easybook is a PHP/JavaScript script for publishing books with ease.
This tool takes care of the book structure — what you have to do is mostly content-related. The books are written in Markdown, and converted to the necessary format by easybook.
easybook wouldn’t be so easy to use if it wouldn’t have such splendid docs as it currently does — kudos to the developers for that!
9lessons.info have published a simple and effective tutorial about creating a file upload progress bar using jQuery.
The JavaScript is concise, but the server, of course, requires a version of PHP — and in this case, not one lower than 5.4.
The programmer also uses PHP’s APC library; jQuery is used to monitor the state of the file every few seconds.
Laravel is a PHP framework with a strong and expressive syntax.
Laravel is well-documented and makes code modularization easy, allowing you to reuse chunks of code and freeing you to write the things you really want to, not only seek your way around the framework’s set of rules.
Laravel is best used together with the Artisan command line tool, and has quite a few bundles that should get you started in no time.
Kimai is an open source time tracking script written with PHP. It also requires a MySQL database.
Kimai offers a great solution for work teams, optionally providing an oDesk-like budget management and invoice generation.
What’s nice about Kimai is that it provides an easy-to-use interface for any number of users.
However, for contractor teams, using Kimai is quite unsafe, as there’s not a monitoring system included (i.e., no one knows how many actual work hours are being put in by each worker).
h2o is a template engine for PHP (5.1+), written for developers who want to use Django/Jinja-inspired concepts in PHP.
The engine features a readable syntax that allows reusing enormous amounts of code.
It’s extensible and gives devs the opportunity to internationalize their projects without a fuss.
Altogether, h2o looks like a rather useful library, especially to newer PHP developers who have come to PHP from Python.
Directus is a content management framework that doesn’t focus on coding that much.
Directus is a “framework” as it requires you to customize content presentation upon installing the CMS; however, this can be done without being familiar to coding.
What you’ll like about Directus:
What you won’t like:
25 April, 2012
By Lauris Veips
