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Monday, August 15, 2011
Image of the Day PHP Tutorial
In this tutorial shows you how to display image of the day. You can adapt this script to display quote of the day, knowledge of the day or something else you want. You don't have to change image everyday just change images once a week.
What to do?
1. Find what today is? using date function and keep answer in variable name "$today".
2. Compare $today with name of the day.
3. Display "Today is " ... " and display image of the day.
4. test it. Try to change your machine date and see the result!
$today=date(l); // Find what today is? using date function
{code type=codetype}
// If today is Monday displays message "Today is Monday" and displays image1.gif
if($today==Monday){// Compare $today with name of the day.
echo "Today is Monday";
echo "<BR>"; // Line break
echo "<img src='images/image1.gif'>"; // images keep in forder "images"
}
{/code}
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If You want to show 1 month 31 images replace with this code
{code type=codetype}
$today=date(d); // display date "01", "02", "03"..."15", "16" ....
if($today==01){ .......
elseif($today==15){ .......
until $today==31
{/code}
|---|--------------------- code --------------------|---|
{code type=codetype}
<?
$today=date(l);// Find what today is? using date function
if($today==Monday){
echo "Today is Monday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image1.gif'>";
}
elseif($today==Tuesday){
echo "Today is Tuesday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image2.gif'>";
}
elseif($today==Wednesday){
echo "Today is Wednesday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image3.gif'>";
}
elseif($today==Thursday){
echo "Today is Thursday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image4.gif'>";
}
elseif($today==Friday){
echo "Today is Friday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image5.gif'>";
}
elseif($today==Saturday){
echo "Today is Saturday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image6.gif'>";
}
elseif($today==Sunday){
echo "Today is Sunday";
echo "<BR>";
echo "<img src='images/image7.gif'>";
}
?>
{/code}
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Cross-Cultural Web Design
Making sure a website is relevant for a foreign market goes beyond merely translating the copy on your site (although doing that well is important too, as we’ll see shortly!). There are many other cultural issues you’ll need to bear in mind for other aspects of designing your site.
Content
Obviously, you’ll need to get the content on your site right for the audience that you’re aiming for. Whilst you can add auto-translation widgets and tools to your site quite easily, these aren’t usually the best option. They’re prone to throwing up stilted and sometimes incorrect translations, which don’t have a professional tone and could reflect badly on your business – poor copy doesn’t exactly convey how much you value your customers.
Ideally you should use a professional translator, whose native language is that of your target market. They’ll be able to provide a polished tone for your site and make sure it’s grammatically correct and culturally sensitive.
Navigation
Whilst in the UK and US we’re used to seeing navigation bars along the left-hand side of our screen, this may not be the ideal solution in some markets. We read from left to right, but not all countries do – Arabic and Hebrew, for example, are read from right to left. Although there are ways that you could flip the navigation bar to the right-hand side and reverse the direction of the script, the simplest and most professional-looking option is to opt for a horizontal navigation bar at the top of the page.
Colours and images
Colours do make your site look eye-catching and attractive, but it’s important to consider wider issues when choosing them for your site for a foreign market. Red, for example, can mean different things to different people. In Western cultures it tends to signify danger or love, whilst in China it denotes good luck and celebration.
You need to do your research before settling on a colour scheme. Experts suggest that blue or grey are good neutral colour choices if you’re in doubt. Lively colours such as orange, purple and red are best avoided, unless you have done your homework.
You need to choose the images for your localised websites carefully too. For example, if you’re targeting customers in Japan, it’s better to display some Japanese people on the site rather than images of American people only. Make sure the images are culturally sensitive too and will not cause offence in your target market.
There is some research which suggests that different cultures use different styles to communicate. Anthropologist Edward Hall carried out some research in this area. He described ‘high context’ cultures, for instance Japan or China, as cultures where a lot of information is taken from the context in which the information is delivered, whereas ‘low context’ cultures, such as Germany and Scandinavia, prefer clear, explicit information.
In terms of web design, this may mean that an intuitive, image-heavy design would work best for a Japanese market, whereas a minimal look with concise instructions may be more effective for Swedish customers. You will get a feel for this if you study the localised sites of major multinational companies.
Tools
When you’re creating numerous localised websites - one specifically for each market that you’re aiming at - you want to make sure each localised site can easily be switched between languages without you having to design it from scratch each time.
UTF-8 is highly recommended because it incorporates the characters for more than 80 languages, meaning your site can easily flip between German, Arabic or even Chinese.
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, are also very useful because they allow the flexibility of changing the content later on as required - the design (including elements such as layout, colours and fonts) is kept separate from the content. The benefit of this is that multiple pages can share the same design template and therefore each foreign language page doesn’t need to be redesigned from the ground up.
Avoid using too much Flash on your site as it can make web pages load more slowly. If visitors have to wait for a while – even a minute – for a web page to load, they’re likely to give up and close the page and you’ll have lost a customer.
Cross-cultural web design may seem complicated but it doesn’t need to be. It’s just about making your site relevant to the language and cultural needs of your target market, whether they’re in London or Tokyo. The effort will be well worth it, too, in terms of customer retention and sales.
About the author
Christian Arno is the founder of translation services company Lingo24, experts in the foreign language internet. Launched in 2001, Lingo24 now has over 150 employees spanning three continents and clients in over sixty countries. In the past twelve months, they have translated over forty million words for businesses in every industry sector. Follow Lingo24 on Twitter: @Lingo24.
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Limit Displayed Characters From Your Text
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
PHP Encryptions Tutorial
The first step is to set up a form that will allow the user to enter some data. So create a new HTML file and within the body we'll enter:
<form action="query.php" method="post">
Enter a string: <input type="text" name="addc" />
<input type="submit" value="enter" />
</form>
The <form> creates an action towards "query.php"; this is where we'll be handling our PHP encryptions. It also uses the method POST, because the information sent to a PHP file using this method becomes invisible through the process so other users can not see the data. Then we write what we'll want the user to see, so we write "Enter a string:" followed by an <input type> of text with a name of "addc". The "addc" name is important to remember because this is what we'll be using in our PHP file later to access what the user entered.
Then we close everything off with an <input type> of submit, which basically creates an enter button for the user to click and send their information to the PHP file.
So now that the HTML form is complete, we'll move on to the PHP file that will contain the encryption process for the data.
First create a new PHP file and name is "query.php" PHP scripts are always written between <?php and ?> The first thing we'll have to do is access what the user entered, and we'll do this by writing:
$str = strip_tags($_POST["addc"]);
In PHP, variables are written using a dollar sign and a word, so in this case we'll use $str as our variable. _POST["addc"] is how we access what the user entered in the form. Before when we created our form we had used the method POST, and this allows us to get any information from the form, so in this case we want what the user actually entered into the text box. We gave the text box a name of "addc", so $_POST["addc"] gets whatever is entered in the textbox from the form in the HTML file. Then we enclose this within strip_tags() to strip any HTML or PHP tags the user may have entered. This is usually safe practice for safety and protection from people trying to access hidden information in your forms. Now let's get on to the different encryptions.
After the user hits submit, and they're taken to the "query.php" file, we'll still want them to see what they had entered in their form. So after we declare the variable above, the next thing we'll write is: (P.S. anything between /* */ is just a comment, so you could keep it in your PHP file if you want as commentary to help you better understand)
echo "You entered: " . $str; /* echo is how we output strings in PHP. The "." is a concatenation operator and it's used to put two string values together. */
echo "md5 Hash Form: " . md5($str); /* md5() is how we change our data into an md5 hash. We declared what the user entered by the variable $str, so all we do is write
md5($str) */
echo "SHA1 Algorithm: " . sha1($str); /* This encryption is used the same way as md5(), you just write sha1($str) and it will create a SHA1 hash of the string */
echo "String Shuffle Function: " . str_shuffle($str); /* str_shuffle() just shuffles around the data so it looks completely random */
echo "uuEncode Algorithm: " . convert_uuencode($str); /* this converts the string using the uuEncode Algorithm */
echo "ROT13 Encyrption: " . str_rot13($str); /* converts the data using a ROT13 function */
echo "How Many Words Counted: " . str_word_count($str); /* this function simply just tells the user how many words were entered in the text box in the form */
Then when all of the different encryption functions are written out, write this piece of code between each of them to give some spacing. echo "<br /> <br />";
Some explanations on each of the encryptions:
The MD5 encryption is a widely used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. MD5 is also very useful at checking the integrity of files. A few years after the creation of MD5, it was found to be less suitable for several applications and security measures. In recent years, many flaws were found with MD5 dealing with SSL certificates and
checksums of files.
The SHA1 encryption (Secure Hash Algorithm) is a cryptographic hash function designed by the National Security Agency. SHA1 is widely used and employed in several security
applications and protocols.
The uuEncode Algorithm works by converting all the data into a text file with only printable characters. uuEncode was very useful in the earlier days because it addressed the problem of sending binary data file through email.
The ROT13 encryption works by shifting every letter 13 places in the alphabet. It's a very simple encryption method that only works on letters, numeric and non-alphabetical characters will remain as they are entered.
You can check out an example of PHP encryptions here!