a print-ready format in case you’d like to save a PDF or print a copy for your records.

The tool does not offer any benefit over a Google spreadsheet, but there’s a lot of freelance web designers/developers who don’t have an estimating process at all and it was created for them.

Website: http://estimator.astuteo.com

A simple gallery example for ActionScript 2, easy to use and implement. Interesting thing about this example is that you pass a folder, and PHP side gathers image list from a folder and returns it to the Flash in XML form together with images widths and height which makes it more easier to implement this sort of galleries like I’ve made

Features:

• PHP serving XML to Flash
• PHP getting image size (width and height)
• Flash loading XML
• Flash creating elements on stage using library
• loading external images
• and more…

Demo: http://www.hagane.us/as/gallery/

Download: http://www.hagane.us/as/gallery/gallery.zip