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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-Kaarel Jo~esaar 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 J. Pape
Description: Rotates the binary logs in a MySQL 5 cluster
Author: J. Pape
Age: 25
Country: The Netherlands The Netherlands
Class: Easy WMI Picture of Zsolt Munoz
Description: Access Windows resources using WMI objects
Author: Zsolt Munoz
Age: 28
Country: Canada Canada
Class: QSWFObject Picture of Tom Schaefer
Description: PHP Wrapper to load Flash movies
Author: Tom Schaefer
Age: ???
Country: Germany Germany
Class: Screenshot Picture of Daniel Neville
Description: Take screenshots of pages with Internet Explorer
Author: Daniel Neville
Age: 16
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Class: Maildir To Mailbox Picture of Charalampos Pournaris
Description: Convert messages from maildir to mbox format
Author: Charalampos Pournaris
Age: 22
Country: Greece Greece
Class: GNU/Linux Stats Picture of Cesar D. Rodas
Description: Retrieve information about Linux systems
Author: Cesar D. Rodas
Age: 20
Country: Paraguay Paraguay
Class: Link Searcher Picture of Nadir Latif
Description: Crawl Web pages to search for given text
Author: Nadir Latif
Age: 25
Country: Sweden Sweden
Class: SuperSocket Picture of Debug
Description: Handle multiple TCP socket connections
Author: Debug
Age: 18
Country: United States United States
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

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Trackback Class Age in days
PHP libraries to learn English words - a number Hen
-		 Number to word 1
Stop bots from submitting contact forms
have been using this code for a while...		 Form Spam Bot Blocker 2
Blog Summary Email?
This definitely falls into the catego...		 Newsletter Queue 2
Google Translate Tool Class v0.9
As almost all of my classes i have de...		 Google Translate Tool 2
parsing csv file with php and inserting into mysql database
As some of my posts they usualy start...		 Quick CSV import 4
Amazing Google Visualization API implementation in PHP
The QGoogleVisualizationAPI package i...		 QGoogleVisualizationAPI 6
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Database structure synchronizer es un...		 Database structure synchronizer 6
Inserting a Google Map onto my website ??
Phoogle works very well, please make ...		 Easy Google Map 7
Php Formu Worde Aktarmak
...		 PHP MS Word 13
E-mail empfang bestätigen
kuckstu hier:..		 Bounce Handler 13

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Subject Posted on Class
German counting is not correct
German number to word is not correct		 2008-07-23 Number to word
I like it and create my site with this.
Package rating comment		 2008-07-22 myPageDisplay
Wow, thats a good class !! lol
Package rating comment		 2008-07-22 QTag
Great and simple to use.
Package rating comment		 2008-07-22 Flickr API Class
Easy to use, very well coded, high quality results.
Package rating comment		 2008-07-21 MsDoc Generator
dependencies on milestones
dependencies on milestones		 2008-07-21 Gantt Chart Class
This a very good and useful class .
Package rating comment		 2008-07-21 Google Translate Tool
This is a good class !! lol The process to format files have ...
Package rating comment		 2008-07-21 Simple Upload
i get some usefullness
Package rating comment		 2008-07-21 PDFTemplate
exporting a stream as the file
Any ideas on using this class to export a stream as the file		 2008-07-21 MS-Excel Stream Handler

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    Latest package entries

  • maDB

    • Picture of Gideon Cole
    Author: Gideon Cole
    Date: 2008-07-22 (1 day ago)
    Groups: Databases
    Description: This class can be used to execute common MySQL queries using parameter lists. It can:

    - Insert rows in a given table setting fields to given values
    - Retrieve a single row from a given table with the id field set to a given value
    - Retrieve all rows of a given table.

    Functions that execute queries that retrieve data return it in arrays.

  • YLocal

    • Picture of venkatakrishnan
    Author: venkatakrishnan
    Date: 2008-07-22 (1 day ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Searching, Web services, Geography
    Description: This package can be used to perform searches using Yahoo! Local Search Web services API.

    It can access the Yahoo! Local Web services API server and send a search request using several search parameters.

    It provides a way to iterate over each result that is returned by the service. It return an object with variables set to the values of each result detail.

  • Google Download

    • Picture of Thomas Shone
    Author: Thomas Shone
    Date: 2008-07-21 (2 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Searching, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to search and download files using Google search.

    It accesses Google search pages emulating a search form submission with given search parameters.

    Currently it can narrow the search using parameters like: site, allintitle, intitle, allinurl, inurl and filetype.

    The class can extract of the URLs of the search results and download the files available on those URLs into a given directory.

  • QTag

    • Picture of Tom Schaefer
    Author: Tom Schaefer
    Date: 2008-07-21 (2 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, XML, PHP 5
    Description: This package can be used to generate HTML, XML or other tag based documents programmatically.

    It can build a nested structure of tag objects that define the contained tags, data and tag attributes.

    The main class can traverse recursively the tag object structure to generate all the tags and the contained data and tags structure.

  • Google Translate Tool

    • Picture of solomongaby
    Author: solomongaby
    Date: 2008-07-20 (3 days ago)
    Groups: Localization, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to translate text or whole Web pages using the Google Translate site.

    It takes as parameters a given text or URL of a page, and source and target languages to translate the text.

    The class accesses the Google Translate site and emulates translation form submission to translate the given text or page.

    It returns the translated text or the HTML of the translated page version.

  • From Browser - Youtube Upload

    • Picture of Cesar D. Rodas
    Author: Cesar D. Rodas
    Date: 2008-07-20 (3 days ago)
    Groups: Web services, Video
    Description: This class can be used to allow uploading videos directly to YouTube using forms presented in other sites.

    It accesses the YouTube Web services API to create an entry for a video to be uploaded.

    The class retrieves the just created video entry identifier and an URL to generate Web forms that upload the video to YouTube site directly, i.e. without going to the original site that presented the video upload form.

  • Simple Upload

    • Picture of Szymon Lukaszczyk
    Author: Szymon Lukaszczyk
    Date: 2008-07-19 (4 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Files and Folders
    Description: This class can be used to manage files uploaded via forms.

    It takes the array of data of an uploaded file and can perform several types of operations like:

    - Check whether there were any upload error and whether the file is a valid upload
    - Clean the file name from non alphanumeric characters
    - Generate random unique names for the uploaded file
    - Copy or move the file to another directory

  • QDataObject

    • Picture of Tom Schaefer
    Author: Tom Schaefer
    Date: 2008-07-19 (4 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Databases
    Description: This package can be used to access MySQL query results as objects.

    It can take a MySQL query result set resource handle as parameter and provides several types of functions to access the data from the result set.

    It provides check or retrieve the result set data positions, as well retrieve the type and length of the respective columns.

    The package provides implementations that use the regular MySQL and MySQLi extensions to access MySQL query results.

    New:
    DataObjectFactory

    === QMysqlDataObject ===
    Test => SELECT * FROM geodb_textdata
    TEST ENV:
    Windows Vista Xampp, AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile 1.80 GHz
    2 MB RAM (average performance)

    1.a) object building runtime 0.176911115646s
    on a db table with 337.925 records
    (building uncached dataobject from uncached query at page offset 22210 by 10 rows/page)

    1.b) object building runtime 0.275130033493s
    on a db table with 337.925 records
    (building uncached dataobject from uncached query at page offset 3000 by 100 rows/page)

    2.a) object building runtime 0.0171821117401s
    on a db table with 337.925 records
    (building uncached dataobject from uncached query at page offset 10 by 10 rows per page)

    2.b) object building runtime 0.0609588623047s
    on a db table with 337.925 records
    (building uncached dataobject from uncached query at page offset 10 by 100 rows per page)

    3)

    SELECT * FROM orders
    LEFT JOIN customers on customers.CustomerID=orders.CustomerID

    (northwind demo database)
    object building runtime 0.055801153183s
    (building uncached dataobject from uncached query at page offset 1 by 10 rows per page)
    Mysql DB times:
    Status runtime
    (initialization) 0.0000377
    Opening tables 0.0002247
    System lock 0.0000032
    Table lock 0.0000067
    init 0.0000107
    optimizing 0.0000037
    statistics 0.0000107
    preparing 0.00001
    executing 0.0000467
    Sending data 0.0002505
    end 0.0000042
    query end 0.0000035
    freeing items 0.0000077
    closing tables 0.000002
    removing tmp table 0.0001105
    closing tables 0.0000042
    logging slow query 0.0000025

    Conclusion:
    Object building becomes much quicker if you operate with sql conditions.
    The test above shows, that a cut on a deep offset is slow. So you have to reduce the data cloud by conditioning and so on.
    (On a Linux Web server it will run much faster.)

    Regards Tom Schaefer

  • Batikon update

    • Picture of alpcan aydin
    Author: alpcan aydin
    Date: 2008-07-18 (5 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, PHP 5, AJAX
    Description: This class can be used to update page elements dynamically without reloading.

    It generates HTML and Javascript that calls MooTools library to update a given page element with the output of a script with a given URL.

    The comments in the code are in Turkish.

  • Easy Template Engine

    • Picture of Salvan Grégory
    Author: Salvan Grégory
    Date: 2008-07-18 (5 days ago)
    Groups: Templates
    Description: This class implements a template processing engine that uses class variables as template parameters.

    It uses a setter function to set values of template parameters.

    The class processes the template by using regular expressions to search and replace template placeholders by previously set template parameter values.

  • PHPPolygen

    • Picture of andrea
    Author: andrea
    Date: 2008-07-17 (6 days ago)
    Groups: Text processing, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to generate random phrases based on a grammar using Polygen Web services API.

    It accesses the Polygen Web services API server and send request to generate a phrase using rules of grammar with a given name. Currently the Polygen API provides grammars for several topics in the Italian language.

    The class can retrieve the generated phrase and return it as a text or HTML formatted string.

  • AJAXPoll

    • Picture of José Augusto Ferreira Franco
    Author: José Augusto Ferreira Franco
    Date: 2008-07-17 (6 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Content management, AJAX
    Description: This class can be used to display poll questions and collect the results using AJAX to avoid page reloading.

    It can take as parameters a poll question and the HTML to display for each of the poll answers.

    The class generates the necessary HTML and Javascript to display the poll on a Web page and submit the answer that the user picks to the server using AJAX.

    The class can can also display poll results as graphical bars that represent the percentage of each of the picked poll responses.

    The class avoids counting votes from the same user based on the user machine IP address and session variables. It also uses server side text files to store the updated poll results.

  • Space maps

    • Picture of Danilo
    Author: Danilo
    Date: 2008-07-16 (7 days ago)
    Groups: Graphics, Games
    Description: This class can be used to generate map images useful for space strategy games.

    Currently, it can generate an image with a space map with a given number of sectors placed at random locations in a way that they do not overlap. It can also render optional space gates.

    The map image is generated in JPEG format as the current script output.

  • String Builder

    • Picture of Senad Meskin
    Author: Senad Meskin
    Date: 2008-07-16 (7 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Text processing
    Description: This class can be used to concatenate strings.

    It can concatenate strings in several ways:

    - Append a string to another
    - Append a string with a line break either in plain text or HTML
    - Concatenate a variable number of string with a given concatenation format

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