What is Code Igniter?
Code Igniter is a PHP web framework which assists in creating complex websites. Unlike other web frameworks, Code Igniter doesn’t force you to use all of it’s components. You select and load them as you require. The only feature you have to use is the URL structuring (/controller/method/) which is very helpful anyway.
Code Igniter follows the Model, View, Controller (MVC) principle. All of your database queries are stored in models, HTML/XML output in Views and the logic code in Controllers. You aren’t forced to do this, however it does keep your code organized and reusable.
Helpers and Libraries
Like most frameworks, Code Igniter comes with many classes that help assist development. They are split into Libraries (AKA Classes) and Helpers. Libraries contain code that you could use on every page of your application – Database ORM, Image Manipulation, Pagination and Benchmarking. Helpers are things like Relative URLs, Forms and Email.
Using helpers and libraries is very easy. If you want it included throughout the site see below (autoloads). If you want it included for every method in a Controller, then you can add it to that Controller’s constructor. If you just want it included in…
W3.org is overhauling its website in order to make it more user-friendly and quiet people who used to wonder (including me) why the administrator body of web have such dull, flat, unorganized and old fashioned website?
The new website looks more attractive and organized. 10 minutes tour of new website can be found here. In contrast with the previous version, this new website uses rich content presentation, including JavaScript.
The website uses jQuery 1.3.2, a very known and popular JavaScript library, instead of pure JavaScript. This is very good news and a big leap towards streamlining the use of JavaScript frameworks, specially in case of jQuery. In addition of core jQuery framework, beta.w3.org also uses jQuery plugins (e.g.: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/), to enhance the user experience.
The biggest news of the day is w3.org beta website doesn’t render correctly in IE6. It’s supposed to be a strong argument for web developers in order to inspire and take initiative towards to stop exclusive coding to render their websites correctly in IE6.
Sourcebits is investing efforts for making one of the best PHP frameworks even better. With a whole team of talented and skilled developers, we’re contributing to the framework using the best proven components we have developed based on our experience using the Zend Framework on our projects.
You can check out the proposals we have already submmitted for review here:
* Zend Calendar.
* Zend Template.
Hope you’ll enjoy! 
Google translate is used by millions of people every day. Combine this with the easy reporting of language errors/mistakes makes it one of the most comprehensive and accurate online translators. Google provides an easy to use API to access their large language database, we’ll be using that today.
It will consist of two textareas, two dropdowns and one button. It will look something like this:
HTML
The HTML code is fairly straight foward. Notice the dropdown menus have values. These are essential as this is the language code, it’s sent to Google.
<body>
<div class="he">
<h2>Translate</h2>
From:
<select id="from">
<option value=sq>Albanian</option><option value=ar>Arabic</option><option value=bg>Bulgarian</option><option value=ca>Catalan</option><option value=zh-CN>Chinese (Simplified)</option><option value=zh-TW>Chinese (Traditional)</option><option value=hr>Croatian</option><option value=cs>Czech</option><option value=da>Danish</option><option value=nl>Dutch</option><option value=en selected>English</option><option value=et>Estonian</option><option value=tl>Filipino</option><option value=fi>Finnish</option><option value=fr>French</option><option value=gl>Galician</option><option value=de>German</option><option value=el>Greek</option><option value=iw>Hebrew</option><option value=hi>Hindi</option><option value=hu>Hungarian</option><option value=id>Indonesian</option><option value=it>Italian</option><option value=ja>Japanese</option><option value=ko>Korean</option><option value=lv>Latvian</option><option value=lt>Lithuanian</option><option value=mt>Maltese</option><option value=no>Norwegian</option><option value=pl>Polish</option><option value=pt>Portuguese</option><option value=ro>Romanian</option><option value=ru>Russian</option><option value=sr>Serbian</option><option value=sk>Slovak</option><option value=sl>Slovenian</option><option value=es>Spanish</option><option value=sv>Swedish</option><option value=th>Thai</option><option value=tr>Turkish</option><option value=uk>Ukrainian</option><option value=vi>Vietnamese</option>
</select>
To:
<select id="to">
<option value=sq>Albanian</option><option value=ar>Arabic</option><option value=bg>Bulgarian</option><option value=ca>Catalan</option><option value=zh-CN>Chinese (Simplified)</option><option value=zh-TW>Chinese (Traditional)</option><option value=hr>Croatian</option><option value=cs>Czech</option><option value=da>Danish</option><option value=nl>Dutch</option><option value=en selected>English</option><option value=et>Estonian</option><option value=tl>Filipino</option><option value=fi>Finnish</option><option value=fr>French</option><option value=gl>Galician</option><option value=de>German</option><option value=el>Greek</option><option value=iw>Hebrew</option><option value=hi>Hindi</option><option value=hu>Hungarian</option><option value=id>Indonesian</option><option value=it>Italian</option><option value=ja>Japanese</option><option value=ko>Korean</option><option value=lv>Latvian</option><option value=lt>Lithuanian</option><option value=mt>Maltese</option><option value=no>Norwegian</option><option value=pl>Polish</option><option value=pt>Portuguese</option><option value=ro>Romanian</option><option value=ru>Russian</option><option value=sr>Serbian</option><option value=sk>Slovak</option><option value=sl>Slovenian</option><option value=es>Spanish</option><option value=sv>Swedish</option><option value=th>Thai</option><option value=tr>Turkish</option><option value=uk>Ukrainian</option><option value=vi>Vietnamese</option>
</select>
</div>
<div class="tebg">
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