How will you extract text from PDF

Option 1:
The best solution AFAIK is to use xpdf :
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

under linux just do :
apt-get install xpdf-utils
command line : pdftotext

Then in php you execute the command and get back the text.

Option 2:
http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet/

It has a compiled library that you call within your PHP code which eliminates the need to call command line executables and parse the result.

Option 3:

Use Zend Framework

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Easiest way to make new theme for Wordpress

The easiest way I found to make a new theme for Wordpres is by using theme sandbox .

Simply install this theme, and customize it according to your requirement, use your css and make changes in template files.

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Checkout PHP6

Willing to taste PHP6,

Checkout this link

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7433/1.html

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MySql storage requirements

Hello friends,

Recently I needed to understand the storage requirements for the data types available in Mysql for Social Networking Site.
I found this link really useful....

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/storage-requirements.html

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PHPBB3 Integration

Hello friends

I have just worked on PHPBB3 integration for the social networking site. I used the oops for this and build a single class which contains all functions needed for integration.

I have posted that class file and an example file in "phpclasses.org". Below is the link:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/5472.html


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Remove accents(replace special entites with normalized characters)

function removeaccents($string)
{
return strtr($string,
"ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝß
àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ",
"SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");
}

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Multilingual Site using PEAR

Hello Friends
Below is the link to an article where you you can learn to create Multilingual site using PEAR
http://devzone.zend.com/article/4469-Adding-Multi-Language-Support-to-Web-Applications-with-PHP-and-PEAR

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Date(Age calculations) using SQL(MySql)

Hello Friends

Below is the link to the URL which contains nice calculations for getting date:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/date-calculations.html

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Addinng new elements in form at run time using DOM

Hello Friends

I was stuck with the problem for adding form elements at run time which needed to submit content without using AJAX

Then I read an article from the following link
Its really a nice article, if you wish to play with the code or wanna to learn how to write beautiful code in javascript, go through this article.

http://www.dustindiaz.com/add-remove-elements-reprise/

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PHP Development tool for Linux

From last some months I was looking for better PHP Development tool for Linux. Then I come to know about "Eclipse PHP Development Tools" from the Zend's monthly newsletter. Its really a good tool to hang out with programming in PHP.
Link for this tool on Zend is http://www.zend.com/en/community/pdt

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Open source

Some words I read from the magento guy(his name is Moshe) "I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code."
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