Archives for 2009

How to Add PHP Multilingual Support to a Website

Last updated on November 16th, 2016 by Gabriel Livan

Note: This tutorial was written years ago when I wasn’t aware of the benefits of gettext library which can be used to professionally have a website translated into multiple languages. The solution from the tutorial works fine if you have a small website with not much text. For someone more advanced, consider localizing PHP applications the right way.

Are you interested in having a multilingual website? This is a tutorial that shows you how you can do that in PHP.

The first thing we need to do is to create a couple of files that will contain the text for each of the languages that will be supported by the website. For demo purpose I have chosen English, Spanish and German. Make a directory named “directory”. In this directory create 3 files: lang.de.php, lang.en.php, and lang.es.php. Read more from this entry…

Free Open Source PHP MySQL Driven Knowledge Base Software

Last updated on March 14th, 2010 by Gabriel Livan

68kb is a free professional open source script, built on the excellent CodeIgniter PHP Framework, that allows you to create your own documentation. It’s easy to configure and setup. Supports unlimited categories and an unlimited category depth. You can also enable Search Engine Friendly URL’s (Apache is required) in this application. From the administration panel you can view statistics for the most viewed articles, search terms, and a whole lot more.

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68KB was built and designed out of the need for a good knowledge base system that we use for other scripts. With that in mind it was built from the ground up to be simple and easy to work with.

Source: http://68kb.com/
Demo: http://68kb.com/demo/

Flip HTML Elements like Cards: QuickFlip 2.0 jQuery Plugin

Last updated on December 30th, 2009 by Gabriel Livan

QuickFlip 2 is a JQuery Flipping Plugin that flips DIVs, paragraphs and other HTML elements like a card. It is very easy to use the plugin. You just have to call the flip animation through a JQuery selector and the script will flip the front panel to show its back.

QuickFlip works by using an animation shortcut that is barely noticeable when flipped quickly (hence the name). This shortcut improves performance while allowing the flip effect to work smoothly with any piece of markup regardless of images, backgrounds or CSS.
It provides an attractive alternative to other slower and more resource heavy Flash and jQuery flip animations.

Source: http://jonraasch.com/blog/quickflip-2-jquery-plugin
Demo: http://dev.jonraasch.com/quickflip/examples/
Documentation: http://dev.jonraasch.com/quickflip/docs
License: FreeBSD license

Effective Image Optimization: WordPress Smush.it Plugin

Last updated on December 30th, 2009 by Gabriel Livan

WP Smush.it is a plugin for WordPress that optimizes images by using an API from Smush.it. Everytime you add images to a page or post they will automatically run through Smash.it behind the scenes. The existing images can be checked and optimized. You just need to browse the ‘Media Library’ and use the ‘Smush.it now!’ link for any image you would like to smush.

Requirements: WordPress 2.5 or higher
Source: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-smushit/
Plugin Homepage: http://dialect.ca/code/wp-smushit/
License: GNU General Public License 3.0.

Zoom Elements: ‘Anything Zoomer’ jQuery Plugin

Last updated on December 30th, 2009 by Gabriel Livan

AnythingZoomer is a JQuery plugin useful to zoom specific areas such as text and images. You can customize the zoom area via CSS and also use multiple zoomers on the same page.

It’s flexible in many ways, in that the “small”, “large”, and “zoom” areas are all pretty easy to customize (via CSS). It’s inflexible in other ways, in that it doesn’t “automatically” work by cloning content or anything like that (which is arguably more flexible), and the HTML structure is fairly rigid.

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