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Latest PHP specialists forum threads

Subject Updated on
Ping a server or web site using our network of over 30 monitorin
Ping a server		 2010-01-25
Include file - linked to other file
always when changing the second div visibility it includes also		 2010-01-25
string to text
convert string to text		 2010-01-20
Technical Interviews
Reading, Writing, Speaking Language, Demonstrating Competancy		 2010-01-20
Run php script in background
Run php script in background		 2010-01-20
file download
Need to learn how to restore headers after a file download		 2010-01-20

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  • Latest PHP Classes blog posts

  • Design contest second turn (9 days ago)

    Posted on: 2010-01-18
    Summary: The PHPClasses site design contest moved on to a second turn. This article explains how it works and what can you do to help picking the best design for the site.

  • PHP User Groups ranking (14 days ago)

    Posted on: 2010-01-13
    Summary: The PHP Users Group ranking is an initiative that is aimed to highlight PHP user groups that have more active members.

    This article explains how it works and what can you do to lead your local PHP user group to have more and better activities for the benefit of the PHP community in general.

  • PHP Zeitgeist: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last decade? (21 days ago)

    Posted on: 2010-01-06
    Summary: PHP Zeitgeist is a new initiative to show the trends on what PHP developers have been looking for year after year. It is somewhat similar to Google End of the Year Zeitgeist.

    This article explains in detail what is this initiative and how you can take advantage of the information that it provide to keep up with the latest trends in the PHP development market and improve your career.

  • Site design contest results announced (23 days ago)

    Posted on: 2010-01-04
    Summary: The results of the first turn of the Design Award contest were announced.

    A second turn will follow because none of the contestants got at least 50% of the votes.

    This article tells about how the contest went so far and explains how the second turn will work.

    It also mentions some of the upcoming site features that have been in development, now that the design contest developments have practically ended.

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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 44
2 solomongaby 20
3 Cesar D. Rodas 19
4 Roberto Aleman 16
5 Alexander Skakunov 15
6 Richard Munroe 11
7 Protung Dragos 9
8 Khaled Al-Shamaa 9
9 Horst Nogajski 9
10 Mike Leigh 8

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Browse all PHP User Groups by country

If you make part of a regional PHP User Group not listed here, submit your user group.

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Innovation award results

Innovation Award Winners Congratulations to akash!


Rank Class Author Score Points Prize
1 PHP parallel programming
Run parallel scripts using a C++ program		 akash India 26.92% 9
2 PHP Website Multi Language
Translate application texts using Google Translate		 Sandeep Kumar India 19.23% 8 One subscription to the PDF edition of the PHP Architect magazine
3 Regexp Builder
Build regular expressions programmatically		 Marco Marchiò Italy 15.38% 7 One year subscription to the PDF edition of the JSMag magazine
4 Loading Div
Display an animation while a page is loading		 Gianluca Zanferrari The Netherlands 13.46% 6 One downloadable copy of Komodo IDE
5 Multi Singleton
Implementation of the singleton design pattern		 Sebastian Potasiak Poland 7.69% 5 One copy of the Zend Studio
6 OFX Parser
Parse and extract financial records from OFX files		 Felipe Nascimento de Moura Brazil 5.77% 4 One license of ScriptCase Enterprise edition
6 Quadratic Equation
Solve quadratic equations		 Mammadli Azerbaijan 5.77% 4
8 HTML 5
Generate article pages using HTML 5 syntax		 Güayoyo Italy 3.85% 2 One book of choice by Packt
9 Bounded Queue
Manage queue with a limited number of elements		 Ahmad Retha United Kingdom 1.92% 1

Nominees to win the award of December of 2009

Class: Reference Collection Picture of Bao Nguyen Quoc
Description: Keep track of references to variable values
Author: Bao Nguyen Quoc
Age: 22
Country: Viet Nam Viet Nam
Class: RRD Manipulator Picture of monjurul hasan
Description: Retrieve server traffic information using RRDTool
Author: monjurul hasan
Age: 25
Country: Bangladesh Bangladesh
Class: Burn CD with PHP Picture of Korosh Raoufi
Description: Burn CD using CreateCD Windows program
Author: Korosh Raoufi
Age: 20
Country: Iran Iran
Class: XML DB Picture of Alessandro Vernassa (speleoalex)
Description: Manage XML and MySQL databases using SQL
Author: Alessandro Vernassa (speleoalex)
Age: 31
Country: Italy Italy
Class: Site pages guard Picture of Alexander Selifonov
Description: Monitor and restore damaged application files
Author: Alexander Selifonov
Age: 47
Country: Russian Federation Russian Federation
Class: Decorate Anything Picture of Fabian Schmengler
Description: Implement the decorator design pattern
Author: Fabian Schmengler
Age: 27
Country: Germany Germany
Class: Xdebug code coverage Picture of Ovidiu Mihalas
Description: Generate Xdebug code coverage reports
Author: Ovidiu Mihalas
Age: 27
Country: Romania Romania

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Latest blog trackback links

Trackback Class Age in days
Add Hijri Date to Booking module
First could please tell me what is th...		 uCal - Arabic/English Hijri/Greg Date 4
Does Interspire can use with proxy/socks for IP rotator
The suggestion is replace smtp of int...		 Send messages via SMTP 5
Question for Developers - PHP or any other OOP language
There isn't a set structure really an...		 MVC Like Modular Framework 7
Tag Cloud Generator
Der Tag Cloud Generator kann aus eine...		 Tag Cloud Generator 8
Twitter Updater
Esta clase se puede utilizar para act...		 Twitter Updater 8
Twitter Libraries
...		 My Twitter 8
Twitter API Library Type
Twitter related sites in order to dev...		 My Twitter 9
Subtitles with FlowPlayer
I recently built a subtitling system ...		 ezSQL 9
Clases y librerias en PHP
Las librerias nos facilitan la vida, ...		 My Twitter 10
Clases y librerias en PHP
Las librerias nos facilitan la vida, ...		 Twitter 10

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Latest support forum threads

Subject Posted on Class
Plain text parts mistakenly showing up as attachments
Plain text part showing up as an attachment		 2010-01-27 MIME E-mail message sending
broken
this class no longer works - contains links to broken site		 2010-01-27 Video Player
Question
Should Variable be initialized ???		 2010-01-26 Chavão Template Manager
mysqli
mysqli vs classic mysql		 2010-01-25 Ultimate MySQL
empty tags
I am losing empty tags		 2010-01-25 SimpleXML for PHP4
Receiving SMs
How to receive SMS via SMPP server		 2010-01-25 SMPP Class
Interessante, vou testar para ver se funciona.
Package rating comment		 2010-01-25 Bar Code
help...
help to obtain lag /long from gps receiver		 2010-01-25 PHP GPS Locator
Works just as described.
Package rating comment		 2010-01-24 GeoLocation (geoPlugin)
Special chars encoding
Short fix for german umlaut chars		 2010-01-24 Karatag Google Maps HTTP Request

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  • Latest package entries

  • Login System

    Picture of Nitesh Apte
    Author: Nitesh Apte
    Date: 2010-01-26 (1 day ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Databases, User Management
    Description: This package can be used to authenticate users with records in a database.

    It can verify the e-mail and password of an user logging in the system.

    The main class initializes session variables if authentication is successful.

    The class can also finish the session to logout the user.

    The database access is abstracted. The package provides drivers to access the users database table in MySQL and Oracle.

    LoginSystem - Login System, developed mainly for the
    newbie PHP programmers who want to learn implementation of OOPs concept.
    This application is for giving basic idea for implementing OOPs concept.

  • AVlib Event

    Picture of av
    Author: av
    Date: 2010-01-26 (1 day ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Language
    Description: This package can be used to trigger and dispatch custom script events.

    There is one class that can register event listeners by specifying a callback function that will be invoked when an event is dispatched.

    Another class encapsulates the details of events that are triggered.

  • File Helper

    Picture of Gustavo de Arruda Paes
    Author: Gustavo de Arruda Paes
    Date: 2010-01-25 (2 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Files and Folders
    Description: This class can be used to read and write data in files.

    It can open files to read, write and append data in them.

    The class can also delete files.

  • Chavão Template Manager

    Picture of Diego da Costa Chavao
    Author: Diego da Costa Chavao
    Date: 2010-01-25 (2 days ago)
    Groups: Templates
    Description: This class implements a template engine that replaces variables.

    It can read a template file and replace the assigned template variables in angle brackets with the assigned values.

    If the template variables are assigned to array values, the class repeats the lines with the respective template marks with each of the values of the template variables.

  • MySQL Slideshow

    Picture of Barton Phillips
    Author: Barton Phillips
    Date: 2010-01-24 (3 days ago)
    Groups: Databases, Graphics, Content management
    Description: This package can be used to present slideshow from images listed in a database.

    The main class can retrieve lists of images to be displayed from a MySQL database table.

    The class can also add or update the slideshow image lists in the database table, but the actual images are stored in files.

  • Secure Session Extended

    Picture of Seth Carter
    Author: Seth Carter
    Date: 2010-01-24 (3 days ago)
    Groups: User Management, Security
    Description: This class can be used to prevent session hijacking and fixation attacks.

    It is based on the class originally written by Vagharshak Tozalakyan.

    This version starts the session when the object is created, allows choosing the hashing algorithm used to encrypt the users fingerprints, and set the expiry time of the session.

  • CSS Stacker and Compressor

    Picture of Camilo Sperberg
    Author: Camilo Sperberg
    Date: 2010-01-23 (4 days ago)
    Groups: HTTP, PHP 5, Files and Folders
    Description: This class can be used to compact several CSS files into a single file.

    It can take several CSS files and generate a single file by concatenating all files after having stripped any white-spaces.

    The class can serve the resulting CSS file as the current script output.

    The CSS may be compressed with GZIP. If the original files were not modified, the class may return HTTP status 304 to make the browser use a cached version and prevent serving a file that was not changed.

  • UploadFile

    Picture of Jonathan Alexey
    Author: Jonathan Alexey
    Date: 2010-01-22 (5 days ago)
    Groups: HTTP, Files and Folders
    Description: This package can be used to process uploaded image files.

    There is a base class that can handle uploaded files of any type by copying or moving uploaded files.

    There is also a sub-class that provides an additional functionality to validate uploaded image files by verifying the file name extension and checking the image dimensions.

  • Lagger

    Picture of Barbushin Sergey
    Author: Barbushin Sergey
    Date: 2010-01-22 (5 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Debug
    Description: This package can be used to handle errors of PHP applications.

    It provides several classes that can handle PHP execution errors, exceptions and application debug calls.

    The package also provides classes that implement actions for handling and of the types of errors.

    Currently the action classes support: display the messages in the page, send an e-mail message, send a SMS message, log to a file, throw an exception, display a message in Firebug using the FirePHP extension, speak the message on Windows with WinSpeak.

  • Bread crumb page navigation

    Picture of Aryashree Pritikrishna
    Author: Aryashree Pritikrishna
    Date: 2010-01-21 (6 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, User Management
    Description: This class can be used to display bread crumbs links to pages visited by the user.

    It keeps track of pages visited by the user by storing their URLs in a session variable as HTML links.

    The class displays the breadcrumb links right after they are updated with the currently visited page.

    This class can generate bread crumb like navigation bars. It outputs an HTML ordered list of navigation links.

  • OAuth Twitter

    Picture of Basil B Thoppil
    Author: Basil B Thoppil
    Date: 2010-01-21 (6 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, User Management, Web services, Social Networking
    Description: This class can be used to access the Twitter API on behalf of an user using OAuth.

    It uses the Zend Framework OAuth consumer package to generate a token for accessing the Twitter API on behalf of the current site user.

    The class redirects to use to the Twitter site to verify the user permission and handles the request to receive the validated OAuth token.

    From then on, the class can access the Twitter API using the OAuth token to perform several types of actions like: updating the user status, get the user followers and friends.

  • DbProxy

    Picture of Claudius Tiberiu Iacob
    Author: Claudius Tiberiu Iacob
    Date: 2010-01-20 (7 days ago)
    Groups: XML, PHP 5, Databases
    Description: This class can be used to execute MySQL queries from SQL templates defined in XML files.

    It can parse a given XML file that contains definitions of SQL query templates.

    The class can execute given MySQL queries eventually replacing template parameters with given values.

  • DOM RSS Feed

    Picture of Michael A. Peters
    Author: Michael A. Peters
    Date: 2010-01-20 (7 days ago)
    Groups: XML, PHP 5
    Description: This class can be used to generate RSS 2.0 feeds.

    It creates a DOM document and can add nodes of a RSS 2.0 feed to describe the RSS channel and its item details.

    The generated document served as the current script output.

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