Tuesday, July 1, 2008

[PHP Classes] Innovation Award results of June of 2008

Innovation Award results of June of 2008


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Innovation Award Winners Congratulations to Diêgo Garrido de Almeida!


Rank Class Author Score Points Prize
1 Google - Did You Mean
Get spelling correction suggestions from Google
Diêgo Garrido de Almeida 21.43% 9
2 ASCII CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA validation using ASCII art text
Debug 19.05% 8
3 Form PDF
Create and load PDF forms in FDF format
bobak 16.67% 7
4 Slide Show
Present a slide show of local or remote images
Barton Phillips 14.29% 6
5 io_dz
Serialize values to a compressed string
bobak 9.52% 5
6 Social Security Number (SSN) Generator
Generate and validate US social security numbers
Jacob Allred 7.14% 4
7 Easy ADSI
Query Windows Active Directory
Zsolt Munoz 4.76% 3
7 mhtml
Parse and extract files from MIME HTML archives
Uku Joesaar 4.76% 3
9 boxPlot
Render box plot charts from data sets
caio nakashima 2.38% 1


Nominees to win the award of June of 2008

Class: MySQL Binlog Rotate Picture of Pape
Description: Rotates the binary logs in a MySQL 5 cluster
Author: Pape
Age: 25
Country: The Netherlands The Netherlands
Comment: MySQL binary logs keep track of all the changes done on a MySQL 5 database cluster.

This class provides a solution to extract MySQL binary logs into small files separated by day.

Class: Easy WMI Picture of Zsolt Munoz
Description: Access Windows resources using WMI objects
Author: Zsolt Munoz
Age: 28
Country: Canada Canada
Comment: Windows provides an API of objects named WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) that can be used to manage hardware devices such as network cards.

This class provides a simplified API to use WMI objects and manage hardware on Windows system from PHP.

Class: QSWFObject Picture of Tom Schaefer
Description: PHP Wrapper to load Flash movies
Author: Tom Schaefer
Age: ???
Country: Germany Germany
Comment: Flash movies usually require Javascript code to determine how to load the Flash player object. Such code usually varies from browser to browser.

SWFObject is a Javascript library that knows how to load a Flash player depending on the underlying browser type. It provides a browser independent API to create and configure Flash player objects.

This class provides a wrapper to use this Javascript library, so PHP applications do not need to handle the differences between browsers when displaying Flash movies.

Class: Screenshot Picture of Daniel Neville
Description: Take screenshots of pages with Internet Explorer
Author: Daniel Neville
Age: 16
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Comment: Some Web applications publish content that references other sites. In that case it is often useful to show a screenshot of such site pages.

This class provides a solution that can take a screenshot of any remote Web site page.

It starts an instance of the Internet Explorer browser and controls it in such way that it displays the page of the desired site. Then it uses a special PHP GD extension function to capture the image of the site page.

Despite it only works with PHP running on Windows, this is a very useful solution that addresses a frequently requested need of many PHP sites.

Class: Maildir To Mailbox Picture of Charalampos Pournaris
Description: Convert messages from maildir to mbox format
Author: Charalampos Pournaris
Age: 22
Country: Greece Greece
Comment: E-mail servers like Qmail store messages received for their users in mailboxes with a directory structure called maildir.

E-mail clients like Mozilla Thunderbird can import messages in mailbox files but these must be in mbox format, which consists in a single file with all the messages in the mailbox.

This class provides a solution that makes possible to take messages stored in mailboxes in the maildir format and export the messages in single files in the mbox format.

Class: GNU/Linux Stats Picture of Cesar D. Rodas
Description: Retrieve information about Linux systems
Author: Cesar D. Rodas
Age: 20
Country: Paraguay Paraguay
Comment: Linux systems provide the proc file system to let applications query and change several parameters of the operating system and the machine hardware.

This class provides a simplified solution to query the proc file system to obtain interesting details about a running Linux system, such as information about the CPU, memory and processes.

Class: Link Searcher Picture of Nadir Latif
Description: Crawl Web pages to search for given text
Author: Nadir Latif
Age: 25
Country: Sweden Sweden
Comment: When you need to provide a search engine for a site, usually it is better to have a crawler program retrieving the site contents and index the contents in a database, so it can searched more easily.

However, when you need to search a site that you do not control or was not indexed by a search engine, you need to crawl and search on demand.

This class provides an on demand search solution to crawl and search text in the pages of a given site.

Class: SuperSocket Picture of Debug
Description: Handle multiple TCP socket connections
Author: Debug
Age: 18
Country: United States United States
Comment: PHP provides the socket extension that can be used to implement servers to listen and handle network connections.

Many servers written in PHP have been developed using the socket extension, but most of them only accept connections in a single IP address and single port.

This class provides a more flexible solution that can handle connections on multiple IP addresses and ports of the same machine.

Class: Id3 Tag Correction and Downloading Picture of Nadir Latif
Description: Correct ID3 tags of music stored in a database
Author: Nadir Latif
Age: 25
Country: Sweden Sweden
Comment: MP3 music files may contain tags called ID3 that serve the purpose of identifying relevant aspects of the music like the title, album, artist, genre, etc..

Usually these tags have to be added to the music MP3 files manually. This allows for human editing errors.

This package implements a solution that can automatically fix music metadata information extracted from MP3 audio files and then stored in a MySQL database. It uses metadata obtained from remote sites with Web services APIs that provide the information.

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