RandomHello plugin – ‘Hello’ in different languages

ram — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:41:52 +0000

I’ve always thought it was cool that Flickr would say “Hello” to you in a different language each time you logged in. So a couple of days ago I decided to code up a simple WordPress plugin which would allow me (and hopefully others!) to do the same on any page or post. And the result is the RandomHello plugin. The plugin is currently active on this site and you can see it in action on the homepage.

I invoke the plugin in a fail-safe manner, i.e. if the plugin isn’t active in my WordPress installation then the homepage will just use the plain English “Hello”. The code I used for this is:

if (class_exists('RandomHello') && method_exists(RandomHello, 'hello'))
{
    RandomHello::hello();
}
else
{
    echo 'Hello';
}

All the ‘hello’ words in the plugin are grabbed from http://www.wikihow.com/Say-Hello-in-Different-Languages. The list of languages in the plugin isn’t comprehensive. You can add more yourself to the array in the plugin code:

class RandomHello
{
    private static $_Hellos = array(
        "Afrikaans" => "Haai",
        "Albanian" => "Tungjatjeta",
        "A'Leamona" => "Tél-nìdõ",
        "Armenian" => "Barev",
        "Azerbaijani" => "Salam",
        ...

If you do add some yourself or if you know of any more then let me know and I’ll add them in to the main plugin distribution

RandomHello

ram — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:14:56 +0000

RandomHello is a WordPress plugin which provides you with methods to output ‘Hello’ in a random language.

This plugin requires PHP 5 and at least WordPress 2.3. It has been tested on upto WordPress 2.9.

License: GPL 3.

Current version: 0.1

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Installation

Download RandomHello.
Unzip it into your WordPress plugins folder such that the plugin files are at: wp-content/plugins/random-hello/...
Enable the plugin within your blog’s administration options.
All done!

Usage

Using RandomHello simply involves calling static methods on the RandomHello class. Full API documentation is provided within the installation package. Or if you wish, you can view it online.

For example, this is how you might include it on a page:

if (class_exists('RandomHello') && method_exists(RandomHello, 'hello')) : 
  $hello = RandomHello::get_hello(); 
  echo $hello[1]; 
else: 
  echo 'Hello'; 
endif;

Options

This plugin does not have an administration interface.

Changelog

Version 0.1 (Aug 7, 2008) – the initial release.