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Blackle.com – Energy Saving Search Engine

June 18, 2009   Shubhamoy   2 Comments


How would you like if you could save energy while searching? According to a theory; a computer’s monitor consumes more power in displaying white color while it comparatively uses very less amount of power in displaying black.

Blackle - Energy Saving Search

Blackle - Energy Saving Search

So friends now start using Blackle – Energy Saving Search and contribute toward the environment. Mainly Blackle is a Google! Custom Search Engine. It has been created by Heap Media just to remind us that even small contributions can also lead to big changes. Therefore I request

What others are saying:

Links about Blackle:

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How To Create A Random Message Generator Using PHP

June 13, 2009   Shubhamoy   4 Comments


Objective: User gets a new message every time; he refreshes the page.

Requirements: Adobe Dreamweaver or any Open Source Editor like Amaya, Aptana Studio etc.

Code:

<?php

$thoughts = “WORK IS WORSHIP

AS YOU SOW, SO YOU REAP

BARKING DOG SELDOM BITE

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

SHOOT FOR THE MOON, YOU WILL REACH THE STARS

AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY

I AM WHAT, I AM

TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE

WHEN THE NIGHT IS DARKEST, THE DAWN IS NEAREST

THEY CONQUER WHO BELIEVE THEY CAN

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

TIME &amp; TIDE WAITS FOR NONE

THINK BEFORE YOU LEAP”;

$thoughts = explode(“\n”, $thoughts);

$chosen = $thoughts[mt_rand(0, count($thoughts)-1)];

print $chosen;

?>

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How To Create Simple PHP Widgets

May 21, 2009   Shubhamoy   1 Comment


Objective:

  • Creating a simple PHP Widget, which will allow the user to reach the result page of Google! from your site.

Requirement:

Creating the form(index.htm):

<form action=“google.php” method=“get” name=“query_form”>

<input id=“search” onclick=‘value=”" ‘ name=“search” type=“text” value=“Enter the search term” />

<input id=“submit” name=“submit” type=“submit” value=“Submit” />

</form>

PHP Script(google.php):

?php
$url=”http://www.google.com/search?q=”.$_REQUEST['search'];//Adding the user query with the URL
header(“Location:$url”);
?>

<?PHP

$url=“http://www.google.com/search?q=”.$_REQUEST['search'];

header(“Location:$url”);

?>

Download the full script, here

Even you can create more widgets just by changing the URLs. I’m mentioning few search URLs:

  • Yahoo Search : http://search.yahoo.com/search?q=
  • Live Search : http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=
  • Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=
  • Answers : http://www.answers.com/topic/
  • Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Thanks to SachinKRaj for guiding me on this script. Do post your comments :)

Shubhamoy

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