PHP & Arabic Language Project Overview

PHP/MySQL is one of the most popular environments for developing dynamic sites on the web. However, some of PHP functions may be unable to meet Arabic language demands because they primarily developed to serve English language demands.

This project has been established by Khaled Al-Sham'aa since February 2006 to develop a set of classes that enable Arabic website developers to serve search, present and process Arabic language contents in PHP. Well, it may not be the perfect tool to do this job, but at least I try to make my first step in this 1000 mile trip.

Please support us by add a link in your site referring to us: http://www.ar-php.org

Khaled Al-Sham'aa


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To install Arabic package into your PEAR using command line:
pear install http://ar-php.org/pear/Arabic-1.7.1.tgz
To use it in your PHP code once you install it, see this example:
`<?php include('Arabic.php'); $Arabic = new Arabic(); $str = $Arabic->int2str($int); ?>`

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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.

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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.

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