Innovation Award results of November of 2009

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	One year server license IP to country region city database
	One copy of Delphi for PHP
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	One copy of the Zend Studio
	One downloadable copy of PhpED Professional
	One copy of VS.PHP
	One license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
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	One book of choice by Packt
	One year subscription to the PDF edition of the JSMag magazine
	One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine
	One book of choice by Apress

Congratulations to Comanici Paul!

Rank	Class	Author	Score	Points
1	EmbeVi Embed remote videos and audio in HTML pages	Comanici Paul	`25.42%`	`9`
2	Bot recognizer and dispatcher Recognize and handle Web robot by IP or user agent	Alexander Selifonov	`18.64%`	`8`
3	Email 2 SMS Send SMS by e-mail to many carriers	Utsav Handa	`15.25%`	`7`
4	SUIT Framework Template engine with configurable syntax	Brandon Evans	`13.56%`	`6`
5	Animated PNG Creator Create PNG format animations from a list of images	Dzsoni Voker	`8.47%`	`5`
6	MyBox Calculate volumetric weight of a package	Roberto Aleman	`6.78%`	`4`
7	PHP MSSQL Dump Dump a Microsoft SQL server database	Jonathan Hilgeman	`5.08%`	`3`
8	Gravatar RPC Send requests to the Gravatar API about images	Wouter van Vliet	`3.39%`	`2`
8	Text to Timestamp Convert English expressions into time values	Martin	`3.39%`	`2`

Nominees to win the award of November of 2009

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Class:		PHP parallel programming
	Description:	Run parallel scripts using a C++ program
	Author:	akash
	Age:	???
	Country:	India
Comment:		Some tasks require the execution of lengthy procedures many times. Often, a better approach to execute such procedures in less time is to start parallel threads that execute parts of the procedures. PHP can start parallel processes using the pcntl extension, which only works on Linux/Unix-like systems. This class provides an alternative solution for starting and managing parallel PHP scripts. It uses a separate program written in C++. This program comes in versions for Linux/Unix and Windows. It is also able to control the execution of the parallel PHP scripts and can capture their output.

Class:		Multi Singleton
	Description:	Implementation of the singleton design pattern
	Author:	Sebastian Potasiak
	Age:	16
	Country:	Poland
Comment:		Singleton is a design pattern that assures that only one instance of an object is created. Usually, each class defines its own implementation of the singleton design pattern. This class can manage singletons of multiple classes.

Class:		Bounded Queue
	Description:	Manage queue with a limited number of elements
	Author:	Ahmad Retha
	Age:	???
	Country:	United Kingdom
Comment:		Queues can be used to maintain a set of elements that can be pushed and popped from the queue. Usually, queues can maintain an unlimited set of elements. This class provides a different implementation that allows to limit the number of items present in the queue at any moment.

Class:		PHP Website Multi Language
	Description:	Translate application texts using Google Translate
	Author:	Sandeep Kumar
	Age:	25
	Country:	India
Comment:		To adapt an application to work with multiple idioms, it is necessary to translate the application texts to each of the supported idioms. This class makes it easier to adapt applications to multiple idioms by using Google translate site to translate the original application text to each of the supported languages. This way it generates what can be the first version of the internationalized application scripts.

Class:		Loading Div
	Description:	Display an animation while a page is loading
	Author:	Gianluca Zanferrari
	Age:	43
	Country:	The Netherlands
Comment:		Some pages take a while to load because they have several elements that need to be retrieved remotely before they can be displayed. The user needs to be patient while the page is loading. In this situation it is better to give some feedback during the load of the page. This class provides a simple but effective solution to give some feedback to the user while a page is loading.

Class:		Regexp Builder-
	Description:	Build regular expressions programmatically
	Author:	Marco Marchiò
	Age:	???
	Country:	Italy
Comment:		Regular expressions are often used to match text expressions that follow an expected syntax. However, the syntax of regular expressions is not very trivial to most developers. This class provides a very developer friendly way to build regular expressions.

Class:		HTML 5
	Description:	Generate article pages using HTML 5 syntax
	Author:	Güayoyo
	Age:	51
	Country:	Italy
Comment:		HTML 5 introduces a set of new tags with names with better semantic for composing articles, for instance. This class provides a practical example of composing article documents with the new HTML 5 tags.

Class:		OFX Parser
	Description:	Parse and extract financial records from OFX files
	Author:	Felipe Nascimento de Moura
	Age:	???
	Country:	Brazil
Comment:		OFX is a XML based format for exchanging financial records between programs that manipulate this kind of information, like Intuit Quicken, Microsoft Money, Google Finance, etc.. This class provides a PHP solution for solution to extract financial records from OFX files.

Class:		Quadratic Equation
	Description:	Solve quadratic equations
	Author:	Mammadli
	Age:	???
	Country:	Azerbaijan
Comment:		Quadratic equations are often used to solve problems in physics for instance. This class provides a simple but practical way for solving quadratic equations.

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