Today i was looking for an effective word press plugin which should help me to manage and modify the look and feel of tags ‘cloud’ box in my this very page. After a short research i found one ultimate-tag-warrior and decided to use it. Continue reading
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Useful string manipulation helpers in CakePHP
CakePHP comes with a bunch of useful helpers and components which provide handy tools for processing and manipulating data. These helpers are not only the valuable assets for the a framework user, but can be of great help to someone writing a core php application and not using the CakePHP framework. Continue reading
CSS and rounded corner example
This is the very first CSS rounded corner technique i learned and used. If someone interested can use it without any doubt. Although, it may look like having too many ‘div’ layers in it, it is a good one, not to say works in all browsers well. Continue reading
getid3 component for cakephp
What is getID3?
getID3() is an open-source, cross-platform software library for the PHP language written by James Heinrich and Allan Hansen. getID3() can extract information from multimedia file formats: audio, video and images in various formats. Information extracted includes playtime, metadata, bitrate, sample rate, number of channels, and much more. getID3() can also write metadata (tags) to several formats. Continue reading
Passed arguments routing and custom ajax pagination url in cakephp
While working in my recent “charity project” i had to list all charities found in a particular region or state. I created a regions_controller and an index function in it to fetch and set records and index.ctp as a view page to display HTML results. Continue reading
An alternate to paginator counter showing page in cakephp
An ordinary yet useful piece of hack to the way the cakephp pagination’s pages “showing page” parameter is displayed. As default, we are used to use $paginator->counter() method which gives us a counter string for the paged result set like “Showing page 1 of 3”. But in my latest project task i needed to show results set something like “Showing 1 to 20 of total 46”. Continue reading
Delete SVN files in Linux or Windows
Sometimes you checkout a recent API source code via some SVN client to your local system and thereafter want to remove SVN files from the directory structure. Here are the different ways to remove SVN files from your linux or windows directories: Continue reading
Full-text search in MySQL
Normally, most of us use “SELECT * FROM table WHERE field1 LIKE ‘%$keyword%'” OR field2 LIKE ‘%$keyword%‘ ..etc” to search our table and get results. This is slow and inefficient approach, as it does return all (too many) rows in which it does find a match for “keyword” without caring for “relevancy” and time. Continue reading
Cakephp important facts you must know – Part 2
CakePHP comes with a bunch of useful helpers and components which provide user handy tools to process and manipulate data. These helpers are not only the valuable assets for the framework user, but can be of great help to someone writing a core php application and not using the CakePHP framework. Continue reading
Spliting CSV (comma seperated) entry grouped by double quotes
By using fgetcsv function we can have well formatted output for csv data without any pain. If you don’t want to use fgetcsv function for some reason and your CSV comma separated entries may contain comma inside except the delimiters, here is a quick alternate. Continue reading