PHP-GTK2 Cookbook Blog

This is in response to Redback’s request to have time offset in half hours e.g. South Australian time is +9.30 GMT.

Download here: Yahoo Stock Quote (AJAX module version) v1.5.8

This module allows you to display your twitter news in a module. The tweets are displayed using the Pausing up-down Scroller plugin.

This module is contributed by Claudio Tortorelli of Italy.

Download: Twitter Module v1.5.

This is in response to Chris’s request to allow multiple lines for the home label.

For new lines, please use ~ (similar to that of the googleMaps plugin). Please refer to here for details.

Download here: http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla-Gadgets/googleDirections-To-Here-plugin.php

You can reach me at plurk.com/kksou too!

You can now find out the latest news, plugins, updates, etc. on twitter.com/kksou

There are many new additions in this latest version.

• added a lot more financial info such as P/E ratio, Earnings per share (EPS), market cap, etc.
• read yahoo data by CURL, file_get_contents() or fread()
• display of symbol name from Yahoo e.g. ^N225 is NIKKEI 225, ^HSI is HANG SENG INDEX
• date format e.g. for those in UK, you can now use j/n/Y to display dates in d/m/yyyy
• added global time offset e.g. for those in UK, you can use a global time offset of +5
• added global time zone name, e.g. for those using mountain time, you can set this as MT
• provides link to different charts: 1d, 5d, 1m, ytd, 1y, 2y, 5y
• now links to yahoo interactive chart instead of basic chart
• you can now hide the search field and submit button
• allow you to set the order of the display fields (similar to setting the order of Joomla modules in the admin page)

Download here: http://www.kksou.com/php-gtk2/Joomla-Gadgets/Yahoo-Stock-Quote-AJAX-version.php

This is an extension of the googleDirections plugin.

You specify a designated place to be the destination, and let the user enter the adddress he or she is coming from. Google will then provide the driving or walking directions from the user-specified address to your designated place.

Download: googleDirections - To Here - plugin

Some bug fix here and there.

Also added support for the googleDirections - To Here - plugin.

Some bug fix here and there.

Also added support for the googleDirections - To Here - plugin.

• added new parameter header_map - The default heading displayed above the map is the English word “Map”. You can now change this to your own language.
• added new parameter header_dir - The default heading displayed above the directions is the English word “Directions”. You can now change this to your own language.
• added new parameter header_directions. By default, the map is displayed on the left and the directions on the right. To make the map appear on the right, set map_on_right=1