RSS Reader Picks #6

This time in the RSS Reader Picks serie, some cool PHP classes:

PHP Ajax Voting system
This class can be used to manage a vote polling system.

It can record in a MySQL database the votes of the users in several possible options also defined in a database table of poll options.

It uses cookies to keep track of votes done by each user to prevent users voting again.

The class can also retrieve the statistics of votes done for each poll option.

Paypal Pro Payment Integration
This class can be used to send payment requests to Paypal payments Pro API.

It can send HTTP request to the Paypal API Web servers to execute a given API operation passing a list of name and value pairs. It can also send requests to the sandbox API web servers.

The class returns the response name value pairs as an associative array.

Get Domain name
This is a very simple class that can be used to extract the base domain from an URL.

It takes an URL string and parses it find the URL domain and return the base domain.

Easy Image DB Management
This class can be used to manipulate images stored in files or in a MySQL database.

It can read images from files and store them in a MySQL database table, and vice-versa.

The main class can also convert images between GIF, JPEG and PNG formats, as well resize the images to create thumbnails.

PHP Shoutcast Server
This package can be used to implement a Shoutcast server to stream music.

It starts an HTTP server that accepts requests for music from a list of available songs in a given server directory.

It may also encode music tracks on the fly in MP3 format using the Lame program.

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