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Mission & Vision |
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Our mission is to develop
open source solutions and
provides professional support
helps small and medium size companies meet the
challenges
of developing professional Arabic websites in the
PHP/MySQL environment based on our experience in Arabic language
processing, the library that we develop helps companies save time
and increase productivity.
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PHP & Arabic Language Project Features |
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Arabic Language |
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Worldwide Internet use has grown tremendously in recent years, most rapidly in
non-English speaking regions especially in Arab world. For example, from 2000 to 2008,
the online populations in the Middle East grew by 2062.2%. Meanwhile, Arabic Web content
was estimated to be doubling every year. Such growth has created demand for better websites
developing resources in Arabic language. However, existing websites developing resources may
be unable to meet it because they primarily serve English-speaking users.
Arabic, the fifth most popular language in the world, is spoken by more than
284 million people in 22 countries, yet the Arabic Web is still in its infancy,
constituting less than 1% of total Web content.
[Arabic |
Report]
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To install Arabic package into your PEAR using command line:
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pear install http://ar-php.org/pear/Arabic-2.6.tgz
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To use it in your PHP code once you install it, see this example:
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<?php
include('Arabic.php');
$Arabic = new Arabic('ArNumbers');
echo $Arabic->int2str(1975);
?>
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Press:
• PHP in Arabic - interview with Mr. Manuel Lemos the founder of
PHPClasses.org.
• Arab Techies in Business -
AlMasry AlYoum (English) magazine.
• Free PHP Classes for Arabic Usage -
Windows Middle East (Arabic) magazine.
• PHP and Arabic language, an open source project in service of
E-Government applications -
Informatics magazine,
issue 21, November 2007, pages 56-59.
• PHP and Arabic language project -
Al-Hasebat magazine,
issue 1, July 2009, pages 3-5.
Conferences:
First Arabic Content National Conference
from 13 to 15 June 2009 in the Ommayad Palace for Congress Damascus Ebla – Hotel
(website)
Submitted paper |
Presentations
Arab Techies Code Sprint, which will be held in Cairo from May 20th till May 23rd, with
the goal to find solutions to known Arabic language processing problems.
(Follow up report)
Participants |
Day 1 |
Day 2 & 3 |
Day 4
Presentation on Ar-PHP project in the "Free and Open Source Software" workshop in
Wednesday February 4, 2009 in the SCS headquarters at Teshreen Park, Damascus.
Presentation |
Newspaper
Research paper in the congress of Open Source Information Systems
organized by the Syrian Computer Society in collaboration with University of Aleppo and the Campus
Numerique Francophone dAlep in 13 November 2008.
Submitted paper
, as well as PowerPoint presentation.
Ar-PHP Project Implementation:
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PHP:
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.
It is installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million servers.
PHP runs on one-third of all worldwide web servers and has a strong
community of 4,5 million international developers.
[ PHP |
Report]
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LGPL:
The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter can be
linked to (in the case of a library, 'used by') a non-(L)GPLed program, which
may be free software or proprietary software. This non-(L)GPLed program can
then be distributed under any chosen terms if it is not a derivative work.
[ LGPL |
GNU FAQ]
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