Eyesis Data Grid Control is a PHP class for creating a datagrid from a MySQL database almost instantly.

With 6 lines of code, you can connect to the database, mention the table & define the query, rest is automated.

It has nice features like:

• Filtering and searching
• Changing column headers
• Can displaying images
• Ajax supported
• Automatic row paging
• Row selection
• Look & feel can be customized via CSS
• Ability to add controls
• Checkbox support
• Specify column format types (such as percent, dollars, etc)

This Ajaxed PHP grid works in all major browsers & requires PHP5 to run.

Claros, which is a passionate team in creating open source software, has a beautiful software named Claros inTouch.

Clasor InTouch is an ajax communication suite with key features such as webmail, address book, post-it notes, calendar (in progress), webdisk (in progress), built-in instant messenger and RSS reader. It is the first open source web application which features built in spam protection and instant messaging capabilities together with web 2.0 technologies.

It is built with Java, utilizes JSP/Servlets with the well known J2EE technologies & uses MySQL database.

Claros inTouch is more than a free webmail software with a slick interface & usability.

It is offered under GNU which makes this communication suite software totally free.

Classic ASP is losing its popularity, or already lost it. On the other hand, there are many developers who use it.

And, it is hard to find new & exciting projects about classic ASP but here is one: ajaxed, an ASP library with built-in Ajax support.

With the release of ajaxed 2, the library is very mature, well documented & supported with examples.

It includes a debugging tool (Logger), has an e-mail wrapper, datagrid, a validator control & much more.

ajaxed is also fully UTF-8 compatible and has support for MySQL, MSSQL, sqlite, MS Access & Oracle.

It is a great library to speed up the development process for classic ASP developers.

Seadragon is a technology, by Microsoft, for deeply zooming images of any size. It provides almost perfect transitions independent from the sizes of the images.

Seadragon Ajax is an interface for using/embedding this technology to any website.

Seadragon can be used in 2 ways:

• By uploading images to Photozoom & use Embed Builder
• Compose a deep zoom image with Deep Zoom Composer & upload the images to your website

Developers can customize viewers & controls with the Seadragon Ajax Library. It is also available at the Silverlight platform.

LightForm is a free Ajax/PHP contact form. It also uses FormCheck2 for fields validation and NiceForms to style text fields and textareas. Features of the form are listed below:

wTag is a shoutbox (chatbox or mini chat) that is written in JavaScript and PHP, and using Ajax to exchange data with the server without need to reload an entire page. It uses MySQL database as backend. Just take a look at demo here.

• Replace URLs catched in a message with clickable links.
• UTF-8 encoding for multilingual support.
• Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS.
• Custom designs: it’s easy to change the chatbox look by editing the CSS files.
• A form validation and warnings display system

jQuery.popeye is a plugin which transforms an unordered list of images into a simple image gallery which enlarges the image clicked in Lightbox style.

The images are displayed in a box with prev-next controls & an info about the images can be mentioned.

The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The width and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area.

The plugin can be easily customized with a list of settings provided.

Click here for the demo.

In this collection, you’ll find 9 excellent websites and blogs that provide high-quality examples and tutorials on Ajax and Javascript .

1. Ajax Rain

AjaxRain has illustrated examples of some nifty web-fx that can be achieved with combinations of AJAX, CSS, DHTML or Javascript. Some of the demos are definitely worth a look, even if you aren’t a web designer/programmer.

Ajax/Javascript Examples

• - EXT JS Date Picker
• - jQuery Feed Menu
• - jGrowl
• - FastFind Menu – Jquery
• - Spiffy Accordion

2. Ajax Daddy

A large collection of nifty web 2.0 tools. One neat feature is that you can play with the demo online, before you decide to put the example on your own website.

Ajax/Javascript Examples

• - Flickr Like edit
• - MooTools Autocomplete
• - SlideShow Viewer
• - Prototype window
• - Shoutbox

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