The syntax is the same:

<?php

// include the class
require_once(dirname(__FILE__)."/../GDYMSpellChecker.class.php");

// instantiate the class
$spellCheck = new GDYMSpellChecker();

$textWithErrors = "PHP: the quik browm fox jumps over the lazi dog lazi today"; // this text has 3 errors
$result = $spellCheck->checkSpelling($textWithErrors, "en-US"); // will return an array with the wrong words with associated suggestions
//$result = $spellCheck->checkSpelling($textWithErrors, "en-US", false); // will return an array with the wrong words without associated suggestions
//print_r($spellCheck->getWarnings());// get all warnings
//print_r($spellCheck->getErrors());// get all errors
if (count($result) == 0) {
	print "Text is OK !<br/>";
} else {
	print "Text has errors !<br/>";
	print "<pre>";
	print_r($result);
}

?>

For further reading about the PHP class read this post.

Download the class from here

In this regard I started the FIFA Manger online editor. The aim is to create a web application for editing the database of the game and allow contributors to upload all the images (club badges, player’s pictures, etc) into one place, aggregate everything in one place.

This is a big project in the way that there is a lot of data to parse and even harder to understand the internal database structure.

Until now i have a small draft of how the application will look like and also I have already written the parser for some details.
You can take a look and test it here: http://fmed.protung.ro/
For now only England is available for testing (not with the full database).
For now you can see a list of all countries, clubs in that country, all players of the clubs and some details of the players.
The referees are also parsed but there is no interface to see them for now.

Everybody that is interested in this project and has a few hours per week free is more than welcome to join. I need as much help as possible in order to complete this project before the 2011 release

One of the biggest problems now is the user interface, there are just so many buttons, input fields and windows. So if you are an ExtJS developer and want to create a nice, clean and fast interface for this project do not hesitate to contact me.

Have a nice game, and more about this project soon.

Also the usage of this class changed.

<?php

$xml = "http://www.protung.ro/feed/atom/"; // parse an Atom feed

// create a new object
$parser = new SimpleLargeXMLParser();
// load the XML
$parser->loadXML($xml);

// register the namespace
$parser->registerNamespace("atom", "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom");
// this will get an array of entries
$array = $parser->parseXML("//atom:feed/atom:entry");

?>

As always, you can download the new version from here.

Now it’s possible to retrieve the structure of the XML document with the attributes of the nodes. If you choose to get the nodes also the structure of the result array will be different from the non-attribute array.

The new structure will be like this:

<?php

array('value'=> 'another node / value' ,
     'attributes'=>array('attribute name'=>'attribute value',
                    'another attribute'=>'some value',
                    'yet another attribute'=>'other value'
                    )
);

?>

In order to get the array with attributes you need to pass the 3rd parameter as true:

<?php

   SimpleLargeXMLParser::parseXML($xml, "//myFirstNode", true);

?>

You can download the new version from here.

Please read this post for more information about the functionality of the class:

This is a screen shot of the final assembly (yes, i soldered 2 flags )

To build this board you need 2 330Ω, 7 220Ω and 2 10KΩ resistors, 2 NPN transistors, a PIC16F690, two 7 segment display (i used in my build a common cathode, if you use a common anode you have to change the schematics and code a little)  and 2 push buttons.

On my board i didn’t connected the decimal point (DP) from the displays, so if you want to connect yours then you have to get another 200Ω resistor for it and connect it to port B7.

I know 2 years have passed since the release (or actually any other modifications), but a friend asked me to modify it so he can use it to parse conference history files. So this is what’s new in this version.

I really don’t think a new version will be added, unless it will not work anymore with the latest yahoo messenger version (it still works with version 10 beta)

This class can be used to parse large XML files (it works with small one also) fast and with minimum of memory consumption.
It can parse any valid XML and convert it to an array. What it does not do is to get the attributes of the nodes.
If you need it, contact me and i can implement it for you if you want.

You can parse any part of the XML as it supports XPath with the same performance as parsing the entire XML (well, a little bit faster as it’s less data to parse)

Here is an example

Let’s say we have the following XML file (called example.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!--
/**********************
 * Example XML (not that large, but it's for demo purpose only)
 **********************/
 -->
<myFirstNode>
	<color-palettes>
		<color type='txt'>red</color>
		<color type='txt'>yellow</color>
		<color type='txt'>lime</color>
		<color type='txt'>cyan</color>
		<color type='txt'>blue</color>
		<color type='txt'>magenta</color>
		<color type='txt'>white</color>
		<color type='txt'>black</color>
		<color type='hex'>#FF0000</color>
		<color type='hex'>#FFFF00</color>
		<color type='hex'>#00FF00</color>
		<color type='hex'>#00FFFF</color>
		<color type='hex'>#0000FF</color>
		<color type='hex'>#FF00FF</color>
		<color type='hex'>#FFFFFF</color>
		<color type='hex'>#000000</color>
	</color-palettes>
	<first-100-numbers>
		<number n='1'>1</number>
		<number n='2'>2</number>
		<number n='3'>3</number>
		...
		<number n='97'>97</number>
		<number n='98'>98</number>
		<number n='99'>99</number>
		<number n='100'>100</number>
	</first-10-numbers>
	<searchengines>
		<engine>
			<name>Google</name>
			<website>http://www.google.com</website>
		</engine>
		<engine>
			<name>Yahoo</name>
			<website>http://www.yahoo.com</website>
		</engine>
		<engine>
			<name>Bing</name>
			<website>http://www.bing.com</website>
		</engine>
	</searchengines>
</myFirstNode>

And here is the PHP code to extract some data from it as an array:

<php

// include the class
require_once('SimpleLargeXMLParser.class.php');
$xml = "example.xml";

// get all colors in hex format as an array
$array = SimpleLargeXMLParser::parseXML($xml, "//myFirstNode/color-palettes/color[@type='hex']");

// get all numbers bigger then 50 as an array
$array = SimpleLargeXMLParser::parseXML($xml, "//myFirstNode/first-100-numbers/number[@n>'50']");

// get all search engines as an array
$array = SimpleLargeXMLParser::parseXML($xml, "//myFirstNode/searchengines");

// get the full XML file as an array
// if you don't specify the first node the script will search for it and use the root node
// for performance reasons is better to specify it if you know it
$array = SimpleLargeXMLParser::parseXML($xml, "//myFirstNode"); 

?>

A new version is available. See this post for more information about what’s new.

Download

Download here. (there are some examples in the package)

The new PHP parser is almost done. Now you can also add classes without specifying files. Just include them in your code and tell the generator to also use those classes. Of course the old way to add classes (by specifying files with PHP code) will still be available, but unlike before when the content of the files was parsed, now the files first will be included (using require_once() ). I know this is not ideal if you have other code that must not arbitrary execute, but then again it’s good practice to have the classes separated from any other code. The new parser will be much faster and more accurate.

That’s all for now, I will post more news about this after more work is done.

Please don’t ask when the release will happen as I don’t know. I do this in my free time witch is somehow limited right now.

This new version (and last one) has a new custom control, the Joystick control. With this you can control the outputs (digital and analog) with a joystick. It’s just a demo how to control the outputs with a joystick and it’s very easy to change what happens when you use your joystick.

This version also includes some bug fixes, the latest version of the K8055 Velleman DLL and the code has been cleaned a little.

Download here (version 1.2.1.0)

I highly recommend it. Here is the first episode of the show (and it’s only the beginning)