Agile Development

Agile Development can help you complete website development projects on time, within budget and more inline with customer expectations. One the process that the agile development process relies upon include iterative development which involves frequent inspection and modification. Agile Carousel is a tool that helps you with the rapid creation of high-quality website displays. Great for Agile development sprints, it is designed to be quickly deployed and highly flexible. Use it as part of your development framework to get a head start on your next project.

Website Development

A good framework is a winning ingredient for your website development process. Add Agile Carousel to your framework and gain the ability to easily and quickly create advanced image displays. This tool does not require a high level of programming knowledge allows more team members to contribute to the website development process. Your web designers will love the ability to animate their work.

Setup Instructions

Agile Carousel requires the JQuery JavaScript library and PHP v5.2+. A JavaScript code snippet should be placed at the bottom of the HTML document where the carousel resides. That snippet may contain a settings object where you may specify the transition type, duration, captions and user interface elements (button types). If settings are not specified, then the defaults will be used. If you include the JQuery UI effects library, then you may use additional transition effect sand easing types.

Website development includes creating CSS rules to control the layout of your slide show. For example, if you enter settings within the JavaScript object to display "prev & next" buttons, then CSS rules should be created to determine the layout/location of those buttons. The "slide_directory" setting allows you to specify the location of your slides. For security purposes, the path to that directory must be relative and must include the phrase "agile_carousel".

Download Agile Carousel

Project files are hosted on Google Code. Please download the latest version. The Google Code issue tracker may be used to report any bugs.

Download: Agile Carousel v2.0b

How It Works

Agile Carousel is a JQuery Plugin. The JQuery AJAX function is used to deliver settings to the included PHP script “make_slides.php”, which you do not need to modify. The PHP script uses the requested settings to custom-build an image carousel. The carousel html is then placed to the html document within the container you specify.

The PHP script automatically gathers slides from a specified directory, or you may include your own PHP file that lists slide locations in order to integrate with your existing database, CMS, API, etc. Also includes the ability to make your own, external UI elements.