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    Top friends of the site

    Friends of the PHP Classes site is a initiative to provide recognition to the users that contribute to the growth of the site community.

    For more information on how to become a friend of the site look here.

    Rank Friend Referrals
    1 Cesar D. Rodas 37
    2 lixlpixel 26
    3 Horst Nogajski 24
    4 Protung Dragos 23
    5 Olaf Lederer 21
    6 Khaled Al-Shamaa 21
    7 Richard Munroe 20
    8 Alexander Skakunov 19
    9 Giorgos 14
    10 Ehsanul Haque 11

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Innovation Award Winners Congratulations to Daniel Neville!


Rank Class Author Score Points Prize
1 Screenshot
Take screenshots of pages with Internet Explorer		 Daniel Neville 21.43% 9
2 MySQL Binlog Rotate
Rotates the binary logs in a MySQL 5 cluster		 J. Pape 16.07% 8
3 Link Searcher
Crawl Web pages to search for given text		 Nadir Latif 14.29% 7
3 QSWFObject
PHP Wrapper to load Flash movies		 Tom Schaefer 14.29% 7
5 SuperSocket
Handle multiple TCP socket connections		 Debug 10.71% 5
6 Maildir To Mailbox
Convert messages from maildir to mbox format		 Charalampos Pournaris 7.14% 4
6 Easy WMI
Access Windows resources using WMI objects		 Zsolt Munoz 7.14% 4
8 GNU/Linux Stats
Retrieve information about Linux systems		 Cesar D. Rodas 5.36% 2
9 Id3 Tag Correction and Downloading
Correct ID3 tags of music stored in a database		 Nadir Latif 3.57% 1

Nominees to win the award of July of 2008

Class: CSS Comparer Picture of Martijn Beulens
Description: Compare two CSS style definitions
Author: Martijn Beulens
Age: ???
Country: The Netherlands The Netherlands
Class: TOTP Picture of Protung Dragos
Description: Generate and validate expirable one time passwords
Author: Protung Dragos
Age: 25
Country: Romania Romania
Class: Ping.FM Wrapper Class Picture of Daniel Neville
Description: Update multiple social networks using Ping.FM
Author: Daniel Neville
Age: 16
Country: United Kingdom United Kingdom
Class: unixDate Picture of Carl Friis-Hansen
Description: Manipulate dates using the UNIX date command
Author: Carl Friis-Hansen
Age: ???
Country: Denmark Denmark
Class: File Search & Get Similar Files Picture of mustafa yontar
Description: Find files with similar names
Author: mustafa yontar
Age: 25
Country: Turkey Turkey
Class: YouTube Parser Picture of Vagharshak Tozalakyan
Description: Get the video download URL for a YouTube video
Author: Vagharshak Tozalakyan
Age: 28
Country: Armenia Armenia
Class: PHPPolygen Picture of andrea
Description: Generate phrases based on a grammar using Polygen
Author: andrea
Age: ???
Country: Italy Italy
Class: YouTube API Picture of Er. Rochak Chauhan
Description: Get the video download URL using the YouTube API
Author: Er. Rochak Chauhan
Age: 29
Country: India India
Class: Authorize.net ARB Picture of Joshua Bettigole
Description: Manage recurring payments using Authorize.net
Author: Joshua Bettigole
Age: 35
Country: United States United States
Class: Little PHP Proxy Picture of Andrey Nikishaev
Description: Show remote pages as if they from the current site
Author: Andrey Nikishaev
Age: 22
Country: Ukraine Ukraine
Class: SODA Picture of Salvan Grégory
Description: Database abstraction layer that encrypt data
Author: Salvan Grégory
Age: 27
Country: France France
Class: Space maps Picture of Danilo
Description: Generate map images for space strategy games
Author: Danilo
Age: ???
Country: Brazil Brazil
Class: Typo Picture of Daniel Calvi
Description: Generate variants of words based on typing errors
Author: Daniel Calvi
Age: ???
Country: Argentina Argentina
Class: From Browser - Youtube Upload Picture of Cesar D. Rodas
Description: Upload videos to YouTube from another site forms
Author: Cesar D. Rodas
Age: 20
Country: Paraguay Paraguay

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Trackback Class Age in days
How to upload & resize images in PHP with thumb creation
Many times in my coding projects i ha...		 class.upload.php 4
Writing Excel files from PHP
On this theme, a lot has been written...		 Excel Writer 6
How to Create a zip file with php on the fly
For a future project I needed these d...		 Create ZIP File 6
Comment Spam Killer - Class: Animated CAPTCHA (CAPTCHA, validation, ocr, animated GIF) - PHP
This class can be used to perform CAP...		 Animated CAPTCHA 7
Dynamische Signatur - e-Schrecking für Foren, MySpace, …
Ich mag es sehr, Leute zu ängstigen....		 ipology 9
Excel (XLS) <-> CSV conversion using a Javascript and PHP
Sometimes a PHP programmer is faced w...		 Excel Writer 11
Want to build an application to update all major social services ?
As social networks seem to get bigger...		 Ping.FM Wrapper Class 13
Ca(p)tch(a) me
Captchas sind eine feine Sache...		 DHTML and CSS CAPTCHA 13
Ca(p)tch(a) me
Captchas sind eine feine Sache...		 ASCII CAPTCHA 13
PHP libraries to learn English words - a number Hen
-		 Number to word 15

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Subject Posted on Class
Readattachment class
I need help with the readattachment class.		 2008-08-06 MIME E-mail message parser
Modifying collumn width
Unable to modify the collumn width in the GRID table		 2008-08-05 XAJAX Grid
Great library that is simple and easy to use.
Package rating comment		 2008-08-04 Simple AJAX
There are some errors, on the dirlist has an ".
Package rating comment		 2008-08-04 FTP object
Nice class
Package rating comment		 2008-08-04 Luta Spam
Bug in MIME Parser?
Bug in the MIME parser?		 2008-08-04 MIME E-mail message parser
Veeeeery usefull.
Package rating comment		 2008-08-03 Active Calendar
Luta Spam
Need for more generalised format?		 2008-08-03 Luta Spam
Create subdomains
CPanel api2		 2008-08-03 WHM XML API
Accented characters
Problems with accented/special characters		 2008-08-03 MIME E-mail message sending

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    Latest package entries

  • Yahoo Boss

    • Picture of Shah Hastimal
    Author: Shah Hastimal
    Date: 2008-08-05 (1 day ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Searching, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to perform several types of searches using the Yahoo Boss Web services API.

    It can send requests to the Yahoo Boss API Web services server to perform requests for Web pages, images and news articles.

    The results are returned as a SimpleXMLElement object that applications can traverse.

  • QBaseClass

    • Picture of Tom Schaefer
    Author: Tom Schaefer
    Date: 2008-08-05 (1 day ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Language
    Description: This class can be used to add automatic variable management functions to classes.

    Its default class function handler (__call) is defined in such way that it adds new automatic functions to the class to manage class variables.

    The automatic functions are recognized by their name prefixes. Currently it supports:

    - has for checking if a variable is defined
    - set to defined the value of a variable
    - get to get the value of a variable
    - add to set the value of an entry of an associative array variable
    - merge to change the values of multiple entries of associative array variables

  • Yahoo Boss Search

    • Picture of Anirban Bhattacharya
    Author: Anirban Bhattacharya
    Date: 2008-08-04 (2 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Searching, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to search the Internet using the Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) Web services API.

    It can send a HTTP request to the Yahoo BOSS Web services server to perform a search that can be for Web pages, images or news.

    The request can limit the number of results to return per page and specify the start page.

    The class decodes the results returned in JSON format and stores them in a class array variable for use of the application. The results may also be cached in a local file.

  • Round robin tournament scheduler

    • Picture of Nicholas Mossor Rathmann
    Author: Nicholas Mossor Rathmann
    Date: 2008-08-04 (2 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Games
    Description: This class can be used to schedule a round robin games tournament.

    It takes a list of competitors and generates a schedule of games on which the competitors play each turn in rotation.

  • XML Resource Bundle

    • Picture of pietro ferraresi
    Author: pietro ferraresi
    Date: 2008-08-03 (3 days ago)
    Groups: XML, PHP 5, Configuration
    Description: This class can be used to parse and extract values of properties defined in XML files in the format specified by Sun Microsystems.

    It can take the path, file name and language of a XML properties file and parses it.

    The class makes available the properties values by the means of an accessory function.

  • Knockout tournament scheduler

    • Picture of Nicholas Mossor Rathmann
    Author: Nicholas Mossor Rathmann
    Date: 2008-08-03 (3 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Graphics, Games
    Description: This class can be used to manage knockout tournament games.

    It takes a list of competitors names and organizes a knockout tournament by deciding who gets to play with whom on each round.

    The class can also generate a chart image that shows how the tournament games were set by the class and which competitors play in each game.

  • Subtitle timestamp adjust

    • Picture of Luis Martinez Ulloa
    Author: Luis Martinez Ulloa
    Date: 2008-08-02 (4 days ago)
    Groups: Files and Folders, Video
    Description: This class can be used to adjust time positions for movie streams played with VLC split in multiple files.

    It can take a movie sub-title file in SRT format and adjust the positions by a given time offset. Sub-titles in earlier positions are deleted.

    The character set encoding of the sub-title text may also be converted to UTF-8 if the text was encoded in ISO-8859-1.

    The class generates a new file SRT file.

  • Friendly class

    • Picture of Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro
    Author: Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro
    Date: 2008-08-02 (4 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Language
    Description: This class can be used to provide access to protected or private functions from friend classes.

    It is a base class that provides alternative methods prefixed with the name friend_ .

    When a function is called with that prefix, the base class calls the function with the name after the prefix, if it is considered a friend method.

  • News Script

    • Picture of andrew
    Author: andrew
    Date: 2008-08-01 (5 days ago)
    Groups: Databases, Content management, Configuration
    Description: This class can be used to manage and publish news articles stored in a MySQL database.

    It can add, edit and delete articles from a MySQL database table.

    The class can also display individual news articles using an external template script.

  • IAM_BabelFish_Translate

    • Picture of Ivan Melgrati
    Author: Ivan Melgrati
    Date: 2008-08-01 (5 days ago)
    Groups: Localization, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to translate text and remote Web pages using Yahoo Babelfish site.

    It can access the Yahoo Babelfish site and request to translate a given text or remote Web page to another language.

    Currently, it supports translating to and from Dutch, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese

  • image_jpg

    • Picture of Logan Bailey
    Author: Logan Bailey
    Date: 2008-07-31 (6 days ago)
    Groups: Graphics
    Description: This class can be used to manipulate images.

    It can load JPEG images from files or remote URL.

    The class perform several image manipulation operations like adding borders and resize images.

    The manipulated images can be saved to JPEG files.

  • Ocolorize

    • Picture of Abdulrahman Muhammad
    Author: Abdulrahman Muhammad
    Date: 2008-07-30 (7 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, Text processing
    Description: This class can be used to format text with tags as colored HTML or BBcode tags.

    It can take a given text string with special tags and replace them with HTML or BBCode marks that make the text appear with different colors.

  • Luta Spam

    • Picture of David Ferreira
    Author: David Ferreira
    Date: 2008-07-30 (7 days ago)
    Groups: Text processing, Security
    Description: This class can be used to encode e-mail addresses to make it more difficult to grab by e-mail harvesting robots.

    It can take an e-mail address and replace some of its characters to make it difficult to recognize by robots by replacing @ and . characters by _at_ and _dot_.

    The class can also do the opposite, i.e. replace _at_ and _dot_ in an encoded e-mail address by @ and . characters respectively.

    Since v1.1 checks for valid email address and also encode the username part.

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