Oct 11
31
Detect Locale with javascript
There may be times where you would want to detect the language of the users browser. I would normally use php to detect the users browser language. However, when this is not possible, it can also be done using the following javascript:
thelocale = 'en-GB'; // set default locale
if ( navigator ) { if ( navigator.language ) {// for netscape thelocale = navigator.language; } else if ( navigator.browserLanguage ) {// internet explorer 5.5 or above
thelocale = navigator.browserLanguage;
}
else if ( navigator.systemLanguage ) {// windows specific
thelocale = navigator.systemLanguage;
}
else if ( navigator.userLanguage ) {
thelocale = navigator.userLanguage;
}
}Posted in javascript jquery by .
Oct 11
15
PHP Language Detection
There is a very simple method to detect what language the users web browser is using.
The following code:
//session variable ensures it's available
//throughout current session
$_SESSION['lang'] = substr($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'], 0, 2);
echo $_SESSION['lang'];
Oct 11
15
ISO Language codes
The ISO language code can be used to declare the language of a Web page (or a portion of a Web page) or identify the default browser language.
| Language | ISO Code |
|---|---|
| Abkhazian | ab |
| Afar | aa |
| Afrikaans | af |
| Albanian | sq |
| Amharic | am |
| Arabic | ar |
| Aragonese | an |
| Armenian | hy |
| Assamese | as |
| Aymara | ay |
| Azerbaijani | az |
| Bashkir | ba |
| Basque | eu |
| Bengali (Bangla) | bn |
| Bhutani | dz |
| Bihari | bh |
| Bislama | bi |
| Breton | br |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Burmese | my |
| Byelorussian (Belarusian) | be |
| Cambodian | km |
| Catalan | ca |
| Cherokee | |
| Chewa | |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh |
| Corsican | co |
| Croatian | hr |
| Czech | cs |
| Danish | da |
| Divehi | |
| Dutch | nl |
| Edo | |
| English | en |
| Esperanto | eo |
| Estonian | et |
| Faeroese | fo |
| Farsi | fa |
| Fiji | fj |
| Finnish | fi |
| Flemish | |
| French | fr |
| Frisian | fy |
| Fulfulde | |
| Galician | gl |
| Gaelic (Scottish) | gd |
| Gaelic (Manx) | gv |
| Georgian | ka |
| German | de |
| Greek | el |
| Greenlandic | kl |
| Guarani | gn |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Haitian Creole | ht |
| Hausa | ha |
| Hawaiian | |
| Hebrew | he, iw |
| Hindi | hi |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Ibibio | |
| Icelandic | is |
| Ido | io |
| Igbo | |
| Indonesian | id, in |
| Interlingua | ia |
| Interlingue | ie |
| Inuktitut | iu |
| Inupiak | ik |
| Irish | ga |
| Italian | it |
| Japanese | ja |
| Javanese | jv |
| Kannada | kn |
| Kanuri | |
| Kashmiri | ks |
| Kazakh | kk |
| Kinyarwanda (Ruanda) | rw |
| Kirghiz | ky |
| Kirundi (Rundi) | rn |
| Konkani | |
| Korean | ko |
| Kurdish | ku |
| Laothian | lo |
| Latin | la |
| Latvian (Lettish) | lv |
| Limburgish ( Limburger) | li |
| Lingala | ln |
| Lithuanian | lt |
| Macedonian | mk |
| Malagasy | mg |
| Malay | ms |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Maltese | mt |
| Maori | mi |
| Marathi | mr |
| Moldavian | mo |
| Mongolian | mn |
| Nauru | na |
| Nepali | ne |
| Norwegian | no |
| Occitan | oc |
| Oriya | or |
| Oromo (Afan, Galla) | om |
| Papiamentu | |
| Pashto (Pushto) | ps |
| Polish | pl |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Punjabi | pa |
| Quechua | qu |
| Rhaeto-Romance | rm |
| Romanian | ro |
| Russian | ru |
| Sami (Lappish) | |
| Samoan | sm |
| Sangro | sg |
| Sanskrit | sa |
| Serbian | sr |
| Serbo-Croatian | sh |
| Sesotho | st |
| Setswana | tn |
| Shona | sn |
| Sichuan Yi | ii |
| Sindhi | sd |
| Sinhalese | si |
| Siswati | ss |
| Slovak | sk |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Somali | so |
| Spanish | es |
| Sundanese | su |
| Swahili (Kiswahili) | sw |
| Swedish | sv |
| Syriac | |
| Tagalog | tl |
| Tajik | tg |
| Tamazight | |
| Tamil | ta |
| Tatar | tt |
| Telugu | te |
| Thai | th |
| Tibetan | bo |
| Tigrinya | ti |
| Tonga | to |
| Tsonga | ts |
| Turkish | tr |
| Turkmen | tk |
| Twi | tw |
| Uighur | ug |
| Ukrainian | uk |
| Urdu | ur |
| Uzbek | uz |
| Venda | |
| Vietnamese | vi |
| Volapük | vo |
| Wallon | wa |
| Welsh | cy |
| Wolof | wo |
| Xhosa | xh |
| Yi | |
| Yiddish | yi, ji |
| Yoruba | yo |
| Zulu | zu |
Aug 11
20
Copy file from remote server
Use this script to copy a file from a remote server and save on your own server.
<?php
$feed = "http://www.domain.com/thefile.pdf";// url to original
$copydir = "/home/webdev/public_html/copies/"; //directory to copy to (CHMOD 777)
$data = file_get_contents($feed);
$file = fopen($copydir . "thefile.pdf", "w+");
fputs($file, $data);
fclose($file);
?>
Posted in php by .
Aug 11
6
Use php in .xml files
Using PHP and MySQL in XML sitemaps is quite easy.
The first step is to use the AddType directive.
The second step is to add the following code to the top of your .xml file:
<?php
session_start();
unset($_SESSION['aErrors']);
header('Content-type: text/xml');
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>';
?>
Aug 11
3
AddType Directive
The AddType directive is added to the .htaccess file in the directory, to modify the default mimetypes of the files you wish to be effected.
A common use of the AddType directive is if you wish to use PHP in .xml files for dynamic xml sitemaps or .html files.
The syntax is quite simple:
AddType mime-type file-extension
So, if we wish to include PHP in our .html file, we add the following to the .htaccess file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
If using PHP version 5.x you may also wish to try:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .xml
Jul 11
31
Force compatibility viewer
A few months ago I created a large CMS website for a client using HTML5 plenty of jQuery. I thought it looked great. However, she informed me that it wasn’t rendering properly. It looked fine to me. She was using the latest version of IE, IE9 – I wasn’t. The answer was simple, force the compatibility view on IE9 to render as IE8. Just add this to yoursection:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8">
Jul 11
31
PHP/MySQL connection script
Many of us use more than one server during the entire project lifecycle. To ensure that you are able to connect to the various versions of the mysql database on each server, use this php connection script:
<?php
$host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; // which server is it running on
switch ($host)
{
case ‘localhost’:
$server=”localhost”;
$user=”root”;
$db=”database;
$password=”";
break;
case ‘www.webaddress.com’:
$server=”mysqlserver”;
$user=”username”;
$db=”database”;
$password=”password”;
break;
case ‘www.address2.com’:
$server=”mysqlserver2″;
$user=”username”;
$db=”database”;
$password=”password”;
break;
default:
$server=”";
$user=”";
$db=”";
$password=”";
}
$link = mysql_connect($server, $user, $password);
if (!$link) {
die(‘Could not connect: ‘ . mysql_error());
}
$selected = mysql_select_db($db,$link)
or die(“Could not select database<br/><br/>” . mysql_error());
?>