PHP

Php or (Php Hypertext Pre-processor) is a scripting language, it requires a Stack of technologies to process the scripts on a server side and then deliver the resulting HTML output to a browser. It can also be used at the server console to perform actions on the server.

This week we have been looking at dynamic image generation, particularly text to image generation. This technique can be very useful when creating particularly graphic heavy sites, that you need to control with a CMS or alter the text regularly.

The problem with interesting fonts on the web is that apart from the few that you can guareetee are supported correctly by the users browser very few work properly. To get around this we we could use Flash or create a compiled Image file, such as; jpegs or gif etc...

We have been using PDO now for a while, its a good lightweight Data Abstraction tool and while using objects is not too heavy such as a full Object Relational Modelling Solution. We have used Symfony as a framework, which uses the Propel ORM for its Data Abstraction Layer, which is quite good but can be inappropriate for some jobs. PDO runs queries in the c layer and as such is quicker at querying databases, it also supports many drivers for Relational Databases such as MySQL, Oracle, PgreSQL, SQL Server and many more...

FFMPEG is a tool which is installed on our hosting servers, it enables users to encode videos, audio and images into flash (flv) file formats to be streamed via the Internet.

UKVoipNet offers scripts to be plugged into a wide variety of web applications, written in different scripting languages.

Our hosting with FFMPEG support is suitable for a wide range of Internet Applications, for example: