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557. Notable PHP package: PHP ODT Template SQL Reports

Updated on: 2017-05-03

Posted on: 2017-05-03

Many applications need to generate reports from data retrieved from a database.

This class can generate reports from MySQL database query results using templates in the ODT format used by OpenOffice.

This allows creating report documents formatted with user defined templates and replacing placeholders with data from a database.

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556. Notable PHP package: Name String Order

Updated on: 2017-05-01

Posted on: 2017-05-01

The name of a person can be represented in different ways in different places. Sometimes the surname appears first, others times it appears last.

This class can take a look at a string with a person name and detect if the surname comes first or last. Then it can reformat the name according to whatever order is preferred in your PHP application.

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555. Notable PHP package: PHP iTunes Search API

Updated on: 2017-04-26

Posted on: 2017-04-26

iTunes is a popular store for purchasing media and apps for Apple devices.

This package can send queries to iTunes APIs to retrieve and parse RSS feeds with the details of several types of media and apps sold by iTunes.

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554. PHP 7.2 Release Date and Managers Being Chosen - 7 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 82

Updated on: 2017-05-25

Posted on: 2017-04-25

PHP 7.2 development is reaching to the alpha stage in June, hopefully to have a final version released later this year. So for now the release managers are being chosen, so they can start preparing to work on each alpha, beta and release candidate version.

This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 82 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

In this episode they also talked about other proposals for PHP cache keys for stream wrappers, serialized object validation with is_string, type variants, let range() return a generator, named parameters again, and removing the need for ; on the end of the line .

They also commented on an article about promoting Open Source projects using data mining and business intelligence to boost SEO factors, and using OpenID Connect protocol to implement single sign-on social login systems.

This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.

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553. Notable PHP package: File Pager

Updated on: 2017-04-24

Posted on: 2017-04-24

Pagination is useful to split listings of long information into multiple pages. It is often used to split database query results into a list of Web pages.

This package can paginate an arbitrary text into a list of pages of limited line length suited to display on console terminal.

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1. Chrome ERR_BLOCKED_BY_XSS_AUDITOR PHP Solution to Avoid Bogus Cross-Site Scripting Detection

Updated on: 2017-04-29

Posted on: 2017-04-20

Blog: Secure HTML parser and filter package blog
Package: Secure HTML parser and filter

Since version 57, Chrome started blocking the submission of forms with content created by regular HTML editor inputs.

The problem is that this is preventing many sites that use regular HTML content editors to work in some cases, despite there is no real XSS exploit going on.

Read this article to learn more why this happens and what workarounds you can implement while Chrome blocks the requests.

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552. Notable PHP package: PHP Dominant Color

Updated on: 2017-04-19

Posted on: 2017-04-19

Some applications need to display an image in a background that matches the most common color of the image.

This package can find the dominant color of an image and creates a new image in the GIF format with one pixel using that dominant color.

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551. How to Install Laravel 5 Framework on Ubuntu

Updated on: 2017-04-18

Posted on: 2017-04-18

This tutorial is about how to install and use the Laravel using Composer in Linux Ubuntu operating system.

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550. Notable PHP package: PHP NBA API and MLB Stats

Updated on: 2017-04-17

Posted on: 2017-04-17

NBA and MLB are United States associations that organize professional championships of popular sports that are basketball and baseball.

This package can retrieve several types of statistics about NBA and MLB from erikberg.com API.

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549. Notable PHP package: PHP Word Search in Array

Updated on: 2017-04-13

Posted on: 2017-04-13

Crossword is a well known puzzle game that consists in finding words from a list that appear in a grid laid out either horizontally or vertically.

This class can search a word in a 2 dimension array of characters, thus helping to find words in a crossword puzzle automatically.

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