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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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. Read more »

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When it comes to making your website search engine optimized, there are quite a few things that can be done to ensure higher rank for your site thus driving more relevant traffic. Here are some of the most important tips that will surely help improve your site rankings on major search engines:

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There is always a need for good web directory script when you want to create a site which has a collection of sites in a particular niche or even an open directory like dmoz.

Paid options always exists and provide you much more features but if you are looking for free web directory software scripts, here are some choices:

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2007 saw huge boom in internet marketing with social networks getting record breaking traffic.

Tamar Weinberg at techipedia has published an article which lists about 250+ best internet marketing posts of 2007 nicely laid out in different categories:

• Social Media Sites: General
• Facebook
• Digg
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Mixx
• del.icio.us
• Sphinn
• Social Media and Social Media Marketing
• General Internet Marketing
• Viral Strategies
• Link Resources
• Blogging: General
• Blogging: Inspiration
• Blogging: Promotion
• Content Generation
• Reputation Management
• Video Articles
• Business
• Search Engine Optimization
• Search Engine Stuff
• Web Development
• Search Marketing Tools
• Paid Search
• Recommended Books
• Affiliate Sites
• Domaining
• Techipedia’s Best Posts for 2007

Goodluck reading all those articles.

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JavaScript/Ajax libraries and RIA applications are springing up everywhere. I love to go through the demo pages of these applications and libraries. Here is a collection of demos from some of the best Ajax/JavaScript/DHTML library sites:

mootools

A compact, modular, object-oriented JavaScript Framework.

Some demos from their suite of demos:

• Accordion
• Ajax
• Ajax.Advanced
• Ajax.Form
• Asset.css
• Asset.images
• Chain
• Chain.Periodical
• DomReadyVS.Load
• Drag.Absolutely
• Drag.Cart
• DragDrop
• Element.Event
• Fx.Elements
• Fx.Morph
• Fx.Scroll
• Fx.Slide
• Fx.Styles
• Fx.Transitions
• Group
• Hash.Cookie
• Json.Remote
• Mousewheel
• MousewheelCustom
• Periodical
• Resizable
• Scroller
• Slider
• Sortables
• Tips

script.aculo.us

It is one of most popular and best JavaScript library present out there. It is an add-on to the Prototype framework.

Here is a list of demos from their site:

Live demos

• Drag and Drop AJAX Shopping Cart
• Autocompleting AJAX text fields
• Autocompleting text fields – customized
• Sortable elements w/AJAX callback
• Combination Effects Demo

Sortables

• GhostlySortableDemo
• SortableFloatsDemo
• SortableListsDemo

Controls

• Slider Demo

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Antivirus is a must for any system these days but do not come cheap. So what do you do when you do not have the luxury to spend money on yearly subscription for the likes of Norton Antivirus, McAfee, CA Antivirus etc?

The answer is, you have several options:

1. Go and download Google Pack from Google which gives you free subscription to Norton Virus scan 
2. Get free AVG Antivirus from Grisoft. The free version is only available for private, non-commercial use. This is supported on  Windows Vista and Linux.
3. Get free avast! 4 home edition Antivirus. This is also available for free for home users and non-commercial use. This is supported on Windows Vista as well. avast have their Antivirus version available for Linux also.
4. ClamWin Antivirus for Windows (not available for Vista). This is an open source project. It does not however include a real time scanner and you will have to manually scan files.
5. Comcast customers get McAfee Internet Security suite free with their Comcast account. They can download it from here. You will need to register with Comcast first.
6. Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic is available for free and can be downloaded from here. It supports all windows versions (including vista), Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
7. If you feel your computer has been compromised, you can try McAfee free scan available at http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp. This web based tool will help you detect viruses but unfortunately won’t clean them.

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I have been experimenting with Google Maps for a recent project and needed a tool to get latitude and longitude for any location. Here are two tools written to get the same:

1. Get Latitude and Longitude for any address you enter
2. Get Latitude and Longitude for any place you click on the map

These should be fun to play with and one can use those geocodes (latitude and longitude) in various applications.

Google now has support for calculating geocodes for any location (earlier people had to use Yahoo to get the geocodes)

Some other fun Google Map apps to try out:

1. America’s top 25 meanest drivers cities
2. A set of interactive Google Maps on different categories on the topic of the 7 Wonders of the World
3. Ever wondered which map technology is better, Google maps, Live Maps or Yahoo Maps? Try this tool and see for yourself
4. Da Vinci Code Locations
5. Forbes Magazine list of the Drunkest Cities in America
6. Google Maps + Craigslist to create a visual housing search page via dynamic overlays of Craigslist home listings on Google Maps
7. Up-to-date gas price search with Google Maps station display
8. Track your packages with Google Maps and RSS feeds! Track UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL
9. Map a phone number area code to a location
10. Helps you determine if you are paying too much in rent. Enter an address, apartment size, and rent. It maps nearby units and shows a meter of your price versus min, max and average

I am developing a special section called “tools” on this site, where I will put utility and fun tools and apps.

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