Web Technologies Used by dfa.gov.za

Contact Form 7 is an WordPress plugin which can manage multiple contact forms. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering.

LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a proprietary and open source web server software. LiteSpeed's goal is to be a fast webserver with a low memory footprint. LSWS is developed by privately held LiteSpeed Technologies. The software uses the same configuration format as Apache HTTP Server and is compatible with most Apache features.

MediaElement.js is a HTML5 video and audio player with support for YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, Vimeo, HLS, Dash, and others.

Facebook Login is a way for people to create accounts and log into your app across multiple platforms.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a general-purpose programming language originally designed for web development. PHP code may be executed with a command line interface (CLI), embedded into HTML code, or used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Revslider is a slider plugin for Wordpress.

Popper is a positioning engine, its purpose is to calculate the position of an element to make it possible to position it near a given reference element.

Elementor Website Builder allows WordPress users to create and edit websites by employing the drag and drop technique, with a built-in responsive mode.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library which is designed to detect HTML5 and CSS3 features in various browsers, which lets JavaScript avoid using unimplemented features or use a workaround such as a shim to emulate them. Modernizr aims to provide this feature detection in a complete and standardized manner.

Moment.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that removes the need to use the native JavaScript Date object directly.

Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and pagination (infinite scrolling) of results.

Underscore.js is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks. It is comparable to features provided by Prototype.js and the Ruby language, but opts for a functional programming design instead of extending object prototypes.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License.

jQuery Migrate is a javascript library that allows you to preserve the compatibility of your jQuery code developed for versions of jQuery older than 1.9. It basically restores deprecated features and behaviours so that older code will still run properly on the current jQuery version and later.

jQuery UI is a collection of GUI widgets, animated visual effects, and themes implemented with jQuery, Cascading Style Sheets, and HTML.

Isotope.js is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to sort, filter, and add Masonry layouts to items on a webpage.

core-js is a modular standard library for JavaScript, with polyfills for cutting-edge ECMAScript features.

LazySizes is a JavaScript library used to delay the loading of images (iframes, scripts, etc) until they come into view.

Chart.js is a free open-source JavaScript library for data visualization. Chart.js is an easy way to include animated, interactive graphs on your website for free.

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

GSAP is an animation library that allows you to create animations with JavaScript.

Font Awesome is a font and icon toolkit based on CSS and LESS. It was made for use with Twitter Bootstrap.

Google's Font API provides website developers a means by which they may quickly add custom fonts to their website.

Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) is a simple library that provides standard Unicode emoji support across all platforms.

MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) based on Structured Query Language (SQL). It is one of the most popular RDBMSs and is used to store, organize, and retrieve data for a wide variety of applications. MySQL is used by many web-based applications, including WordPress, Drupal, and other content management systems. It is also used in many enterprise applications, such as banking, shopping, and e-commerce systems. MySQL is easy to use and can be quickly set up and configured on most operating systems. It is highly secure and supports a wide range of features that make it a robust and reliable database solution.

WordPress is a content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.

LiteSpeed Cache is an all-in-one site acceleration plugin for WordPress.