Revealer works with Windows 2000,XP, Vista and 7 with most programs and can save you a lot of time scouring through old emails or asking annoyed colleagues.

Let’s start off simple:

<?php
require("GTranslate.php");
try {
	$gt = new Gtranslate;
	echo "Translating [Hello World] from English to German => ".$gt->english_to_german("hello world")."<br/>";
	echo "Translating [Ciao mondo] Italian to English => ".$gt->it_to_en("Ciao mondo")."<br/>";
} catch (GTranslateException $ge)  {
	echo $ge->getMessage();
}
?>

Create a Function to Detect Language:
First Example for Ben’s Translator Plugin (Using a Session Variable):

<?php
function translateThis ($myText) {
	$pageURL = 'http';
	if ($_SERVER["HTTPS"] == "on") {$pageURL .= "s";}
		$pageURL .= "://";
	if ($_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"] != "80") {
		$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	} else {
		$pageURL .= $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
	}
	//return $pageURL;
	$myVal = substr($pageURL, 0, 28);
	if ($myVal == "http://welovecakephp.com/es/") {
		$_SESSION['pLang'] = "ES";
	} else {
		$_SESSION['pLang'] = "EN";
	}
	if ($_SESSION['pLang'] == "ES") {
		require("GTranslate.php");
		/*
			these variable can be used in conjunction with JS dynamic content to make translated content easier
			ie: change image folders/forms/etc basically things that WordPress plugins might screw up
		*/
		$myLang = "es";
		$myLangDir = "/es";
		try {
			$gt = new Gtranslate;
			$gt->setRequestType('curl');
			echo $gt->en_to_es($myText);
		} catch (GTranslateException $ge) {
			echo $ge->getMessage();
		}
	} else {
		$myLang = "en";
		$myLangDir = "";
	}
}
?>

Second example (Using a Cookie):

<?php if ($_COOKIE['pLang'] != "English") { $_SESSION['pLang'] = "ES"; } else { $_SESSION['pLang'] = "EN"; }?>

Sample Usage

<?php
	$myVar = "This is a test of language translation, not word by word but instead this translates the intended meaning";
	translateThis($myVar);
?>

Of course you can change settings within this to suit your translation needs and this is a single use setup but it suited the purpose for which I needed it. I hope this helps you out, cheers!

A simple vertical jQuery accordion with much room for growth. In future version I would like to use a few additional lines of JS to create a cleaner structure but even if only as an example this is a good start. I made a horizontal accordion as well but all things will be made public in due time.

This script creates a cooking and remembers which section was last opened therefore making it a great homepage piece or miniature site navigation.

Cheers!

One day Firefox stopped asking if I wanted to restore my tabs when the program closed. After being annoyed for quite sometime I thought about restoring FireFox to its defaults settings.

Windows XP/2000/Vista:

firefox -safe-mode

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -safe-mode

OR

Start > All Programs > Mozilla Firefox (folder) > Mozilla Firefox Safe Mode

Linux:

/path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode

Mac OS X:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -safe-mode

Now, while it is true that somewhere along the way I may have inadvertently unchecked “No, don’t ask me again” the problem was nonetheless frustrating. So, if Firefox does not remember what tabs you had open before on closing it just follow those steps above.

That is unless you don’t want it to remember what tabs were open, browsing history, passwords, cookies, etc because you were looking at skeevy porn or browsing the Jars of Clay ‘Eternal Fanclub of best Friends Forever’, then you probably shouldn’t be using Firefox. Use Internet Explorer and get the viruses God intended your computer be infected with.

Criteria:

1. Auto centered mark
2. semi transparency
3. works with 24-bit .png files for image watermark
4. Must work on the fly
5. must be able to watermark png/jpeg file types
6. due Monday by noon

That being said I produced the following based on notes I took from various sites:

<?php
// example url
watermark.php?i=display.php?show=23
$imageUrl = $_GET['i'];
$watermarkUrl = "watermark.png";
$orgimage=imagecreatefromjpeg("{$imageUrl}");
$watermark=imagecreatefrompng("{$watermarkUrl}");
$watermarkDetails=getimagesize("{$watermarkUrl}");
$imageDetails = getimagesize("{$imageUrl}");
$centerx = (($imageDetails[0] - $watermarkDetails[0])/2);
$centery = (($imageDetails[1] - $watermarkDetails[1])/2);
imagecopy($orgimage,$watermark,$centerx,$centery,0,0,
imagesx($watermark),imagesy($watermark));
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($orgimage);
imagedestroy($watermark);
imagedestroy($orgimage);
exit;
?>


Random note: I needed to install cURL on my Windows box install of XAMPP and found a handy comment on Roman’s blog that did the trick. It’s also been installed on my LAMP box as well but that was easy enough to install and required no Google research.

Navigate to XAMPP > apache > bin
Open php.ini
Find “php_curl”
Remove the “;” from “;extension=php_curl.dll”
Save and close it.
Restart Apache via Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services
and you are done!

If this solution did not work for you, you might be using an old/incompatible version of XAMPP or someone upstairs with a big beard has it in for you. Either way you should download the newest build from http://apachefriends.org. This was tested on a WinXP using XAMPP version 1.6.4 Beta 3.

$('img#nav1').hover(function() {
	$(this).attr("src","/images/headerNav/1-over.gif");
		}, function() {
	$(this).attr("src","/images/headerNav/1.gif");
});

<img src="1.gif" id="nav1" />

And there you have it! Coming up next is the SEO case study of duffynewport.com.

• An open letter to the Anaheimer who posted on Ottawa R&R
• I spilled grandma on you around spadian station
• To my Ex-GF’s Cat

Pushed out two comps one I played around with floating left the navigation at different heights and floating right an accessible search right under the navigation. There’s even room to add image replacement for hover effects on the navbar but I’m pretty sure the more traditional layout will win out with the client. So have at it and view the one I played with that won’t be chosen. Also, here is the standard layout that I haven’t coded yet as it’s fairly straight forward.

If you are having any CSS issues feel free to contact me and I might help you out and write something about the issue/solution on here. I was debating writing something about floats, clears, alignment, fluid layouts and lucky charms. The last bit there means I need lunch or a big bag of marshmallows.

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Now to grab my guitar, a beer and play until the night is over. Have a good weekend!