You have large file to upload to your server and hate FTP clients that takes numerous days and nights to upload, Try SSH to upload files. SSH is comparatively faster than FTP (My Personal Opinion). If you are running Linux or FreeBSD Operating System on your local computer and have access to server shell, use [...]

Out of the box, Joomla! does a great job of managing the content needed to make your Web site sing. But for many people, the true power of Joomla! lies in the application framework that makes it possible for developers all around the world to create powerful add-ons that are called Extensions. An Extension is [...]

If you have a VPS or Linux server running Apache the good old fashioned way without fancy control panels, you’ll quickly have to learn some Apache tweaks. One of the main issues we commonly run into is a non-working .htaccess file.  Apache doesn’t come with .htaccess support automatically turned on.  You’ll have to turn it [...]

Elements are of utmost importance in Joomla development. Elements allows you to create custom parameter type that you can use in your metadata files. Metadata files are xml files that are used to provide configuration parameters to your component, module, plugin or even views. Metadata files for your views are used configure menu links that [...]

I have recently started working on android SDK and it is the future I say. Android is here to stay for long.  I use eclipse for development and android sdk fits just fine with ADT plugin for Eclipse. But some of us must have faced a error that says “Cannot connect to keystore” while installing [...]

Have you wondered, if there was an easy way to find past and future dates in PHP? I had to work on something similar and to tell the truth I did not know that we had easy way around. Yes, I used to create my own library for this, silly me .

Yes! Joomla 1.5.x comes with mootools 1.1.x and it is a pity when you cannot use best of the latest mootools widgets with joomla 1.5.x.  To make the matter worse, you will rarely find forums and blogs that discusses about mootools 1.1. In this case you will definitely want to use mootools 1.2.x with Joomla [...]

I recently had to work with .htaccess to redirect user to their homepage based on subdomain. The requirement was simple and is seen here and there and ofcourse everywhere now a days in different social networks. The requirement was redirecting http://username.domain.tld to http://domain.tld/user.php?u=username. This is just an example (Not similar to url I used). So [...]

Have you ever wanted to automatically ajaxify joomla links? This is to say if you ever wished that all the links would open with ajax request in your main component area! If yes, then read on! This small tutorial will teach you how to automatically implement ajax requests in every link on a joomla page. [...]

I hear different people saying different things about multi-threading in PHP. Some say it cannot be done, no way and others say yes, it can be done. But I say, it cannot be done purely but we can implement pseudo multithreading. That is we can fake multi threading in PHP. So how do we do [...]