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Latest PHP Classes blog posts
PHP Tutorial to Detect User Location from the IP address With IP2Location Geolocation (4 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-13 Summary: Sometimes it is necessary to determine the user geographic location for instance to serve more appropriate content. One way to do it is to determine the location associated to the IP address of his computer. IP2Location provides a free solution for this using the IP2Location Lite database.
Read this article to learn how to detect the user location using the IP2Location Lite database service.Is Wordpress Dropping PHP for JavaScript? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 66 (5 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-12 Summary: WordPress announced the Calypso project which is a JavaScript based (Node.js, React.js) alternative to WP-Admin to administer Wordpress blogs. This fact raised concerns that WordPress may be dropping PHP for JavaScript.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 66 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also commented about the final release of PHP 7.0, the results of the PHP 7 adoption survey, as well proposals for PHP 7.1 like the friend/package modifier, compiling PHP into opcode binary files, the immutable modifier, native annotations, using multiple CPU cores to accelerate PHP, and the PHP HashDOS security protection.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.PHP 7 Release Date Arrived: Will Developers Adopt PHP 7? (15 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-02 Summary: Now that PHP 7.0 is finally being released, it is up to the PHP users to decide if and when they will adopt it in their projects.
Read this article to learn about a brief story of PHP 7, the major new features of PHP 7, the results of a survey carried in the last weeks to evaluate the intentions of the PHP developer to adopt PHP 7, and what to expect for future PHP versions.PHP Tutorial on using the Official Google Search API (16 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-01 Summary: Appearing in the Google Search results is very important these days but it is not that easy. The competition is very high and your pages need to rank with the right keywords.
Finding if you are ranking with the right keywords is very difficult. You need to take every keyword and test it against a search, then look for your site in the search results list. However, Google blocks scripts that scrape the search result pages.
Fortunately there is an official API from Google that lets you search for certain keywords and you can use it from PHP or any other language.
Read this article to learn how to use the Google Search API from PHP to automate searches and find your site in the results.PHP Articles and Book Reviews Report November 2015 Edition (22 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-11-25 Summary: This is the November edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles and Book Reviews published recently.
They commented on articles about creating Microsoft Word DOCX documents from HTML, PHP 7 Anonymous classes and nested classes, tracking accesses to your site API using Google Analytics, and reading and writing Microsoft Excel files using PHP stream handlers.
They also commented on the review of the Hack and HHVM book.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and book reviews.How to Use Queue To Speedup PHP Processing Tasks Part 1: Queueing Slow Tasks (24 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-11-23 Summary: Queues are an important solution, especially when need to create a processing task that may take a long time to complete and the user or the creating process cannot wait until the task is finished.
This is the case for instance of sending newsletter email messages to many users.
Read this article to learn how queues work and how you can implement one in PHP using a simple database.PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report November 2015 Edition - August 2015 nominees (28 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-11-19 Summary: This is the November 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 August 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Innovation award results
Congratulations to WsdlToPhp and Nick Daniels and Dave Smith!
| Rank | Class | Author | Score | Points | Prize | |
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| 1 | PHP SOAP Package Generator Generate package to call SOAP services using WSDL |
WsdlToPhp |  |
22.73% | 13 | PhpStorm IDE personal permanent license |
| 1 | PHP IRC Server Implement an IRC chat server in pure PHP |
Nick Daniels | |
22.73% | 13 | |
| 1 | PHP Paranoid Passcode Generate code and rhythm for user entered password |
Dave Smith | |
22.73% | 13 | One downloadable copy of PhpED Professional |
| 4 | PHP Next Working Day Compute the next working day from today |
Ravi Kumar | |
9.09% | 10 | One book of choice by Packt |
| 4 | PHP Google Analytics API Metrics Tracker Track accesses to your API using Google Analytics |
Alexander Skakunov | |
9.09% | 10 | One year server license IP to country, region, city, latitude, longitude, ZIP code, time zone, area code database |
| 6 | Variables Caching Cache variable values generating classes |
Yerfry Ramirez | |
4.55% | 8 | |
| 6 | PHP UUID Generation class Generate UUID codes in either version 3, 4 or 5 |
Pranav Bhatt | |
4.55% | 8 | |
| 6 | PHP Dependency Injection Container Autoload dependent objects accessing variables |
Samuel Adeshina |  |
4.55% | 8 | |
| 9 | PHP Spell Check Check the spelling of text and suggest corrections |
Ore Richard Muyiwa | |
<1.00% | 5 | |
| 9 | Lucky Numbers Generate numbers from text using numerology |
Dave Smith | |
<1.00% | 5 | |
| 9 | Extended Ini File Load and edit configuration INI format files |
Christian Vigh | |
<1.00% | 5 | |
| 9 | Vudu PHP control Send commands to a Vudu set top box |
Matthew Boyle | |
<1.00% | 5 | |
| 9 | Verbo Magia Create PDF documents with index section |
Luciano Salvino |  |
<1.00% | 5 |
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Serbia
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