Posted by Sajith M.R in general on 15. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
As you all know recent changes in privacy issues made Facebook to change their basic API and added some security concerns. From my best practise, most of the old applications are safe, but you will be in trouble when you create new application. By default you cannot access user’s photos, profile pictures , albums etc. [...]
If you aim to create a multi-language website using PHP + Mysql , remember the following tips.
You can use mysql database for this purpose rather than using separate language files as usual content management system does.
You can create a table with following structure for this purpose.Table: muli-lang
string_id:
page_id:
en:
arb:
fr:
Here string_id is the code for getting content [...]
If you are using https pages or some of the pages (payment pages etc) in your website, keep the following in your mind. In some browsers especially IE shows warning of non-secured content in secured page. This cause user the feeling that the website is not secured.
Use relative url always. Relative URL means those without [...]
I don’t need to explain anything about this game, sorry movie
Go to :http://www.bankrungame.com/
In most of the project, we need to write a lot of queries to create admin backend. Especially for report generation. In old days I used phpTables. But recently I started using Flexigrid, a jQuery plugin for displaying tables. It is very simple to write code and all work in Ajax
Here is the url: http://flexigrid.info/
If [...]
In 2008, after Steve Jobs released a Software Development Kit (SDK)for developing iPhone application, the iPhone OS platform became open for all to development their own application. Xcode is the development environment for iPhone development. Later a lot of frameworks were introduced over this platform. The following are new platforms for developing iPhone applications.
iPhone SDK
[...]
Recently I created a sliding menu for a project using jQuery and ScrollTo functions.
See demo: Slider Menu
We can use the jQuery function $(”.menubar”).scrollTo(id_of_element) to scroll any scrollable area to a particular location.
The idea behind every smooth sliding is using scroll function with overflow:hidden mode.
You can download the source code from : http://www.sajithmr.me/downloads/slider/slider.zip
Here div menu-bar is [...]
Recently Gmail Introduced Video Chat. For a platform, to support the video chat you need to install the flash activex plugin.
You can get the plugin from http://mail.google.com/videochat
But when you click on Install voice and video chat button, Some of you see the page which shows
“The installer should complete in seconds.
If you are having trouble with [...]
Many people already blogged about this article. I made the same experiment. It works.
If you want to find say xyz@gmail.com is invisible or not.
Open your gtalk app and type this email address in top search textbox
Click the profile, it opens in new window as usual
Click on the down arrow button in the top right corner [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in general on 15. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
Like the old REST API, you don’t need to add 2-3 files for Facebook PHP SDK. The new graph api comes in a single file which is located at http://github.com/facebook/php-sdk/
Copy the facebook.php file in to your webroot and include this file in your php code.
require_once(’facebook.php’);
To work fully functional, you need CURL and JSON installed in [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 08. Jul, 2010 | No Comments
There is a very strange issue with PHP session when you prefer session to save in files other than database (normal session).
The problem is: some times you can access all the saved session values from $_SESSION and sometimes it returns a empty array.
If you refresh 10 times, perhaps 4 times you will get session and [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in php, php source code, webworld on 11. Jun, 2010 | 1 Comment
In PHP coding, we spend most of the time for debugging. Either we use echo, print_r or var_dump to check variable values or check whether a particular function is executing or not.
These all things are outputting something to browser. This is not applicable in case of redirection, or image processing (GD) or sometimes with callback [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 22. May, 2010 | No Comments
A very interesting presentation I got from one of my friend last week. I found somebody uploaded that in slideshare. It is here.
Remember, you can forward this ppt to your friends. Only friends ! Don’t forward to your company members or to your boss ! :)
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 14. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
We all have faced this problem during HTML development. Internet Explorer 6 renders transparent PNG images in different way. It puts some other color , it damages the design.
One solution is create gif images for IE6 and mention those in separate style sheet file for IE6
<!–[if IE 6]>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”css/style-ie6.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<![endif]–>
A simpel [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in html, webworld on 13. May, 2010 | No Comments
You can create iPhone style flip using jQuery.
Visit: http://lab.smashup.it/flip/ for more details
Posted by Sajith M.R in php, php source code on 12. May, 2010 | No Comments
Here is a php function which returns from and to date as an array for a range:
<?php
function get_rangeof_dates($time_frame = ‘all_time’)
{
$from_date = ”;
$to_date = ”;
switch($time_frame)
{
case ‘all_time’: $from_date = ‘1170-01-01 00:00:00′;
$to_date = ‘2250-12-31 23:59:59′;
break;
case ‘today’:
$from_date = date(‘Y-m-d 00:00:00′);
$to_date = date(‘Y-m-d 23:59:59′);
break;
[...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 11. May, 2010 | No Comments
This library can be used to check whether an email address is valid or not before sending any email.
This is not a syntax validation. It communicates with mail server and check whether the account is really existing or not.
The steps involved in this library are:
Check syntax of email ( if it is not a valid [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 10. May, 2010 | No Comments
1) Amazing game developed with html5 (without any flash)
http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/asteroids/
2) 12 Examples
http://htmlfive.appspot.com/
3) HTML5 Demos
http://html5demos.com/
4) HTML5 Image uploader
http://demos.hacks.mozilla.org/openweb/imageUploader/
5) A list of html5 bookmarking
http://delicious.com/khalweir/html5
6) A good HTML5 implementation
http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/
7) Basic video player
http://htmlfive.appspot.com/static/video.html
A simple game
http://www.benjoffe.com/code/games/torus/
9) A good presentation
http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide1
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 08. May, 2010 | No Comments
A wide range of jQuery plugin which help us to create Facebook style designs are follows:
I got this huge collection from this website. I am just rewriting that post here.
1) Facybox
Website here
2) Facebox
http://famspam.com/facebox
3) FCBKComplete
Go to webstie
4) Facebook style registration
Go to website
5) Gmail/Facebook style jQuery chat
Go to website
6) Facebook style comment using jQuery
Go to website
7) Facebook [...]
Posted by Sajith M.R in webworld on 07. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
This is just an information for those who wanted to record on screen tutorial videos or capture images. I use Jing. A free version for software is available. It is for both Mac and Windows. It is very easy to make screen capture videos
Go to: http://www.jingproject.com/
Posted by Sajith M.R in php on 06. May, 2010 | 1 Comment
Do you know you can implement http authentication using php code? HTTP authentications are those you see when you open control panel or administrative backend website, prompting for username and password in html authentication prompt.
This can be done in php using following code:
<?php
if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
header(‘WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=”My Realm”‘);
header(‘HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized’);
echo ‘Text to [...]
