Innovation Award results of February of 2009

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The winners of the Award may receive prizes provided by sponsors.

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

Congratulations to Muhammad Arfeen!

Rank	Class	Author	Score	Points
1	DIV Based Table Generator Generate table like HTML layouts using only DIVs	Muhammad Arfeen	`17.91%`	`14`
2	html2pcl Convert HTML to PCL	Nurul Ferdous	`13.43%`	`13`
3	GD Magic Apply effects on images using only GD	luigi de rosa	`11.94%`	`12`
3	Yahoo BBAuth Authenticate users with Yahoo accounts	Sadiqur Rahman	`11.94%`	`12`
5	Cpanel Backup scheduler Schedule a backup of a Cpanel hosting account	Sanjoy Ganguly	`10.45%`	`10`
6	Cartoonfy Process an image to make it look like a cartoon	László Zsidi	`8.96%`	`9`
7	Unicode Manipulation Manipulate text with Unicode encodings	Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro	`5.97%`	`8`
7	LR Parsing Tables Generate parsing tables for context free grammars	Debug	`5.97%`	`8`
7	NSGSC Calculate quantum computing graph states	Danilo Castro	`5.97%`	`8`
10	PHP Text Classifier Classify text in categories using Bayesian method	alfan	`2.99%`	`5`
10	AIS_Util_MultibyteSort Sort arrays with text encoded using Unicode	Christian	`2.99%`	`5`
12	Ads and content limit Keeps track of visitors to show limited ads a day	lee johnstone	`1.49%`	`3`
13	Check Curly Braces Check matching curly brackets in text files	raenkrus	`<1.00%`	`2`
13	Torrent Pieces Hash Verification Compare downloaded data with torrent data	Charalampos Pournaris	`<1.00%`	`2`

Nominees to win the award of February of 2009

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Class:		REST Server
	Description:	Implement REST Web services servers
	Author:	Diogo Souza da Silva
	Age:	20
	Country:	Brazil
Comment:		REST is a protocol for implementing Web services that is simpler than others like SOAP and XML-RPC. This package provides an extensive solution to implement REST based Web service servers in PHP.

Class:		exportPlanner2Mantisbt
	Description:	Export Planner project data to Mantis bug tracker
	Author:	Satish Kumar
	Age:	30
	Country:	India
Comment:		Mantis is a popular bug tracking application. If you used Planner to manage your project tasks, this class allows you to integrate both applications so you can keep track of bug reports for each element of your application.

Class:		Duck Roll Builder
	Description:	Display YouTube music videos with lyrics
	Author:	Abbey Sparrow
	Age:	31
	Country:	United States
Comment:		Many users enjoy music and like to share their preferences with their friends and other members of the same communities they frequent. This class provides a solution that combines several services of other sites to present the community users preferred music videos from YouTube along with lyrics of the songs retrieved from other sites.

Class:		Online zip modifier
	Description:	Modify the files in a ZIP archive
	Author:	M H Rasel
	Age:	27
	Country:	Bangladesh
Comment:		Some applications need to build ZIP archives to pack multiple files for download. Usually you create temporary files on disk and add all the files you need before serving the ZIP archive. This class provides a better solution that allows creating or changing ZIP archives without creating temporary files. This way it can work in restricted hosts that do not allow creating disk files.

Class:		Periodic site maintenance
	Description:	Perform several site maintenance tasks
	Author:	Alexander Selifonov
	Age:	46
	Country:	Russian Federation
Comment:		Every site needs to take care of several types of maintenance tasks like performing backup copies of critical information, clean-up no longer used information, etc... This package offers an extensive solution to take care of many of the common maintenance tasks.

Class:		The Funny Turnaround Class
	Description:	Convert text to show characters upside down
	Author:	Mirko Mönninghoff
	Age:	40
	Country:	Germany
Comment:		Unicode includes many character sets that can be used to write text in many idioms. Some character sets have letters that look like letters of other character sets after rotated 180 degrees. This class takes advantage of that fact to convert text strings in such way that it looks like the text was rotated 180 degrees.

Class:		PHP easy ticket and help system
	Description:	Manage help desk ticket submissions
	Author:	lee johnstone
	Age:	25
	Country:	Australia
Comment:		Most sites need to provide support to their users. This package provides a basic help desk solution that can be used to manage user support requests in PHP.

Class:		Spam blocker
	Description:	Check spammer IP address in Project Honey Pot RBL
	Author:	Alec Scaresbrook
	Age:	???
	Country:	United Kingdom
Comment:		Every day attempts to spamming sites grows, causing excessive load to site servers, not to mention when spam robots infiltrate unwanted content. This class provides a solution to help PHP sites quickly block spam robots IP addresses using the Project Honey Pot black list.

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