Widget setting screenshot

So i don’t need to describe what to do after installing the plugin, right? It’ll show the selected links to your sidebar like this:

Displaying links from freelancer.com

So why don’t you add this plugin to your blog and make some money?

Showing links in every post

Hey folks, in a short time i’ve made some punbb extension. Here is another, it’s for sharing post. It inserts share button in every post, here is the screenshot:

You will find the configuration at Administration → Settings → Features

Administration Area

Enjoy

Requesting bug report

In normal uses, everyone sign’s in with username and password. But for a special purpose, i needed to login with user ID and password. Because, when the username is in a complex script language like Bangla and you want to login from the mobile and you don’t have Bangla writing system in your mobile, this feature comes in action.

This extension is written for mobile users actually. When you will visit the forum from mobile, you will be redirected to the login screen containing user ID and password.

Enjoy!!!

I always wanted to publish this as a PHP Class but never got that chance to do so. After a long time i worked with Bangla date today and finally created a PHP Class to use it anywhere by anyone. Sorry for the late.

Usage:

<?php
include_once 'class.banglaDate.php';
$bn_date = new BanglaDate(time());
$date = $bn_date->get_date();
?>

You will get an array of converted date in Bangla.

A few things needed to know. Bangla date counted or changes after the sun rise. That means, where English date changes at 12′O clock at the night, Bangla date changes at the morning after the sunrise.

Class Constructor:
This class constructor has 2 parameters. The first one in timestamp and the second one is the hour of changing the date. If you want to change the Bangla date like English at 12’0 clock at the night, you should use $bn_date = new BanglaDate(time(), 0). But if you want to change the date at 6′O clock at the morning, use as $bn_date = new BanglaDate(time(), 6). If you don’t pass the second parameter, the default value is 6. Use as you like.

After Creating the class object, you can set another date using set_time() like $bn_date->set_time(time(), 4);

Bangla Date class on PHPClasses.org

<?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";

• 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.

In the workplace and at school, knowing Braille makes it possible for blind people to read and take notes independently, and it increases the amount of written material that is accessible to them. Teachers who are blind can use Braille for lecture notes. Studies have found that the employment rate for blind people who know Braille is higher than for those who don’t.

Each Braille Character, called “cell”, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two columns of three dots each. A dot may be raised at any of the six positions to form sixty-four combination’s (including the combination in which no dots are raised).

Braille Cell

Braille Letters

Braille Numbers

Braille Punctuation

How it works:

How It Works

Whenever any input comes from the computer via serial port, the touch pad’s 6 pin comes out by the input character combination. By touching the pads pin, anyone can sense the character as a braille character. 16 character can be read at a time with this device.

Braille Pad

Economic Impact:
The designed Braille board can be provided with a much cheaper price (2000-2500 taka), where each page use for printing Braille Book would be cost 5 taka. Thus printing a book with 200 pages may require 1000 taka. Thus by using the Braille Board, we may give access to huge amount of soft documents to the blind people. More over it can be interfaced with any Computer that can run DOS. Thus the System requirement for this Braille board is also very low. It helps the Visually Impaired to earn money.

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

$tweeted = strtotime($json[0]->created_at); //get the time as timestamp
$diff = time() - $tweeted; //get the time difference

//Get the time distance
if($diff > 86400)
{
	$diff = round($diff/(60*60*24));
	if($diff > 1) $date = "$diff days ago";
	else $date = "$diff day ago";
}
else if($diff > 3599)
{
	$diff = round($diff/3600);
	if($diff > 1) $date = "$diff hours ago";
	else $date = "$diff hour ago";
}
else
{
	$diff = round($diff /60);
	if($diff > 1) $date = "$diff minutes ago";
	else $date = "$diff minute ago";
}

3. So now we got our formatted twitter text

$status = "Tareq: $status ($date)";

4. Now it’s time to create our image

header("Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreate(700, 16); //creating a demo image
$background = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); // defining the background of demo image
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($image, rand(0, 255), rand(0, 255), rand(0, 255));//random text color
imagestring($image, 3, 16, 1, $status, $textcolor); //creating the final image
imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);

We are done

Now run the page and you will get the latest twitter status as a image signature.

So here is the full code

<?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
$tweeted = strtotime($json[0]->created_at); //get the time as timestamp
$diff = time() - $tweeted; //get the time difference

//Get the time distance
if($diff > 86400)
{
	$diff = round($diff/(60*60*24));
	if($diff > 1) $date = "$diff days ago";
	else $date = "$diff day ago";
}
else if($diff > 3599)
{
	$diff = round($diff/3600);
	if($diff > 1) $date = "$diff hours ago";
	else $date = "$diff hour ago";
}
else
{
	$diff = round($diff /60);
	if($diff > 1) $date = "$diff minutes ago";
	else $date = "$diff minute ago";
}

$status = "Tareq: $status ($date)";

//Now print as a image
header("Content-type: image/png");
$image = imagecreate(700, 16); //creating a demo image
$background = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255); // defining the background of demo image
$textcolor = imagecolorallocate($image, rand(0, 255), rand(0, 255), rand(0, 255));//random text color
imagestring($image, 3, 16, 1, $status, $textcolor); //creating the final image

imagepng($image);
imagedestroy($image);
?>

Hope you enjoyed the post

ফেসবুকে বাংলা তারিখ

এই অ্যাপ্লিকেশন দিয়ে আপনি আপনার ফেসবুকের প্রোফাইলে আজকের বাংলা তারিখটি দেখাতে পারবেন। অ্যাপ্লিকেশনটি রয়েছে এখানে http://apps.facebook.com/bangladate/

Google offers an automatic transliteration option that converts Roman characters to the characters used in Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. This feature lets you type these languages phonetically in English letters, but they’ll appear in their correct alphabet. Keep in mind that transliteration is different from translation; the sound of the words is converted from one alphabet to the other, not the meaning.

What I did?
I did a integration of Google Transliterate with WordPress & punBB. My plugin allows you to write phonetically with the help of Google Transliteration in the WordPress post editor and also in punBB post box. This will not work in rich text editor mode in wordpress, you need to switch on HTML mode.

How does it work?
The bellow images tells you everything

• You can select your desired language from the list



• After Selecting the language, active the google transliteration option by clicking the text.



• Type the words phonetically. Once you type a space or a punctuation mark, the letters will be converted to corresponding language characters, like this:



• If you need to correct a transliterated word, click the word; you’ll see a menu of alternate spellings, in addition to an option to switch back to the Roman characters you typed. If you type the same word again, it will then be transliterated correctly based on your saved preference.