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Notable PHP package: WordPress Hosted Content Importer (1 day ago)
Posted on: 2016-06-01 Summary: WordPress is as we all know a very popular program thanks to the many plugins that allow to expand its capabilities to produce and edit content.
Sometimes you need to use content in posts obtained from other sources.
This package is a plugin that makes it easy to import content into posts from sources like local files including those in Markdown format, database query results, Wikipedia excerpts and even the requests of calls to remote APIs.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Notable PHP package: Move Me GIF (3 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-30 Summary: Animated GIF images became popular because they allow to display videos on social network sites that only support image formats.
Assembling an animated GIF is just composing a sequence of still pictures. However, this class goes further to assembling pictures as animated GIFs by allowing to render sequences of images overlaid on top of custom background images.
It also provides optimization methods to generate smaller GIFs files by clipping regions of the images and skipping frames.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.PHP Articles Report May 2016 Edition (3 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-30 Summary: This is the May edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles published recently.
They commented on articles about using a plugin to insert charts and graphs on WordPress posts, how to prepare to technical interview for jobs, 10 aspects on which BitBucket is better than GitHub, converting HTML to PDF using an API, using Microsoft Visual Studio as your PHP IDE with PHP Tools extension, and the main changed and new functions in PHP 7.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report May 2016 Edition - February 2016 nominees (8 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-25 Summary: This is the May edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of February 2016.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.Notable PHP package: PHP PDF to Text (10 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-23 Summary: Many Web applications need to deal with PDF documents and their contents for instance to search for particular text.
However, the PDF format is not easy to analyse and it contains complex structures and often compressed binary data.
The PHP PDF to Text package not only is able to parse the PDF format in pure PHP, but it can also decompress any document objects and extract their page position, making it easy to search PDF documents using only with PHP code, thus without resorting to external programs, special extensions or Web service APIs.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Notable PHP package: AMP Remove unused CSS (14 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-19 Summary: AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a initiative to make the Web user experience for mobile device users faster and smoother and overcome the limitations of bandwidth and latency that mobile networks have.
This package helps providing a better mobile user experience by reducing the need to load excessively large CSS style sheets removing unnecessary or unneeded CSS rules, thus making the necessary CSS rules faster to load and take less device CPU resources to process.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.How PHP 7.1 May Eliminate Frameworks BootStrap Overhead - Lately in PHP podcast episode 71 (15 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-18 Summary: One of the greatest performance killers of applications that use large frameworks or libraries the overhead of bootstrap processes that is necessary to initialize the objects of their classes.
The good news is that a new feature called startup snapshot inspired on V8 engine (used by Chrome and Node.js) is being discussed to implement on PHP 7.1, so applications based on those frameworks take less time to startup and run.
The startup snapshot optimiziation was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 71 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also talked about many proposals to make PHP 7 type hinting more complete, better text character set detection, PHP attributes similar to annotations, among many other new proposals.
The article also covers the latest enhancements to make PHP Classes package submission much smoother and more rewarding like the new monthly elePHPant prize and printed certificates that Innovation Award winners may get.
This article includes a transcript of the podcast summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the summary transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.Notable PHP package: Corcel (Laravel + WordPress) (16 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-17 Summary: WordPress is certainly one of the most popular and successful PHP based projects that was ever created apart of the PHP language itself, but great part of it is not even written using object oriented programming.
On the other hand Laravel is one of the most recent PHP frameworks that gained great traction supporting MVC and other design patterns.
The Corcel framework brings the world of WordPress to the Laravel developers, so you can write Laravel based applications with the WordPress backend.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.How to have Access to Multiple Jobs at Top Tech Companies with Indeed Prime (16 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-17 Summary: Many developers dream of working for large companies because that is the their chance to earn big salaries.
However, large companies often resort to specialized recruiting firms to find the right candidates for their jobs.
Read this article to learn about Indeed Prime, which is a specialized recruiting service that many well known big companies use, so you can understand how to have access to those companies top developer jobs.Notable PHP package: PHP Photo Wall Gallery (21 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-12 Summary: Photo walls are useful for Web sites that need to show many images at once in a Web page.
This class can generate photo wall images composed from groups of other images that may have their sizes adjusted to align better in the photo wall.
Another interesting effect provided by this class is the ASCII art rendering of images that appear with colors.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Notable PHP package: PHP Reports (23 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-10 Summary: Many Web applications are developed to serve the interests of users or companies that need to view reports in a printed format.
Usually PDF is the common format used for printing documents but many users prefer to create documents in Microsoft Word.
This package provides a solution with the help of Web service that can use templates in Microsoft Word DOCX format, replaces variables in the document with given values, and then generates the output in either PDF or DOCX format as well.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Get the Coding Job You Want (23 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-10 Summary: Evolving in your career as software developer often means seeking a better job than you have now.
Read this article to learn about 3 important tips that will help you in the journey to get the coding job you want.Notable PHP package: PHP Tracking User Activity (28 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-05 Summary: Sometimes it is necessary to understand what is going on the browser side to verify if what the user is seeing is the same as he is expected to see after certain interactions.
This class can address this need with the help of jQuery plugin that can capture screenshots of the current page after certain user interaction events like click or form submissions for instance.
The PHP class receives the screenshot images sent by AJAX and records logs of the associated activities so the developers can analyze it in the future to determine what could be wrong and fix eventual issues.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Notable PHP package: Scripd (30 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-03 Summary: Every SQL database driven application needs to update the database schema once in a while to support new features.
This class can perform that process of generating SQL for database updates with elegance, as it allows developers to defined database schema additions in a JSON based file format, so it can work with different types of databases.
Since the format is based in JSON it can be used eventually by similar packages written in other languages.
Not only it supports the creation and modification of databases, tables and indexes, but it also supports triggers, views, stored procedures and functions.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.PHP Articles Report April 2016 Edition (30 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-05-03 Summary: This is the April edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles published recently.
They commented on articles about PHP source code protection solutions, the parallax WordPress theme, email verification solutions, PHP 7 backwards incompatible changes and new features, and fast debugging methods using PHPEd.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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Innovation award results
Congratulations to andrea battellocchi!
| Rank | Class | Author | Score | Points | Prize | |
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| 1 | PHP Photo Wall Gallery Convert images to ASCII characters or photo walls |
andrea battellocchi | Italy | 16.67% | 14 | One downloadable copy of CodeLobster Professional |
| 2 | PHP Web Page Screenshot Capture Web page screenshots using HTML2Canvas |
Bharat Parmar | India | 13.89% | 13 | PhpStorm IDE personal permanent license |
| 3 | PHP Image Mosaic Generator Generate a mosaic from an image in PDF format |
Luciano Salvino | Argentina | 11.11% | 12 | |
| 3 | PHP Layout Template Processor Template engine with indented blocks based syntax |
Roger Baklund | Norway | 11.11% | 12 | |
| 5 | PHP REST Client Class Send REST request to a HTTP server |
Unay Santisteban | Spain | 8.33% | 10 | |
| 5 | PHP Asynchronous Command Get commands output without waiting to finish |
Christian Vigh | France | 8.33% | 10 | |
| 5 | PHP Emulated SQL Filesystem Emulate a filesystem storing files in SQL database |
Ryan Cole | United States | 8.33% | 10 | |
| 5 | Pretty PHP S3 Files Manager Web based interface to manage files in Amazon S3 |
Tran Tuan | Viet Nam | 8.33% | 10 | |
| 9 | PHP CRUD REST API Server REST API server with MySQLi based CRUD operations |
Bharat Parmar | India | 5.56% | 6 | |
| 10 | PHP CSS Optimizer Optimize CSS and make it browser independent |
Victor V. Nabatov | Russian Federation | 2.78% | 5 | |
| 10 | PHP Search Large Files Search large files that would not fit in memory |
Christian Vigh | France | 2.78% | 5 | |
| 10 | PHP HtmlEntities Encoding and Decoding Encode and decode a longer list of HTML entities |
Gavin Gordon Markowski | Canada | 2.78% | 5 | |
| 13 | PHP Get All Words Extract all words from string excluding stop words |
Lionel F. Lebeau | France | <1.00% | 2 | |
| 13 | PHP Reports Generate PDF and DOCX reports from Word templates |
Murat Cileli | Turkey | <1.00% | 2 |
Nominees to win the award of May of 2016
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Latest package entries
WordPress Hosted Content Importer
Author: Bimal Poudel Date: 2016-06-01 (1 day ago) Groups: PHP 5, Content management, Web services, Blogs Description: This package is a WordPress plugin to import content hosted remotely.
It defines tags that can be inserted in the articles as placeholders for content to be imported from remote sites.
Currently it supports importing content in Markdown format, local files, database queries, Wikipedia content, remote APIs, etc..
The plugin retrieves the contents and inserts it the placeholder places in the WordPress articles.PHP Page Cache Output
Author: Muhammed Mamedov Date: 2016-05-31 (2 days ago) Groups: PHP 5, Cache Description: This package can store full page output in cache files.
It can check if a valid cache file exists and is valid for the current page.
If the cache file is valid, it serves the cache file contents and exits.
If the cache file is not valid or does not exist, it creates a new cache file and starts capturing the page output.
The cache file name is defined using strategy classes that consider the current request URL.JSON DB Project
Author: Dave Smith Date: 2016-05-30 (3 days ago) Groups: PHP 5, Databases, Files and Folders Description: This class can create and manage database stored in JSON files.
It may create a database file in JSON format in the database folder.
The class can also retrieve, update and delete data from the JSON database.
This package is referenced in the article about Using Microsoft Visual Studio as PHP IDE with the PHP Tools extension.Intl like gettext