PEPr: Latest proposals.

PEPr Proposal [615]: RFC::boapi

2009-09-27T14:01:32-05:00

Proposed package: RFC::boapi

Proposer: Sebastian Ritter

Business Objects Application Programming Interface - called boapi.

Provide a collection of business classes for free to use in different applications. Implementations are deployed under an industry friendly open source licence, so it can be using in commercial and non commercial applications.

PEPr Proposal [614]: HTTP::HTTP_Browser

2009-09-26T19:23:34-05:00

Proposed package: HTTP::HTTP_Browser

Proposer: Dylan Doxey

This package extends HTTP_Client and provides a an API which represents a web browser interface.

For example, there are methods which represent the basic web browser buttons.

go
back
goHome
reload

This package also provides methods which are inspired by the Perl WWW::Mechanize module to provide an intuitive interface for writing programs which interact with websites.

followLink
selectForm
submitForm
getContent

There are also methods which provide a convenient way of analyzing and manipulating the content of web pages.

contentContains
contentMatches
contentTags
saveContent
updateContent

Example program using HTTP_Browser:




<?php





include 'HTTP/Browser.php';





$q = 'HTTP_Request';





$config = array(


    'agent_alias' => 'Windows IE 6',


    'home_page'   => 'http://pear.php.net/',


);


$browser = new HTTP_Browser( $config );





$form = array(


    'method' => 'GET',


    'action' => '/search.php',


    'fields' => array(


        'q'  => $q,


        'in' => 'packages',


    ),


);


$browser->submit( $form );





if ( $browser->success() ) {





    $browser->followLink($q);





    $regex


        = '/'


        . '<li>'


        . '<a \s+ href=" [^"]+ ">'


        . '( [^<]+ )'


        . '<\/a>&nbsp; \s+ [\(] lead [\)]'


        . '<\/li>'


        . '/xms';





    $developer_match = $browser->contentMatches( $regex );





    echo "$q -- Lead Developer: ";


    echo $developer_match[1][0];


    echo "\n";


}


else {





    echo $browser->getContent();


}


?>

Known shortcomings:

back & reload won't resubmit a form
clickButton is unimplemented
... surely more to come

PEPr Proposal [613]: Logging::Log2

2009-09-13T17:52:18-05:00

Proposed package: Logging::Log2

Proposer: Brandon Savage

A PHP 5 compatible logging library that is derived from the PEAR Log class. The library is capable of logging to the file system, the database, or emailing log notices to developers.

PEPr Proposal [604]: Networking::TextMagic_SMS

2009-07-11T18:11:19-05:00

Proposed package: Networking::TextMagic_SMS

Proposer: Nikita Fedyashev

This is a class to give you an easy solution to send SMS and receive replies with this simple API wrapper class. The wrapper provides a way to integrate TextMagic SMS Gateway to your PHP application.

Features/supported API functions

* send - send SMS, scheduled sending

* account - check account's balance

* message_status - check message's cost and delivery status

* receive - receive incoming messages

* delete_reply - delete specified incoming messages

* check_number - check phone number validity and destination price

PEPr Proposal [594]: Web Services::Services_URL

2009-03-16T20:53:37-05:00

Proposed package: Web Services::Services_URL

Proposer: David Coallier

With the amount of shortening URL tools and APIs emerging from different parts of the web, a centralized PHP package to use all those APIs needs to be done.

This package gives access to shortening urls services APIs. Currently the drivers being developed are for short.ie but this provides a base so other people can start integrating with other URL shortening services as such as tinyurl, bitly, etc.

PEPr Proposal [590]: File Formats::SLK

2009-02-23T10:27:32-05:00

Proposed package: File Formats::SLK

Proposer: Ondrej Jombík

SLK (SLYK) is a sheet format, something like CSV or XLS. Some spreadsheet software can save and/or load SLK files.

http://filext.com/file-extension/SLK />

This will SLK parser written in PHP with PEAR conding standards. Code will be open source and put into PEAR repository.

INPUT: SLK file (via File.php)

OUTPUT: CSV file (via File::CSV) or you can get array with values

PEPr Proposal [576]: PHP::Flu

2008-10-08T01:35:56-05:00

Proposed package: PHP::Flu

Proposer: Jakub Bajorek

The main concept is to provide fluent-interfaces functionality for PHP.

Example first:

If you want some string to:

1. be trimmed,

2. be lowercased,

3. be cut down to first 3 characters,

4. be padded with asterisks to 10 characters at right,

5. have all spacebars replaced by underscores

you have to write something like this:




$str2 = str_replace(' ', '_', str_pad(substr(strtolower(trim($str1)), 0, 3), 10, '*'));

With this package you should be able to write something like this:




$str2 = flu::init($str2)->trim()->toLower()->substr(0, 3)->pad(10, '*')->replace(' ', '_');

Looks much better, right? ;)

My target here is to write library for "transforming" (with some contrains) PHP functions into methods. I'd also like to provide command-line generator for creating new function wrappers.

PEPr Proposal [575]: Images::Image2bmp

2008-10-07T18:51:38-05:00

Proposed package: Images::Image2bmp

Proposer: Srecko Struk

Image2bmp is simple class for PHP5 that converts jpg,png images into bmp format without using any external library or module. (except GD library for reading images).

Offers possibility to output BMP directly to browser or to save it to disk

PEPr Proposal [571]: Encryption::Crypt_Camellia

2008-09-08T08:35:19-05:00

Proposed package: Encryption::Crypt_Camellia

Proposer: Yoshisato Yanagisawa

Pure PHP Implementation of the Camellia block cipher. Camellia is one of the selected block cipher by New European Schemes for Signature, Integrity, and Encryption (NESSIE) and specified in several RFCs. It is stronger than AES according to the security margin, and implemented in some free softwares, such as FreeBSD, Linux, OpenSSL, Firefox 3 and so on.

The details for Camellia are explained in:

http://info.isl.ntt.co.jp/crypt/eng/camellia/index.html

Features of this package:

pure PHP implementation.
supports 128, 192, and 256 bits key length.
supports ECB, CBC, CFB, and OFB modes.
contains generator for initialization vector (IV) and key.

PEPr Proposal [567]: Web Services::Services_Shipping

2008-08-13T21:44:26-05:00

Proposed package: Web Services::Services_Shipping

Proposer: Kristopher Ives

A framework for shipping services that allows sub-packages to provide different shipping carriers, services, and features. This package includes only the framework interfaces. Packages that provide shipping services will have the name "Services_Shipping_Driver_XYZ" where XYZ is some upper-case identifier.

The Services_Shipping_XML package extends the framework to make it easier to implement for XML-based carriers that use HTTPS using the PHP5 domxml and libcurl.

Services_Shipping requires PHP versions 5 or newer.