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Saturday, August 15, 2009

Practical solutions to hyphenate text on web pages

In this post I want to suggest you three simple and useful ways to hyphenate text on your web pages using JavaScript or PHP. If you take a look at W3.org documentation you can find this explanation about hyphenation:

"In HTML, there are two types of hyphens: the plain hyphen and the soft hyphen. The plain hyphen should be interpreted by a user agent as just another character. The soft hyphen tells the user agent where a line break can occur. Those browsers that interpret soft hyphens must observe the following semantics: If a line is broken at a soft hyphen, a hyphen character must be displayed at the end of the first line. If a line is not broken at a soft hyphen, the user agent must not display a hyphen character. For operations such as searching and sorting, the soft hyphen should always be ignored."

To hyphenate text I found the following practical solutions:

Hyphenator.js
This script automatically hyphenates texts on websites and runs on any modern browser that supports JavaScript and the soft hyphen (). It runs on the client in order that the HTML source of the website may be served clean and svelte and that it can respond to text resizings by the user. The result is really great:

The usage of this script is really simple. You have to include the script into your pages in the <head> tag:

...then you have to invoke the script adding this code after the previous code:

...and use this HTML code to active hyphenation:

Take a look at this example for a live preview.

You can also choose the language changing the property "lang" (actually the script support 16 languages, for the full list take a look here).

phpHyphenator

The phpHyphenator is a PHP port of the JavaScript hyphenator.js by Mathias Nater for automatic hyphenation in web pages using soft hyphens. The hyphenation algorithm needs large pattern files for doing the hyphenation and and using JavaScript can slow down page loading. PHP instead is doing hyphenation directly on the server wihtout sending the pattern files to the client.

Online Soft Hyphenation Generator
You can also try this interesting on-line HTML Soft Hyphenation Generator a configurable automatic hyphenation (soft or hard) generator for HTML text based on phpHypenator.

Any suggestion about this topic? Please leave a comment, thanks!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Twitter API: How to create a stream of messages Monitter-like with PHP and jQuery

This tutorial illustrates a very simple way to work with the Twitter API in order to implement a search in the Twitter public timeline and display search results with an animated stream of messages (tweets) similar to Monitter. In this example I used PHP, jQuery and a very useful Twitter Search API for PHP based on the work of David Billingham and actually developed by Ryan Faerman. This implementation is very simple to customize and integrate on your project. The result is something linke this:

You can download the full code here and reuse it for free on your projects.

I suggest you to take also a look at these posts:

- Simple PHP Twitter Search ready to use in your web projects
- Super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS)
- Send messages from a PHP page using Twitter API

1. A little introduction

This package contains the following files:

- index.php: page with the search form + search results
- search.php: PHP search
- twitterapi.php: Twitter Search API for PHP
- jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js: jQuery framework

How it works? After submission the search form calls an ajax request to the page search.php that returns search results into an array. Each element of the array (every single tweet) appears into the div twitter-results with a nice fade-in effect. I set a delay between each tweet equal 2 seconds (2000 ms).

I suggest you to take a look at Monitter, and download the full code to try this tutorial on your local host. Now, take a look at the code.

2. index.php: HTML code

HTML code is very simple. Copy the following code in the tag <body>:

<div class="twitter_container">
<form id="twittersearch" method="post" action="">
<input name="twitterq" type="text" id="twitterq" />
<button type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
<div id="twitter-results"></div>
</div>

...and add into the tag <head> of the page a link to jQuery:

The result is a simple search form:

3. search.php

Now copy and paste the following code into search.php:

<?php
include('search.php');
if($_POST['twitterq']){

$twitter_query = $_POST['twitterq'];
$search = new TwitterSearch($twitter_query);
$results = $search->results();

foreach($results as $result){

echo '<div class="twitter_status">';
echo '<img src="'.$result->profile_image_url.'" class="twitter_image">';
$text_n = toLink($result->text);
echo $text_n;
echo '<div class="twitter_small">';
echo '<strong>From:</strong> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/'.$result->from_user.'">'.$result->from_user.'</a>: ';
echo '<strong>at:</strong> '.$result->created_at;
echo '</div>';
echo '</div>';

}

}
?>

$result is the array that contains search results. To display all elements of the array (search results) I used this simple loop:

foreach($results as $result){
...
}

... and to get a specific attribute of the array I used this simple code:

$result->name_of_element

Take a look at this post for info about the search on Twitter.

4. index.php: JavaScript Code

Now take a look at the following JavaScript code that enables an ajax request for the search and display results into the page index.php with a fade in effect and a delay between each tweet equal to 2 seconds:

function displayTweet(){
var i = 0;
var limit = $("#twitter-results > div").size();
var myInterval = window.setInterval(function () {
var element = $("#twitter-results div:last-child");
$("#twitter-results").prepend(element);
element.fadeIn("slow");
i++;
if(i==limit){

window.setTimeout(function () {
clearInterval(myInterval);
});

}
},2000);
}

$("form#twittersearch").submit(function() {
twitterq = $('#twitterq').attr('value');
$.ajax({

type: "POST",
url: "search.php",
cache: false,
data: "twitterq="+ twitterq,
success: function(html){
$("#twitter-results").html(html);
displayTweet();
}

});
return false;
});

});
</script>

This is a very basic implementation you can modify to get a real-time stream of messages for example calling a new ajax request (to search.php) every time the current array with the search results is totally displayed in the page.

That's all. If you have some suggestion please add a comment. Thanks!
You can download the full code of this tutorial here and reuse it on your projects.

Monday, June 29, 2009

How to implement a launching soon page with PHP and jQuery

In this tutorial I want to explain how to implement a simple launching soon page using PHP and jQuery. What's a launching soon page? In general it's a page that informs the visitors of a website under construction about when the website is going to be online and allows them to leave their emails in order to be updated when the website is on-line. A typical launching soon page contains a countdown and a form that collects emails from interested visitors. In this tutorial I implemented a launching soon page like this:

Take a look at the live preview here.

This page is very simple to modify and customize using just some lines of CSS code. You can also add the logo of your company and all elements you want with some lines of HTML code. Download the source code of this tutorial you can customize and reuse in your web project for free!

A little introduction
How I said this package is ready to use and contains these files:

- index.php: the launching soon page final interface (countdow + form)
- config.php: enables database connection
- insert.php: PHP code to add emails into a database table
- js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js: jQuery framework
- js/countdown.js: the countdown script

1. index.php
index.php is the final interface of your launching soon page. How I said it contains a countdown and a form to allow users to leave their emails.

The countdown script
In order to implement the countdown I used this dynamic countdown script that lets you count down to relative events of a future date/time. This future date, while the same for everyone, occurs differently depending on the time zone they're in. The result is here and it's fully customizable changing some lines of CSS code:

The only thing you have to do is to add this line of code in the <head> tag of the page:

Then, in the tag <body> add the following lines of code to display the countdown:

<div id="count_down_container"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var currentyear = new Date().getFullYear()
var target_date = new cdtime("count_down_container", "July 6, "+currentyear+" 0:0:00")
target_date.displaycountdown("days", displayCountDown)
</script>

To set a target date you have to change this line modifying July 6 and the hour 0:0:00 with your target date (for example 25 december):

new cdtime("count_down_container", "July 6, "+currentyear+" 0:0:00")

...if your target date is 25 December the previous line becomes:

new cdtime("count_down_container", "December 25, "+currentyear+" 0:0:00")

If you want to change the style of the countdown you have to modify the following CSS classes:

.count_down{...}
.count_down sup{...}

In particular .count_down{} changes the format of the numbers and .count_down sup{} changes the style of the text "days", "hours", "minutes".

jQuery and the input form
Ok, the countdown is ready! Next step: add this line of code to include jQuery in the <head> tag of the page:

Now, in the tag <body> add a simple form with an input field:

<form id="submit_leave_email">
<input id="input_leave_email" type="text" class="input_bg" value="Add your e-mail address"/>
<button type="submit" class="input_button">Update me</button>
</form>

...and add this layer to display a custom message when an user submit the form:

<div id="update_success">E-mail added!>/div>

...the result after the submission is here:

The form with the input field disappears with a nice fade-out effect and a success message appears in its place. Now, in the <head> tag, after the line of code that includes jQuery, add this script to enable ajax functionalities to insert emails added from users into a database table without reload the page:

$("form#submit_leave_email").submit(function() {
var input_leave_email = $('#input_leave_email').attr('value');
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "insert.php",
data:"input_leave_email="+ input_leave_email,
success: function(){
$("#submit_leave_email").fadeOut();
$("#update_success").fadeIn();
}
});
return false;
});
});

</script>

2. insert.php
insert.php contains some lines of PHP code to insert an email address into a database table. In this example I created a table EMAIL with just one attribute "email". PHP code is very simple:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['input_leave_email'])){
/* Connection to Database */
include('config.php');
/* Remove HTML tag to prevent query injection */
$email = strip_tags($_POST['input_leave_email']);

$sql = 'INSERT INTO WALL (email) VALUES( "'.$email.'")';
mysql_query($sql);
echo $email;
} else { echo '0'; }
?>

Now, remember to modify your database connection parameters in config.php and upload all files on your testing server. Than load index.php and see the result!

Take a look at the live preview here.

That's all! Download the source code of this tutorial you can customize and reuse in your web project for free! Leave a comment for your suggestions, thanks!

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Simple PHP Twitter Search ready to use in your web projects

After my previous tutorial that illustrated how to implement a super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS) I received a lot of emails from my readers that asked to me to write a post about how to implement a simple Twitter search and display search results in a web page with a custom format. So in this tutorial I want to illustrate how you can implement that using a very useful Twitter Search API for PHP developed by David Billingham.

Using this simple method you can obtain, just in some lines of PHP and CSS code, awesome results like this:

You can download the source code at the following link and reuse it for free in your web projects just in some seconds!

1. A little introduction
In this package you'll find two PHP file:

- index.php: the search page (search form + search results)
- search.php: Twitter Search API for PHP

You have to customize only index.php and your Twitter Search will be ready to be integrated into yor web projects in one minute!

2. Index.php
Take a look at index.php. This page contains a simple search form:

...and some lines of PHP code:

<?php
include('search.php');
if($_GET['twitterq']){

$twitter_query = $_GET['twitterq'];
$search = new TwitterSearch($twitter_query);
$results = $search->results();

foreach($results as $result){

}

}
?>

$result is the array that contains search results. To display all elements of the array (search results) I used this simple loop:

foreach($results as $result){
...
}

... and to get a specific attribute of the array I used this simple code:

$result->name_of_element

The structure of a tweet contains the following attributes (take a look at the Twitter API home page for a full list):

[text]: Text of the current tweet
[to_user_id]: User Id
[from_user]: User name
[id]: Tweet Id
[from_user_id]: User id
[source]: Source of the current tweet
[profile_image_url]: User profile image URL
[created_at]: Date of the current tweet

...so, if you want to display the text of a tweet you can use this code:

$result->text

The following line of code get the text of the current tweet and convert a textual link into a clickable link:

$text_n = toLink($result->text);

That's all! Now download the source code, open and upload all files in your test server, open index.php and try to search for something!
If you have some suggestion, please add a comment!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Super simple way to work with Twitter API (PHP + CSS)

In this post I want to illustrate a super simple way to work with Twitter API and PHP. In particular, this tutorial explains how to get public updates from Twitter public timeline and display them in a web page with a custom style using CSS. In order to get Twitter updates I used Twitterlibphp (a PHP implementation of the Twitter API) that allows you to take advantage of it from within your PHP applications.

Using this simple method you can obtain awesome results like this:

You can download the source code at the following link and reuse it for free in your web projects (you need PHP and APACHE):

1. A little introduction
Twitterlibphp returns Twitter timeline in XML format and with this structure (take a look at the Twitter API home page for a full list of available nodes.):

status

created_at
id
text
source
user

name
screen_name
description
profile_image_url
url
followers_count
...

...

So, if you want to display the user image, user status, and status date in your timeline you have to choose the following nodes:

But how you can display them? It's very simple! Take a look at the following code!

2. PHP code
Create a new file twitter_status.php and copy and paste the following code:

<div class="twitter_container">
<?php
// require the twitter library
require "twitter.lib.php";

// your twitter username and password
$username = "your_username";
$password = "your_password";

// initialize the twitter class
$twitter = new Twitter($username, $password);

// fetch public timeline in xml format
$xml = $twitter->getPublicTimeline();

$twitter_status = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
foreach($twitter_status->status as $status){

foreach($status->user as $user){
echo '<img src="'.$user->profile_image_url.'" class="twitter_image">';
echo '<a href="http://www.twitter.com/'.$user->name.'">'.$user->name.'</a>: ';
}

echo $status->text;
echo '<br/>';
echo '<div class="twitter_posted_at">Posted at:'.$status->created_at.'</div>';
echo '</div>';
}
?>
<div>

How you can see, the previous code is very simple to understand. The line:

$xml = $twitter->getPublicTimeline();

get the 20 most recent public statuses posted. You can also use other functions such as:

getFriendsTimeline(): returns the 20 most recent statuses posted by the authenticating user and that user's friends.

- getUserTimeline(): returns the 20 most recent statuses posted from the authenticating user.

getReplies(): returns the 20 most recent @replies (status updates prefixed with @username) for the authenticating user.

Take a look at twitter.lib.php for the full list of available functions.

If you want to display different information, for example the source of the update (status->source) use this code:

$status->source

...or if you want to display the number of followers of the current user (follower_count) use this code:

$user->followers_count

3. CSS Code
Now you can customize the style of your timeline using CSS code. I used the following classes but you can customize the look how you prefer:

.twitter_container{

color:#444;
font-size:12px;
width:600px;
margin: 0 auto;

}
.twitter_container a{

color:#0066CC;
font-weight:bold;

}
.twitter_status{

height:60px;
padding:6px;
border-bottom:solid 1px #DEDEDE;

}
.twitter_image{

float:left;
margin-right:14px;
border:solid 2px #DEDEDE;
width:50px;
height:50px;

}
.twitter_posted_at{

font-size:11px;
padding-top:4px;
color:#999;

}

That's all! Download the source code, open twitter_status.php, change $username and $password with your Twitter username and password and upload the file in your test server.
If you have some suggestion, please add a comment!

Thursday, May 7, 2009

How to implement a Post-to-Wall Facebook-like using PHP and jQuery

In the past months I received a lot of request to write a tutorial for beginners in order to explain how to implement a Post-to-Wall Facebook-like. So, I prepared this very simple example which helps everyone understand how to implement this feature in a website using just some lines of PHP and JavaScript code.

Take a mind, every post in the Facebook Wall contains a lot of information (user, sender, message content, date, number of comments, ...):

But how I said, this tutorial is for Ajax/jQuery/PHP beginners. So I decided to simplify the original Wall using just a single information: the message content.

In this tutorial we have these files:

- confing.php (database connection parameters)
- index.php
- insert.php
- jquery.js

How the Wall works?

index.php contains a form with id "submit_form" with an input text with id "message_wall". When an user submits a new message. Then the new message is appends to top of the ul list with id "wall" with a nice fade-in effect (with jQuery). Ok, now take a look at the code.

1. index.php
index.php is very simple and contains just simple HTML code:

<form id="submit_wall">
<label for="message_wall">Share your message on the Wall</label>
<input type="text" id="message_wall" />
<button type="submit">Post to wall</button>
</form>

<ul id="wall">
</ul>

The <ul> list with id "wall" is the "container" of messages which are posted into the wall.

2. JavaScript Code
Open index.php and include jQuery in the <head> tag of the page:

...then add this simple function to enable Ajax functionalities to insert the message posted from the user into a database table without reload the page:

$("form#submit_wall").submit(function() {

var message_wall = $('#message_wall').attr('value');

$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "insert.php",
data:"message_wall="+ message_wall,
success: function(){
$("ul#wall").prepend("<li style="display: none;">"+message_wall+"</li>");
$("ul#wall li:first").fadeIn();
}
});
return false;
});
});

</script>

.prepend(...) is a jQuery function to insert elements inside, at the beginning, of a specific element (in this case UL list with id wall -->$("ul#wall")). When the new message is added into the list is hidden (display:none). Then it appears with a fade-in effect:

$("ul#wall li:first").fadeIn();

ul#wall:first: gets the first li element (the last added) into the ul list with id "#wall".

3. insert.php
insert.php contains some lines of PHP code to insert the new message into a database table. In this example I created a table WALL with just one attribute "message". PHP code is very simple:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['message_wall'])){
/* Connection to Database */
include('config.php');
/* Remove HTML tag to prevent query injection */
$message = strip_tags($_POST['message_wall']);

$sql = 'INSERT INTO WALL (message) VALUES( "'.$message.'")';
mysql_query($sql);
echo $message;
} else { echo '0'; }
?>

That's all! Download the source code ready to use in your web projects.

Add a comment for questions or suggestions, thanks!

Friday, May 1, 2009

My Tiny TodoList | A simple open source todolist written in PHP and jQuery

My Tiny TodoList is a totally free, simple open source todolist written in PHP and jQuery released from Max Pozdeev and based on my original MyToDoList application.

Using MyTiny TodoList you can add, modify or delete tasks, mark a task as completed and set task priority. Max improved a lot the interface with some nice jQuery effects and other general improvements. The result is very interesting and I suggest you to take it a look.

Max Pozdeev MyTinyTodoList Website

MyTinyTodoList Demo

Some screenshots:

Install My Tiny TodoList

1. Download, unpack and upload to your site.
2. If you want to use Mysql database instead of Sqlite - uncomment the line begining with $config['mysql'] in file 'init.php' and specify your settings as described in file.
Otherwise sqlite database file 'todolist.db' will be created in directory 'db'. If no - create it manually and make it writeble for webserver/php.
3. Open in your browser file 'dba.php' from your site and create tables in databse.
4. Open 'index.php' in your browser to run the application.

Monday, March 30, 2009

SourceGuardian 7 for PHP

PHP Encoder - Key Features

The SourceGuardian PHP Encoder contains numerous features to protect your PHP code. The following provide some of the key features. If you wish to know more, then please contact us - we'd love to hear from you.SourceGuardian for PHP Features List

Protection method
The SourceGuardian for PHP Encoder protects PHP scripts by compiling PHP source code into a bytecode format and this is followed by encryption. This protects your scripts from reverse engineering.

Supported PHP versions
SourceGuardian for PHP works with the following versions and above: PHP 4.x and 5.x are fully supported.

Interface
A new GUI for Macintosh and Windows is available. Windows version supports Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista. Macintosh version includes universal application which will run on PowerPC and Intel based Macintosh computers. In addition, we have also developed a powerful cross-platform command line encoder that runs under Linux. Command line encoder is also included in Macintosh and Windows versions of SourceGuardian.

Locking
To protect your scripts from unauthorised usage SourceGuardian for PHP has added features that can optionally lock your scripts to run only from predefined IP addresses, domain names or LAN hardware addresses (MAC). SourceGuardian for PHP can also easily produce trial versions of your scripts by setting an expiry date for the script or by limiting the number of days that protected script will work. To protect against local date change for trial version of protected script there is an option for time checking with atomic clock servers available online. For larger projects SourceGuardian for PHP provides an option to protect an entire project so that all scripts used in the project will work only with other protected scripts. No one may include a protected script from another unprotected script and this adds another level of protection.

Here is a sample list of features:

* locking to date with optional atomic clock servers checking

* locking to multiple domain names* locking to multiple ip addresses

* locking to multiple LAN hardware (MAC) addresses

* improved locking to a specific domain name with encryption. The domain name is used as a part of key for encryption, so protected scripts may not be decrypted and run from another domain.

* improved locking to the ip address with encryption. The ip address is used as a part of key for encryption. This means that protected scripts cannot be decrypted and run from another ip address.

* locking of an entire PHP project, so that no protected script can run if any other script is substituted with an unencoded one or encoded with another installation of SourceGuardian. This is ideal for protecting settings, passwords etc within a PHP project.

* locking with an external license file produced by the built-in SourceGuardian for PHP license generator. This is ideal for creating protected scripts to be distributed between different users and it will even allow different locking options for different users. The SourceGuardian for PHP license generator tool can run from GUI or as command line tool which adds another powerful element - It provides a method for licenses to be dynamically generated and this would be useful (for example) when selling scripts online.

* locking so the protected script will work only online

Encoding of HTML templates and other non-PHP files

We have added an option for encoding HTML templates, or other non-PHP files, using the SourceGuardian encoder. HTML template or other non-PHP files may be encoded by the encoder and read and decrypted from the protected script. Template files which are encoded as a part of a project may be used only from protected scripts which were encoded as a part of the same project. It's impossible to use protected templates from unencoded scripts or from scripts encoded with a different SourceGuardian project. New SourceGuardian API functions my be used to encrypt and decrypt non-PHP files from the protected code. This is useful for protecting dynamic configuration files, HTML and email templates etc.

Cross platform

Cross platform encoding. A script encoded under one operating system will run under any other supported operating systems. Currently we have an encoder for Macintosh, Windows and Linux and Script Loaders will run under Macintosh, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and HPUX. In the near future we will support more operating systems.

Download Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/102472425/SourceGuardian_7.0_for_PHP_install.rar

Mirror

http://rapidshare.com/files/102655605/SourceGuardian_7.0_for_PHP_install.rar

Zend Studio for Eclipse Professional v6.1.1

Zend Studio for Eclipse combines proven Zend technology and the Eclipse PHP Developers Tools (PDT) project to create the world’s most powerful IDE for developing rich Web applications. By combining proven Zend PHP editor technology, integration with Zend Platform and Zend Core, built in database connectivity, integrated debugging , profiling, code coverage and testing capabilities, team support with extensible version control support, support for Zend Framework, support for Web Services, comprehensive with multi-language support and extensibility provided by the vibrant Eclipse open source community, developers have the tools they need for support of the entire PHP application lifecycle.

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Download Link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/189983118/Zend.Studio.for.Eclipse.Professional.Edition.v6.1.1.Incl.Keymaker-CORE.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/189991874/Zend.Studio.for.Eclipse.Professional.Edition.v6.1.1.Incl.Keymaker-CORE.part2.rar

Zend Studio Enterprise Edition v5.5.1.282

Zend Studio 5 is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available for professional developers that encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle. Through a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization and database tools, Zend Studio 5 speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects.

Zend Studio is designed for new PHP programmers wishing to create PHP applications for the coolest Internet programs and Web pages. It is the perfect PHP development environment for delivering robust and bug-free applications in record time. With a state-of-the-art PHP editor and an award-winning Internal Debugger, Zend Studio delivers all the basic features a PHP developer needs:

- Increase productivity with the proven PHP development environment. Includes advanced PHP 5 Support, Code Editor, Code Completion, Syntax Highlighting, Project Manager, Wizards, and an Internal Debugger.
- Enhance your productivity. Test your application on the spot using Zend Studio's renowned and award-winning Internal Debugger. Advanced debugging features include conditional breakpoints, stack trace view, advanced watches, variables and output buffer.
- Deliver applications in record time with the productivity of 100+ reusable Code Snippets. Zend Snippets Explorer lets you organize, view, and add utility functions and code samples. Connect automatically to the Zend hosted code Gallery where you can select, download, rate or upload additional Code Snippets.
- Develop faster and smarter with Syntax Highlighting. Enhance code comprehension with color highlighting for PHP 4, PHP 5, HTML, JavaScript, XML and CSS.

Download Link:

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

6 Interesting online presentations for web developers

If you are looking for free resources to learn Ajax, PHP, CSS and JavaScript take a look at this collection with six interesting online presentations about these topics. The list includes a short introduction to Ajax, how to write modular CSS code, PHP Object Model fundamentals and an overview about the most popular JavaScript libraries.

1. Ajax 101 | Workshop
Author: Bill Scott | This presentation on SlideShare
Introduction to programming with Ajax. Covers XMLHttpRequest, XML, JSON, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Dom Scripting, Event Handling with some examples from YUI library.

2. Modular CSS
Author: Russ Weakley | This presentation on Slide Share
A clearly explained modular system that allows you to hide and show CSS rules to specific browsers without the need for extensive hacks or workarounds.

3. Understanding the PHP Object Model
Author: Sebastian Bergmann | This presentation on SlideShare
This talk will give an overview of PHP's object model, covering both basic OOP concepts such as interfaces, classes, and objects as well as PHP's “magic” interceptor methods.

5. jQuery in 15 minutes
Author: Simon | This presentation on SlideShare
A short introduction to jQuery in particular about functions, collections, grabbing values and chaining.

6. JavaScript Library Overview
Author: Jeresig | This presentation on SlideShare
An interesting Overview about the most popular JavaScript libraries (jquery, prototype, Scriptaculous...) for web designers.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

20 Great PHP frameworks for developers

A good PHP framework can help you develop a PHP application quickly, with more simplicity and with a vision "best-practices-oriented".

Take a look at this list with 20 great PHP frameworks and suggest that you prefer or a new link to a framework not included into this list.

1. CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.
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2. CakePHP
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications.
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3. Symfony
Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise.
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4. Prado
PRADOTM is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented.
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5. Qcodo
It is a completely object-oriented framework that takes the best of PHP and provides a truly rapid application development platform. Initial prototypes roll out in minutes instead of hours. Iterations come around in hours instead of days (or even weeks). As projects iterate into more cohesive solutions, the framework allows developers to take prototypes to the next level by providing the capability of bringing the application maturity.
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6. Zend Framework
Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and catalogers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.
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7. Akelos
The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern. Based on good practices, it allows you to:
Write views using Ajax easily, Control requests and responses through a controller, Manage internationalized applications, Communicate models and the database using simple conventions.
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8. Maintainable
The Maintainable PHP Framework was originally built only for our own projects, then released to open source at the request of our customers. Like any framework, it's certainly not appropriate for every application. It's designed primarily for use with small- to mid- sized applications.
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9. evoCore
evoCore is the framework at the heart of the b2evolution blogging application. It is freely available for anyone to use. It is dual licensed so you can choose to use it either under the GNU GPL or the Mozilla MPL license. (b2evo for example is using it under the GPL).
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10. Stratos
The Stratos Framework is an open-source, object-oriented web application framework that facilitates the rapid development of well-organized, secure, and maintainable PHP web applications. Stratos frees you from working on tedious, routine tasks, and allows you to focus on specific software requirements.
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11. Seagull
Seagull is a mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Licensed under BSD, the project allows PHP developers to easily integrate and manage code resources, and build complex applications quickly.
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12. Zoop
The Zoop Framework is inclusive, cooperating with and containing components integrated from some existing projects including Smarty, the Prototype JS Framework, and a number of Pear Modules.
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13. php.MVC
php.MVC implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, and encourages application design based on the Model 2 paradigm. This design model allows the Web page or other contents (View) to be mostly separated from the internal application code (Controller/Model), making it easier for designers and programmers to focus on their respective areas of expertise.
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14. AjaxAC
AjaxAC is an open-source framework written in PHP, used to develop/create/generate AJAX applications. The fundamental idea behind AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is to use the XMLHttpRequest object to change a web page state using background HTTP sub-requests without reloading the entire page. It is released under the terms of the Apache License v2.0.
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15. xAjax
xAjax is an open source PHP class library that allows to create quickly Ajax applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.
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16. PHOCOA
PHOCOA (pronounced faux-ko) is PHP framework for developing web applications. PHOCOA's primary intent is to make web application development in PHP easier, faster, and higher-quality.
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17. Kohana
Kohana is a PHP 5 framework that uses the model view controller architectural pattern. It aims to be secure, lightweight, and easy to use.
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18. Limb
Limb is an OpenSource(LGPL) PHP framework mostly aimed for rapid web application prototyping and development. The current actively developed branch of framework is Limb3(there is also Limb2 but it's not maintained anymore).
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19. Solar
Solar is a PHP 5 framework for rapid application development. It is fully name-spaced and uses enterprise application design patterns, with built-in support for localization and configuration at all levels.
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20. BlueShoes
BlueShoes is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP. BlueShoes offers excellent support for the popular MySQL database as well as support for Oracle and MSSQL.
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