Category: Internationalization

Just PHP will give you nothing… unless you upgrade yourself

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I have been working with PHP for more than 3yrs (I believe still I am beginner in this category) – I was present in several interview board. Which things disappointed me most is the “lack of eagerness” to learn what comes new. Sometime developers thinks that learning Only PHP will help them to get lucrative jobs!! OMG

Specially in BD most of the time PHP developers plays multiple roles in the companies, they are developer, they are template designers, they are HTML coders, they are DBA, they are PMs….what the heck. Only few companies have different people for these roles.

How far you can go just learning PHP (RAW code, in ancient style, that means PHP+HTML together, yak!!)? You have to have knowledge in CSS, JS, Frameworks, Multiple DBS

When it comes the question of CSS, you should maintain a list of websites where from you can get updates. Dont learn the CSS from book, but goto websites and see what is happening… If you are still using Tables to design (more…)

Just a small anouncement from me on localization

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I have done couple of projects for the companies I am working in or worked out, which are localized applications. But most of those projects were ANSI based, not unicode. So I made a decision last night that I wont spend my time for any ANSI projects in near future. All my localized projects will be Unicode.

Some of my colleagues will be extremely happy seeing this announcement, I bet that. But I have to mention a few names who inspired me a lot for making such a decision, among those Ekushey, Ankur and Omicronlab to mention.

One more thing, If , by any chance I have to develop a solution for ANSI, be sure that there will also be a unicode port of that project. That means a Hybrid solution.

Thanks to all who inspired me.

Bangla Unicode Phonetic Parsing Script [Transliterator] Released

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Finally the project is finished. I developed the transliterator in javascript to parse the english keyboard input in bangla unicode characters phonetically.

The script is released under LGPL, so anyone can use it.

You can browse the online version of this script at
http://www.phpxperts.com/phonetic/example.html

Or you can browse the subversion repository of code at
http://phoneticbangla.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

Lets evaluate.

A new project – WordPress SQLite

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WordPress runs pretty fine in MySQL. But what if I want to run it in SQLite or in PostgreSQL? No way!!

Last night I started a new project and I am converting wordpress DB-Core as well as the db schema to SQLite. It will be a great project if successful.

I hope I can release it within 3-5 days.

Long Live WordPress.

Storing Bangla Unicode Text in MySQl Database

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Well, If you just set the collation as “utf8-general-ci” that wont do all the things for storing and retrieving bangla unicode texts properly. There are something more to do. Last night while working for a project I just found the solution.

You must add these two lines just after selecting the database, i.e mysql_select_db() function.

mysql_query(‘SET CHARACTER SET utf8’);
mysql_query(“SET SESSION collation_connection =’utf8_general_ci'”);

After executing these two statements MySQL will handle the rest.