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Internationalization and Partial Rendering in the CodeIgniter Framework

Prakash Mohanty — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:29:10 +0000

As experienced Web developers, it won’t shock you to find literally thousands of comparisons between CodeIgniter and the other popular frameworks you may be considering for your site. Each framework has its good and, ummm… less good points, but

Scrape the First Paragraph & Image from a Wikipedia Entry

cary — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:40:40 +0000

Automate fetching Wikipedia descriptions and images for webpage content. Render content dynamically based on specific keywords.

HTML Email Compatibility Across Mail Clients

Prakash Mohanty — Mon, 17 May 2010 00:29:25 +0000

Lots of compatibility issues occur when HTML developers deal with HTML-formatted emails generated using server side languages like PHP, PERL, JAVA, etc. in their projects. From time to time you’ll find the odd gobbledygooked message in your Web-based ...

Using Facebook Connect for your web application

Kishore Nallan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:53:11 +0000

With the exponential growth of Facebook over the past few years, it's safe to say that quite a large number of active web users today own and use a Facebook account regularly. Facebook connect, which Facebook launched late 2008, is a set of APIs which allow you to integrate your users' Facebook profile into your ...

Writing web applications with CodeIgniter – Part 3

Kishore Nallan — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:06:29 +0000

We built a simple to-do list application last week by implementing the CI basics we learnt in first part of this tutorial. Today, let's go over some of the things that will allow you to customise and extend the CI framework for your specific needs.

Changing the default URL routing

As we have ...

Writing web applications with CodeIgniter – Part 2

Kishore Nallan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:01:45 +0000

Last week, we covered the basic structure of a CodeIgniter application. Let's now jump right into developing a simple todo list application using CodeIgniter. We will be keeping the actual functionality of the application itself simple here, as the goal here is to give a good overview on what it takes to build a CI ...

Writing web applications with CodeIgniter: Part 1

Kishore Nallan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:20:42 +0000

CodeIgniter is a PHP framework that makes writing secure web applications a breeze. Being extremely light weighted, it's an impressive toolkit which promotes the Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach to software development. CodeIgniter's incredibly useful libraries, helpers and simplicity give you a sound foundation to quickly build your web apps on. This will be the first part ...

Creating an inline contact form

Kishore Nallan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:41:50 +0000

Customer feedback is arguably one of the most critical factors determining the success of a product over a period of time. Hence, it's not surprising that many websites have some form of contact form or another to encourage users to write back to them. Most of these "contact" pages tend to be on a separate ...

Avoiding long polling

Kishore Nallan — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:04:02 +0000

Right from Twitter to Google Wave, real time information streaming via the browser seems to be the most “happening” thing on the web arena currently. However, feeding real time information as and when it is available to an user using your web application is not as straight forward as it is on a desktop environment.

Light weight alternatives to Apache

Kishore Nallan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:12:44 +0000

When it comes to choosing a Linux web server, Apache, as we all know, is almost a de facto standard. There is even a chance that your web host does not even offer (or worse, know of) an alternative web server. So, it’s not a big surprise that many developers don’t know too much about what other alternatives are available to them.

Dual form processing

Kishore Nallan — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:18:39 +0000

Recently, a client of mine wanted a single web form, residing on the localhost to submit the form contents to a database in the localhost, and as well as to a web server simultaneously. Although this sounds like an unnecessary duplication of data, my client wanted some of the form data to be stored on ...

FLOW3 is arriving

Ramses Paiva — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:01:45 +0000

Not yet released, FLOW3 starts making noises on the mass: what's TYPO3 up to? As a result of the already proven TYPO3 CMS, the upcoming 5th version of the system is bringing a solid PHP framework, which can be used apart from the whole system for developing applications of any kind. The FLOW3 subsite stats, against what's ...

No IE6 support on new W3C website?

Dilip Shukla — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:00:59 +0000

W3.org is overhauling its website in order to make it more user-friendly and quiet people who used to wonder (including me) why the administrator body of web have such dull, flat, unorganized and old fashioned website? The new website looks more attractive and organized. 10 minutes tour of new website ...

Zend Framework – Sourcebits Contribution Team

Ramses Paiva — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:35:09 +0000

Sourcebits is investing efforts for making one of the best PHP frameworks even better. With a whole team of talented and skilled developers, we're contributing to the framework using the best proven components we have developed based on our experience using the Zend Framework on our projects. You can check out the proposals we have already ...

See, Yes! Yes! – GO

Dilip Shukla — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:05:10 +0000

Modular CSS needs to be developed and all inherited properties needs to commented within CSS declaration so one don’t repeat same CSS again and selectors needs to named by some naming convention (e.g. prefixing every declaration by module).

Modules needs to be devised in such way so it remain plug and play if plugged in different application.

See, Yes! Yes! – STEADY

Dilip Shukla — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:57:58 +0000

Not every validated webpage is accessible or ideal but every invalid web page is bad. So always try to validate. First by validating from validators and then by common sense, because technically a page with thousands of nested DIVs are valid. button stimulated out of div is valid. But question is… Is it really?

Philosophy of Object Oriented Programming and Software Design

Hage Yaapa — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 14:33:25 +0000

Now, I am no expert in OOP or software design, but here’s a philosophy which might help you make the most of what you know about OOP and software design.

See, Yes! Yes! – READY

Dilip Shukla — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:28:08 +0000

In today's web arena, CSS has proved its importance in rigid way. Web content is no more targeted to web browsers only, Web content is been served for a verity of media now days. To efficiently handle such situation CSS plays a very crucial role. In order to extract maximum pulp from CSS fruit there are ...

A Tableless Table – Exploring the power of CSS3

Chinmay Chiranjeeb — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:56:55 +0000

The recent browser versions like Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3 are now coming with a great and brand new support: CSS3. Some of the new properties are introduced and here I am going to describe the table value for the display property. To align data in a tabular structure ...

Apache SSL – For Secure online transactions

Sandeep Manne — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:28:51 +0000

Hey you are planning to start a e-commerce website, then you must know about SSL without which no one will trust your website as a safe place to use their cards... What is SSL? SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol used for secure data transfer. This is done by using private keys and certificates. A private ...