570. Notable PHP package: PHP PostgreSQL Session Handler
Updated on: 2017-06-12
Posted on: 2017-06-07
PHP usually stores session data in files but it also allows to define custom session handler classes that can store session data in other types of container.
This class implements a session handler that stores data in a database. Despite the most used database with PHP is MySQL, PostgreSQL is also very popular.
This class supports storing session data in PostgreSQL database using PDO.
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This class implements a session handler that stores data in a database. Despite the most used database with PHP is MySQL, PostgreSQL is also very popular.
This class supports storing session data in PostgreSQL database using PDO.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-06-12
Posted on: 2017-06-06
PSR 7 is a PHP Standards Recommendation that defines interfaces for classes to handle HTTP message for several types of purposes.
This package provides an implementation of the PSR 7 specification with classes for handling requests and responses, stream handler, uploaded files and URI parsing and formatting.
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This package provides an implementation of the PSR 7 specification with classes for handling requests and responses, stream handler, uploaded files and URI parsing and formatting.
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Updated on: 2017-06-01
Posted on: 2017-06-01
This is the May edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of February 2017.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.
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Updated on: 2018-12-18
Posted on: 2017-05-31
Every year many books about PHP and related topics are released but most of them do not get much notice from developers that are very interested to learn about the books if they knew they existed.
This article is a listing of PHP books that have been released in the last years that are best sellers in sites like Amazon.
It was built with the collaboration of the authors that have written them so they can tell you better what the books are about and why they will be useful if you read them.
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This article is a listing of PHP books that have been released in the last years that are best sellers in sites like Amazon.
It was built with the collaboration of the authors that have written them so they can tell you better what the books are about and why they will be useful if you read them.
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Updated on: 2017-05-30
Posted on: 2017-05-30
This package can monitor and manage a Wamp setup on Windows.
It can detect if a Wamp server is installed and what is its disk location, as well the versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP that are installed.
The package can also switch versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP, as well start, stop and restart each of their instances.
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It can detect if a Wamp server is installed and what is its disk location, as well the versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP that are installed.
The package can also switch versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP, as well start, stop and restart each of their instances.
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Updated on: 2017-05-29
Posted on: 2017-05-29
Many Web sites need to take pictures of their users. One way to achieve this is to take a snapshot of the user image using his computer or mobile device Webcam.
This class can take pictures captured using a Webcam and uploaded to the server, so it can save the images to server files or a MySQL database table.
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This class can take pictures captured using a Webcam and uploaded to the server, so it can save the images to server files or a MySQL database table.
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Updated on: 2017-05-25
Posted on: 2017-05-25
Now that PHP 7.2 release managers were elected, the time table for each alpha, beta, release candidate and general availablity dates were announced. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 83 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the problem of casting objects to scalars passed by reference to functions, supporting float data types in PDO, implementing a better interface for serializing objects, and improvements for the filter extension.
They also talked about PHP tutorial articles on using dynClass as an improvement to PHP stdClass, installing Laravel 5 on Ubuntu and the problems of Chrome trying to block bogus Cross-Site Scripting security attacks.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 4 minute video of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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In this episode they also talked about the problem of casting objects to scalars passed by reference to functions, supporting float data types in PDO, implementing a better interface for serializing objects, and improvements for the filter extension.
They also talked about PHP tutorial articles on using dynClass as an improvement to PHP stdClass, installing Laravel 5 on Ubuntu and the problems of Chrome trying to block bogus Cross-Site Scripting security attacks.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 4 minute video of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2019-02-04
Posted on: 2017-05-23
Blog: Cloudways API Class package blog
Package: Cloudways API Class
Cloud hosting allows creating Web site or application structures that can be managed to adapt to the needs in terms of the number of servers to handle the current load.
Read this article to learn how to manage a cloud hosting structure from PHP using Cloudways API.
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Read this article to learn how to manage a cloud hosting structure from PHP using Cloudways API.
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Updated on: 2017-05-22
Posted on: 2017-05-22
WScript is an environment for executing scripts that takes advantage of objects running on Windows that provide several types of services.
This class provides means to execute actions from PHP using WScript that can be useful, like for instance running Windows applications and simulating keyboard typing events.
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This class provides means to execute actions from PHP using WScript that can be useful, like for instance running Windows applications and simulating keyboard typing events.
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Updated on: 2017-05-18
Posted on: 2017-05-18
Playlists are lists of audio and video clips that can be watched in a sequence defined by the user. Playlists can be saved in files defined in many different formats.
This class can read playlists in many well known formats. It can extract many types of details of the listed media.
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This class can read playlists in many well known formats. It can extract many types of details of the listed media.
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