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, robust, flexible and easy to use Library now provides an event mechanism, allowing developers to register callbacks for various xmpp events in their application code Use integrated BOSH support to write real time web applications in minutes More than 10 new implemented XMPP extensions (XEP's)...
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 will build a custom PHP framework (MVC Architecture). Then go on to discuss in brief about the output control functions and finally show how to build a custom template caching engine using these functions for our framework. Source Code You may want to download the...
I simply love wordpress mainly because of the architectural design it follows to deliver the good. Wordpress provide a hook or filter functionality to almost everything that appears on your blog. If you are a wordpress plugin developer you surely must have used one of them, specially add_filter() hook. add_filter functionality provides plugin developer a way to apply custom hooks on various page sections. For instance add_filter('the_content', 'HelloWorld') will force the content to be passed through the function HelloWorld($content) before being displayed to your blog users. In this blog post I will show you how can you achieve doing the...
Hello Friends, Social media is the way to go now-a-days. After Orkut, Facebook and My Space we saw hundreds of social networking site making their mark in the market. However now a days socialness is not only restricted to social networking sites. Now every company wants to include some amount of socialness into their website, product or whatever it is. However the features which any of the social networking site provide are same and restricted to a certain extent. 3 of the sites which I have developed so far, all have socialness as a base component. (Gtalkbots, Altertunes, IITG Alumni)...
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 have decided to go ahead with symfony and use it for your site development, this is what you will be looking for next. You can download the code for this tutorial from google code base. svn checkout http://abhinavsingh.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/PHP/ Frameworks/Symfony/Authentication abhinavsingh-read-only A Registration-Login-Logout System for your...
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 it using Symfony PHP framework and there was no way out. As I couldn't find much help outside http://symfony-project.com , it made even more difficult for me to implement and understand symfony. So I thought of writing a tutorial, which can help many others like me...
Hello developers, Initially when I started working on Altertunes, I was unaware of the various frameworks which one can use for his website. Though I never have used any of them for Altertunes (main reason being the eagerness to do everything by myself), but may be some of you out there might be interested in having a look at the same: http://prototypejs.org : Undoubtedly one of the best available framework for Ajax in the market. Prototype is a javascript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications. http://script.aculo.us : If you are looking to have all those fade-in...
