Innovation Award results of September of 2009

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	One year server license IP to country region city database
	One copy of Delphi for PHP
	One license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
	One downloadable copy of Komodo IDE
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	One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine
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	One year subscription to the PDF edition of the JSMag magazine
	One book of choice by Manning
	One book of choice by Packt

Congratulations to Thiemo Mättig!

Rank	Class	Author	Score	Points
1	TM::MyCSV Manage CSV files like database tables	Thiemo Mättig	`27.66%`	`10`
2	Reviews Store and retrieve reviews of products in MySQL	Manish Khanchandani	`19.15%`	`9`
3	get2post Generate links that post forms	Gianluca Zanferrari	`12.77%`	`8`
3	Perfect URL Trimmer Retrieve the shortest URL from several services	Khurram Adeeb Noorani	`12.77%`	`8`
5	OOCSS Template engine for CSS style sheet files	Corey Hart	`8.51%`	`6`
6	LLRB Tree Manage a balanced tree of text word nodes	Jay Wheeler	`6.38%`	`5`
7	setTimeout and setInterval Call a function after a period of time	Sam Shull	`4.26%`	`4`
7	coverFlow Generate images using the cover flow effect	Uku-Kaarel Jo~esaar	`4.26%`	`4`
7	SEO Title Analyze and report problems in page titles	Sandeep Kumar	`4.26%`	`4`
10	PHP Chunk Extract chunks from large XML files	Dom Hastings	`<1.00%`	`1`

Nominees to win the award of September of 2009

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Class:		PHP Mud Names
	Description:	Generate random names for Multi-User Dungeon games
	Author:	Ludovic Bellière
	Age:	22
	Country:	Belgium
Comment:		Multi-User Dungeon games are a kind of role playing games. Each character has a name that often is invented. This class can generate random names for characters that despite they do not mean anything, they sound very much like typical to names of characters that you often see in this kind of games.

Class:		Multi Threading, Daemon (Windows service)
	Description:	Create Windows service to run daemons
	Author:	Manooj Kumar Dhar
	Age:	???
	Country:	Luxembourg
Comment:		A Windows service is a program that keeps running in the background ready to perform certain tasks. It is the equivalent to daemon processes on Linux and other Unix like systems. This class gives an example of how to create and register a service that can be started and stopped like other Windows services.

Class:		Super Proxy
	Description:	Create object to access private members
	Author:	Mathias Krieck
	Age:	???
	Country:	Germany
Comment:		When you want to perform a tests that verify whether a given class works as expected, you may need to call functions or access variables that are private or protected. That circumstance raises a difficulty because you can only access private and protected members from inside the same class. This class provides a workaround that consists in creating a clone of the original class which has all private and protected variables and functions made public. This way it becomes possible to access all class members for testing purposes.

Class:		BMP_Loader
	Description:	Read and write BMP images in pure PHP
	Author:	Dzsoni Voker
	Age:	???
	Country:	Slovak Republic
Comment:		The PHP GD extensions allows you to read and write image files in different formats, but it does not have built-in support to the BMP format. This class implements a pure PHP solution to read and write images in the BMP format, so it does not depend on any special PHP extensions.

Class:		XML Debugger
	Description:	Parse XML documents and locate all errors
	Author:	Thales Jacobi
	Age:	28
	Country:	United Kingdom
Comment:		XML parsers process XML documents but usually they fail when they find the first malformation error. This is not useful if you need to find out all errors that a XML document may have. This class provides a more fault tolerant solution to check XML documents, as it does not exit on the first malformation error that it finds in a XML document being checked.

Class:		Google Analytics Cookie Parser
	Description:	Retrieve and parse Google Analytics cookies
	Author:	Joao Correia
	Age:	32
	Country:	Portugal
Comment:		Google Analytics is a tool that keeps track of all sorts of statistics of the visitors of a site. It setups cookies with several types of information about where the user has been. This class can parse the information stored in Google Analytic cookies to return more meaningful values.

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