Releasing Jaxl 2.0 – Object oriented XMPP framework in PHP

August 2, 2010   -   Open Source Projects, PHP, XMPP   -   6 comments

After months of restructuring the Jaxl library, I am pleased to announce Jaxl 2.0, an object oriented XMPP framework in PHP for developing real time applications for browsers, desktops and hand held devices. What’s new in Jaxl 2.0? A lot of structural changes has been done from the previous version to make it more scalable, [...]

WordPress Toolbar v 2.2 : Custom toolbar url, Support for WPMU and bug fixes

February 15, 2010   -   Open Source Projects, WordPress   -   38 comments

WordPress toolbar plugin provide a facebook, digg style toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog posts. The toolbar url defaults to http://yourblog/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php. However with version 2.2, blog admin can customize toolbar url to http://yourblog/wordpress-toolbar/ through the admin panel. A lot of other enhancements have been added like cross-plugin compatibility and support for WPMU hosted [...]

5 exciting (gaming) bots you can create using Jaxl (Jabber XMPP Library) in PHP

September 12, 2009   -   XMPP   -   23 comments

Jaxl is an open source XMPP client library written in PHP. The object oriented structure of JAXL allow developers to build various extensions using Jaxl library as their base. If used intelligently, JAXL client library is capable of doing more than just chat message transfers. Here are a few applications where developers have tried using [...]

Introducing jSlider: A Content Slider plugin for JQuery

August 27, 2009   -   Open Source Projects, Web Development   -   6 comments

jSlider is a light weight JQuery plugin for content sliding. By content we mean everything: HTML code, Images, Advertisements etc etc. jSlider allows to put our content in simple <div>‘s, and then it automatically generates a content slider for you, which one can customize using various options provided. Screenshot Below is a screen shot of [...]

Building a Custom PHP Framework with a custom template caching engine using Output Control functions

August 17, 2009   -   PHP   -   10 comments

In past 1 year or so, I had opportunities of using a lot of php frameworks including zend, symfony, cakephp, codeigniter. All frameworks have their pros and cons, however that is out of scope of this blog post. You may want to checkout this comparison list of php frameworks here. In this blog post I [...]

fixed.js – Solution to IE6 "position:fixed" Bug

August 15, 2009   -   Web Development   -   4 comments

IE6 has been a bane for all frontend developers for years. An element can be positioned relative to the browser window using the style position:fixed, it does not move when the page is scrolled. You can do nice layout things (e.g. facebook chat bar) with this in most modern browsers but not for IE6 in [...]

How to generate random password like WordPress using PHP?

August 7, 2009   -   WordPress   -   9 comments

WordPress Blogging Engine is a champion in a lot of way. One of the unique thing which you might have noticed is the random password generated by the wordpress, in case you try to generate a new password. Here are a few examples: j0LH(WM9b_-q wr^sqct1cmff )P4-e531#-aL Lets have a look at the code which can [...]

Getting started with Autotools – GNU Build System on Debian

August 2, 2009   -   Web Development   -   1 comment

If you eat and drink open source, chances are high that you might have downloaded an open source project code, only to see files like: aclocal.m4, configure.ac, Makefile.am, Makefile.in and what not. You might have also used commands like ./configure, make etc but what are these files? Does they really belong to the project you [...]

Getting started with Openlaszlo – Framework for developing flash apps

July 15, 2009   -   Web Development   -   3 comments

Openlaszlo is an open source framework which simplifies development of flash applications. Openlaszlo allows you to code your flash apps using xml style laszlo code, and thereafter you can compile your code to output a .swf file for production usage. I first came around openlaszlo while I was developing Alterplayer – open source flash mp3 [...]

XML Parsing in PHP, XPATH way – The best I know so far

July 7, 2009   -   PHP   -   32 comments

If you are a PHP developer, you surely must have done XML parsing at some stage or the other. Over the years I myself have implemented XML Parsing in atleast 3-4 different ways. Finally I have stuck to this approach which I personally find far more better than the rest, Not only because it’s quite [...]

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