I’m happen to announce the private beta launch of a product I’ve been closely working on. It’s called textme widget and you can find it on - textmewidget.com

Textme is a free, secure & instant sms widget for your website. It is all about sending content from the web to a phone. It can be instantly integrated into your website & customized to send useful information like addresses, tickets, snippets, confirmations or anything else you may want to!

It has an incredible ease of use, a recognizable design & the textme promise that increases your users trust.

p.s: I will not be blogging here anymore. We’ve got a new and more interesting blog and banner for our home grown projects. It’s called Epicwhale and you can find us on epicwhale.org

Now this is something fresh & new when it comes to tackling piracy due to cracks, serials & keygens. Looks like Ahinsa 2.0

PS: I wasn’t unable to find the source of this screenie but I do know this made it to the frontpage of Digg.

When you feel you may want to use the requested url with all the get variables passed (just the way it is in the browser’s address bar), you can use the following code snippet:

private function getCurPageURL()
{
	$pageURL = 'http';
	if ($_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;
}

A much better solution to this exists at http://epicwhale.org/blog/2010/12/currency-conversion-using-php/. We highly recommended you use that instead.

This is a very powerful and light weight PHP class that lets you convert between 65+ currencies using Google Finance (http://www.google.com/finance/converter)

Example:

CurrencyRates::Convert('USD', 'INR');

Output:

49 //Since $1 is Rs. 49

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Sometimes you may want to display some part of the page/code only to IE users. Especially when you may be using some png fix javascript files or the famous iepngfix.htc for IE6 clients. This php function lets you identify an IE browser loading your page:

Example:

<?php
    if(detect_ie())
    { //if internet explorer 6 being used, then apply IE png fix
    ?>
        <!--Begin IE PNG Fix-->
        <style type="text/css">
        #shadow_tp, #shadow_btm {
            behavior: url(iepngfix.htc)
        }
        </style>
        <!--End IE PNG Fix-->        
    <?php
    }
?>

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