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[PHP Classes] Innovation Award results of January of 2009

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Innovation Award results of January of 2009

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Zend
One copy of the Zend Studio
One copy of the Zend Studio
NetMake
One license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
One license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
Human Profile
One copy of DWebPro Standard License
One copy of DWebPro Standard License
JCX Software
One copy of VS.PHP
One copy of VS.PHP
IP2Location
One year server license IP to country region city database
One year server license IP to country region city database
NuSphere
One downloadable copy of PhpED Professional
One downloadable copy of PhpED Professional
ActiveState
One downloadable copy of Komodo IDE
One downloadable copy of Komodo IDE
Codegear
One copy of Delphi for PHP
One copy of Delphi for PHP
Apress
One book of choice by Apress
One book of choice by Apress
Manning
One book of choice by Manning
One book of choice by Manning
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One book of choice by O'Reilly
Packt
One book of choice by Packt
One book of choice by Packt
PHP Architect
One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine
One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine

Innovation Award Winners Congratulations to Md. Mahmud Ahsan!


Rank Class Author Score Points Prize
1 Facebook Notification Class
Send e-mail and notifications to Facebook users
Md. Mahmud Ahsan 36.00% 7 One copy of the Zend Studio
2 SQL Parse and Compile
Parse and compose SQL queries programatically
Tom Schaefer 20.00% 6
3 adv_net
Analyze the local network with nmap
Tomasz Malewski 16.00% 5
4 Console Progress Bar
Draw a progress bar in ANSI console
Alex B. Snet 14.00% 4
5 Dash Media Player
Embed the Dash Media player in a Web page
Travis Tidwell 8.00% 3
6 Name Parser
Parse a person full name to retrieve its parts
G. Miernicki 4.00% 2
7 IAF decoder coder
Parse and generate Outlook IAF configuration files
ruslan kononov 2.00% 1


Nominees to win the award of January of 2009

Class: Unicode Manipulation Picture of Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro
Description: Manipulate text with Unicode encodings
Author: Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro
Age: 24
Country: Brazil Brazil
Comment: Unicode is the way to go when you need to mix texts that use different character sets in the same page.

There are several solutions to manipulate strings using Unicode. However most of them only manipulate text encoded in one of possible Unicode encodings: UTF-8 .

This class provides a complete solution to manipulate Unicode encoded text supporting UTF-16 and UTF-32 besides UTF-8.

Class: html2pcl Picture of Nurul Ferdous
Description: Convert HTML to PCL
Author: Nurul Ferdous
Age: ???
Country: Bangladesh Bangladesh
Comment: PCL is a graphics drawing language used to describe diagrams to be printed by plotters.

This class provides a solution to convert HTML pages to output in the PCL language.

Class: Cartoonfy Picture of László Zsidi
Description: Process an image to make it look like a cartoon
Author: László Zsidi
Age: 35
Country: Hungary Hungary
Comment: Cartoon graphics follow certain design patterns that help you quickly identify cartoon images when you see them.

But you do not have to be a cartoonist to generate an image that looks like a cartoon.

This class can take a normal picture and apply visual effects that make it look as if it was drawn by a cartoonist.

Class: LR Parsing Tables Picture of Debug
Description: Generate parsing tables for context free grammars
Author: Debug
Age: 19
Country: United States United States
Comment: Many programming languages are described by context free grammars that can be parsed by LR (left to right) parsers that evaluate expressions and produce a single result expression.

This package can generate parsing tables for parsing source code of languages that can be parsed by LR parsers.

Class: GD Magic Picture of luigi de rosa
Description: Apply effects on images using only GD
Author: luigi de rosa
Age: 15
Country: Italy Italy
Comment: Image manipulation is very popular in PHP thanks to the GD library extension.

More sophisticated image manipulation functions can be applied using the ImageMagick extension. However, this extension is not available in all PHP installations.

This class can perform several types of image effects that the ImageMagick can perform, except that it uses only the GD extension functions, so the ImageMagick extension is not necessary.

Class: Ads and content limit Picture of lee
Description: Keeps track of visitors to show limited ads a day
Author: lee
Age: 25
Country: Australia Australia
Comment: Advertising is only useful when the users notice and click on it. If an advertisement was presented to an user a few times and he still does not notice or is not interested, it is pointless to keep showing the advertisement again.

This class provides a solution to limit the number of times that an advertisement or other content is shown to an user.

This way you can show him a different advertisement or some other type of content.

Class: Yahoo BBAuth Picture of Sadiqur Rahman
Description: Authenticate users with Yahoo accounts
Author: Sadiqur Rahman
Age: 23
Country: Bangladesh Bangladesh
Comment: Sometimes it is useful for a site to obtain certain personal details of an user to offer a more specific service or content depending on those details, like for instance his age, country, gender, etc..

Yahoo can provide such details about an user if he agrees to supply it to a given site.

This class uses the Yahoo BBAuth service to provide access to other sites to details about an Yahoo user upon a process of prior consent given by the user specifically to the sites he wants.

Class: PHP Text Classifier Picture of alfan
Description: Classify text in categories using Bayesian method
Author: alfan
Age: 20
Country: Indonesia Indonesia
Comment: Bayesian algorithms are often used to classify data in different categories in a way that the systems can be trained and learn from human corrections.

This class provides a solution based on Bayesian algorithms to classify text in an unlimited number of categories.

Class: Check Curly Braces Picture of raenkrus
Description: Check matching curly brackets in text files
Author: raenkrus
Age: ???
Country: Italy Italy
Comment: Sometimes you need to change PHP or other source files very quickly, making sure that the syntax of your changes is correct before updating your live system with the changes you made.

This class can be used to quickly check the curly brackets syntax of files with source code in PHP or any other language that employs that kind of brackets.

This way you do not need to test the code in the live system to figure that you made a mistake.

Class: NSGSC Picture of Danilo Castro
Description: Calculate quantum computing graph states
Author: Danilo Castro
Age: 28
Country: Brazil Brazil
Comment: In quantum computing, information is represent by qubits instead of regular bits.

Multiple qubits represent quantum states of objects that are linked together.

This class can calculate quantum states that represent multiple qubits.

Class: Cpanel Backup scheduler Picture of Sanjoy Ganguly
Description: Schedule a backup of a Cpanel hosting account
Author: Sanjoy Ganguly
Age: ???
Country: India India
Comment: Backups are crucial to help sites recovering from eventual incidents.

Cpanel is an hosting management software that can take backups.

This class provides means to control Cpanel and schedule a backup programmatically so you site can take backups according to rules defined by your site scripts.

Class: Torrent Pieces Hash Verification Picture of Charalampos Pournaris
Description: Compare downloaded data with torrent data
Author: Charalampos Pournaris
Age: 23
Country: Greece Greece
Comment: BitTorrent is a popular peer to peer program that is used to download programs and data from the Internet.

Sometimes a download needs to be interrupted due to loss of Internet connection of for some other reason.

This class can be used to determine how much data needs to be downloaded to complete an unfinished BitTorrent download.

Class: DIV Based Table Generator Picture of Muhammad Arfeen
Description: Generate table like HTML layouts using only DIVs
Author: Muhammad Arfeen
Age: ???
Country: Pakistan Pakistan
Comment: HTML tables are often used to present Web pages that need to show different sections with a certain relative alignment.

However, some designers prefer to avoid tables and use div tags to make the layout a little more flexible.

This class helps programmatically building layouts like tables using only div tags, thus avoiding the use of HTML tables.

Class: AIS_Util_MultibyteSort Picture of Christian
Description: Sort arrays with text encoded using Unicode
Author: Christian
Age: 26
Country: Germany Germany
Comment: PHP provides a large variety of array sorting functions. It can sort arrays by entry value or even by associative array key.

However, when text values are used as sorting factor, only PHP 6 will provide built-in support to sort text encoded using Unicode.

This class provides a solution for sorting arrays of text strings encoded using Unicode that works in versions prior to PHP 6.

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