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Fast Apps: Tools & scripts for your website ... small, FREE, no database!

Fast Apps come with a point-and-click admin interface so you can manage your content securely, quickly and with minimal fuss.

Best suited to small-medium sized websites, all Fast Apps use flat (text) files to store information. No database needed!


Fast Cal Last Updated: Mar 2nd, 2019

Manage your calendar events or diary dates and display them in a responsive monthly module, or full year event list. Link to files or other websites and show additional event info in a space-saving popup.

Supports multiple users (actions are logged), iCalendar export, and custom colour-coded categories.

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Head over to the Fast Cal pages to find out about features and installation, and get the download.


Fast Feed Last Updated: Dec 6th, 2018

Easily manage and edit news entries for an RSS feed - outputs a compliant RSS v2.0 xml file and custom HTML content files that can be used to populate many jQuery plugins and 3rd party news ticker scripts.

Can be used with Dynamic Drive's Pausing RSS Scroller and supports multiple users to allow easy syndication.

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Head over to the Fast Feed pages to find out about features and installation, and get the download.


Fast Logs Last Updated: Dec 19th, 2018

Display and manage all manner of logs, notices and updates in a small or confined space on your website.
Auto-pagination (page numbering) and archiving included.

Can also be used on a larger scale, for example, to display chapters of a book or manual (a page per chapter).

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Head over to the Fast Logs pages to find out about features and installation, and get the download.


Fast Warn Last Updated: January 9th, 2018

Quickly display an alert box or critical warning message to your website visitors. Also outputs a compliant RSS v2.0 xml file that can be used to push updates automatically to Twitter and Facebook.

Supports multiple users, the last of whom is logged so you can see who posted/edited the previous message.

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Head over to the Fast Warn pages to find out about features and installation, and get the download.


Requirements

  • a PHP enabled server (with "Safe Mode" turned OFF) - tested on Apache under Linux and Microsoft-IIS 7 under Windows NT
  • access to chmod files on your hosting server
  • a JavaScript enabled web browser

License

Fast Apps applications are free for anybody to use and are released under the GNU General Public License agreement.

They are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but come without any warranty so use with your best judgement.

About the Author

Beverley HootonHello. My name is Beverley Hooton and I've been employed as Website Technician for a Specialist Technology College in Derbyshire, UK, since the start of 2008. You'll also find me at Focus on Function Web Design working on freelance and private projects. [more]

Last updated: March 28th, 2019