Hasin Hayder's Blog: Counting occurrence of a word in a String - Benchmarking...
In an effort to add to the ever-growing list of "keeping it simple" benchmarks out there, Hasin Hayder presents his own results for the task of fining the number of times a word occurs in a given...
View ArticleJSLabs Blog: How to create Microsoft Office Documents with PHP
From the JSLabs blog today, there's a quick illustration of how to dynamically create three different types of Microsoft Office files - a Word document, Powerpoint and an Excel file. There are two...
View ArticleMaarten Balliauw's Blog: OpenXML in Healthcare in PHP
Maarten Balliauw points out a new blog post he's made today showing how to take the methods described in this article on the MSDN and convert it to a more PHP way of thinking, parsing the OpenXML info...
View ArticleMaarten Balliauw's Blog: Indexing Word 2007 (docx) files with Zend_Search_Lucene
Maarten Balliauw has written about a method he's developed to convince the Zend_Search_Lucene component of the Zend Framework to index the contents of a Word 2007 document. Lucene basically is an...
View ArticleDeveloper Tutorials Blog: Extracting text from Word Documents via PHP and COM
In a recent blog post Akash Mehta showed how to reach into a Microsoft document (a Word file) and pull out the content inside via a PHP script. Communicating via COM in PHP is easy as ever; especially...
View ArticleSameer Borate's Blog: Porter Stemming algorithm for search
In a recent post to his blog Sameer looks at implementing a Stemming algorithm to search an array of words. It uses this library (as written by Richard Heyes). A stemming algorithm lets you reduce...
View ArticleThomas Weinert's Blog: Highlight Words In HTML
In the latest post to his blog Thomas Weinert takes a look at a simple challenge someone asked him about - highlighting a section of HTML based on a search string - and his solution. The challenge is...
View Articlephp|architect: PHPDOCX: generating Word documents from PHP
On the php|architect blog today there's a new post about a tool that helps you create Word documents directly from your PHP application - PHPDOCX. PHPDOCX is a PHP library that allows its client code...
View ArticlePhilip Norton's Blog: Creating A Thumbnail Of A Word Document With PHP And...
In a new post to his blog Philip Norton shares a method for creating a thumbnail of a Word document with the help of PHP and LiveDocx (in this case, the component inside the Zend Framework). Creating...
View ArticleTobias Hermann: Programming language subreddits and their choice of words
Tobias Hermann has put together some interesting statistics pulled from the various programming subreddits on the Reddit.com site. He measures the choice of words for each community based on how own...
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