398. Notable PHP package: PHP Time Zone Mapper
Updated on: 2016-06-06
Posted on: 2016-06-06
Many Web sites are accessed by users from around the world, each one in at a different time zone.
Sometimes it is necessary to schedule a event or otherwise tell the time when something important is going to happen at a specific time of the day at the user's location.
Since the time of the day at the users location will be different according to the user time zone, it is necessary to know the time zone on which the location of the users are.
This class can solve that problem using the user's geographic coordinates: latitude and longitude.
These coordinates can usually be determined from the IP address of the computer the user is using to access the site, using services like IP to location.
This way it is possible to determine the time where the user is located, departing from the IP address and using this class to determine the time zone from the IP address location.
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Sometimes it is necessary to schedule a event or otherwise tell the time when something important is going to happen at a specific time of the day at the user's location.
Since the time of the day at the users location will be different according to the user time zone, it is necessary to know the time zone on which the location of the users are.
This class can solve that problem using the user's geographic coordinates: latitude and longitude.
These coordinates can usually be determined from the IP address of the computer the user is using to access the site, using services like IP to location.
This way it is possible to determine the time where the user is located, departing from the IP address and using this class to determine the time zone from the IP address location.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2016-06-01
Posted on: 2016-06-01
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.
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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.
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Updated on: 2016-06-01
Posted on: 2016-06-01
There are many IDEs for PHP development. All of them provide common features but when we get closer we notice that there are some that provide different features that make them better for our purposes.
Thanks to the PHP Tools extension it is possible to use Microsoft Visual Studio for PHP development and benefit from some of Visual Studio features for this purpose.
Read this tutorial article to learn about the way it works for developing a practical PHP application, in this case a CRUD application based on a noSQL JSON file database.
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Thanks to the PHP Tools extension it is possible to use Microsoft Visual Studio for PHP development and benefit from some of Visual Studio features for this purpose.
Read this tutorial article to learn about the way it works for developing a practical PHP application, in this case a CRUD application based on a noSQL JSON file database.
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Updated on: 2016-05-31
Posted on: 2016-05-31
Blog: Tiny PHP ORM Framework package blog
Package: Tiny PHP ORM Framework
Object-Relational Mapping (aka ORM), as you may know, is an approach to manipulate information in relational databases as if they are objects.
There are many packages that implement different approaches to ORM, each as its own advantages and disadvantages.
Read this article to learn about what things are recommended or not when implementing an efficient ORM package in PHP.
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There are many packages that implement different approaches to ORM, each as its own advantages and disadvantages.
Read this article to learn about what things are recommended or not when implementing an efficient ORM package in PHP.
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Updated on: 2016-05-30
Posted on: 2016-05-30
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.
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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.
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Updated on: 2016-05-30
Posted on: 2016-05-30
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.
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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.
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Updated on: 2016-05-25
Posted on: 2016-05-25
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.
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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.
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Updated on: 2016-05-24
Posted on: 2016-05-24
Blog: Scripd package blog
Package: Scripd
Installing a database schema is an important setup task that most PHP applications need to do.
The Scripd package can generate the necessary SQL to install all types of database structures that you may need from the database itself, tables, fields, indexes, stored procedures, views, etc., all from a database independent format based on JSON.
Read this article to learn how to use the Scripd package to generate database independent SQL to install your database schema.
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The Scripd package can generate the necessary SQL to install all types of database structures that you may need from the database itself, tables, fields, indexes, stored procedures, views, etc., all from a database independent format based on JSON.
Read this article to learn how to use the Scripd package to generate database independent SQL to install your database schema.
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Updated on: 2016-05-23
Posted on: 2016-05-23
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.
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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.
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Updated on: 2016-05-23
Posted on: 2016-05-23
Proxy servers are used by many users to bypass Web site restrictions. Sometimes malicious users are hiding behind proxies to commit fraud because a third party anonymous server is hiding their real location.
Fortunately it is possible to detect when users are behind proxies by looking up their IP address using IP2Proxy databases of known proxies.
Read this article to learn how to use IP2Proxy database to detect when users are behind proxies, so you can take the necessary measures to avoid that those users may cause some kind of harm.
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Fortunately it is possible to detect when users are behind proxies by looking up their IP address using IP2Proxy databases of known proxies.
Read this article to learn how to use IP2Proxy database to detect when users are behind proxies, so you can take the necessary measures to avoid that those users may cause some kind of harm.
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