PHP Internals News: Episode 6: PHP Quality Assurance

New Free Royalty-Free Music Website: get free music for use in your own composition, presentation, website, etc

Another source of Free Royalty-Free Music and Sounds is now listed. You can search for the musical piece you want by genre (eg, ballad, country, folk, etc), mood (eg, calm, relaxing, ominous, dramatic, etc), and tempo (fast, medium, slow).

Generation Z Voices: The fraud that is detox tea – An

BEIRUT: Over the past few years, the internet observed an immense rise of the “Instagram solution”, which is essentially fixing all your life’s problems through a life hack or tidbit you saw advertised on the application.

A widely advertised product is detoxifying tea. Previously known as “slimming tea” and “diet tea”, it’s now referred to in a vaguer, more positive light, “detox tea” or “cleansing tea”.

This change in language painted it in a new light in the new age of fitness obsession and chasing online clout. While dietary tea isn’t a new concept, it rose in prominence the past few years. It’s advertised by countless celebrities and models, with millions of followers, through multiple manufacturers.

Most of these products have similar ingredients; ginger, lemon juice, green tea, oolong, guarana, garcinia cambogia extract, etc. While all of these ingredients are natural, they could still be harmful in some doses.

A common misconception is that if something is herbal and natural, then it’s healthy, and one hopes that it is. But, in reality, an ingredient like garcinia, while natural, is a weight loss supplement and appetite suppressant.

It’s important to note the odious side effects it can have on consumers. According to Healthline, a health information and resource medical website company, detox teas may cause Diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea, rising blood sugar, dehydration, and more.

“The only weight one would lose is water weight from going to the bathroom more than usual. Even then, you’d gain the weight back very easily,” Shaden Shaaban, licensed dietician, told Annahar, “Losing all this water weight could help in cleansing your body from toxins, but there’s a big risk of dehydration.”

The truth about these teas is that…they’re laxatives. The herbs help the fibers work better, which “helps things move along,” Shaaban said, but invigorating your bathroom schedule isn’t healthy either.

Shaaban finds that the only way cleansing tea could be beneficial is if consumed alongside a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise. She stated that regular green or cinnamon tea would be enough to rid our body of unwanted toxins and that she wouldn’t recommend “Instagram tea” to any of her patients, especially patients with diabetes or any blood-sugar or heart-related diseases.

A particularly dangerous thing about this tea is that it makes the consumer feel full even if their body is hungry. The tea is supposed to be drunk in the morning with or without breakfast, thus you’d lose your appetite for the day.

“You might feel the need to binge eat in the evening then purge everything afterward, which is extremely bad for your body,” Shaaban explained. This is how an eating disorder forms; you wouldn’t get the desired outcome from the tea, so you’d stop eating or eat very irregularly.

Bulimic and anorexic habits would shape and it would take a toll on you, physically and mentally. This is especially harmful to those who are ingesting the tea with the sole purpose of losing weight and so would stop at nothing to achieve their goal.

Teenage girls with self-esteem issues are most prone to being victims of these laxatives. The tea is mainly advertised towards them and is feeding off their body image issues and disorders in the most predatory way.

Instagram influencers need to be held accountable for the products they advertise. Their audience is mainly young girls and these companies prey on their low self-esteem. We must raise awareness against these sponsored posts and about the actual right way of going healthy, which is definitely not “ingest an ungodly amount of laxatives and wait.”

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Karine Ballout, 18, is a media studies major at AUB.

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Annahar English has officially launched a teen-writing section entitled Gen. Z Voices and invites all students, ages 14 to 18, to submit essays, school-oriented news articles, life commentaries and more. No school assignments or poetry please, thnx. Tell the readers about what is on your minds. Submit articles to Gen Z Editor Chiri Choukeir, Chirichoukeiryo@gmail.com

Article source: https://en.annahar.com/article/961477-generation-z-voices-the-fraud-that-is-detox-tea

10 Creative Code Examples of Media Player Design

With the power of HTML5 and the ease adding multimedia through technologies such as WordPress oEmbed, anyone can add compelling video or audio content to their website. And, while it’s great that default media players are included from a purely functional standpoint, so much more can be done to improve the user experience.

The default player may provide basic functionality, but it doesn’t necessarily match your branding or offer some more advanced features. So designers have taken it upon themselves to add creative flair, along with high-end functionality to create some incredibly unique media players. Take a look at some of our favorites below and feel free to experiment with the source code.

Audio Players

Round and Beautiful

This circular audio player from Sebastian Beltz puts the straight edges of a standard media player to shame. It’s quite beautiful to look at, intuitive and the inclusion of sharing/favorite buttons makes it a more complete UI.

Draggable Playlist

The fact that you can drag this audio player around your screen is cool. But even better is the simple and smart UI that Antoinette Janus has created. Scrolling through the playlist and playing the selected track is quick and painless.

Accessibility Built In

It’s a simple player, indeed. But Joe Watkins has added in a terrific alternative UI for accessibility. The text-based buttons for play and pause ensure that anyone can consume the media. The ability to view a transcript is just brilliant.

Material Design Comes to Audio

Michael Zhigulin’s use of Material Design on this player is outstanding. From the popular “card” layout to the smooth animations, it fits in nicely with Google’s standard.

Spinning Some Vinyl

The concept here is just too cool. Matt Stvartak’s player is basic in functionality, but the rotating vinyl that pops out of the sleeve is a standout design.

Video Players

Smooth and Responsive

Part of the idea behind HTML5 media was to ensure that mobile devices were able to access the same content as desktops (as opposed to Flash). Simon Goellner’s video player handles responsiveness with ease and the fact that it can be styled with some simple CSS is very welcome.

Labeled Controls

What’s nice about Tadaima’s HTML5 video player is that each item on the control bar shows a text label when the user hovers over it. While video controls are generally intuitive, adding this extra touch ensures that everyone knows exactly what’s going on.

Ultimate Accessibility

We mentioned Joe Watkins’ audio player above, but his video player also deserves some love. There are options here for transcripts, closed captioning, sign language (which opens a separate video panel on the side) and descriptions. It’s everything you need to bring accessible video to your site.

YouTube Playlist

Of course, not everyone hosts their own videos. So having an attractive and easy-to-use player like bachors’ YouTube Channels Playlist is a must-have for many sites. What’s also nice is that this example has a number of customization options.

Video That Moves With You

A big trend we’re seeing lately is the ability of a video to “move” along with the user as they scroll down a page. Charley Pugmire has built a nice example of this. It’s a YouTube video that is full-width at the top of the screen then shrinks into the sidebar on scroll.

Media Matters

The examples above run the gamut from simple to turbo-charged. But one thing that really stands out is the ability to create a media player that matches your desired style and functionality. And it’s also encouraging that making this content accessible to everyone is on the mind of more than one designer.

There is any number of ways that we can take the plain old media player and turn into something special. Hopefully, these examples will inspire you to go beyond the basics.

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From Zend Framework To The Laminas Project

Ten years ago this month, I was involved in a couple of huge changes for Zend Framework.

First, I helped spearhead integration of the JavaScript library Dojo Toolkit into Zend Framework, and finalized the work that month. I'd worked closely with the two developers who had been leading that project at the time, and one thing that came up during our discussions was that they had helped create an open source foundation for the project, to ensure its continuity and longevity, and to ensure the project can outlive the ups and downs of any commercial company. This idea intrigued me, and has stuck in the back of my mind ever since.

The other thing that happened that month was that I was promoted to Project Lead of Zend Framework. I've held that position ever since.

Today, I get to announce another change: Zend Framework is transitioning to an open source project under the Linux Foundation!

How Zend Framework Becomes Laminas

As I noted, I've been thinking about this for 10 years now, and actually doing research and trying to figure out a way to make it happen for almost two years. When my employer announced some restructuring of the Zend portfolio last fall, moving the project to a foundation was foremost on my mind.

So, imagine my surprise when an old PHP friend, John Mertic, reached out to me and offered the assistance of the Linux Foundation!

I had no idea that this was even a possibility. But, as it turns out, the mission of the foundation is to help create sustainable open source communities, and the primary way they do that is to help create foundations for projects. The beauty is that they take care of the business stuff that developers like myself don't have expertise in: legal issues, taxes, bookkeeping, and even help with things like marketing. They do this so that those of us working on open source projects can focus on our communities and our code. It's an absolutely perfect scenario for the project.

Over the last few months, I've worked with Rogue Wave (my employer) and the Linux Foundation to work out the logistics of this transition, including coming up with some initial budgets, helping flesh out a governance model, and identifying potential founding members. I've also worked with the Zend Framework community review team to come up with a name for the project, and work out some of the technical details for migrating both the project and its users.

So, please say a warm hello to the Laminas Project.

What we announced today is just a beginning. The project is not yet operational. We're still working on tooling for migrating the project and its users, and, more importantly, recruiting more founding members. If your company is interested, please fill out our form, and we'll get back to you to discuss the details.

Acknowledgments

As a parting note, I need to acknowledge a number of people who helped me through the last few months:

• My wife, Jen, who has been my chief sounding board, and helped me keep my sanity while I juggle meetings, emails, and growing task lists. Love you!
• Enrico Zimuel, who has been my co-worker, confidante, and friend for years, and continued to help even when he left Rogue Wave last month. I'm excited for this new chapter!
• The various folks in the Zend Professional Services team, for letting me bounce ideas off of them and occasionally voice my frustrations. You all know who you are!
• The entire Zend Framework community review team: Rob, Gary, Marco, Frank, James, Evan, Adam, Aleksei, Andreas, Ben, Geert, Ryan, Michał, Michael, and Mike (yes, those last three are all different people!). In particular, Michał has been putting in crazy hours working on migration tooling, and Frank just this morning sent over changes for the Laminas website for me to incorporate!
• John Mertic and Michael Dolan of the Linux Foundation for holding my hand through this entire process and helping make it happen. We still have work to do, but even getting this far feels like a huge accomplishment, and I couldn't have done it without your support.

If all goes to plan, I'm hoping we'll be announcing the project is operational in the next few months; keep an eye on the ZF and Laminas websites and twitter handles for updates!

From Zend Framework To The Laminas Project was originally published 17 April 2019 on https://mwop.net by Matthew Weier O'Phinney.

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GeekyBoy.com: Zend Framework becomes Laminas project

Today it was announced that Zend Framework is being rebranded as Laminas project. Along with the rebrand comes some other important changes as well. Yes, this includes Expressive and Apigility, so continue reading.

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