Facebook type image rotation and more using PHP and Javascript

July 1, 2009   -   PHP   -   27 comments

If you are a facebook geek like me, you must have noticed till now the image rotate functionality in the photo albums. Facebook allows you to rotate images 90 degree clockwise and anti-clockwise after image upload. If you haven’t tried that till now, below is a screenshot for your convenience. Question: But the question is [...]

MySQL Query Cache, WP-Cache, APC, Memcache – What to choose

January 14, 2009   -   PHP, Scalability   -   44 comments

Hello Cache Freaks, Ever since I changed my job (from Business Intelligence to Web development) and started working with my present employer, I have had a chance to work on a lot of scalable projects. From making my project to scale from 20 Million PV’s to 100 Million PV’s to development of an internal tool, [...]

PHP Extensions – How and Why?

December 9, 2008   -   PHP   -   34 comments

In this short post we will quickly see: How to write PHP extensions? Why to write PHP extensions? However before you could understand what we are going to disucss, I will recommend you to read one of  my previous post How does PHP echo’s a “Hello World”? – Behind the scene . In this post [...]

How does PHP echo's a "Hello World"? – Behind the scene

November 26, 2008   -   PHP   -   16 comments

Have you ever wondered how PHP echo’s a “Hello World” for you on the browser? Even I didn’t until I read about the PHP internals and extensions. I thought may be a few out there will be interested in exploring the other side of PHP, so here we go. In my last post I discussed [...]

What happens before you finally viewed this page?

November 25, 2008   -   PHP   -   7 comments

Since past 1 week or so I am trying to make a small tiny light weight web server of my own, and for the same I have been referring to dozens of papers, websites, people and what not. I still haven’t finished making one, I am still toggling between Java and Python, since both seems [...]

Symfony model layer tips and tricks – A PHP Framework – Part 3

November 10, 2008   -   PHP   -   7 comments

I had a tough time searching for examples over the net for all kind of symfony queries. Though symfony is well documented here, I didn’t find enough examples there. If you have landed up on this post straight and are new to symfony, you may want to first read previous posts: Getting started with Symfony [...]

How to build a login-registration system using Symfony – A PHP Framework – Part 2

October 29, 2008   -   PHP   -   37 comments

Hello again, In the last tutorial we saw a very basic implementation which will simply print “Hello World” on your browser screen. For those who have landed up here straight here, you may want to go through this blog post. Getting started with Symfony – A PHP Framework – Part 1 By now if you [...]

Getting started with Symfony – A PHP Framework – Part 1

October 15, 2008   -   PHP   -   33 comments

Hello Friends, Since past few weeks I have been pushed into something which I have never favored i.e. using a framework for my development. Using a framework can become even more harder if you know all the actual HTML, CSS, JS, PHP coding. Then you just wonder WHY? WHY? WHY? Anyways I had to do [...]

How to create an upload meter in PHP? Explained

August 29, 2008   -   PHP   -   16 comments

It was about 2 months back when I started hunting for an upload meter “How To?” guide on net. Came across a lot of links actually but I must say none of them actually gave me what I wanted to have. Some talked of some patched PHP version to achieve the same and some talked [...]

My Interview with Yahoo-Inc! (Part 1)

May 28, 2008   -   PHP   -   56 comments

Hello Friends, Last month I was interviewed by Yahoo-Inc! for a job as software engineer. Here I would like to point out the discussions and various question/answer sessions I went through before I got my confirmation letter Probably someone looking to join yahoo can take some tips from here. In total I went through 7 [...]

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