Tareq's Planet

Here’s how you can get your google buzz status with php. Just put your google username at the right place and do whatever you want.
We have used simpleXML to parse the google’s RSS feed for every user.

<?php
$user = "<username>";
$url = "http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/".$user."/public/posted";
$data = file_get_contents($url);
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);

$status = $xml->entry[0]->summary;
$time = date('D j M Y g:i a', strtotime($xml->entry[0]->published));
echo "Status: $status <br />";
echo "Time: $time";

As a part of BASIS’s “IT Innovation Project”, 17 project was submitted for BASIS Softexpo 2010. Among of them, only 3 projects were selected. They were -

• 1. Braille Board
• 2. Bangla Text to Speech (TTS)
• 3. Bangla OCR

Both, Braille Board and Bangla TTS was awarded for “Best IT Innovation Award”.

About Our Project:

Title: Design and Development of PC Controlled Dynamic Braille Board.

Project Description:
Braille is a primary medium of reading and writing for people who are blind or have low vision. Although blind or visually impaired individuals are able to access print materials by using audio books or listening to a personal reader and can write by dictating to someone, many find that they can access information more quickly and perform tasks that involve reading or writing more efficiently using Braille. Read the rest of this entry »

Many days ago i built two image signature as my forum signature. One of the signature shows the latest post from my blog and another shows my latest twitter update. I was inspired to do that signature by seeing Shiplu Vai’s signature. Originally he was using them and i copied the concept

Anyway, here is my latest blog post signature and here is my twitter signature

I will show you the process to create your own twitter image signature like me.

1. At first we will get the latest twitter update by this

<?php
$username = "tareq_cse"; //Twitter Username
$url = "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/$username.json?count=1"; //json request url
$json = json_decode(file_get_contents($url));
$status = $json[0]->text; //get the status from array/object

2. Now we will get the time distance from now and the twitted time and will format it
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