Weekly newsletter of Monday - 2008-05-12
Contents
o PHP Classes site tip of the day
o Latest PHP specialists forum threads
o Top friends of the site
o Latest regional PHP User Group submissions
o Innovation award results
o Latest blog trackback links
o Latest support forum threads
o Latest package entries
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Latest PHP specialists forum threads
o Subject: take a screenshot
Summary: can php take url screenshot
Updated on: 2008-05-05 15:36:51
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/topic/specialists/forum/general/thread/6/
o Subject: PHP PROBLEM
Summary: building of a dynamic mysql query.
Updated on: 2008-05-05 15:29:56
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/topic/specialists/forum/general/thread/10/
o Subject: Migrating to PHP5
Summary: Simple but big deal <?php VS <?
Updated on: 2008-05-05 15:27:35
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/topic/specialists/forum/general/thread/8/
o Subject: Namespaces introduction will change PHP drastically
Summary: Please get involved in these matters, it will affect us all
Updated on: 2008-05-05 15:06:45
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/topic/specialists/forum/general/thread/9/
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Top friends of the site
Friends of the PHP Classes site is a initiative to provide recognition
to the users that contribute to the growth of the site community.
For more information on how to become a friend of the site look here:
http://www.phpclasses.org/friends.html .
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| 1 |Cesar D. Rodas | 35|
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| 2 |lixlpixel | 25|
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| 3 |Khaled Al-Shamaa | 23|
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| 4 |Horst Nogajski | 19|
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| 5 |Olaf Lederer | 18|
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| 6 |Alexander Skakunov| 18|
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| 7 |Richard Munroe | 15|
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| 8 |Eric Sizemore | 12|
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| 9 |Ehsanul Haque | 9|
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| 10 |Protung Dragos | 8|
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o North East Scotland PHP Users Group (2 days ago)
http://www.nespug.org.uk/
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Elgin
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/uk/
Responsible: Richard Dyce
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/nespug/
o PHP-AL - Grupo de Desenvolvedores PHP do Estado de Alagoas (3 days ago)
http://groups.google.com/group/php-al
Country: Brazil
Location: Maceió
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/br/
Responsible: Cheops Araújo Malta
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/phpal/
o PHP Minsk (3 days ago)
http://baharevich.com/php/group/
Country: Belarus
Location: Minsk
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/by/
Responsible: Ilya Bakharevich
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/phpminsk/
o PHP SC - Grupo de Usuários PHP de Santa Catarina (6 days ago)
http://www.phpsc.com.br/
Country: Brazil
Location: Joinville
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/br/
Responsible: Silvano Girardi Jr.
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/phpsc/
o Tocra Web Medias (11 days ago)
http://www.tocra.org/inscription.php
Country: France
Location: Seynod
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/fr/
Responsible: BremS
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/twm/
o Desarrollos PHP (12 days ago)
http://www.desarrollosphp.com/
Country: Spain
Location: A Coruña
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/es/
Responsible: Salva Mendez
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/desaphp/
o PHParg (13 days ago)
http://groups.google.com.ar/group/php-arg
Country: Argentina
Location: Buenos Aires
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/ar/
Responsible: Guido
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/phparg/
o LAMP - Cuba (15 days ago)
http://groups.google.com/group/lampcuba/web/http-www-phpclasses-org-browse-country-cu
Country: Cuba
Location: Holguin
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/group/bycountry/cu/
Responsible: Zenkius
email contact:
http://www.phpclasses.org/contact/group/lampcuba/
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Innovation award results
Congratulations to Alexander Skakunov!
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The complete list of winners of the award on March of 2008
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1. Phonetic (21.13%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4400.html
Author: Alexander Skakunov
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/224189.html
2. DHTML and CSS CAPTCHA (18.31%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4413.html
Author: Alexander Selifonov
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/267915.html
3. Time Engine (16.90%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4446.html
Author: Hasin Hayder
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/134697.html
4. awfDialog Wizard (14.08%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4443.html
Author: AW Ford
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/497656.html
5. ExifSort (11.27%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4395.html
Author: Marius Zadara
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/195019.html
6. Persistent Array (7.04%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4429.html
Author: Cesar D. Rodas
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/232276.html
7. Crawler (5.63%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4441.html
Author: Md. Shaiful islam
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/455487.html
8. Print Anything (4.23%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4423.html
Author: Vagharshak Tozalakyan
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/224223.html
9. packagex (1.41%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4409.html
Author: Carlo Tasca
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/567325.html
10. Rapleaf Address Book API (<1.00%)
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4436.html
Author: Dan Scudder
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/author/577858.html
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Award page
http://www.phpclasses.org/award/innovation/
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Nominees to win the award of April of 2008
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o Class: Easy Navigator
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4452.html
Description: Generate breadcrumbs navigation based on the URL
Author: Brandon Blincoe
Age: 18
Country: United States
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o Class: DFL
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4456.html
Description: Parse and run DFL language programs
Author: Debug
Age: 18
Country: United States
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o Class: SimpleXML for PHP4
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4484.html
Description: Load XML files in PHP 4 like SimpleXML extension
Author: Taha Paksu
Age: 23
Country: Turkey
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o Class: Crypt_OpenSSL
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4509.html
Description: Class created for manipulation with ssl certs.
Author: Pavel Saparov
Age: 20
Country: Czech Republic
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o Class: Configuration Loader
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4517.html
Description: Generate a PHP class from a configuration XML file
Author: David Wainwright
Age: 34
Country: United Kingdom
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o Class: Secure Token Grid Authentication
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4518.html
Description: Generate grid of tokens, authenticate user with it
Author: André Liechti
Age: 39
Country: Switzerland
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o Class: PHON
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4529.html
Description: Unserialize values exported with var_export
Author: Martin Alterisio
Age: 25
Country: Argentina
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o Class: Geocoder
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4530.html
Description: Get coordinates of locations with geocode services
Author: Bruyndonckx
Age: 45
Country: Belgium
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Vote
http://www.phpclasses.org/vote.html
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Latest blog trackback links
o Title: PHP backup of a mysql database
Description: MySQLDump class is now at version 2.0 and thi...
Posted on: 2008-05-11 04:36:47
http://www.coders4fun.com/en/2007/06/23/dump-mysql-php-backup/
Class: MySQL Dump - database backup
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3498.html
o Title: Simple PHP Date Class
Description: I found a rather funky class on PHP Classes t...
Posted on: 2008-05-07 08:29:30
http://www.frosthold.com/stuff/blog/2008/05/07/simple-php-date-class/
Class: Ultimate Date Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4535.html
o Title: vCard Creator Full - PHP Class
Description: -
Posted on: 2008-05-06 07:30:22
http://wp.iflashlord.com/?p=17
Class: vCard Creator Full
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4543.html
o Title: Phonetic won!
Description: Yes, my class Phonetic won the first place of...
Posted on: 2008-05-05 14:13:13
http://i1t2b3.com/2008/05/05/phonetic-won/
Class: Phonetic
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4400.html
o Title: Pre-populating forms with the timezone
Description: Following my initial discussion on using geo-...
Posted on: 2008-05-05 08:41:31
http://torrentialwebdev.com/blog/archives/152-Pre-populating-forms-with-the-timezone.html
Class: Time Engine
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4446.html
o Title: Problemas al Exportar a Excel
Description: Hola Bueno yo aun no encuentro solucion al pr...
Posted on: 2008-05-04 13:34:33
http://www.foro.vb-mundo.com/f43/problemas-al-exportar-a-excel-13093/#post50406
Class: MS-Excel Stream Handler
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1919.html
o Title: Classe para construir tabelas
Description: Num dia complicado como este, vale a minha de...
Posted on: 2008-05-02 12:48:03
http://jmpatricio.net/blog/?p=8
Class: Class.Table
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/318.html
o Title: Ödüle aday oldum!
Description: PHPClasses.org’ta yazdigim ilk class kodu ilk...
Posted on: 2008-05-02 00:23:42
http://www.tahapaksu.com/diger/odule-aday-oldum
Class: SimpleXML for PHP4
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4484.html
o Title: Animierte CAPTCHAS? Ein Ungar macht es möglich: Another CAPTCHA project
Description: CAPTCHAS gibt es ja überall, und darunter gib...
Posted on: 2008-05-01 21:20:35
http://webworkblogger.de/index.php/2006/11/03/animierte-captchas-ein-ungar-macht-es-ma%c2%b6glich-another-captcha-project/
Class: Another CAPTCHA project
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3423.html
o Title: PHP classes new releases
Description: PHPClasses new interesting releases:...
Posted on: 2008-04-30 13:00:45
http://www.phpreads.com/php-classes-new-realizes-8.html
Class: Link And Domain Extractor
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4523.html
o Title: PHP classes new releases
Description: PHPClasses new interesting releases:...
Posted on: 2008-04-30 13:00:45
http://www.phpreads.com/php-classes-new-realizes-8.html
Class: Ultimate Date Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4535.html
o Title: PHP classes new releases
Description: PHPClasses new interesting releases:...
Posted on: 2008-04-30 13:00:45
http://www.phpreads.com/php-classes-new-realizes-8.html
Class: Another HTML Generator
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4534.html
o Title: PHP classes new releases
Description: PHPClasses new interesting releases:...
Posted on: 2008-04-30 13:00:44
http://www.phpreads.com/php-classes-new-realizes-8.html
Class: Number to Persian text
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4531.html
o Title: PHP classes new releases
Description: PHPClasses new interesting releases:...
Posted on: 2008-04-30 13:00:44
http://www.phpreads.com/php-classes-new-realizes-8.html
Class: IO Tools
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4526.html
o Title: Cambiar el tamaño de una imagen con PHP
Description: PHP incluye una librería para trabajar con im...
Posted on: 2008-04-29 18:15:05
http://graficopicante.com/blog/?p=253
Class: Image Resizing Class
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4474.html
o Title: Grabing the URL
Description: Grab class is meant to fetch a page of a give...
Posted on: 2008-04-24 01:36:49
http://www.geekinterview.com/talk/7741-grabing-the-url.html#post29222
Class: Grab URL
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1886.html
o Title: Clase PHP que detecta desnudos en imagenes
Description: Pareciera imposible pero lo cierto es que se ...
Posted on: 2008-04-23 20:18:53
http://xyox.uni.cc/?p=22
Class: Image Nudity Filter
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3269.html
o Title: code: php wctravel xml service class | breaker of stuff, destoryer of things, sometimes ninja
Description: First off this class is incomplete, it will a...
Posted on: 2008-04-23 04:49:30
http://gregsidberry.com/2007/11/19/code-php-wctravel-xml-service-class/
Class: XML To Array
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2938.html
o Title: Server-side GIF to SWF
Description: On the server end a GIF animation will be con...
Posted on: 2008-04-21 08:19:34
http://b0304006.summit.name/PermaLink,guid,ca41bbf4-00d7-4d6e-8683-0a281c0e7ac9.aspx
Class: GIF images into animated GIF with native PHP class
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3163.html
o Title: SpiderEngine pe phpclasses.org
Description: Acum ceva timp am lansat pe phpclasses.org, u...
Posted on: 2008-04-20 21:10:09
http://www.trisoft.ro/?p=17&language=ro
Class: Spider Engine
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3773.html
o Title: Domain Whois
Description: Domain Whois is a seditio plugin and a excell...
Posted on: 2008-04-19 11:48:05
http://www.t3-design.com/domain-whois/
Class: domain
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/694.html
o Title: Email Anti Spam Class PHP (100% AntiSpam)
Description: -
Posted on: 2008-04-18 07:46:27
http://wp.iflashlord.com/?p=12
Class: Anti Spam Bot Email by ASCII
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4504.html
o Title: Get Country and City from IP for FREE !
Description: DMW Technologies (P) Limited launcher an API ...
Posted on: 2008-04-18 04:25:50
http://rochakchauhan.com/blog/2008/04/18/get-country-and-city-from-ip-for-free/
Class: GeoIP API Connector
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4516.html
o Title: How to retrieve thumbnail images of sites
Description: So the challenge - automatically generate or ...
Posted on: 2008-04-17 22:11:46
http://mikesmith.mchedlishvili.name/kotelok/kak-delat-umenshennye-izobrazheniya-sajtov.html
Class: Page Snapshot
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/918.html
o Title: RSS Feeds in PHP
Description: Several months ago, I surveyed some RSS gener...
Posted on: 2008-04-15 08:39:00
http://abnercyh.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/rss-feeds-in-php/
Class: RSS Generator
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2569.html
o Title: Parsing a File system with PHP
Description: I’ve recently launched a PHP class that recur...
Posted on: 2008-04-14 03:56:41
http://www.galvao.eti.br/wordpress/?p=38
Class: PHP File System Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4447.html
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Latest support forum threads
o Subject: Encode and Decode based in a good random hash, with good asci...
Summary: Package rating comment
Posted on: 2008-05-11 09:44:21
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/1925/thread/1/
Class: Text Encrypter
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1925.html
o Subject: This class save min.
Summary: Package rating comment
Posted on: 2008-05-10 13:55:34
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/2542/thread/1/
Class: gPoint
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/2542.html
o Subject: FireFox
Summary: Doesn't seem to work correctly in XP FireFox or on Mac
Posted on: 2008-05-10 00:22:02
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/4413/thread/2/
Class: DHTML and CSS CAPTCHA
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4413.html
o Subject: A++
Summary: Package rating comment
Posted on: 2008-05-09 23:45:02
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/3929/thread/2/
Class: Animated CAPTCHA
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3929.html
o Subject: SELECT input not working
Summary: SELECT input value not coming back from form
Posted on: 2008-05-09 19:31:02
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/1/thread/140/
Class: Forms generation and validation
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1.html
o Subject: Good approach.
Summary: Package rating comment
Posted on: 2008-05-09 15:31:25
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/1894/thread/2/
Class: Combo Box
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/1894.html
o Subject: mysqlAccess.php
Summary: bugs in include file
Posted on: 2008-05-09 09:55:51
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/4539/thread/2/
Class: MySQL Access
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4539.html
o Subject: fopen() disabled
Summary: if fopen() is disabled, what can i do?
Posted on: 2008-05-09 05:35:56
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/4548/thread/2/
Class: PHP Universal Feed Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4548.html
o Subject: MIME message analyse error
Summary: MIME message analyse error (Windows Mail)
Posted on: 2008-05-09 02:46:09
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/3169/thread/44/
Class: MIME E-mail message parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3169.html
o Subject: That's a good class to work with feeds .
Summary: Package rating comment
Posted on: 2008-05-08 12:00:26
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/package/4548/thread/1/
Class: PHP Universal Feed Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4548.html
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Latest package entries
o QXML
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4553.html
Author: Tom Schaefer
Date: 2008-05-11 (1 day ago)
Groups: XML, PHP 5
Description:
This class can be used to generate XML documents from arrays and
also parse XML documents to build array structures.
It can take a definition of a whole XML document tags, data and
attributes in an array and generate the XML document. The generate
XML document is stored in a string class variable.
The class can also do the opposite, i.e. take a XML document file
or string and parse it to build an array with the document
structure.
o Gerar Tabela Semanticamente Correta
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4556.html
Author: Thiago Silva Ferreira
Date: 2008-05-10 (2 days ago)
Groups: HTML, PHP 5
Description:
This class can be used to generate HTML table defined
programmatically.
It can compose the definition of a table by adding rows, cells and
captions.
The class can display the defined table by generating its HTML as
part of the current script output.
The code and comments are in Portuguese.
o Number to Turkish text
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4554.html
Author: Yetkin Sakal
Date: 2008-05-09 (3 days ago)
Groups: Localization, Text processing
Description:
This class can be used to spell quantity numbers using Turkish
words.
It takes a number with up to 21 digits and generates a text strings
that spell the number using Turkish words.
The class stores the resulting string in a class variable.
Change Log:
v1.01 - A small bug cominp up in inputs between 1000 and 2000 was
fixed.
o Debug system
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4552.html
Author: Maxim
Date: 2008-05-08 (4 days ago)
Groups: HTML, PHP 5, Debug, Logging
Description:
This class can be used to output debug information of the current
script to an HTML log file.
It sets up the PHP error handler to a class function that generates
HTML formatted output of the errors that may be triggered during
the current script execution.
The class may also output arbitrary debugging messages also
formatted as HTML. Optionally, the messages may include the current
values of super-global variables.
The debug output may be displayed as the current script output or
added to a given log file.
o Valid Markup
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4550.html
Author: Vagharshak Tozalakyan
Date: 2008-05-08 (4 days ago)
Groups: HTML, XML, PHP 5
Description:
This is a very simple class that can convert the HTML output of a
page to XHTML using the Tidy extension.
It starts output buffering using the ob_tidyhandler function as
filter to make it regenerate the current script HTML output to make
sure it is formatted as XHTML.
The class may set the DTD to one of several possible HTML and XHTML
versions.
o PHP Universal Feed Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4548.html
Author: Anis uddin ahmad
Date: 2008-05-07 (5 days ago)
Groups: XML, PHP 5
Description:
This class can be used to parse feeds in the RSS and ATOM formats.
It can parse a feed given its URL and extract the details of the
feed channel and the lists of items which are returned in arrays.
The class can automatically detect whether the feed is in RSS 1.0,
2.0 or ATOM format.
o pg_email
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4524.html
Author: bobak
Date: 2008-05-07 (5 days ago)
Groups: Email, PHP 5, Templates
Description:
This class can be used to compose and send e-mail messages defined
using template files.
It reads a template file to extract details about the messages to
be sent such as the text or HTML contents, the recipient addresses,
the subject, etc..
The class processes the template, eventually replacing template
variables inserted in the text and HTML body data.
The processed messages can be sent immediately or saved to files. A
log file may be updated as the messages are sent.
The class supports validating the e-mail addresses, sending
attached files, and protection against header injection.
o Form PDF
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4525.html
Author: bobak
Date: 2008-05-06 (6 days ago)
Groups: PHP 5, Files and Folders, Text processing
Description:
This class can be used to create and load PDF forms in FDF format
using only pure PHP code.
It can generate an FDF document from an associative array of form
values. The generated document can be saved to a file.
The class can also do the opposite, i.e. extract form values into
an associative arrat from FDF files.
It can also convert an FDF file to a PDF file using the pdftk
program.
o Email Parser
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4545.html
Author: Morteza Ghorbani
Date: 2008-05-06 (6 days ago)
Groups: HTML, Email
Description:
This class can be used to extract e-mail addresses from HTML pages.
It display a Web form to let the user specify the URL of the pages
to process, as well additional parameters to access and process the
pages like the eventual form access password and e-mail address
filters.
The class then can retrieve the pages specified in the form and
stores the extracted e-mail addresses in a file.
o vCard Creator Full
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4543.html
Author: Behrouz Pooladrag
Date: 2008-05-05 (7 days ago)
Groups: Files and Folders, User Management
Description:
This class can be used to generate user contact files in vCard
format.
It takes as parameter an associative array with the user contact
details.
The class can generate and store the vCard files or serve them for
download.
o Universal comment module
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4519.html
Author: Viktor
Date: 2008-05-05 (7 days ago)
Groups: Databases, Content management
Description:
This package implements a generic site comments system.
The main class provides means to add comments to be associated with
a given resource identifier and a given user that is submitting the
comment.
The comments are stored in a MySQL database table. The table name
is configurable.
It can also retrieve the list of comments associated with a given
resource identifier and format it with a given template.