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109. Site design contest is getting started

Posted on: 2009-12-01

The PHPClasses site redesign contest is finally getting started.

The deadline for submission was November 30, but by request of a few authors, it was postponed to December 15.

Meanwhile, several design proposals were submitted and available for commenting.

This article tells more about these and other details.

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108. Distributing PHP processing with Gearman

Posted on: 2009-11-23

Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines.

This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.

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107. PHP in Arabic

Posted on: 2009-11-15

The use of Arabic in Web sites has been growing in a significant way in the latest years.

This is an idiom that requires special care due to the nature of its writing.

This article presents an interview with Khaled Al-Shamaa, the leader of Ar-PHP, a project that aims to simplify the lives of developers that want to build Arabic sites using PHP.

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106. Get early access to the new site features

Posted on: 2009-10-29

The PHPClasses site is launching a new initiative to let every user know in advance about new features that are being implemented.

This article explains how you can keep up with latest features and even influence their implementation.

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105. Improved site search for every user

Posted on: 2009-10-21

The site search pages have been improved, so every site user can benefit of a better way to search the site content.

The internal search engine, that until now was only available to premium subscribers, has been made available to all users.

Among other benefits, the search results will appear split in different tabs according to the section of the site that they belong, thus making it easier to find the kind of content you are looking for.

This article explains which are all the benefits that every user will have access from now on.

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104. Submit your site redesign proposal for the contest

Posted on: 2009-10-13

The PHPClasses site is accepting new site redesign proposals now.

In this phase, candidates may create design themes using a visual editor. Then they can submit the design theme proposal when they are done.

This article gives more detail of how the visual editor and the proposal system work.

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103. New approach to generate PDF using PHP with Zend Framework

Posted on: 2009-10-08

LiveDocx is a Zend Framework package that implements a new approach to generate PDF documents in PHP.

It combines structured data passed by a PHP script with a template created in a word processor. It is the same concept as mail merge.

The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, as well in other formats such as DOCX, DOC or RTF file.

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102. Microsoft promotes the careers of PHP professionals

Posted on: 2009-09-30

Microsoft is launching a new initiative to promote the careers of PHP professionals.

This article presents an interview with a Microsoft manager to explain in more details what is this initiative and how the PHP professionals may take advantage of it.

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101. ShishKabab PHP IDE

Posted on: 2009-09-21

A new Open Source PHP IDE, the ShishKabab PHP IDE, was released recently.

This article explains what it is, why it was developed, in what direction it is heading, and most importantly, how you can get it.

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100. PHP on Windows Azure

Posted on: 2009-08-06

PHP is now officially supported as a language for developing applications that can run on Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud operating system.

This article is an interview with Teoni Valois, an independent PHP and .NET expert that answered some questions to give an overview of the PHP support on Windows Azure.

He also talks about the advantages and disadvantages of running PHP applications on this environment when compared to regular Windows or Linux based hosting or other cloud computing environments.

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