Avactis is a powerful PHP shopping cart application that has multiple versions (including free + open source) and impressive features.

It has everything and more to expect from an e-commerce tool on every level from product to member managements, orders and marketing.

Unlimited categories and products with any number of images (auto-thumbnail support) can be created. Using "custom fields", you can better define a product and help users reach to it with a point-shot search.

The application is very flexible in creating any type of promotions like discount codes, price-based or quantity discounts discounts, built-in affiliate system, newsletter management and more.

SEO is taken care of -mostly- automatically with SEO-friendly URLs, optimized HTML code or breadcrumb navigation and more can be done with the help of custom meta information and titles.

Avactis works with almost every popular payment processor including PayPal, Google Checkout, Authorize.net and much more.

When it comes to frontend, the look and feel can be totally customized via CSS and templating system.

A CSS Editor, which actually works like a site builder, helps switching between styles and designing the storefront while browsing it.

Modules like featured products, newsletter subscription, registration can be positioned with a "Visual Layout Editor".

Simply, Avactis is a complete software for creating and managing an online store. And, besides the paid ones, it also has a free version.

The giveaway

Sitepoint and Avactis are running a giveaway of 50 Avactis full licenses with Brandon Eley & Shayne Tilley's "Online Marketing Inside Out" (Online Marketing: Sitepoint) book. You can join it from the link above and act fast as it'll be expiring soon.

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DaDaBIK is an open source (but not totally free, requires a small donation) and mature PHP application for creating a customizable database front-end without coding.

Within minutes, you can create a basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) application or dive into its features to build a more complicated one.

It doesn't generate a PHP script, stores the settings and can easily adapt to changes made in the database schema.

The application works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle + MS SQL Server and has features like choosing:

• if the field must be included or not in a search/insert/update form and results table
• labels
• content format (e.g. numeric, alphabetic, e-mail, url…)of a field
• the HTML input type (e.g. textbox, menu, date, rich text editor, password box…)
• the possible values, also driven from another table (foreign key support)
• and much more…

Some other exciting features include:

• master/details view (attaching 2 or more tables to each other like choosing a user from "users" table and seeing his orders from "orders" table)
• file uploading
• exporting to CSV
• e-mail notices

DaDaBIK is multilingual with support for 10+ languages.

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