Abbas’ Blog

The other day i was chatting with my team mate Shk.Aziz Poonawalla and he inspired me to do a plugin for coppermine which should convert the uploaded documents (txt, pdf, doc, ppt etc..) to Scribd iPaper format and then display them using the Scribd document viewer.

So i went ahead and created such a plugin for coppermine. The plugin requires PHP 5 and CURL on the server and you should register an account on Scribd Platform to get an API key and secret phrase. After installing the plugin whenever a document is uploaded to cpg - it is copied (uploaded) to scribd server as well (behind the scenes). Scribd converts the document to iPaper format on its server and assigns a document id to it. Now when the document is viewed in cpg, we display the Scribd document viewer and supply it the document id. This displays the document in a nice flash viewer.

For further instructions and to download the plugin please see the forum thread.

The other day i had some free time and thought why not try my hand at converting a wordpress theme to coppermine one. I chose Fieldofsand which is a free wordpress them designed by Smarter Templates and started the conversion. Fortunately i did quite well and published the theme for coppermine community.

You may find quite a few HTML/CSS issues with the theme as i am primarily not a designer but developer. If you are a coppermine user then you might want to check the demo of the theme here. You can download the theme from sourceforge download page.

I am excited to announce the launch of Starting 11 | Free Fantasy Football, my latest work at SANIsoft. The project was done for a client based in UK who happens to be a football fanatic. Starting 11 is a fantasy game based on English Premier League where users can create their fantasy (virtual) team consisting of real life players playing in the EPL. The players (and fantasy teams) are awarded points based on real life performances in the matches. Users can create their own leagues and compete with their friends.

It took us around 4 months of hard work to create the application. The project is entirely built on LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) technologies. We have also used jQuery at few places.We have used a popular php framework in the backend. We have tried to optimized the application as much as possible and hope that it will handle high loads at peak time (which will be the weekly deadline to select one’s team).

S11 got around 1300 members on the first day of the launch and more will be registering in the coming days as the word spreads. Many of the Yahoo Fantasy Football’s top players (user’s) have already registered on s11. If you are a football fanatic then don’t wait…get going and register on starting11.