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Latest PHP specialists forum threads

Subject Updated on
Access Local directory
I need to access the local directories using PHP from server		 2009-05-20
callback functions
Use of undefined constant when calling callback using usort		 2009-05-19
cakephp
Detail Guidance for Starting a new project in Cake php		 2009-05-18
LED Programming
LED Programming with PHP		 2009-05-18
Advantage Database Server
Connect ADS without ODBC		 2009-05-15
how do I extract variables from within a string?
cUrl gets a webpage which changes and I want to extract data		 2009-05-14

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  • Latest PHP Classes blog posts

  • How large is the PHP market? (8 days ago)

    Posted on: 2009-05-12
    Summary: Sometimes it is necessary to know how large is the PHP market in the world or in a specific country.

    It may help, for instance, developers to advocate for PHP, companies to decide for sponsoring PHP events, PHP training, developing of products targeting the PHP developers, or any other initiatives directed to the PHP market.

    This article presents several sources of information that may help decision makers to invest more in the PHP market.

    The article also covers the huge popularity of Firefox browser among PHP developers attributing it to the superb Web development extensions available for this browser. The most useful Firefox extensions for PHP developers are listed.

  • Upcoming PHP 5.3 features and beyond (22 days ago)

    Posted on: 2009-04-28
    Summary: PHP 5.3 release candidate 1 was released a few days ago. The final version is expected to be released in the upcoming weeks.

    This article presents an interview with core PHP developer Lukas Kahwe Smith that has pushed many of the new features of PHP 5.3 as release manager.

    Lukas talks about PHP 5.3 new features such as lambda functions, closures and PHAR support. He also explains what are traits, which for now it is a feature that was left out of PHP 5.3.

    He also talks about future PHP 5.x and PHP 6, as well how anybody can help in the development of PHP to make it come out faster.

  • Winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced (29 days ago)

    Posted on: 2009-04-21
    Summary: The winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2008 was announced.

    Now there is also a ranking of the innovation award of all time that considers the score of each author since the award started in 2004. There are also new rankings of author countries for each year and all time.

    Cesar Rodas won the 2008 award. Here he gives an interview telling about many good things that happened since he won last year. He also shares his secrets to contribute so many innovative classes appreciated by the users that voted on them and made possible to win the 2008 award.

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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 Olaf Lederer 34
2 solomongaby 32
3 Cesar D. Rodas 22
4 Alexander Skakunov 18
5 Khaled Al-Shamaa 16
6 Horst Nogajski 13
7 Richard Munroe 10
8 lixlpixel 10
9 dave hale 8
10 Protung Dragos 7

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Innovation award results

Innovation Award Winners Congratulations to Pawel Antczak!


Rank Class Author Score Points Prize
1 Remove Border From Image
Crop images by removing common color borders		 Pawel Antczak Poland 23.73% 12 One copy of the Zend Studio
2 My Image Filter
Apply several types of effects on images		 Uku-Kaarel Jo~esaar Estonia 15.25% 11 One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine
3 PHP Keyword Analyser
Find out how a site ranks in Google for a keyword		 Er. Rochak Chauhan India 13.56% 10 One license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
4 Binary serialization
Serialize and unserialize values in binary format		 Cesar D. Rodas Paraguay 10.17% 9 One book of choice by O'Reilly
5 Hex Editor
Read and write files to edit their data		 De Rosa Luigi Italy 8.47% 8 One downloadable copy of Komodo IDE
5 flv2mp3
Extract MP3 audio from Flash video movies		 Marko Schulz Germany 8.47% 8 One book of choice by Packt
7 Zend Framework Installer
Setup a files for Zend framework based application		 Ruben Crespo Spain 6.78% 6 One book of choice by Apress
8 Seltz analyzer
Extract important words from HTML documents		 Seltzlab Italy 5.08% 5 One book of choice by Manning
9 Generics
Implementation of generic types		 Pulni4kiya Bulgaria 3.39% 4
10 pop3ml
Manage mailing lists using a POP3 account		 giuseppe lucarelli Italy 1.69% 3
10 DBX Parser
Converts MS Outlook e-mail files to EML format		 László Zsidi Hungary 1.69% 3
10 Anti_Mcrypt
Encrypt and decrypt data using mcrypt		 Christian Germany 1.69% 3

Nominees to win the award of April of 2009

Class: TypeSafeStruct Picture of Tom Schaefer
Description: Manipulate type safe objects
Author: Tom Schaefer
Age: ???
Country: Germany Germany
Class: untiny Picture of James Hinds
Description: Determine the pages where short URLs lead
Author: James Hinds
Age: ???
Country: United States United States
Class: Dijkstra Picture of Xu Yulei
Description: Find route between points using Dijkstra algorithm
Author: Xu Yulei
Age: ???
Country: Sweden Sweden
Class: CSP Filter Picture of Michael A. Peters
Description: Filter HTML based on Content Security Policy
Author: Michael A. Peters
Age: 36
Country: United States United States
Class: PDF to JPG (Flip book) Picture of Satish Kumar
Description: Convert PDF files to JPEG images using ImageMagick
Author: Satish Kumar
Age: 30
Country: India India
Class: Overload Picture of Ralf Mike Pretzlaw
Description: Emulate class function overloading
Author: Ralf Mike Pretzlaw
Age: 25
Country: Germany Germany
Class: MP3 Class Picture of mfboy
Description: Manipulate MP3 audio files
Author: mfboy
Age: ???
Country: China China
Class: Image Booth Picture of Abbey Sparrow
Description: Manipulate images split in layers
Author: Abbey Sparrow
Age: 31
Country: United States United States
Class: jsCheck Picture of Gustav Eklundh
Description: Check whether Javascript is enabled in the browser
Author: Gustav Eklundh
Age: 19
Country: Sweden Sweden
Class: PHP Git Picture of Cesar D. Rodas
Description: Retrieve project files from GIT repositories
Author: Cesar D. Rodas
Age: 21
Country: Paraguay Paraguay
Class: Array to Object converter Picture of Sebastian Potasiak
Description: Turn any array into an object
Author: Sebastian Potasiak
Age: 16
Country: Poland Poland

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Latest blog trackback links

Trackback Class Age in days
PHP Ajax Röstningsfunktion
Denna röstnings-klass byggt med PHP o...		 PHP Ajax Voting system 3
PHP Scaffolder
It all started about 6 months back; w...		 PHP Scaffolder 5
Php
Hey, all i need to do is show all the...		 Query result table display class 7
RSS feed of error log
Your PHP application logs every error...		 RSS Error 7
CSS komprimering
Den här PHP klassen, CSS Compressor, ...		 CSS Compressor 9
Mysql to json
Just recently saw in PHPClasses someo...		 MySQL 2 JSON 10
Class: Cascade Dropdown 3 Levels
The Class can be used to Fetch the re...		 Cascade Dropdown 3 Levels 12
Class: Cascade Dropdown 3 Levels
The Class can be used to Fetch the re...		 Cascade Drop Down 12
Create an Event calendar using PHP and jQuery
When I first saw this cool astonishin...		 Calendar Events 15
All Twitter Tools & Tutorials 4 Designers & Developers
Twitter appears on innumerable indivi...		 My Twitter 17

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Latest support forum threads

Subject Posted on Class
the moon calculations are not correct.
Package rating comment		 2009-05-19 Moon Phase
bug found blank email
when you try to send email to hotmail it will show you blank ema		 2009-05-19 Nomad MIME Mail
single logon for both phpBB and for the website
phpBB login		 2009-05-19 PHPBB Login Integration
Great class.
Package rating comment		 2009-05-19 BBCode Class
Ho w to only retrieve the latest reply
Retrieving the last message an not the whole history		 2009-05-18 MIME E-mail message parser
Congratulations !! looool Thats a very good and useful class .
Package rating comment		 2009-05-18 PHP Ajax Voting system
Thats a good and useful class !! lol
Package rating comment		 2009-05-18 Get form value & error
FPDF
Tweaking code		 2009-05-18 FPDF
PHP HTMLtoPDF
Tweaking code		 2009-05-18 FPDF
Doesn't quite work correctly with me.
Package rating comment		 2009-05-18 PHP Keyword Analyser

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  • Latest package entries

  • Foro

    Picture of adrian
    Author: adrian
    Date: 2009-05-19 (1 day ago)
    Groups: Databases, Forums
    Description: This class can be used to manage forum messages stored in a MySQL database.

    It can perform several types of operations to manipulate messages of a forum. Currently it can:

    - List the forum topics, threads and messages
    - Mark threads as read]
    - Retrieve the number of topic threads, the number of thread messages, the number of user messages
    - Start a new topic thread
    - Post a new message to a thread

    The code and the comments are in Spanish.

  • TronReplacer

    Picture of Carlos
    Author: Carlos
    Date: 2009-05-19 (1 day ago)
    Groups: HTML, PHP 5, Text processing
    Description: This class can be used to convert non-ASCII text in UTF-8 to HTML entities.

    It finds and replaces some non-ASCII characters encoded using UTF-8 to the equivalent HTML entities.

  • Connect to SSH

    Picture of Lukas Mestan
    Author: Lukas Mestan
    Date: 2009-05-18 (2 days ago)
    Groups: Networking, PHP 5, Cryptography
    Description: This class can be used to execute programs in remote computers using secure shell (SSH).

    It establishes a secure shell connecting to a given server using PHP ssh2 extension.

    The class executes a remote program and returns whether it run successfully.

  • olDelete

    Picture of Carlos
    Author: Carlos
    Date: 2009-05-18 (2 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Files and Folders
    Description: This class can be used to delete aged files and folders.

    It uses the navigator class to browse a given directory and delete files or directories that were modified for the last time more than a given number of minutes ago.

    When removing directories, the class can remove them recursively.

  • QTransfer

    Picture of Tom Schaefer
    Author: Tom Schaefer
    Date: 2009-05-17 (3 days ago)
    Groups: XML, HTTP, PHP 5
    Description: This package can be used to send HTTP requests and process XML responses.

    There is one class that can send and receive HTTP requests and another can process the request responses.

    There are also other classes to process the HTTP XML responses.

  • Get form value & error

    Picture of Lukas Mestan
    Author: Lukas Mestan
    Date: 2009-05-16 (4 days ago)
    Groups: HTML
    Description: This class can be used to keep track of form validation errors.

    It keeps track of the names and validation errors of the form fields that may be invalid.

    The class also generate HTML to mark form fields as invalid.

  • PHP Ajax Voting system

    Picture of Nick Asenov
    Author: Nick Asenov
    Date: 2009-05-16 (4 days ago)
    Groups: Databases, Content management
    Description: This class can be used to manage a vote polling system.

    It can record in a MySQL database the votes of the users in several possible options also defined in a database table of poll options.

    It uses cookies to keep track of votes done by each user to prevent users voting again.

    The class can also retrieve the statistics of votes done for each poll option.

  • Dba Wrapper

    Picture of Pavan Solapure
    Author: Pavan Solapure
    Date: 2009-05-15 (5 days ago)
    Groups: Databases
    Description: This class implements a flat file database access abstraction layer. It can:

    - Open a given flat file database
    - Insert a new record with a given key
    - Get a record with a given key
    - Replace the value of a record with a given key
    - Delete the record with a given key
    - Optimize the database file

  • http

    Picture of Lukas Mestan
    Author: Lukas Mestan
    Date: 2009-05-15 (5 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, HTTP
    Description: This class can be used to output HTML pages to send requests to a Web server.

    It can generate a page that makes the user be redirected to a given URL passing a list of parameters by either issuing HTTP redirect headers or embedding Javascript in the page.

    The class can also make the browser send an HTTP POST request by generating a form with hidden input field set to given values and adding the necessary Javascript to make the browser submit the form to a given URL.

  • PHP Encoding Converter

    Picture of tcvdveer
    Author: tcvdveer
    Date: 2009-05-15 (5 days ago)
    Groups: Files and Folders
    Description: The PHP Encoding Converter can be used to easily batch convert your language pack to the UTF-8 encoding (or to another encoding type). Over 50 encoding types are supported (Windows, Dos, Unix, Mac). The script batch converts directories from one encoding type to another and can be run from a webserver (or local server with for example Xampp installed).

  • Anti_Util_CircularReference

    Picture of Christian
    Author: Christian
    Date: 2009-05-14 (6 days ago)
    Groups: Algorithms
    Description: This class can be used to find circular references using waypoint array.

    It takes an array of pairs of values that are links between to points for instance in a map.

    The class traverses the array of values and detects when there groups of points that form a cyclic reference.

  • PHP Scaffolder

    Picture of syed abdul baqi
    Author: syed abdul baqi
    Date: 2009-05-14 (6 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, Databases, Code Generation
    Description: This package can be used to generate scripts to manipulate MySQL table records.

    It generates a PHP script that can be used to insert, list, update and delete records in a given MySQL table.

    The generated script uses separate classes to generate and validate forms and display table records in paginated listings.

  • QValidation

    Picture of Tom Schaefer
    Author: Tom Schaefer
    Date: 2009-05-14 (6 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Validation
    Description: This package can be used to validate several types of value.

    It provides several classes that can validate different types of values.

    Currently it can validate strings, integers, arrays, objects, resources, dates and ISBN numbers.

  • dSendMail2 - All In One

    Picture of Alexandre Tedeschi (d)
    Author: Alexandre Tedeschi (d)
    Date: 2009-05-13 (7 days ago)
    Groups: Email
    Description: This class was designed to be everything you should ever want in mail sending.

    Credits:
    - This class contains large pieces of htmlMimeMessage, originally written by Richard Heyes
    - This class contains large pieces of smtpclass, originally written by Manuel Lemos

    It can easily:
    - Send messages through SMTP or MAIL() function
    - Import/Export EMLFiles (Outlook)
    - Send a HTML file (with or without images embed)
    - Compose text or HTML messages
    - Attach files to messages
    - Embed images
    - Otimized Mass-Mailing (group messages in 20 [or more, or less] so you won't overload your server)

    All required classes are inside the main class file. Only one class file required, nothing else.

  • Create image for WAV file

    Picture of mfboy
    Author: mfboy
    Date: 2009-05-13 (7 days ago)
    Groups: Graphics, Audio
    Description: This class can be used to draw a graph of the sound of a WAV file.

    It opens a given sound sample file in the WAV format and extracts the variation of the volume of the sample over time.

    The class renders an image that represents the sound sample wave form.

  • Installation Automation

    Picture of Bogdan Lupandin
    Author: Bogdan Lupandin
    Date: 2009-05-13 (7 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Utilities and Tools, Content management
    Description: This class can be used to automate multi-step application installations.

    It can present forms that define different pages of the installation process.

    Each forms page is defined in custom scripts that are stored in a given directory and are numbered according to the respective installation page number.

    The class can also perform several installation general purpose tasks, such as creating XML or PHP files, create MySQL database tables and insert table records.

    It allows performing different types of validation on each stage and can perform page request redirection accordingly.

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