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PHP CAPTCHA Script

RankRaiser — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:10:57 +0000

Get the open-source PHP CAPTCHA script “Secureimage” at PHPcaptcha.org. Generate complex images and CAPTCHA codes with a script that can be easily added into existing forms on your website to provide protection from spam bots. All you need to run it is PHP and GD support within PHP. The Securimage script generates the CAPTCHA images and validates the typed code. Audible codes can be streamed to the browser with Flash for the vision impaired. It requires no configuration after downloading. PHP 4 and PHP 5 versions available for download.

Q&A Open Source Platform

RankRaiser — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:16:56 +0000

If you need a simple open source Q&A solution for your website, give Question2Answer a try. This is a dedicated question and answer solution and not just a simplified forum. It features a five minute install, easy CSS themes, search engine, e-mail notifications, voting, comments and follow-up questions, categories and tags and is scalable to millions of posts. This question and answer software is licensed under GNU GPL. According to the site the Q&A platform has been installed over 1000 times.

Open Source Web Chat

RankRaiser — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:14:06 +0000

For a fully customizable web chat software try BlueImp’s open source AJAX Chat which is implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL. AJAX Chat features:

multiple channels, private messaging and channels, invitation system, banning offending users, online users, emoticons, optional Flash sound support, clickable hyperlinks, enable/ disable guest users, possibility to define opening hours for the chat, IRC style commands, flood control, automatic adjustment of displayed time to local client timezone, easy layout customization through stylesheets (CSS) and template system, persistent client-side settings, message character counter, sample phpBB2, phpBB3, MyBB, PunBB, SMF, vBulletin integration provided, realtime monitoring and logs viewer, support for unicode (UTF-8) and non-unicode content types, bandwidth saving update calls (only updated data is sent), well commented Source Code and much more.

Developed with Security as integral part, AJAX Chat is built to prevent Code injections, SQL injections, Cross-site scripting (XSS), Session stealing and other attacks.

AJAX Chat is released free of charge under the GNU Affero General Public License.

Flash-based User Interface Components Written in ActionScript 3.0

RankRaiser — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:54:09 +0000

Flash and ActionScript 3.0 user interface components can take lots of time to create, so why not use some ready-made, open source starter components, like the ones on MinimalComps.com ? The components on this site are lightweight, but extremely small and easy to use. In fact, the site is created purely with Minimal Components and comes in at about 60kb for the whole site! Choose from sliders, calendars, bar charts, numeric steppers, draggable windows, VSliders, HSliders, text areas, knobs and more. You can find more info on MinimalComps on Keith Peters’ blog at Bit-101.com.

FTP For Mac and PC

RankRaiser — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:29:05 +0000

If you need a simple yet versatile FTP program, give Cyberducka try. This Open Source FTP program also handles FTP/TLS (FTP secured over SSL/TLS), SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer), WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning), Amazon S3, Google Storage, Google Docs, Windows Azure and Rackspace Cloud Files. Works with open cloud software from Eucalyptus and OpenStack. You can basically upload, download and synchronize anything from any server.

You can edit any text or binary file on the server in your preferred application, configure CloudFront and Rackspace to distribute your files, browse your Amazon S3 account like your hard disk, convert uploads to Google Docs format and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for image uploads. It also has bookmarking capabilities, advanced SSH features and supports Growl and Mac’s Keychain.

Open Source Auction Script

RankRaiser — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:50:46 +0000

If you’re trying to get an auction site up and running quickly, give Webid a try. It is still in beta stages, but is already a popular open-source auction solutions, written in PHP and customizable. Webid features an administration panel, quick install and setup, different themes and easy integration with PayPal and Authorize.Net.

Free Office Software

RankRaiser — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:21 +0000

If it’s time to once again upgrade your latest word processor, spreadsheet or other office software, and you’re reluctant to spend hefty fees to do so, you may want to consider OpenOffice, the free and open office productivity suite. If you’re already using another office software package, OpenOffice will most likely be able to read these files. OpenOffice can be downloaded and used entirely free of any licence fees. It is released under the LGPL licence which means you may use it for any purpose – domestic, commercial, educational, public administration and install it on as many computers as you like.

Use FlexPaper to Display Documents in a Browser

RankRaiser — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:43:23 +0000

If you have large documents on your site (incl. books), and you don’t want to make them available as a separate download, you could have them displayed in a browser instead. FlexPaper is an open source web based document viewer that uses Flash. It is delivered both as a stand alone flash application and as a Flex (SWC) library, so it can be integrated it into your application in different ways. Examples and use of FlexPaper.

Free Spam Blocklists To Filter Your E-mail

RankRaiser — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:58:32 +0000

The Spamhaus Project tracks the internet’s spam senders and spam services and makes available blocklists (free for low usage) to filter your e-mail. Before you set your e-mail servers to use Spamhouse’s blocklists, be sure to check their usage terms to see if you qualify for free use. If you think your IP might actually be on their blocked list, you can check your IP and get info on how to be removed. For a list of the 10 worst ISPs that knowingly cater to spammers, or do nothing to prevent spam, click here.

Free Drupal 6 Themes

RankRaiser — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:17:51 +0000

Drupal is a great CMS but the number of beautiful and free Drupal themes is limited. 1stWebDesigner has done all the legwork for you and collected 27 of the best designed Drupal themes for you. Looks like all of them originated on the drupal.org website.

Free Open Source Code Editor for Multiple Languages

RankRaiser — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:56:27 +0000

If you regularly work with different programming languages, you might like using the free open source Komodo Edit; it supports PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django. It features autocomplete and calltips, multi-language file support, syntax coloring and syntax checking, Vi emulation, Emacs key bindings. Additionally, Komodo is available for Linux, Windows, Mac.

Popular Free Open Source Forum in PHP

RankRaiser — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:02:10 +0000

Create a forum on your website with free open source software phpBB. According to the site, “phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB™ 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes. With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB™ will grow with, and complement your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB™ is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.”

Test the Performance and Scalability of Your Website

RankRaiser — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:03:34 +0000

Can your site handle a large increase in traffic? Pylot is a free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

Photo Batch Processor

RankRaiser — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:01:06 +0000

Batch processing of images and manually renaming Exifs (Exchangeable Image File format is an image file format used by digital cameras) is a very time consuming task. Phatch is a free tool for processing batches of images and renaming Exifs. It’s open source and works on Linux, Mac Os X and Windows for all popular image formats. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually.

Free Universal PHP URL Shortener Script

RankRaiser — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:50:28 +0000

If you’d like to run your own personal URL shortener script, try BrainCray’s free PHP URL shortener script. Some of the proclaimed URL shortener script’s features are:

- Can shorten over 42 billion unique URLs in 6 or less characters (it can do more than 12,000,000 in only 4!)
- Includes an API so you can create your own short URLs on the fly
- Only uses alphanumeric characters so all browsers can interpret the URL
- Secure: several data filters in place to prevent SQL injection hacks
- Option to check if the URL is real (doesn’t respond with a 404) before shortening
- Option to change the characters allowed in a shortened url

Free Open Source Help Center

RankRaiser — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:57:01 +0000

There are many useful open source applications out there and Help Center Live’s Live Chat application is one of them. “Help Center Live is an open-source, community driven live chat & support system. You may easily provide live support on your website just like large companies do with very little work. With Help Center Live, you can provide a real-time, live support or sales person experience.”

ISBN Database Offers Free API Access

RankRaiser — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:11:39 +0000

This site offers free web services access to their data through remote access API. ‘The API strives to be simple to use in both on-line and desktop applications. It is based on standard HTTP queries and XML based responses.’

If you’re working on a book related project, this site offers vast data resources from libraries across the world. This is also a valuable book research (and shopping) site.

Software For Recovering Stolen Laptops

RankRaiser — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:59:36 +0000

Open source system to help track and recover your laptop. Will also take picture of thief if you have an Apple laptop with iSight.

Social Networking Software

RankRaiser — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:47:13 +0000

Create your own social networking site or content with open source content management software with social media features.

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Open Source Free Video Player

RankRaiser — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:23:55 +0000

We love this one: open source and free, this HD video player from Miro supports any file format and even lets you download most videos to your computer.