Akelos PHP Framework is an open source port of Ruby on Rails to the PHP programming language.

The main goal of the Akelos Framework its to help programmers to build multilingual database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. It lets you write less code by favoring conventions over configuration.

It allows you to:

• Write views using Ajax easily
• Control requests and responses through a controller
• Manage internationalized applications
• Communicate models and the database using simple conventions.

Argentum is an open source project management and invoicing software that you can use in order to keep track of the different projects any team of yours has to tackle, and also of the invoices that you are sending out to your clients.

Its very easy to monitor how much time is being spent by a team on an assignment. It has built-in support for PDF generation, multiple currency and automatic currency conversions for invoices.

Argentum project management and invoicing software is available in two configurations: you can host it in your server, or you can have it hosted by the company.

Tagging your picture is one of the interesting & fun feature that Facebook has, and everyone loves to tag their pictures.

Ever wondered having a PHP / jQuery plugin offering enhanced functionality and improved user experience for your own web application or web site?

jQuery-Notes is a simple, scalable and easy to use jQuery-Plugin that allows you to add notes & tag your pictures on your web site, web application or blog. The notes will be saved as a JSON-string so No databased required.

• Add notes to any image
• Totally scalable
• Easily customizable look via css
• Image linking

MyClientBase is a simple, intuitive, free and open source web based invoice management software developed specially for freelancers. Highly customizable options and features provide a powerful invoicing solution.

This invoice management software is written in PHP, on top of the excellent CodeIgniter framework. Built-in modularity gives developers a pathway to write custom modules.

It comes with a many comprehensive features including an informative dashboard, invoice management, client management & tax rate management modules.

PHP-Ext is an open source widget library written for PHP 4 and PHP 5 to empower the UI Layer based on Ext JS Javascript widgets which provide a standard and powerful API to build Rich Internet Applications.

PHP-Ext provides useful and common controls to create forms, rich combo boxes, powerful grids and menus. It also promotes the use of JSON and XML client/server communication to populate forms and grids using Ajax. Additionally it has a Javascript helper to ease the Javascript code generation and use.

P.S. This PHP Widget Library is in beta so you may experience small issues.

Google Chart PHP Library is an open source, object oriented and lightweight charting library built on Google Chart API. This PHP Charting Library aims to simplify the request generation by offering a high-level object-oriented PHP interface.

Google Chart PHP Library doesn’t generate any image, it generates an HTTP request (GET or POST) to call Google Chart API.

Its a fast chart generation library and does not require any additional PHP modules.

Branched from the popular osCommerce to provide better user experience and improved e-commerece features with search engine friendly and semantic code, TomatoCart is an open source PHP ecommerce solution backed with Ext JS based rich administration.

Features

• Wysiwyg html editor for product descriptions
• Product Comparison
• One-Page Checkout
• Newsletter Manager
• Abandoned Cart Management
• Multi-lingual shopping Cart Solution
• Integrated Web Analytics Software – Pwik

eCart is an open source shopping cart software that offers the ability to build a powerful & search engine friendly shopping cart.

Shopping Cart Features

• Easy store management
• One page checkout
• Search Engine Friendly
• Advanced Catalog Filters

eCart is build upon Zend Framework (PHP), jQuery(frontend, backend), Ext JS (backend) and MYSQL.

What is CAPTCHA?

The term CAPTCHA, based upon the word Capture, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a bot. The process usually involves one computer asking a user to complete a simple test.

Using a CAPTCHA Script on a website is a great way to ensure that response is made by a real person and not by a spambot and it helps prevent automated abuse of your site such as comment spam.

There are many CAPTCHA scripts available, lets dig into the list together.

Image Based CAPTCHA

Fresh & Creative Alternate to Traditional CAPTCHA Scripts – slideLock

slideLock adds a jQuery UI slider along with labels and notes. The user simply slides the form to unlock the submit button and then both client side and server side validation techniques ensure secure submission of the form.

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phpBugTracker is an open source web based bug tracking application built with PHP. The design of this free web application focuses on separating the presentation, application, and database layers.

phpBugTracker is lightweight and easy to install, operate and administer. With HTML templates & CSS, users can completely change the look of the interface and can create their own color schemes.

Some features

• Track bugs by multiple users on multiple projects
• Restrict projects to certain groups of users
• Flexible bug search capabilities
• File attachments for bugs
• Web-based installation
• Links to a cvs web interface from bug comments

Visit phpBugTracker site for more information