Introducing JAXL - Open Source Jabber XMPP Library

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Introduction JAXL stands for "Jabber XMPP Library". For fun, it stands for "Just Another XMPP Library" This library currently supports following features: Connect to a Jabber Server (e.g. Gtalk) TLS Encryption DIGEST-MD5 and PLAIN authentication mechanisms Roster Support Library comes with the following class files: config.ini.php : Holds your jabber ...

PHP Extensions - How and Why?

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

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 . ...

How does PHP echo’s a “Hello World”? - Behind the scene

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

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 ...

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

Monday, November 10th, 2008

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 ...

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

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

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 ...

Getting started with Symfony - A PHP Framework - Part 1

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

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 ...

How to create an upload meter in PHP? Explained

Friday, August 29th, 2008

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 ...

How to get started with web development?

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Many of my friends have asked me on how to start with web development. I am not expert but here in this post I would like to describe a few steps that might help one climb the ladder of web development fast. Kindly feel free to add to this blog ...

Photo Cropper API: How is it achieved?

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Photo Cropper was something which was introduced or I must say became popular after various social networking sites started applying it. This allows users to choose a section from a photo which he wants to upload and show to the world around. I initially tried to investigate how Orkut do this ...

Photo Tagging API : Easy plugin for your websites and blogs

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Flickr, Facebook and now Orkut. One by One everyone has implemented the photo tagging feature into their social network. Initially introduced by Flickr, extended by Facebook and finally Orkut was forced to implement it too. Last night I tried to look into it to found out what does it take ...

Gmail Type Attachment - How to make one?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Google and its wide range of web applications have simple changed the way we used to look at internet. Be it the revolutionary fast Google search engine or mail by Google i.e Gmail. You will find enormous amount of threads and forums discussing How do google achieve doing XYZ? or ...

How to configure Ubuntu and LAMP on Windows

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Hello all Linux freaks, Having already looked upon how to configure Apache-PHP-MySQL on Windows, now here I will try to explain in short how to do the same on Linux OS. I personally don't have a seperate machine for linux. I run Ubuntu on my Windows machine using VM Ware. So ...

Web Development - Part 1: Apache, MySQL, PHP

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Hello Friends, Ever since I have started web development and launched Altertunes, many of my friends have asked me, "How and Where to start web development ?" . Though there are infinite tutorials over the internet on web development, I will try to jot down my experiences and learnings here. To start ...