Setting up your PHP Development Environment

I realized that a lot of people who want to learn PHP are having hard time getting started with it – not because PHP is difficult to use or understand but simply because they don’t know where to start. Because of this, I decided to write this short how-to on getting started with PHP. It covers all the necessary stuff to setup Apache, PHP, and MySQL as well as to install one of my favorite PHP editors.

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Google Translate Working Example

As promised, here’s a sample implementation of the Google Translate API.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Google Translate</title>
<script language="javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script language="javascript">
 google.load ("language", "1");
 function gtrans (f) {
  document.getElementById("translation").innerHTML = "-";
  var lang = f.langpair.value.split("|");
  google.language.translate (f.translate.value, lang[0], lang[1], function (result) {
   if (!result.error) {
    var container = document.getElementById("translation").innerHTML = result.translation;
   }
  });
  return false;
 }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form onsubmit="return false">
 <p>Enter text to translate and click "Translate"</p>
 <textarea name="translate" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>
 <br />
 <select name="langpair">
  <option value="ar|en">Arabic to English</option>
  <option value="zh|en">Chinese to English</option>
  <option value="zh-CN|zh-TW">Chinese (Simplified to Traditional)</option>
  <option value="zh-TW|zh-CN">Chinese (Traditional to Simplified)</option>
  <option value="nl|en">Dutch to English</option>
  <option value="en|ar">English to Arabic</option>
  <option value="en|zh-CN">English to Chinese (Simplified)</option>
  <option value="en|zh-TW">English to Chinese (Traditional)</option>
  <option value="en|nl">English to Dutch</option>
  <option value="en|fr">English to French</option>
  <option value="en|de">English to German</option>
  <option value="en|el">English to Greek</option>
  <option value="en|it">English to Italian</option>
  <option value="en|ja">English to Japanese</option>
  <option value="en|ko">English to Korean</option>
  <option value="en|pt">English to Portuguese</option>
  <option value="en|ru">English to Russian</option>
  <option value="en|es">English to Spanish</option>
  <option value="fr|en">French to English</option>
  <option value="fr|de">French to German</option>
  <option value="de|en">German to English</option>
  <option value="de|fr">German to French</option>
  <option value="el|en">Greek to English</option>
  <option value="it|en">Italian to English</option>
  <option value="ja|en">Japanese to English</option>
  <option value="ko|en">Korean to English</option>
  <option value="pt|en">Portuguese to English</option>
  <option value="ru|en">Russian to English</option>
  <option value="es|en">Spanish to English</option>
 </select>
 <input type="button" value="Translate" onclick="gtrans(this.form)" />
 <p id="translation" style="border:1px solid #00f;padding:5px;width:400px">-</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Javascript Based Google Translate API Released

If you need to translate your website from one language to another then I have some good news for you. Google Translate has released a JavaScript based API that’s both easy to use and implement. It can handle 13 different languages and as much as 29 language pairs.

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AJAX Username Validation

Form input validation is sometimes an annoying part in web development but it’s something that we web developers can’t avoid. In order to make sure that the data being entered by our users are valid, we simply have to validate. Another good use of validation is to provide feedback to the user on whether what they are typing is acceptable or not.

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AJAX Introduction

Ever wondered what AJAX is? AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is not a programming language in itself but rather a combination of different web development techniques. Furthermore, AJAX technology is not new though it has only been popularized recently especially by Google (Google Maps, GMail, Google Calendar, etc.)

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Stormy Skies WordPress Theme

Download: Stormy Skies WordPress Theme Package.

Finally, a new and appropriate theme for this blog. Introducing the Stormy Skies WordPress theme. It’s designed for 1024×768 screens and supports widgets. The screenshot below shows the original look of the theme, with no graphics in the header.

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CSS Dropdown Menu

Ever wondered how to make those drop-down menus using CSS? There are many ways to do it but they are all pretty similar. Here’s how I do it.

The CSS Code

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PHP Date Validation Using strtotime()

Here’s a nifty little script I use to validate date input with PHP. This function can accept any common date entry and return true if the date is valid or false otherwise.

The Script

<?php

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Welcome to Coders Cult

Whew!  Finally, I managed to spare the time and gather the energy required to start off a new website – one that has been in my mind for a very long time already.  Dear friend, allow me to offer you a warm welcome to this brand new website called Coders Cult.

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