384. Notable PHP package: PHP Photo Wall Gallery
Updated on: 2016-05-12
Posted on: 2016-05-12
Photo walls are useful for Web sites that need to show many images at once in a Web page.
This class can generate photo wall images composed from groups of other images that may have their sizes adjusted to align better in the photo wall.
Another interesting effect provided by this class is the ASCII art rendering of images that appear with colors.
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This class can generate photo wall images composed from groups of other images that may have their sizes adjusted to align better in the photo wall.
Another interesting effect provided by this class is the ASCII art rendering of images that appear with colors.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2016-05-10
Posted on: 2016-05-10
In the first part of this article it was covered how we can take advantage of a PHP IDE like PHPEd to find and fix bugs using its debugger capabilities.
Read this part of the article to learn how to debug a framework based application, specifically using Symfony, combining the power of PHPEd debugger and common framework principles to debug code faster.
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Read this part of the article to learn how to debug a framework based application, specifically using Symfony, combining the power of PHPEd debugger and common framework principles to debug code faster.
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Updated on: 2016-05-10
Posted on: 2016-05-10
Many Web applications are developed to serve the interests of users or companies that need to view reports in a printed format.
Usually PDF is the common format used for printing documents but many users prefer to create documents in Microsoft Word.
This package provides a solution with the help of Web service that can use templates in Microsoft Word DOCX format, replaces variables in the document with given values, and then generates the output in either PDF or DOCX format as well.
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Usually PDF is the common format used for printing documents but many users prefer to create documents in Microsoft Word.
This package provides a solution with the help of Web service that can use templates in Microsoft Word DOCX format, replaces variables in the document with given values, and then generates the output in either PDF or DOCX format as well.
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Updated on: 2016-05-05
Posted on: 2016-05-05
Sometimes it is necessary to understand what is going on the browser side to verify if what the user is seeing is the same as he is expected to see after certain interactions.
This class can address this need with the help of jQuery plugin that can capture screenshots of the current page after certain user interaction events like click or form submissions for instance.
The PHP class receives the screenshot images sent by AJAX and records logs of the associated activities so the developers can analyze it in the future to determine what could be wrong and fix eventual issues.
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This class can address this need with the help of jQuery plugin that can capture screenshots of the current page after certain user interaction events like click or form submissions for instance.
The PHP class receives the screenshot images sent by AJAX and records logs of the associated activities so the developers can analyze it in the future to determine what could be wrong and fix eventual issues.
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Updated on: 2016-05-05
Posted on: 2016-05-05
In the previous part of this migration guide tutorial series it was covered new and changed functions in PHP 7.
But maybe more interesting to all developers that live and breathe Object Oriented Programming every day is what is new in terms of built-in classes and interfaces.
Read this article to learn not only about new classes and interfaces added in PHP 7 but also relevant global constants.
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But maybe more interesting to all developers that live and breathe Object Oriented Programming every day is what is new in terms of built-in classes and interfaces.
Read this article to learn not only about new classes and interfaces added in PHP 7 but also relevant global constants.
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Updated on: 2016-05-04
Posted on: 2016-05-04
WordPress started as a blogging platform but thanks to many thousands of plugins, nowadays it can be practically anything else other than a blog.
The custom post types feature is very powerful because it can turn what would be a blog post page into anything, as long as you know how to take advantage of it or you can use a plugin to simplify your task.
Read this article to learn about the Easy Content Types plugin and you can use it to easily create new custom post types, taxonomies and meta boxes.
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The custom post types feature is very powerful because it can turn what would be a blog post page into anything, as long as you know how to take advantage of it or you can use a plugin to simplify your task.
Read this article to learn about the Easy Content Types plugin and you can use it to easily create new custom post types, taxonomies and meta boxes.
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Updated on: 2016-05-03
Posted on: 2016-05-03
This is the April 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 PHP source code protection solutions, the parallax WordPress theme, email verification solutions, PHP 7 backwards incompatible changes and new features, and fast debugging methods using PHPEd.
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 PHP source code protection solutions, the parallax WordPress theme, email verification solutions, PHP 7 backwards incompatible changes and new features, and fast debugging methods using PHPEd.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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Updated on: 2016-05-03
Posted on: 2016-05-03
Every SQL database driven application needs to update the database schema once in a while to support new features.
This class can perform that process of generating SQL for database updates with elegance, as it allows developers to defined database schema additions in a JSON based file format, so it can work with different types of databases.
Since the format is based in JSON it can be used eventually by similar packages written in other languages.
Not only it supports the creation and modification of databases, tables and indexes, but it also supports triggers, views, stored procedures and functions.
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This class can perform that process of generating SQL for database updates with elegance, as it allows developers to defined database schema additions in a JSON based file format, so it can work with different types of databases.
Since the format is based in JSON it can be used eventually by similar packages written in other languages.
Not only it supports the creation and modification of databases, tables and indexes, but it also supports triggers, views, stored procedures and functions.
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Updated on: 2016-04-30
Posted on: 2016-04-30
PHP provides an extensive set of functions to manipulate text strings including several ways to split a string into its words.
However, there is no built-in way to detect and exclude stop words.
This class can extract the words of a text excluding stop words. I can also consider words that may appear duplicated but with different case.
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However, there is no built-in way to detect and exclude stop words.
This class can extract the words of a text excluding stop words. I can also consider words that may appear duplicated but with different case.
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Updated on: 2016-04-27
Posted on: 2016-04-27
Some applications need to present groups of images in an attractive way for their users.
One nice way to present images is to create a mosaic effect. Several images are displayed as tiles next to each other, so the users can see many images at once.
This PHP class can show tiled images using the mosaic effect. There is one main background image and all the group images are displayed over that image using transparency in a way that looks like small glasses over the background image, causing great visual impression.
The class can generate the mosaic effect in a PDF document that can be printed but using the same algorithm it could eventually generate the same mosaic effect outputting as an image.
The package comes with a nice screenshot of the output so you can see the effect in practice.
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One nice way to present images is to create a mosaic effect. Several images are displayed as tiles next to each other, so the users can see many images at once.
This PHP class can show tiled images using the mosaic effect. There is one main background image and all the group images are displayed over that image using transparency in a way that looks like small glasses over the background image, causing great visual impression.
The class can generate the mosaic effect in a PDF document that can be printed but using the same algorithm it could eventually generate the same mosaic effect outputting as an image.
The package comes with a nice screenshot of the output so you can see the effect in practice.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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