New site features

62. A video is worth a million words

Posted on: 2007-01-31

The PHPClasses site is launching a new feature that allows class authors to submit tutorial videos about their packages, in order to provide greater interest to the package users.

This post also explains how to use screencasting programs to produce and distribute videos that capture slide presentations and live demonstration of class packages or other software running in a desktop machine, without the need to use video cameras or expensive hardware.

It is also explained how to submit tutorial screencast videos to the PHPClasses site, and use video section links to provide good navigation to browse each section of a tutorial video.

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61. File upload progress meter for PHP 4, at last!

Posted on: 2006-12-21

This post explains how to implement a upload progress meter for PHP sites, including those that still run PHP 4.

It also explains how to use a new plug-in of the Form Generation and Validation class to show an upload progress bar and live upload statistics using AJAX COMET requests.

The Forms Generation and Validation class is very important to the PHPClasses site since its beginning. This post tells about the story of the site and how this class motivated its creation.

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60. User submitted book reviews and package required PHP versions

Posted on: 2006-11-30

In this post it is announced a new feature that allows any site user to submit reviews of books and products of the interest of the PHP users.

The package pages are also showing now the information about which PHP version each package requires to run, as well the package version number, if the respective authors have submitted that information.

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44. PHP user group contacts, Bandwidth saving, Metastorage database access enhancements

Posted on: 2005-08-31

This month I have been working most of the time on the development of packages and tools that I will be using to implement new services and existing service improvements in the PHP Classes site.

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36. PHP User Groups diffusion initiative

Posted on: 2004-04-27

As we all know, the PHP community has grown without much commercial support from companies investing large sums of money to market it. Word of mouth has always been the most powerful means of spreading news about PHP capabilities.

Unfortunately, however, PHP is not so well known and supported everywhere in the world. In regions where PHP is more popular, user groups exist which promote regular meetings and other initiatives to provide opportunities for users to build their knowledge and obtain local PHP support.

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34. PHP Classes on Orkut, PHP User Groups difusion initiative

Posted on: 2004-04-20

I am writing you quickly to tell about a couple of neat things that are going on about the PHP Classes site.

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33. PHP Programming Innovation Award

Posted on: 2004-04-01

The PHP Classes site announces today a new initiative named PHP Programming Innovation Award. Despite the coincidence, this is not an April fouls joke.

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26. Security vulnerabilities, site tips and PHP-Con US conference

Posted on: 2003-07-24

Security issues have always been a major concern for those that are responsible for Web sites. Every day, security experts discover new vulnerabilities in computer programs that many of us use in our Web sites.

That would not be a problem if such experts would not use the knowledge about those vulnerabilities to compromise our systems and cause any harm.

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