Fotonotes is a collection of scripts for annotating images. Simply, it lets you add notes over images.

With the help of a PHP file (supports PHP4 & PHP5), every note added to the images are stored in JPEG headers in XML format.

There is a very nice example on the website which you can try the code.

Download package includes classes for alternate storage strategies like databases.

Freeway is a feature-rich open source e-commerce platform which lets you sell services, subscriptions or events besides the standard products.

This e-commerce application is built with PHP and uses MySQL as the database.

A nice feature of Freeway is; it helps you promote your products with a powerful discount - campaign module which lets you create "get x and y is free" or "get 3 and 1 is free" type price breaks. And also, an included affiliate system lets anyone refer you and get a commission on sales.

Some other features of Freeway:

• Supports most of the popular payment systems
• Multilingual
• Newsletter management
• SEO friendly URLs
• Role-based admin
• Sales, stock, shipping and similar reports
• Ticket support feature
• SMS marketing
• And much more..

Freeway can be integrated to Joomla with the ready to use modules and modules for Typo3 and Drupal is on the way.

Image processing is needed in almost every web application like creating watermarks, uploading & resizing avatars, cropping them & similar tasks.

Asido is a feature-rich image processing class for PHP that fits to any environment like GD2, Magick Wand and Image Magick. It supports both PHP4 & PHP5 (newer versions support only PHP5).

An example of adding a watermark to an image:

And the code:

<?php
include(’./../../asido/dev/class.asido.php’);
asido::driver(’gd’);
$i1 = asido::image(
      ‘the-source-image.jpg’,
      ‘filename-with-which-you-want-to-save-the-result.png’
);
asido::watermark($i1, ‘put-the-watermark-image-here.png’);
$i1->save(ASIDO_OVERWRITE_ENABLED);
?>

It is really simple and clear.

Asido can:

• resize
• watermark
• rotate
• copy
• crop
• grayscale
• convert

images with ease. To develop faster, Asido is worth a try.

Securimage is an free PHP captcha script used for protecting web forms from spam and abuse.

It can be easily installed and very well documented.

Different than the famous reCAPTCHA, which is web-based, Securimage is a downloadable solution that requires PHP and GD library to work.

Some feature of this captcha solution:

• Show an image in just 3 lines of code
• Validate submitted entries in less than 6 lines of code
• Customizable code length
• Choose the character set
• TTF font support
• Use custom GD fonts when TTF is not available
• Easily add background images
• Multi colored, angled, and transparent text options
• Arched lines through text
• Generates audible CAPTCHA files in wav format
• Use a word list for creating CAPTCHA codes

You can find a demo of the captcha here.

Pixelpost is an open source photoblog application with powerful image gallery features.

It can be used only as an image gallery or a website of a designer, photographer and so.. easily.

Pixelpost lets the users browse the image archive, view images in detail and comment to them.

Having an active community, you can find 200+ plugins & templates for the application.

This photoblog application has also RSS & multilanguage support.

Click to see a nice photoblog created with Pixelpost.

This is an exciting project which helps creating portable, hidden source coded, both online and offline PHP applications.

Roadsend PHP is an open source implementation of the PHP language.

It has a compiler that generates native binaries (no interpreter required) and all source files can be compiled in 1 executable file.

Using Roadsend Compiler, you can:

• Create online web applications with Fast/CGI
• Offline web applications with an embedded web server (MicroServer)
• Desktop GUI applications with PHP-GTK, and console applications.

Once the files are compiled with this PHP compiler, it is close to impossible to return back to the original code. This is a great feature for hiding the source code.

And for easier development & testing, Roadsend has a powerful built-in debugger.

LightForm is an AJAX - PHP Contact Form is a simple but handy script for creating charming & secure contact forms.

It uses FormCheck2 for validation and NiceForms for the styling of the form.

LightForm has the "question asking"  feature for eliminating spams & it provides the user IP, referrer and browser agent in the message to provide more details about the visitor.

Snipplr is a website where you can store / share your code snippets and find the ones that are already shared by other users.

It is great to find real-world working code examples with an organized interface which saves a lot of time.

Snipplr covers almost every language from ASP, ASP.NET, PHP to Ruby, Django or AS3.

A feature I like is seeing the codes shared by a specific user (nice feature for following users whose coding style is much familiar to you).

Snipplr is absolutely a must-bookmark for a developer.

fileNice is a free file manager built with PHP that lets users to browse through the files & folders easily.

The AJAX interface speeds up the browsing and it has nice features like:

• Folder specific slideshows of images (without page reloads)
• File details
• Send to Flickr
• Folder comments
• Search
• Prefs based sorting
• Source viewing of code

How to use fileNice?

Very easy. You basically upload the script to the directory to be browsed and that’s all.

(E)2 is a good looking photo gallery built with MooTools JavaScript Framework.

By default, (E)2 has 4 themes which can be switched-between easily. It has an auto-loading thumbnail viewer which can be hidden too.

This photo gallery requires PHP to run and does not need any database.

In the near future (E)2 gallery will have a "pro" version with more features and you will be informed of it via WebresoucesDepot for sure.