Ninjakreborn Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Starting up a bunch of random tools. Just curious if anyone had any web tool ideas they wanted to toss around (That they are not wanting) or wouldn't mind having. I am talking about pretty small tools. Onces that can function in 1-2 pages. Anything considered "small" tools. Is there anything you would have like to have seen at some point, or think might be pretty useful? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 I'm not sure what you mean by tools, however mashup projects are always nice to work on. Intergrating one or more API's is always a popular requirement i.e. Use the Google Maps & Flickr APIs to display photos of a location when I click on the map. Also display links to wikipedia that contain more information. Use the Google Maps API and various transport feeds to give me information on train times, add markers to specific public transport. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1172245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 11, 2011 Author Share Posted February 11, 2011 I just mean random tools (pig latin generator, contact form generator, mobile directions). Just random ideas for small tools. The ideas you gave me might work. Might play around with some of them. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1172591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 pig latin generator, contact form generator, mobile directions mmmmm. I definately think that functional code that works with popular API's is what people want the most. In the past I certainly have tried to hunt down stuff. The reason being is that API's can have a massive amount of documentation and some people just don't have the time to read or it is too complex. However if they had a complete script they may be able to see and understand how the API is used. I'll give you one that people always ask for and that is code to integrate Paypal Website Payments Pro. The documentation is complex however the complete code is not, it just seems like it should be. The code examples that they offer are rubbish, often out of date and incomplete. Another is Google Base where the API allows you to add products from your e-commerce database into their shopping results. Maybe a tool that creates a data feed from CSV, or text file would be useful. Any scripts that work with API's to help users are worth working on. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1172656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 11, 2011 Share Posted February 11, 2011 For even smaller stuff time difference between two timestamps / js date picker. Unix timestamp to english. configurable random string generator Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1172866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 There we go, now I am getting some ideas I can work with. Been sitting for weeks trying to think of something. I am going to work up some stuff based off of those ideas. I will try to get a few of them together. If anyone has more ideas, feel free to throw them out there too. Going to see what all I can create with the API's, and try a the random string generator idea, and see what I can form with the other ideas you threw out there. Thanks again by the way. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1173438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulRyan Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 How about something along the lines of CSS Layout Generator, from user HTML? A user will input there HTML using tables and such, then use PHP to make that layout CSS'ed? This is something that I have been interested in, and something that people would most certainly use as CSS has better cross-browser support than crappy tables etc. It would be a nice challenge, although 'maybe' lengthy Just a suggestion. Regards, PaulRyan. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1173440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Not a bad idea. Then I could give them a variety of misc options they can choose regarding their styles. I might PM you about that for some additional feedback once I get started on it. I know that the phpfreaks community would help with this. I had been spinning my heels on this. I did a basic contact form generator, which is continuing development..I had a lot of ideas for one of those. Also did a basic pig latin generator, which I am going to make better. Was looking for some extra ideas. You guys have given me a lot of feedback for my next 3-4 tools. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1173461 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 I am actually in the process of implementing 3-4 of these ideas. The one that was also interesting was the CSS layout generator. Can you give me more feedback on how you would envision that. I mean someone would upload a HTML file. Would have to validate correct XHTML, if not do some correction on it (perhaps running Tidy on the file or something) and then go through and do some CSS applying. Generating CSS for a specific XHTML structure, for a specific purpose would be easy..that hard part will be figuring out the myriad of different things someone can want. So what was some more of your feedback on the CSS layout generation. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1173842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 Nevermind, I see what you mean. have a text box for header, text box for footer, and text box for sidebar, then perform automatic CSS variants on them. Not a bad idea. Might play around with that some. OK guys, thanks again. I should have enough ideas here to keep me busy awhile. I am going to play around with some of these. If anyone else has any random ideas they come up with, it's appreciated. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1173924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 http://csscreator.com/version2/pagelayout.php Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1173986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 Gives me some ideas. I am going to try to make a tool as a competitor. See if I can do it better. Thanks for the link, gives me some general ideas. Want to try to build my own from scratch and see if I can do better. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1174035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 A few ideas I had the last few weeks: YAML 2 Class, custom Zend_Form class builder instead of having to manually type in those Decorator's... custom Zend package builder.. (there has been one around but never really worked for me) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1174225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Thanks for the additional ideas. I am implementing a few of them now. I may end up doing all of these ideas. Ideas seem to be in short supply lately. Thanks for all the ideas and feedback. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1174343 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted July 22, 2011 Author Share Posted July 22, 2011 Anymore ideas? I have implemented a few of them. I am actually working on a few more larger tools based off the feedback (like large conversion tool). Anyone else have feedback regarding other random tools. Always could use ideas. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/227125-random-ideas-for-random-web-tools/#findComment-1246005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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