597. Notable PHP package: File Fractal
Updated on: 2017-08-21
Posted on: 2017-08-21
Sometimes it is necessary to split a list of files between multiple directories that are equivalent but they many not fit on one drrive, so you do not have to use a drive with more space.
This package can help managing the space allocated by a set of files that can be split among many directories, either in compressed or uncompressed formats.
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This package can help managing the space allocated by a set of files that can be split among many directories, either in compressed or uncompressed formats.
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Updated on: 2017-08-16
Posted on: 2017-08-16
One way to structure better the components of an application is to build service components that can be called to provide separate services.
This package provides a means to use service components to implement different functionality for a console application.
Different components can be called based on the options that the user passed in the command line.
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This package provides a means to use service components to implement different functionality for a console application.
Different components can be called based on the options that the user passed in the command line.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-08-15
Posted on: 2017-08-15
Blog: Incredible Timestamp package blog
Package: Incredible Timestamp
Many PHP applications use Unix timestamps to make calculations with the dates and times of events.
However using Unix timestamps for these purposes will lead to a very big problem well known as the bug of year 2038.
Read this article to know more about the bug of year 2038 and how fix the issue with an alternative way to manipulate times and dates.
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However using Unix timestamps for these purposes will lead to a very big problem well known as the bug of year 2038.
Read this article to know more about the bug of year 2038 and how fix the issue with an alternative way to manipulate times and dates.
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Updated on: 2017-08-14
Posted on: 2017-08-14
Nowadays sites use SSL/TLS to establish secure connections between the users browsers and the servers.
Some sites that use backend servers are connected from front-end servers without any security protection, thus allowing possible theft of information in transit by inflitrated malicious software.
This package provides a more secure solution to protect data that is exchanged between front-end and back-end servers by encrypting and decrypting the data with secure keys.
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Some sites that use backend servers are connected from front-end servers without any security protection, thus allowing possible theft of information in transit by inflitrated malicious software.
This package provides a more secure solution to protect data that is exchanged between front-end and back-end servers by encrypting and decrypting the data with secure keys.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-08-16
Posted on: 2017-08-10
CAPTCHA are often used to protect the access to resources using bots using text written on images but it is also possible to workaround that protection by using OCR methods.
Read this article to learn how to use a PHP OCR class to read text written in images like those that appear in CAPTCHA images.
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Read this article to learn how to use a PHP OCR class to read text written in images like those that appear in CAPTCHA images.
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Updated on: 2017-08-09
Posted on: 2017-08-09
PHP provides nice functions to dump the type and values of a variables like var_dump and var_export.
This package provides an enhanced version of the var_dump function by colorizing the different values according their types.
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This package provides an enhanced version of the var_dump function by colorizing the different values according their types.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-08-08
Posted on: 2017-08-08
Many applications need to generate documents for printing. They usually generate documents in PDF format.
Composing a PDF document directly is usually hard. A simpler solution is to generate an HTML page and convert it to PDF.
One way to perform such conversion is to use a browser. This class provides means to use the Chrome browser from the command line and render a HTML page to output it as a PDF document.
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Composing a PDF document directly is usually hard. A simpler solution is to generate an HTML page and convert it to PDF.
One way to perform such conversion is to use a browser. This class provides means to use the Chrome browser from the command line and render a HTML page to output it as a PDF document.
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Updated on: 2017-08-01
Posted on: 2017-08-01
When you need to salute people in messages, you should do it according to the person gender and language of the message.
This package can guess the salutation to use in messages based on the gender of the person in many different languages.
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This package can guess the salutation to use in messages based on the gender of the person in many different languages.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-07-31
Posted on: 2017-07-31
This is the July 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 April 2017.
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: 2017-07-26
Posted on: 2017-07-26
PCS is a mechanism that allows creating PHP extensions mixing C and PHP code, thus allowing to develop PHP extensions faster.
The possibility to use of PCS in PHP 7.2 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 85 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the proposals to support retrying code that throws exceptions, matching regular expressions starting in a position of the text, having final variables, binary serialization of variables, etc..
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 4 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The possibility to use of PCS in PHP 7.2 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 85 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the proposals to support retrying code that throws exceptions, matching regular expressions starting in a position of the text, having final variables, binary serialization of variables, etc..
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 4 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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