316. Create Microsoft Word DOCX files from HTML in PHP Part 2: More Complex Documents
Updated on: 2015-10-07
Posted on: 2015-10-07
In the first part of this article it was presented the class VsWord as a means to create Microsoft Word DOCX articles from HTML.
Read this article to learn how to compose more complex documents either using HTML or calls to the class that can insert document elements programmatically.
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Read this article to learn how to compose more complex documents either using HTML or calls to the class that can insert document elements programmatically.
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Updated on: 2015-10-05
Posted on: 2015-10-05
Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks
In the previous parts of this article it was presented a solution to run a task on the server that could take a long time to complete and still be able to monitor its progress. However it was limited to running one task at a time.
Read this article to learn how to run multiple long tasks on the server in parallel taking the most of the available server resources. You can also watch a video of the example solution in action.
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Read this article to learn how to run multiple long tasks on the server in parallel taking the most of the available server resources. You can also watch a video of the example solution in action.
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Updated on: 2017-05-20
Posted on: 2015-10-01
Many PHP applications require to export documents in Microsoft Word formats. However, most PHP developers only have experience in generating HTML Web pages.
Read this article to learn how to quickly create Microsoft Word DOCX format using HTML templates.
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Read this article to learn how to quickly create Microsoft Word DOCX format using HTML templates.
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Updated on: 2015-12-10
Posted on: 2015-09-30
Blog: PHP OAuth Library package blog
Package: PHP OAuth Library
Twitter API allows applications to access users' direct messages but if you want to download images or other media associated with those direct messages, there is no specific API call to do so.
Direct messages are private, so there is no public URL to access the direct messages' images without using OAuth or you are a real logged user accessing Twitter via a browser.
Read this article to learn how to download images that belong to direct messages using authenticated requests with this PHP OAuth client class.
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Direct messages are private, so there is no public URL to access the direct messages' images without using OAuth or you are a real logged user accessing Twitter via a browser.
Read this article to learn how to download images that belong to direct messages using authenticated requests with this PHP OAuth client class.
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Updated on: 2015-09-29
Posted on: 2015-09-28
Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks
In the first part of this article we have presented a solution to start tasks from PHP that take a long time to finish.
Read this article to learn how to implement the solution with the PHP class package named "Asynchronous Long Server Tasks".
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Read this article to learn how to implement the solution with the PHP class package named "Asynchronous Long Server Tasks".
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Updated on: 2015-09-23
Posted on: 2015-09-23
This is the September 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 PHP extensions in C to manipulate arrays, making better reuse of PHP code with traits, the benefits of using Git in your projects, performing sentiment analysis on text, and calculating periodical events.
They also commented on books about Node.js for PHP developers, learning PHP with MySQL and JavaScript and Laravel 5 Essentails.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and book reviews.
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They commented on articles about creating PHP extensions in C to manipulate arrays, making better reuse of PHP code with traits, the benefits of using Git in your projects, performing sentiment analysis on text, and calculating periodical events.
They also commented on books about Node.js for PHP developers, learning PHP with MySQL and JavaScript and Laravel 5 Essentails.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and book reviews.
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Updated on: 2015-09-22
Posted on: 2015-09-22
Blog: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks package blog
Package: Asynchronous Long Server Tasks
Typical HTTP requests take no more than a few seconds. By default PHP limits script execution to 30 seconds. However, sometimes you need to execute tasks that much longer.
Read this article to learn how to start long tasks without making the user wait and still give progress information of a long task running on the server side.
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Read this article to learn how to start long tasks without making the user wait and still give progress information of a long task running on the server side.
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Updated on: 2017-04-15
Posted on: 2015-09-21
Blog: Shopping Cart package blog
Package: Shopping Cart
The first part of this tutorial article covered the importance of shopping carts in sites that sell products and how to make a simple shopping cart that can add products from a database via an AJAX based Web interface.
Read this part of the article to learn how to perform other important operations like removing products or empty the shopping cart and how to proceed to the checkout.
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Read this part of the article to learn how to perform other important operations like removing products or empty the shopping cart and how to proceed to the checkout.
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Updated on: 2015-10-22
Posted on: 2015-09-17
This is the September 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 June 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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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-09-15
Posted on: 2015-09-15
Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache
One way to improve the performance of slow scripts is to use caching techniques to minimize the time to retrieve data that takes a long time to compute.
Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.
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Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.
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