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Latest PHP specialists forum threads

Subject Updated on
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
Making a HREF from MySQL
MySQL Field contains a web address		 2010-01-18

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  • Latest PHP Classes blog posts

  • Design contest second turn (2 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 (7 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? (14 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 (16 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 42
2 Cesar D. Rodas 16
3 Roberto Aleman 15
4 solomongaby 14
5 Khaled Al-Shamaa 12
6 Alexander Skakunov 12
7 Protung Dragos 9
8 Richard Munroe 7
9 lixlpixel 6
10 Daniel Morris 5

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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
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
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
Twitter Updater
Esta clase se puede utilizar para act...		 Twitter Updater 1
Google Translator
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Reading Attachments from Second Life Post Cards
For a good part of tonight, I've been...		 POP3 e-mail client 5
4chan image downloader V2
I keep getting 0 image(s) was downloa...		 FIFO Queue 5
Ultimate Collection of PHP Libraries
Having a collection of php libraries ...		 My Twitter 6
Ultimate Collection of PHP Libraries
Having a collection of php libraries ...		 Twitter 6
Open Search
Long time ago I had written a class t...		 Open Search for PHP 8
Skunky Form
Despliega valida y procesa formulario...		 Skunky Form 8
Classes for PHP
PHP is currently the most trusted web...		 Entitize Class 8
Classes for PHP
PHP is currently the most trusted web...		 EBM2BMP Class 8

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Latest support forum threads

Subject Posted on Class
Very good!
Package rating comment		 2010-01-20 Watermark
Thank you very much!
Package rating comment		 2010-01-19 GTranslator
Only one more thing
This feature and that's the best		 2010-01-19 Simple Mini Poll
Make it the normal way
Make it the normal way		 2010-01-19 AJAX Paginator
To many bugs, a little help appreciated
Some help is needed		 2010-01-19 PHP Cat Nested Model Category Class
Muy Buena, Gracias
Package rating comment		 2010-01-19 Numero a Letra
Long Text in Tables
Long text in table cells gets cut off after 79 characters		 2010-01-19 classPdf
Static vs singleton
Call static methods as dynamic		 2010-01-19 Detect Opcode Cache
on my project, i open xml from string variable.
Package rating comment		 2010-01-19 SimpleXML for PHP4
Problem with Javascript Compression
problem with JS function srtructure		 2010-01-19 JS & CSS Compressor

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  • Latest package entries

  • Logger_ciacob

    Picture of Claudius Tiberiu Iacob
    Author: Claudius Tiberiu Iacob
    Date: 2010-01-19 (1 day ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Logging
    Description: This class can be used to log variable values to files.

    It can add log entries to files with the values of variables of any PHP types.

    The log files are stored in a configurable logs directory with names based on the current calling context.

    The log file size limit and the log line length wrap limit are some of the configurable parameters. The class configuration values can be retrieved from a XML file.

  • PreLoad Images

    Picture of riccardo castagna
    Author: riccardo castagna
    Date: 2010-01-19 (1 day ago)
    Groups: HTML, Databases, Graphics
    Description: This class can be used to generate page with preloaded images.

    First, it can list images from a directory and store the list in a MySQL database.

    The class can generate HTML with Javascript to preload all listed images in the user browser, so the next browsed pages that need the images can load much faster.

  • Detect Opcode Cache

    Picture of Alexander Over
    Author: Alexander Over
    Date: 2010-01-18 (2 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, System information, Language
    Description: This class can be used to detect whether PHP is running an opcode cache.

    It can check the presence of certain PHP options or functions to determine if one of several known opcode cache extensions is available.

    Currently it can detect XCache, Microsoft WinCache, APC, eAccelerator, PHPA and Zend Accelerator.

  • Entitize Class for PHP 5

    Picture of Jonathan Discipulo
    Author: Jonathan Discipulo
    Date: 2010-01-18 (2 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, PHP 5, Text processing
    Description: This is a very class that can be used to convert text into numeric HTML entities.

    It converts all characters of a text string into HTML as numeric entities.

  • Web Open Patch

    Picture of Marcos Bezerra
    Author: Marcos Bezerra
    Date: 2010-01-17 (3 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Validation, Security
    Description: This class can be used to filter values to prevent security exploits.

    It can filter values in several ways to avoid values that could be used to perform security attacks.

    Currently it can filter values to prevent MySQL SQL injections, injection of e-mail messages in headers, escaping values to prevent cross-site scripting, generate and validate tokens to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks.

  • Large File Reader

    Picture of Leonardo Branco Shinagawa
    Author: Leonardo Branco Shinagawa
    Date: 2010-01-17 (3 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Files and Folders
    Description: This class can be used to read large text files one byte at a time.

    It uses PHP function file_get_contents to seek to the current read position and reads lines of text one byte at a time.

    It can also seek the file to find the position of a given line.

  • GTranslator

    Picture of Forud A
    Author: Forud A
    Date: 2010-01-16 (4 days ago)
    Groups: Localization, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to translate text using Google Translate.

    It can send a request to Google Translate Web services API to translate a text to a given idiom.

    The class can also return a list of valid accepted idioms including auto-detect the original text idiom.

  • Dynamic Multi Level Drop Down Menu in PHP/MYSQL/JavaScript

    Picture of Pravin Sonawane
    Author: Pravin Sonawane
    Date: 2010-01-16 (4 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, Databases
    Description: This class can be used to display an hierarchic menu stored in a MySQL table.

    It retrieves the title and link URLs of items of a menu from a MySQL database product table.

    The class generates HTML and Javascript to display the pull down menus with links according to the hierarchy of children and parent items retrieved from the database.

  • Common Functions

    Picture of ashok raut
    Author: ashok raut
    Date: 2010-01-15 (5 days ago)
    Groups: Debug, Data types
    Description: This class can be used to display the structure of arrays.

    It takes an array value and displays its structure and values.

    The class can also display the path and line of the source of the code that calls the class.

  • Timezone Selector

    Picture of Dave Hale
    Author: Dave Hale
    Date: 2010-01-15 (5 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, PHP 5, Time and Date
    Description: This class can be used to generate select input to choose a time zone.

    It retrieves the list of supported time zones and generates HTML for a form input of type select to let the use choose one of the listed time zones.

  • Time_When

    Picture of Martin
    Author: Martin
    Date: 2010-01-14 (6 days ago)
    Groups: PHP 5, Time and Date
    Description: This class can be used to convert relative time values into English expressions.

    It can associate relative time ranges with text that describes the difference between two time values in English.

    The class returns a text that expresses the relative difference between two time values, like for instance "3 months ago".

  • MailChimp API Wrapper

    Picture of Andrew Aculana
    Author: Andrew Aculana
    Date: 2010-01-14 (6 days ago)
    Groups: Email, PHP 5, Web services
    Description: This class can be used to send e-mail messages using MailChimp API.

    It can send XML-RPC requests to MailChimp API Web server to perform several types of operations.

    Currently it can manage campaigns, lists, accounts, API keys, etc..

  • Easy Message

    Picture of Claudio Eden da S. Junior
    Author: Claudio Eden da S. Junior
    Date: 2010-01-13 (7 days ago)
    Groups: HTML, XML, PHP 5
    Description: This class can be used to display messages read from an XML file.

    It can parse a XML file with messages and generate HTML to display a given message on a Web page.

    The message is displayed using a different CSS class according to the type of message defined in the CSS file.

  • EstGraph

    Picture of Jonathan Alexey
    Author: Jonathan Alexey
    Date: 2010-01-13 (7 days ago)
    Groups: Graphics, Text processing
    Description: This class can be used to generate an image with a text string.

    It can create an image with a given size and renders a text inside the image. The text color, background color, text position and font are configurable.

    The generated image is saved to a file in either GIF, JPEG and PNG formats.

    The code and the comments are in Portuguese.

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