PHP is the most powerful scripting language that is being used today. The performing websites like Facebook, wordpress, Digg and a lot more use PHP. There can be no greater reason why PHP has now become the ultimate choice of programmers worldwide.

Here are 5 most important tools that can help you improve the quality of scripting.

1. Tool for documentation

phpDocumentor

This is a powerful documentation tool for your PHP code. It is also known as phpdoc and phpdocu. The phpDocumentor tool offers a variety of incredible features. Here are a few features you would like to know about.

• Ability to output HTML and PDF
• Fully customizable according to users’ needs
• Sample PHP files can be directly placed in documentation
• Ability to link API documentation and specific external files
• Source codes can be highlighted and commented for further verification
• Easy to maintain, incredibly fast and highly secure

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Twitter is a great way to stay connected and informed. But these days, I find Twitter is used to promote so many social causes. And some of these causes are really making an impact. People are listening and talking about them. I was amazed to find so much good work being done in so many parts of the world. And I get regular updates about their work on Twitter.

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The rise of social media gaming is not quite anymore. After the stupendous popularity of Farmville on FaceBook, its café World’s turn now, and Zynga has don’t it yet again. Thanks to Facebook advertising and cross marketing on other popular games on Facebook including Farmville, Café World has moved from 0 to 10 million users in just a week.

But is it just the marketing that got so many users to take up the game? Not really so. Café World is as cute as FarmVille. Anyone how has ever fancied owning a restaurant or treating people to delicious dishes would vouch for it. Plus, the game is more spontaneous than Farmville. Its also fun because you can see your FaceBook friends walk into your café , hire few friends to help you in the café and even fire them if they don’t do a good job. Quite interesting you think? If this has made you want to try out the game, here’s a guide that tells you how:

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The new version of TweetDeck (v0.30) has added MySpace and Facebook into its pack of Twitter powered features.

Many users swear by TweetDeck’s groups which allow them to organize their Twitter stream into bite size chunks. The same concept has been applied to Facebook too. TweetDeck users can now organize their friends on Facebook into smaller groups, view photos, videos, links, wall posts and more in TweetDeck. Just a few clicks, and you can write on your Facebook wall, comment and make update Pages directly from TweetDeck.

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Gaming on social media websites is growing at a break neck sped and FarmVille is the best witness for the practice of addictive social media gaming. Games like FarmVille give another reason to spent more time on social media websites. And why not, the incredibly detailed game of farming is the closest you could get to virtual farming. You can plough the land, sow seeds, rear livestock, gift trees and animals to your friends and even customize the way you look as a virtual farmer.

Barely weeks after its launch on June 17^th, FarmVille has a monthly stats has grown to more than 30 million registered players across the globe, hundreds of them adding each day. FarmVille has received phenomenal success and is all set to become more popular than the massively popular multi player game World of Warcraft. go on reading »

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I generally count on Gmail’s virus scanner to scan the emails and report any potential problems and have taken it for granted. That is why I was surprised the other day to get this message:

Gmail virus scanner just failed to scan it.

I always have my desktop antivirus running so it was not an issue for me but if you do not have it you should. Check out the free alternatives here.

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I have had to deal with lot of copyright violations for the content our writing team generates but most of them have been by small sites who think they will pass through the crack.

But I was surprised to see a reputed firm (I am not sure if I can all them reputed) like www.topseos.com following un-enthical practices by violating copyright openly.

Our writers publish lot of articles on ezinearticles.com to promote our sites and our client sites. The content published on ezinearticles.com is protected by copyright and they have clearly specified rules on how you can republish them. But TopSEOs.com decided to copy those articles on their site and replaced the links in the author signature with their own links, pointing to their site topseos.com (clear violation of copyright).

We published an article on Top 10 must have SEO Tools on ezinearticles.com here: http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-10-Must-Have-SEO-Tools&id=2716896 TopSEOs copied the article on their site with our author name and conveniently replaced the author links with their own links. See for yourself: http://www.topseos.com/articles/vikas-s/top-10-must-have-seo-tools/9013/ (pay attention to the author links at the end of the article)

Update (September 9, 2009): Two days back I got another call from Scott (@Top SEOs) saying that they had fixed their articles to comply with EzineArticles publishing guidelines. I did go to the website and check few of the posts and they are in compliance now. I would like to congratulate them for taking the right step.

Update (Aug 16, 2009): I got a call from guy named Scott @ TopSEOs.com. It was a long conversation and they have decided to restore the author links to the original urls. I checked just now and it seems like they have restored my deleted article with links but I can still see them inserting additional links in other author’s article. I hope they are in the process of changing this as Scott said he should be done with all changes to make the articles compliant with ezinearticles republishing guidelines in 4-5 days. Will keep you guys updated. This is a positive step by TopSEOs.com in the right direction. Let us wait for the articles to be fully compliant.

Update (Aug 15, 2009): TopSEOs.com has removed our specific article mentioned in this post but they continue to keep other author’s work and manipulate the signature to get their own links. I had kept a copy of snapshot of the article when it was live on their site and even now Google index shows our article. Here I have attached both:

Original snapshot (now removed on site) - Click to enlarge

Google cache of article (click to enlarge)

Till date no apology from TopSEOs.com and they think they can remove mine and get rid of the issue. They have copied almost every article on their article section from various article sites and changed the link to their sites. Just search for the title of articles on Google and you will see the sources from where these articles have been copied. I am amazed that they decided to go with ignoring this. If you are one the victims, please join hands to discourage piracy and bring the perpetrators to justice. Some authors whose content has been most likely been copied are: Hardeep Sharma Singh, Wendy Maynard, Steve Hochman, Billy Ojai, Jordan Gottlieb, Maria Johnsen and many more. I would request you guys to be a part of this campaign.

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Now it is super easy to create twitter like logos using LogoTwitter. This online software allows you to customize the size, border color, text color and background color.

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