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PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report December 2015 Edition - September 2015 nominees (4 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-27 Summary: This is the December 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 September 2015.
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.PHP Articles and Book Reviews Report December 2015 Edition (14 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-17 Summary: This is the December 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 Dependency Injection, improved security with paranoid computing, searching DOCX, DOC and PDF documents, handling SMS messages in your site with the DotGo SMS gateway, automated building of regular expressions, interacting with users via SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook or Telegram, migrating MySQL code to use MySQLi, deploying PHP applications with Docker, creating an utilities framework, using queues to speedup processing tasks.
They also commented on the review of PHP Web Services tutorial video.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and reviews.PHP Tutorial to Detect User Location from the IP address With IP2Location Geolocation (18 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 (19 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.6 Common PHP Security Issues And Their Remedies (23 days ago)
Posted on: 2015-12-08 Summary: Security is a delicate matter that all PHP developers should be aware. However, not all PHP developer know the basic security measures that should be taken to avoid the most common security flaws.
Read this article to learn about 6 common PHP security issues and what you can you do to avoid them.PHP 7 Release Date Arrived: Will Developers Adopt PHP 7? (29 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 (30 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.
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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 | SourceGuarding PHP encoder tool |
| 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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