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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.

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.

If you want to have a colorful scrollbar on your site, check this resource from JavaScript Free Code. Copy and paste the code in your page and when you open the site, the scrollbars will be colorful. You can change the default colors to any color you like, so you can make your scrollbar match the colors of your site.

If you want to give your visitors the chance to adjust the size of the text on your pages, you need a text resizer. You can get a script at JavaScript Kit and use it for free in your designs. This script stores the choices a visitor makes in a a cookie, so when the visitor returns to your page, it will be displayed in the font size the visitor chose the last time. The script can be attached to any CSS class, so you can select to shrink/enlarge only particular sections of the page and not necessarily the whole page.

Browse through a directory of over 40,000 dynamic development tools, programming scripts for more than 16 programming languages as well as informational resources including books and tutorials on hotscripts.com. You’ll find things like PHP clone scripts, plugins and add-ons AJAX tutorials, free Java Scripts, Ruby on Rails scripts and ASP.NET resources.

AutoComplete is a very handy feature for text boxes and other input fields. If you use MooTools, try AJAX Daddy’s MooTools Autocompleter widget. This widget creates a suggestion box for input fields. You can get your suggestions from variable data sources, such as a local object or via XHR from a JSON or an XHTML source.

For a smooth drag and drop script for your website, try the DG Drop on DHTMLGoodies.com. The script allows expected features like move the crop area and resize it by dragging the handles, but it also allows you to preserve its aspect ratio by pressing the shift key while resizing.

If you want to add table sorting capability to your website, Frequency Decoder has a free table sort script you might be interested in:

- The script can sort dates (dd-mm-yyyy, mm-dd-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd formats accepted), currency values (£, $, €, ¥ and ¤), numbers/floats and plain-text (sorted in a case-insensitive manner). The character used as the date divider (i.e. the character that separates the date parts) can be “/”, “-”, “.” or “ “ (space);
- multiple columns can be sorted at once;
- alternate rows and full columns can be highlighted on a table by table basis and much more…

For a tutorial about creating a simple Ajax contact form, visit QD-Creative. It clearly explains the html, CSS, PHP Script and Ajax to use and includes a demo.

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