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[PHP Classes] Innovation Award results of October of 2009

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Innovation Award results of October of 2009

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Embarcadero One copy of Delphi for PHPOne copy of Delphi for PHP
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JCX Software One copy of VS.PHPOne copy of VS.PHP
NuSphere One downloadable copy of PhpED ProfessionalOne downloadable copy of PhpED Professional
NetMake One license of ScriptCase Enterprise editionOne license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
ActiveState One downloadable copy of Komodo IDEOne downloadable copy of Komodo IDE
Human Profile One copy of DWebPro Standard LicenseOne copy of DWebPro Standard License
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Innovation Award Winners Congratulations to Thales Jacobi!


Rank Class Author Score Points Prize
1 XML Debugger
Parse XML documents and locate all errors
Thales Jacobi Brazil 40.00% 6
2 Multi Threading, Daemon (Windows service)
Create Windows service to run daemons
Manooj Kumar Dhar Luxembourg 20.00% 5
3 Google Analytics Cookie Parser
Retrieve and parse Google Analytics cookies
Joao Correia Portugal 13.33% 4
4 BMP_Loader
Read and write BMP images in pure PHP
Dzsoni Voker Slovak Republic 11.11% 3
5 Super Proxy
Create object to access private members
Mathias Krieck Germany 8.89% 2
6 PHP Mud Names
Generate random names for Multi-User Dungeon games
Ludovic Bellière Belgium 6.67% 1


Nominees to win the award of October of 2009

Class: SUIT Framework Picture of Brandon Evans
Description: Template engine with configurable syntax
Author: Brandon Evans
Age: 17
Country: United States United States
Comment: There are many template engines that support different types of template syntax.

This class implements a more flexible templating engine can implement a syntax that can be changed to the developer's preference.

Class: Bot recognizer and dispatcher Picture of Alexander Selifonov
Description: Recognize and handle Web robot by IP or user agent
Author: Alexander Selifonov
Age: 47
Country: Russian Federation Russian Federation
Comment: If you want to detect whether the computer accessing a site is from a person, a search engine robot crawling your site or some kind a malicious program, you can check the user agent header.

However, that header can be forged with a misleading value to pretend that it is a search engine robot.

This class provides a more reliable solution that checks the IP address of the computer accessing the site against a list of IP address ranges known to be used by to search engine robots.

Class: Animated PNG Creator Picture of Dzsoni Voker
Description: Create PNG format animations from a list of images
Author: Dzsoni Voker
Age: ???
Country: Slovak Republic Slovak Republic
Comment: GIF is a popular format for displaying animations in Web pages. However GIF is limited to 8 bit color images.

PNG is an image format that supports 24 bit images. A backwards compatible extension of PNG format allows it to be used to display animations with 24 bit color images.

This class allows generating animations in PNG format using pure PHP code.

Class: Gravatar RPC Picture of Wouter van Vliet
Description: Send requests to the Gravatar API about images
Author: Wouter van Vliet
Age: 27
Country: Denmark Denmark
Comment: Gravatar is a popular service that can be used to embed images of users giving their e-mail address.

This class provides a Web services based solution to manipulate images of given Gravatar user using PHP scripts.

Class: MyBox Picture of Roberto Aleman
Description: Calculate volumetric weight of a package
Author: Roberto Aleman
Age: 35
Country: Venezuela Venezuela
Comment: Volumetric weight is way to calculate the cost of shipping a package by mail.

This class provides a PHP solution to calculate the volumetric weight of package from its dimensions.

Class: Text to Timestamp Picture of Martin
Description: Convert English expressions into time values
Author: Martin
Age: 26
Country: Denmark Denmark
Comment: The PHP function strtotime() can convert a text string in several time formats into a timestamp value.

This class goes farther by analyzing and converting text strings with relative time expressions in English.

Class: Email 2 SMS Picture of Utsav Handa
Description: Send SMS by e-mail to many carriers
Author: Utsav Handa
Age: 25
Country: India India
Comment: Sending SMS messages usually requires paying a provider to do it. However, many carriers can receive SMS messages to their customers by e-mail.

This class provides comprehensive solution to send SMS messages for free to carriers in many countries.

Class: EmbeVi Picture of Comanici Paul
Description: Embed remote videos and audio in HTML pages
Author: Comanici Paul
Age: 25
Country: Romania Romania
Comment: There are many solutions to embed remote video and audio clips into other Web site pages.

This class provides the most extensive solution to embed in your pages video and audio clips from many sites around the world.

Class: PHP MSSQL Dump Picture of Jonathan Hilgeman
Description: Dump a Microsoft SQL server database
Author: Jonathan Hilgeman
Age: ???
Country: United States United States
Comment: MySQL is the most popular database used in PHP applications.

To take backups of a MySQL database, there is the mysqldump command. There are also several classes that emulate the mysqldump in pure PHP code.

This class provides a similar solution for taking backups of Microsoft SQL server databases using pure PHP code.

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