Archive for the ‘Tutorial’ Category

Know about Joomla Extensions

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:37 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Why is my .htaccess not working in VPS?

Monday, January 25, 2010 2:04 1 Comment

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 on [...]

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Creating Color Element in Joomla for custom parameter type

Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:14 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Eclipse error – Cannot connect to keystore

Friday, November 6, 2009 5:39 No Comments

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 [...]

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Calculating Past and Future dates in PHP

Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:09 No Comments

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 .

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Using Mootools 1.2 in Joomla1.5.x

Monday, July 20, 2009 21:46 7 Comments

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 [...]

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Redirecting a subdomain to script with .htaccess

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 23:50 No Comments

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 [...]

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Ajaxifying Joomla Links with Mootools

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 12:21 4 Comments

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.
To [...]

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Multithreading in PHP

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:25 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Using Google Chart API in your website

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 2:44 No Comments

Charts are useful and more informative way of representing data in a website. There are many commercial and opensource components and libraries available to implement charts in a website. Most of them are flash based and very attractive. There may be cases where you don’t want or can’t use flash based charts. So what are [...]

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