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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, the library that we develop helps our partners
in save time and increase productivity.
This project provides a
set of tools
that enable Arabic website developers to serve professional search,
present and process Arabic content in PHP.
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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 2010,
the online populations in the Middle East grew by 2501.2%. 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
347 million people in 22 countries from Morocco to UAE, Arabic
is also the Muslims liturgical language of nearly 1 billion people worldwide.
Yet the Arabic Web is still in its infancy,
constituting less than 1% of total Web content.
The Arabic alphabet consists of 28 consonants and can be written without vowels,
since vowels are inherent to the consonant characters. The Arabic alphabet has
also been adopted by non-Semitic languages such as Persian, Urdu, and some West
African languages. Arabic is written in right to left order.
[Arabic |
Report]
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To install Arabic package into your PEAR using command line:
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pear install http://pear.ar-php.org
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To use it in your PHP code once you install it, see this example:
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<?php
include('I18N/Arabic.php');
$obj = new I18N_Arabic('Numbers');
echo $obj->int2str(1975);
?>
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Press:
• T.V. interview done by Mr. Faisal Alsaif for his program
Up To Date on KSA 2 channel.
• 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:
Participate in the meeting of experts
to create the Arab Network for Open Sources that organized by ALECSO on November 23 and 24, 2011 in Tunis.
First Arabic Content National Conference
from 13 to 15 June 2009 in the Ommayad Palace for Congress Damascus Ebla – Hotel
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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
Ar-PHP Project Implementation:
Partnership Program!
We are going to actively encourage project leaders by launche a partnership
program to highlight PHP open source projects that are handling Arabic language
in proffisional way.
If you are a project leader and you are interested in partnering with us, by all
means contact us!
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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 more than 75% of all worldwide web sites and has a strong
community of 4,5 million international developers.
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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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