463. Notable PHP package: PHP Google Maps Time Zone Convert
Updated on: 2016-10-04
Posted on: 2016-10-04
Some applications need to be able to show the time for a certain event in the current user time zone. The time zone depends on the geographic location of the user.
The location of the user may be determined from the user IP address by using a geo IP database or Web service.
So, if you have the user location coordinates, you can use the Google Maps API to determine what is the user time zone.
This package can call determine the time zone of a location precisely calling the Google maps API.
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The location of the user may be determined from the user IP address by using a geo IP database or Web service.
So, if you have the user location coordinates, you can use the Google Maps API to determine what is the user time zone.
This package can call determine the time zone of a location precisely calling the Google maps API.
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Updated on: 2016-09-29
Posted on: 2016-09-29
PSR-3 is a standards recommendation that defines a common interface to implement logger classes.
This package implements the PSR-3 logger interface using several types of classes, as well a class and a trait that allows using multiple nested loggers.
It also provides a stream wrapper that allows developers to write to logs using regular file access functions.
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This package implements the PSR-3 logger interface using several types of classes, as well a class and a trait that allows using multiple nested loggers.
It also provides a stream wrapper that allows developers to write to logs using regular file access functions.
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Updated on: 2016-09-27
Posted on: 2016-09-27
Nowadays PHP has different extensions to manipulate text strings using Unicode UTF-8. However some may be available or not in different PHP environments.
This package provides a pure PHP solution to manipulate text in UTF-8, so you do not depend on whether any other extensions are available.
If such extensions are available, the package may fallback to using them them for performing the same UTF-8 text manipulation operations.
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This package provides a pure PHP solution to manipulate text in UTF-8, so you do not depend on whether any other extensions are available.
If such extensions are available, the package may fallback to using them them for performing the same UTF-8 text manipulation operations.
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Updated on: 2016-09-22
Posted on: 2016-09-22
Comparing word processing documents programmatically to see what was changed is a hard problem because you need to parse the documents and determine how to compare them.
This package provides an alternative solution to simplify this task.
Many Word processing documents can export documents in RTF (Rich Text Format). This is a text based format based on marks that identify different values in the documents like fonts, text formatting attributes, colors, etc..
If you save your Word processor documents in the RTF format, this package can easily render the document data in a beautified way that make it easier to compare document using a diff-like text comparison program.
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This package provides an alternative solution to simplify this task.
Many Word processing documents can export documents in RTF (Rich Text Format). This is a text based format based on marks that identify different values in the documents like fonts, text formatting attributes, colors, etc..
If you save your Word processor documents in the RTF format, this package can easily render the document data in a beautified way that make it easier to compare document using a diff-like text comparison program.
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Updated on: 2016-09-20
Posted on: 2016-09-20
In simple terms, Domain Design Design is an approach for software development that departs from an evolving model of the problem to the implementation.
This package provides a demonstration of the application of the model driven design.
It provides a set of classes that demonstrate how to implement domain logic with example models, services, strategies, as well specific data type object and mapper classes to use in the demonstration scripts.
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This package provides a demonstration of the application of the model driven design.
It provides a set of classes that demonstrate how to implement domain logic with example models, services, strategies, as well specific data type object and mapper classes to use in the demonstration scripts.
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Updated on: 2016-09-15
Posted on: 2016-09-15
One way to send SMS messages without depending on third party APIs is to use the Gammu program. It can communicate with a mobile phone connected to your machine and sends SMS messages from the phone to whatever recipients you want.
This method of sending SMS messages may not be particularly fast, especially when you have to send many SMS messages, as it has to wait for one message to be sent, to send the next message.
This class provides a solution to prevent that your PHP application needs to wait for each SMS message to be delivered before it can send the next one.
It uses local message queues to post the messages. A separate script can pull each message from the queue and send it by communicating with the mobile phone using Gammu.
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This method of sending SMS messages may not be particularly fast, especially when you have to send many SMS messages, as it has to wait for one message to be sent, to send the next message.
This class provides a solution to prevent that your PHP application needs to wait for each SMS message to be delivered before it can send the next one.
It uses local message queues to post the messages. A separate script can pull each message from the queue and send it by communicating with the mobile phone using Gammu.
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Updated on: 2016-09-13
Posted on: 2016-09-13
JSON is nowadays used by many applications and APIs to exchange data in a format that can be supported by many languages.
Sometimes you need to do some processing to filter unwanted entries in JSON data structure. Usually you would use json_decode parse the data, traverse the parsed data and filter the unwanted information, and regenerate it with json_encode.
This class offers a simpler solution. It can take a JSON string and removed the unwanted entries from the JSON string directly.
This way you do not need to perform traversal of data and custom processing to remove the unwanted data.
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Sometimes you need to do some processing to filter unwanted entries in JSON data structure. Usually you would use json_decode parse the data, traverse the parsed data and filter the unwanted information, and regenerate it with json_encode.
This class offers a simpler solution. It can take a JSON string and removed the unwanted entries from the JSON string directly.
This way you do not need to perform traversal of data and custom processing to remove the unwanted data.
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Updated on: 2016-09-08
Posted on: 2016-09-08
When you need to submit security sensitive data to a Web site, you should always use encrypted connections. However, over time older SSL versions have been discovered to be vulnerable, to the point that SSL is not longer synonym of security.
Nowadays you should use at least TLS and we don't know until when the current TLS versions will be safe to use to protect the transmission of private data.
This class provides an additional layer of security by using JavaScript to encrypt data before transmitting form values using RSA public key, and then having the server to decrypt the data with a private key.
This way, eventual man in the middle attacks will not be able to decrypt the data because they don't know what is the private key that the server uses to decrypt it.
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Nowadays you should use at least TLS and we don't know until when the current TLS versions will be safe to use to protect the transmission of private data.
This class provides an additional layer of security by using JavaScript to encrypt data before transmitting form values using RSA public key, and then having the server to decrypt the data with a private key.
This way, eventual man in the middle attacks will not be able to decrypt the data because they don't know what is the private key that the server uses to decrypt it.
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Updated on: 2016-09-06
Posted on: 2016-09-06
Developers that have tried to create applications that should run both on the Web, Android and iOS devices know that you need to have a different sets of application image icons that looks well on different resolutions.
This package provides a solution by automatically generating icon sets for different devices and sizes.
It supports generating icons from a SVG source graphics if you can run a program like Inkscape to convert images from SVG to the PNG format.
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This package provides a solution by automatically generating icon sets for different devices and sizes.
It supports generating icons from a SVG source graphics if you can run a program like Inkscape to convert images from SVG to the PNG format.
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Updated on: 2016-09-01
Posted on: 2016-09-01
PHP is very good at dealing with arrays of values. It provides interfaces that can let developers create classes that can manipulate lists of values using the regular array syntax and functions.
Often the code for manipulating different types of values is the same for different classes that implement array interfaces.
This package provides a trait that can manipulate collections of unique values that can be either arrays and objects. The trait may be reused by other classes that implement similar collections of other types of values.
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Often the code for manipulating different types of values is the same for different classes that implement array interfaces.
This package provides a trait that can manipulate collections of unique values that can be either arrays and objects. The trait may be reused by other classes that implement similar collections of other types of values.
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