TechnoTipworld- Tips,Tricks,Technology

101 useful websites

2015-08-10T15:09:00.000+05:30

1 http://www.ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops. 2 http://www.dictation.io – online voice recognition in the browser itself. 3 http://www.zerodollarmovies.com – find full-length movies on YouTube. 4 http://www.screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 5 http://www.goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes. 6 http://www.unfurlr.come – find the original URL that’s hiding behind a short URL. 7 http://www.qClock – find the local time of a city using Google Maps. 8 http://www.copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren’t on your keyboard. 9 http://www.codeacademy.com – the best place to learn coding online. 10 http://www.lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc. 11 http://www.iconfinder.com – find icons of all sizes. 12 http://www.office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents. 13 http://www.followupthen.com – the easiest way to setup email reminders. 14 http://www.jotti.org – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses. 15 http://www.wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching – see more wolfram tips. 16 http://www.printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter. 17 http://www.ctrlq.save – save online files to Dropbox or Google Drive directly. 18 http://www.ctrql.rss – a search engine for RSS feeds. 19 http://www.e.ggtimer.com – a simple online timer for your daily needs. 20 http://www.coralcdn.org – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN. 21 http://www.random.org – pick random numbers, flip coins, and more. 22 http://www.pdfescape.com – lets you can quickly edit PDFs in the browser itself. 23 http://www.tubemogul.com – simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites. 24 http://www.scr.im – share you email address online without worrying about spam. 25 http://www.spypig.com – now get read receipts for your email. 26 http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont – quickly determine the font name from an image. 27 http://www.google.com/webfonts – a good collection of open source fonts. 28 http://www.regex.info – find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools. 29 http://www.livestream.com – broadcast events live over the web, including your desktop screen. 30 http://www.iwantmyname.com – helps you search domains across all TLDs. 31 http://www.homestyler.com – design from scratch or re-model your home in 3d. 32 http://www.join.me – share you screen with anyone over the web. 33 http://www.onlineocr.net – recognize text from scanned PDFs – see other OCR tools. 34 http://www.flightstats.com – Track flight status at airports worldwide. 35 http://www.wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online. 36 http://www.hundredzeros.com – the site lets you download free Kindle books. 37 http://www.polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors. 38 http://www.marker.to – easily highlight the important parts of a web page for sharing. 39 http://www.typewith.me – work on the same document with multiple people. 40 http://www.whichdateworks.com – planning an event? find a date that works for all. 41 http://www.everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time zones. 42 http://www.gtmetrix.com – the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online. 43 http://www.noteflight.com – print music sheets, write your own music online (review). 44 http://www.imo.im – chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place. 45 http://www.translate.google.com – translate web pages, PDFs and Office documents. 46 http://www.kleki.com – create paintings and sketches with a wide variety of brushes. 47 http://www.similarsites.com – discover new sites that are similar to what you like already. 48 http://www.wordle.net – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds. 49 http://www.bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser. 50 http://www.kuler.adobe.com – get color ideas, also extract colors from photographs. 51 http://www.liveshare.com – share your photos in an album instantly. 52 http://www.lmgtfy.com – when your friends are too lazy to use Google on their own. 53 http://www.midomi.com – when you need to find the name of a song. 54 http://www.google.com/history – see your past searches, also among most important Google URLs 55 http://www.bing.com/images – automatically find perfectly-sized wallpapers for mobiles. 56 http://www.faxzero.com – send an online fax for free – see more fax services. 57 http://www.feedmyinbox.com – get RSS feeds as an email newsletter. 58 http://www.ge.tt – qiuckly send a file to someone, they can even preview it before downloading. 59 http://www.pipebytes.com – transfer files of any size without uploading to a third-party server. 60 http://www.tinychat.com – setup a private chat room in micro-seconds. 61 http://www.privnote.com – create text notes that will self-destruct after being read. 62 http://www.boxoh.com – track the status of any shipment on Google Maps – alternative. 63 http://www.mondrian.io – create vector drawings in the browser 64 http://www.draw.io – create diagrams and flowcharts in the browser, export your drawings to Google Drive and Dropbox. 65 http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com – find if your favorite website is offline or not? 66 http://www.ewhois.com – find the other websites of a person with reverse Analytics lookup. 67 http://www.whoishostingthis.com – find the web host of any website. 68 http://www.labnol.org – software tutorials and how-to guides. 69 http://www.disposablewebpage.com – create a temporary web page that self-destruct. 70 http://www.urbandictionary.com – find definitions of slangs and informal words. 71 http://www.seatguru.com – consult this site before choosing a seat for your next flight. 72 http://www.unsplash.com – download images absolutely free. 73 http://www.zoom.it – view very high-resolution images in your browser without scrolling. 74 http://www.scribblemaps.com – create custom Google Maps easily. 75 http://www.alertful.com – quickly setup email reminders for important events. 76 http://www.picmonkey.com – Picnik is offline but PicMonkey is an even better image editor. 77 http://www.formspring.me – you can ask or answer personal questions here. 78 http://www.sumopaint.com – an excellent layer-based online image editor. 79 http://www.snopes.com – find if that email offer you received is real or just another scam. 80 http://www.typingweb.com – master touch-typing with these practice sessions. 81 http://www.mailvu.com – send video emails to anyone using your web cam. 82 http://www.timerime.com – create timelines with audio, video and images. 83 http://www.stupeflix.com – make a movie out of your images, audio and video clips. 84 http://www.safeweb.norton.com – check the trust level of any website. 85 http://www.teuxdeux.com – a beautiful to-do app that looks like your paper dairy. 86 http://www.deadurl.com – you’ll need this when your bookmarked web pages are deleted. 87 http://www.minutes.io – quickly capture effective notes during meetings. 88 http://www.youtube.com/leanback – Watch YouTube channels in TV mode. 89 http://www.youtube.com/disco – quickly create a video playlist of your favorite artist. 90 http://www.talltweets.com – Send tweets longer than 140 characters. 91 http://www.pancake.io – create a free and simple website using your Dropbox account. 92 http://www.builtwith.com – find the technology stack to know everything about a website. 93 http://www.woorank.com – research a website from the SEO perspective. 94 http://www.mixlr.com – broadcast live audio over the web. 95 http://www.radbox.me – bookmark online videos and watch them later (review). 96 http://www.tagmydoc.com – add QR codes to your documents and presentations (review). 97 http://www.notes.io – the easiest way to write short text notes in the browser. 98 http://www.ctrlq.org/html-mail – send rich-text mails to anyone, anonymously. 99 http://www.fiverr.com – hire people to do little things for $5. 100 http://www.otixo.com – easily manage your online files on Dropbox, Google Docs, etc. 101 http://www.ifttt.com – create a connection between all your online accounts.

List Grid View using jQuery

2015-02-26T19:07:00.003+05:30

List Grid View using jQuery

In almost every e-commerce website that you are designing, the feature to switch between list and grid view is very essential to facilitate better display of the huge product catalog. This is very simple to achieve using jQuery, as you can visualize the very minimal version in the jsfiddle showcased here.

To make this more complete, I experimented showcasing product catalog with fade-in and fade-out transitions while switching between grid and list views. In this post, let us see how to create fading list/grid view switcher with components to display product catalog using jQuery and css.

DEMO DOWNLOAD

1. First let us prepare the content to be dynamically styled according to the view selected. I have used font-awesome icons for displaying list and gridview switch controls in the demo and it is absolutely optional, you can choose to use buttons or links. So first let us place the switching controls inside body tag.

1<div id="viewcontrols">

2       <a class="gridview">

3         <i class="fa fa-th fa-2x"></i>Grid

4       </a>

5       <a class="listview active">

6         <i class="fa fa-list fa-2x">List</i>

7       </a>

8</div>

Next let us add an unordered list containing product details. Each list-item represents one product and I have displayed only one list below, since it is the same for all products. In the demonstration, I have used eight products, that means I have used the list-item eight times.

01<ul class="list">

02    <li>

03        <img src="images/barbie_8.jpg" height="250px" width="250px"/>

04 <section class="list-left">

05 <span class="title">PRODUCT NAME</span>

06 <p>Product description goes here. Aliquam tincidunt diam varius 

07                 ultricies auctor. Vivamus faucibus risus tempus, 

08                 adipiscing justo

09        </p>

10 <div class="icon-group-btn">           

11  <a title="Add to Cart" href="javascript:void(0);" class="btn-cart"> 

12  <span class="icon-cart"></span>

13  <span class="icon-cart-text">

14   Add To Cart      

15  </span>

16  </a>

17  <a title="Add to wishlist" href="#" class="btn-wishlist">

18  <span class="icon-wishlist"></span>

19  <span class="icon-wishlist-text">

20   Add To Wishlist      

21  </span>

22  </a>

23  <a title="Add to Compare" href="#" class="btn-compare">

24  <span class="icon-compare"></span>

25  <span class="compare-text">

26   Add To Compare      

27  </span>

28  </a>

29 </div>  

30 </section>

31 <section class="list-right">

32  <span class="price">$50</span>

33  <span class="detail"><a class="button">Details</a></span>

34 </section>

35 </li>

36</ul>

2. Next we need two different css styles for displaying list and grid views. I have not displayed miscellaneous css styles here that are not mandatory to achieve list and grid layouts. However if you like to design a product catalog exactly like what is shown in the demonstration you can download this project and use it.

LIST LAYOUT

01ul.list{

02width: 800px;

03margin-right: 15%;

04margin-left: 15%;

05}

06ul.list li {

07background: #F7F7F7;

08border-bottom: 1px dotted #CCC;

09margin-bottom: 50px;

10padding-right: 20px;

11height: 250px;

12}

13ul.list li img{

14float: left;

15margin-right: 10px;

16padding-bottom: 0;

17border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;

18}

19ul.list li p{

20overflow:hidden;

21word-wrap:break-word;

22width:250px;

23}

24ul.list li .title{

25overflow:hidden;

26word-wrap:break-word;

27font-size:24px;

28}

29ul.list li .list-left{

30width:300px;

31position:absolute;

32padding-left:260px;

33}

34ul.list li .list-right{

35width:150px;

36float:right;

37}

38ul.list li .price{

39float:right;

40font-size:56px;

41display: block; 

42margin-right: 10px; 

43text-align: right;

44width:100%;

45color:#4FAFC2;

46}

47ul.list li .detail{

48float:right;

49display:block;

50}

GRID LAYOUT

01ul.grid
 li { float: left; width: 265px; height: 440px; border-right: 1px dotted
 #CCC; border-bottom: 1px dotted #CCC;margin:20px; background:#F7F7F7; }

02ul.grid li img{text-align:center;width:100%;}

03ul.grid li p{display:none;}

04ul.grid li .list-left{text-align:left;font-size:24px;margin-left: 10px;margin-top:10px;}

05ul.grid li .icon-group-btn{font-size:14px;}

06ul.grid li .list-right{display:block;width:100px;margin-left: 10px;}

07ul.grid li .list-right .price{font-size:24px;display:block;color:#4FAFC2;}

08ul.grid{

09width: 950px;

10margin-left: 10%;

11}

3. Finally let use jQuery to switch between grid and listviews with fade-in and fade-out effect.

01<script type="text/javascript">

02$(document).ready(function () {    

03var elem=$('ul');      

04$('#viewcontrols a').on('click',function(e) {

05 if ($(this).hasClass('gridview')) {

06  elem.fadeOut(1000, function () {

07  elem.removeClass('list').addClass('grid');

08  elem.fadeIn(1000);

09         });      

10 }

11 else if($(this).hasClass('listview')) {

12  elem.fadeOut(1000, function () {

13  elem.removeClass('grid').addClass('list');

14  elem.fadeIn(1000);

15        });         

16 }

17});

18});

19</script>

That is all. Do not forget to include jQuery library reference inside head tag of your html. Enjoy the demo and download the project to see how other components inside every list-item is styled.

Emirates of uae

2015-02-15T01:14:00.000+05:30

The United Arab Emirates is consists of seven emirates, which occupy the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula. Each emirate, unique and rich in tradition, is an essential component necessary for making up the whole.

ABU DHABI

Abu Dhabi, by far the largest emirate, is ruled by the Al Nahyan family. It occupies 67,340 square kilometres or 86.7% of the total area of the country. The emirate is primarily a vast desert area with about two dozen islands in the coastal waters, including the island where the city of Abu Dhabi is located, plus six sizeable islands further out in the Arabian Gulf. The population of the emirate is concentrated in three areas: the capital city, Abu Dhabi; Al Ain, an oasis city located near the Hajar Mountains; and the villages of the Liwa oases.

Traditionally, the population along the coast relied on fishing and pearling for their livelihood, whilst those in the hinterland relied on date plantations and camel herding. Through remarkable leadership and personal commitment, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan developed Abu Dhabi into an influential, fully modernised state. Upon Sheikh Zayed's death in November 2004, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan became UAE President and Ruler of Abu Dhabi.

DUBAI

Dubai, the second largest of the seven emirates, is ruled by the Al Maktoum family. It occupies an area of approximately 3,900 kilometres, which includes a small enclave called Hatta, situated close to Oman, amongst the Hajar Mountains. Dubai, the capital city, is located along the creek, a natural harbour, which traditionally provided the basis of the trading industry. Pearling and fishing were the main sources of income for the people of Dubai. Under the wise leadership of its rulers, Dubai's focus on trade and industry transformed it into the leading trading port along the southern Gulf. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the current ruler of Dubai.

SHARJAH

Sharjah, which shares its southern border with Dubai, is ruled by the Al Qasimi family. It is approximately 2,600 square kilometres and is the only emirate to have coastlines on both the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. In the nineteenth century the town of Sharjah was the leading port in the lower Gulf. Produce from the interior of Oman, India and Persia arrived there. Sharjah's salt mines meant that salt constituted an important part of its export business, along with pearls. In the 1930s when the pearling industry declined and trade decreased due to the creek silting up, Imperial Airways' flying boats set up a staging post for flights en route to India, which benefited the residents of Sharjah. Today, under the leadership of Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Sharjah is the cultural and educational centre of the UAE and takes pride in preserving the country's cultural heritage as well as promoting Arab culture and traditions.

AJMAN

Ajman is the smallest emirate, comprising only 260 square kilometres. It is ruled by the Al Nuami family. Surrounded mostly by the emirate of Sharjah, Ajman also possesses the small enclaves of Manama and Musfut in the Hajar Mountains. Along the creek dhow building was the specialised trade. Fishing and date-trees provided the local population with their primary means of sustenance. Ajman benefited greatly from the union of the emirates, a fact that is reflected today in their stately buildings and infrastructure. Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuami has been the ruler since 1981.

UMM AL QAIWAIN

Umm Al Qaiwain is ruled by the Al Mualla family. It is the second smallest emirate, with a total area of around 770 square kilometres. Positioned between the emirates of Sharjah and Ajman to the south and Ras Al Khaimah to the north, Umm Al Qaiwain has the smallest population. Fishing is the local population's primary means of income. Date farming also plays a significant role in the economy. After the union of the emirates in 1971 Umm Al Qaiwain developed into a modern state, and continues to progress under its present ruler, Sheikh Rashid bin Ahmed Al Mualla.

RAS AL KHAIMAH

Ras Al Khaimah, the most northerly emirate, is ruled by another branch of the Al Qasimi family. It covers an area of 1,700 square kilometres. Thanks to the run-off water from the Hajar Mountains, Ras Al Khaimah has a unique abundance of flora, so it is no surprise that agriculture is important to the local economy. The emirate also benefits from its stone quarries, and fishing, which is plentiful in the rich waters of the Gulf. The city of Ras Al Khaimah, situated on an inlet, has a rich history. It was renowned for its prosperous port and for its exquisite pearls, which were famous as being the whitest and roundest available anywhere. Ras Al Khaimah's current ruler is Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammed Al Qasimi.

FUJAIRAH

The only emirate without a coastline on the Arabian Gulf is Fujairah, which is ruled by the Al Sharqi family. Situated along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, Fujairah covers about 1,300 square kilometres. Unlike other emirates, where the desert forms a large part of the terrain, mountains and plains are its predominant features. Fujairah's economy is based on fishing and agriculture. Like Ras Al Khaimah, the land in Fujairah is irrigated by rainwater from the Hajar Mountains, making it ideal for farming. Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi is the present ruler.

vodafone-How to check internet balance

2015-02-14T15:37:00.002+05:30


Check 2G/3G Balance	1116# (Then follow instructions) or 1116*2#
Check 2G/3G Balance	SMS 'DATA BAL' to 144
Check Main Balance & Validity	*141#
Check Free seconds and SMS balance	*142#
For Paper Recharge	14016 Digit Secret Code#
Best Deals	Dial 121
Deactivate VAS services (except Vodafone flash and suspended services)	SMS STOP to 321
Activate VAS services(except Vodafone flash)	SMS START to 321
Check the Last 5 Transactions	SMS FIVE to 111
Get GPRS settings	SMS ALL to 111
Deactivate the VAS Service	Call 111 Press 4 option
Check bonus card details	BC Bonus card denomination to 111
Balance Transfer	Dial *130# Option 1: Balance Transfer Option 2: Balance Request Option 3: Call me back Service Option 4: Chota Credit Service

Tutorial for windows 7 USB installation

2015-01-24T13:50:00.001+05:30

Tutorials for windows-7-usb-installation http://getintopc.com/tutorials/windows-7-usb-installation/

Ajax Image Upload using PHP and jQuery

2014-12-31T18:13:00.003+05:30

Following steps are pointed under this process :

1. Include jQuery library.

2. HTML page with upload field.

3. jQuery Ajax code.

3. PHP script to store image.

Ajax Code :


$.ajax({
url: "ajax_php_file.php", // Url to which the request is send
type: "POST",             // Type of request to be send, called as method
data: new FormData(this), // Data sent to server, a set of key/value pairs (i.e. form fields and values)
contentType: false,       // The content type used when sending data to the server.
cache: false,             // To unable request pages to be cached
processData:false,        // To send DOMDocument or non processed data file it is set to false
success: function(data)   // A function to be called if request succeeds
{
$('#loading').hide();
$("#message").html(data);
}
});

PHP code used to store the image :


$sourcePath = $_FILES['file']['tmp_name'];       // Storing source path of the file in a variable
$targetPath = "upload/".$_FILES['file']['name']; // Target path where file is to be stored
move_uploaded_file($sourcePath,$targetPath) ;    // Moving Uploaded file

Blogger sitemap generator

2014-12-28T01:11:00.000+05:30

Here’s what you need to do to expose your blog’s complete site structure to search engines with the help of an XML sitemap.

Open the Sitemap Generator and type the full address of your blogspot blog (or your self-hosted Blogger blog).
Click the Create Sitemap button and this tool will instantly generate the necessary text for your sitemap. Copy the entire generated text to your clipboard (see screenshot below).
Next go to your Blogger dashboard and under Settings – > Search Preferences, the enable Custom robots.txt option (available in the Crawling and Indexing section). Paste the clipboard text here and save your changes.

And we are done. Search engines will automatically discover your XML sitemap files via the robots.txt file and you don’t have to ping them manually.

HİSTORY OF INTERNET

2014-12-24T02:45:00.000+05:30

The Internet had its roots during the 1960's as a project of the United States

government's Department of Defense, to create a non-centralized network. This

project was called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network),

created by the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency established in 1969

to provide a secure and survivable communications network for organizations

engaged in defense-related research.

In order to make the network more global a new sophisticated and standard

protocol was needed. They developed IP (Internet Protocol) technology which

defined how electronic messages were packaged, addressed, and sent over the

network. The standard protocol was invented in 1977 and was called TCP/IP

(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol). TCP/IP allowed users to link

various branches of other complex networks directly to the ARPANET, which soon

came to be called the Internet.

Researchers and academics in other fields began to make use of the network, and

eventually the National Science Foundation (NSF), which had created a similar and

parallel network, called NSFNet, took over much of the TCP/IP technology from

ARPANET and established a distributed network of networks capable of handling

far greater traffic. In 1985, NSF began a program to establish Internet access

across the United States. They created a backbone called the NSFNET and opened

their doors to all educational facilities, academic researchers, government

agencies, and international research organizations. By the 1990's the Internet

experienced explosive growth. It is estimated that the number of computers

connected to the Internet was doubling every year.

Businesses rapidly realized that, by making effective use of the Internet they

could tune their operations and offer new and better services to their customers,

so they started spending vast amounts of money to develop and enhance the

Internet. This generated violent competition among the communications carriers

and hardware and software suppliers to meet this demand. The result is that

bandwidth (i.e., the information carrying capacity of communications lines) on the

Internet has increased tremendously and costs have dropped. It is widely believed

that the Internet has played a significant role in the economic success.

1.2 HİSTORY OF WORLD

WİDE WEB

The World Wide Web (WWW) allows computer users to position and view

multimedia-based documents (i.e., documents with text, graphics, animations,

audios and/or videos) on almost any subject. Even though the Internet was

developed more than three decades ago, the introduction of the WWW was a

relatively recent event. In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (the European

Laboratory for Particle Physics) developed the World Wide Web and several ommunication protocols that form the backbone of the WWW.

The Internet and the World Wide Web will surely be listed among the most

significant and profound creations of humankind. In the past, most computer

applications ran on stand alone computers. (i.e., computers that were not

connected to one another) Today’s applications can be written to communicate

among the world’s hundreds of millions of computers. The Internet makes our

work easier by mixing computing and communications technologies. It makes

information immediately and conveniently accessible worldwide. It makes it

possible for individuals and small businesses to get worldwide contact.

In the last decade, the Internet and World Wide Web have altered the way people

communicate, conduct business and manage their daily lives. They are changing

the nature of the way business is done.

radio button click

2014-12-23T23:31:00.000+05:30

Following code will work on click of any radio button on that page.

$('input[type=radio]').change( function() {
alert("smarttips.in "+ this.checked);
});

conditional ie javascript

2014-12-23T21:56:00.002+05:30

Function detecting IE(earlier or new versions)

function isIE()
{
    var isIE11 = navigator.userAgent.indexOf(".NET CLR") > -1;      
    var isIE11orLess = isIE11 || navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1;
    return isIE11orLess;
}

No of days in a month validation

2014-07-03T17:41:00.002+05:30

Best CSS Time Saving Tools

2013-07-16T09:52:00.000+05:30

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is considered as one of the most popular and widely used development language. CSS is quite easy to learn and use, it also offer some really nice features.
Aside from the fact that CSS is quite fun as compared to other languages, but still some of the tasks in it can be quite irksome. For this reason, various CSS tools were created to help you and make your life easier as a programmer.
We are going to present to you a list of the Top 10 Best CSS Tools to save your Time. This kind of tools will definitely help you do your work more quickly and save your precious time. The most important thing is it will enhance your productivity.
Here's the Top 10 Best CSS Tools: Listed in No Particular Order
1. Quick Form Builder
Accessify’s quick form builder merges two older tools (form builder and form element generator).
2. CSS Text Shadow
It is an amazing CSS tool that generates text shadows.
3. Sencha Animator
Sencha Animator is a powerful CSS3 Tool for creating Animations, text, images, buttons with gradients and embed analytics.
4. CSS Menu Maker
CSS Menu Maker is one of the best tool that provides every freelancer to create custom cross browser compatible CSS menus. You do not need any background of programming because it provides source code for all CSS menus.
5. Patternify
Patternify is a CSS pattern generator.
6. CSS Compressor
An amazing CSS Tool to compress CSS code and and help to speed your website loading time. It can save your server bandwidth as well compressed CSS in a good balance.
7. Prefixr
Prefixr provides Cross-Browser CSS in Seconds! it is also helpful for developers in testing their codes.
8. 3D Transforms
CSS 3D Transforms is an online tool that provides various level of Transforms. This tool is on experimental mode and require specific prefixes in all browsers.
9. CSS3 PIE: Decorations for IE
PIE makes Internet Explorer 6-9 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features.
10. Layer Style
Layer Style is like graphic editor which creates codes in CSS.

How to get form values in jquery using serializeArray() function

2013-04-11T11:55:00.003+05:30

http://smarttips.in/how-to-get-form-values-by-serializearray-jquery-function/

Change readonly property of textbox using jquery

2013-04-03T14:30:00.000+05:30

<html>
<head>
<script>
function fromChange() {

$('#from').select();
$('#from').readOnly = '';
$('#from').focus();

}
</script>

</head>

<body>
<input type="text" readonly="readonly" value="hello@unii.com" id="from" name="from"> (<a href="javascript:fromChange();">change</a>)

</body>
</html>

All About paypal in India(creation, configuration, fees, commission..etc)

2013-04-03T10:31:00.003+05:30

http://smarttips.in/how-to-use-paypal-for-internet-transactions/

Zend framework Query Structure

2013-03-25T15:10:00.002+05:30

$query=Engine_Db_Table::getDefaultAdapter()->select()
->from('engine4_users',array('user_id','email','displayname','level_id','approved',
'creation_date'))
->where('user_id !=?',1);

Zend Framework Image validation

2013-03-22T10:02:00.001+05:30

Zend Framework Image validation using form elements

$this->photo->addValidator('Extension', false, 'jpg,png,gif,jpeg')
                ->addValidator('Size', false, '1MB')
                ->addValidator('ImageSize', array(1,1,1,1));

Zend framework Random select Query

2013-03-15T13:40:00.003+05:30

http://smarttips.in/zend-framework-select-query-with-order-random/

2013-03-04T14:38:00.000+05:30

Delete an element from an array in php:

$aTest = array(0, 1, 2, 3);
unset($aTest[3]);
var_dump($aTest);

Application development using Zend Framework ,complete Tutorials

2013-02-28T19:19:00.001+05:30

Zend Framework building complete application

Well, I have written lots of separate article on Zend Framework. Hopefully most of folk out there searching for valuable help may have gotten some from my articles.
This time my objective is to share everything with you, from basic configuration till to building complete Zend Framework application.
This article will cover
1. How to make initial configuration.
2. How to use Zend_Auth for authentication
3. Using Zend_Session for handling sessions
4. What are models and how to create them
5. Using Zend_Db to handle backend database for storing valuable information.
And much more.
So let’s get started.
1. Creating directory structure and making initial configuration
Zend Framework is based on MVC design patterns. MVC stands for Model, View, Controller. A simple definition of MVC design pattern is to separate business logic from presentation logic.
In order to work with Zend Framework MVC design pattern, you’ll need to make necessary directory structure. There are various ways of making directory structure, I, however will use the most easier to create and understand structure.

The structure I created is.

html_root
   /application
       /controllers
           IndexController.php
       /models
           Users.php
       /forms
           LoginForm.php
       /views
           /scripts
               /dojo
                   index.phtml
   /libaray
       /Zend
/js
   /css
   /images
   /index.phtm

On the top level we have html_root directory, containing application directory, library, js, css and images. It also contain index.phtml called our bootstrap file. This file contain all our configuration code. Further more application directory contain controller, models forms and views directories. Library directory contains Zend components. Js contain all our js files, css contains css files and images contains all images used in our application.
On the hard drive our directory structure looks like

Keep in mind that controllers directory contain our entire controllers, form directory contain all forms used in our application. Model contains php files contain our business logic. Views/scripts contain template files against each controllers.

Now as we have made necessary directory structure, next step is to make necessary configuration in our bootstrap file.
2. Making necessary configuration in our bootstrap- index.php file.
The most important file, that will get all request and route them to specific controllers. It contain code for setting include path, initializing front controller, set controllers path and call dispatch method.

<?php
define('ROOT_DIR', dirname(__FILE__));

set_include_path('.'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT_DIR . '/library'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT_DIR . '/application/models'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT_DIR . '/application/forms'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()
);

require_once "Zend/Loader/Autoloader.php";
$autoloader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader::getInstance();
$autoloader->setFallbackAutoloader(true);

$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();

$frontController->throwExceptions(true);

$frontController->setControllerDirectory(ROOT_DIR.'/application/controllers');
$frontController->dispatch();
?>

The code is very simple to explain. The first line define path to our root directory.
The next lines set include path to /library, /application/models and /application/forms.

Next lines are very important

require_once "Zend/Loader.php";
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();

Help in loading all php files we need in our application. If we don’t use this code, we will need to include require_once statement to load php files needed.

In next lines we get instance of the front controller, set controllers directory and call dispatch method.
Front controller is responsible for handling the user request. It takes the request and on specific criteria take appropriate action.
That’s it. Its our configuration file. Simple and easy.

3. Creating controllers and views
In html_root/application/controllers, create IndexController.php and put the following code in it.

<?php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
   public function indexAction()
   {
   }
}

Every controller must be extended from Zend_Controller_Action and can contain as many methods as possible. Method defined in controllers is called action. Once you create action in the controller, next step is to create view template. For this purpose, in html_root/application/views/scripts/, create index/index.phtml and put the following code in it.

Hello world

That’s it.
Now if you browse
http://localhost/html_root/

You will see
Hello World
If you don’t see “Hello world” printed, read the above guide lines again.
As we have now successfully created directory structure and bootstrap file, its time to make other necessary configuration for database.

4. Configuration for working with database
How a web application can be completed without usage of database. Different web application uses different database. Some uses Mysql, other SQLite, SQL server and Oracle. One of the nice thing about Zend Framework is that it support multiple database servers.
Here we are going to making configuration for Mysql server.
For database configuration, first create config.ini in html_root/application/ and write the following code in it.

[general]
db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL
db.params.host = localhost
db.params.username = root
db.params.password =
db.params.dbname = zend

Now in your bootstrap file make the following changes.

<?php
define('ROOT_DIR', dirname(__FILE__));

set_include_path('.'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT_DIR . '/library'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT_DIR . '/application/models'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . ROOT_DIR . '/application/forms'
. PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path()
);

require_once "Zend/Loader.php";
Zend_Loader::registerAutoload();

$config = new Zend_Config_Ini(ROOT_DIR.'/application/config.ini', 'general');
$db = Zend_Db::factory($config->db);
Zend_Db_Table::setDefaultAdapter($db);

$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$frontController->throwExceptions(true);
$frontController->setControllerDirectory(ROOT_DIR.'/application/controllers');
$frontController->dispatch();
?>

First we load our config.ini file that contain our database configuration. Next we call static factory method of Zend_Db giving it $config->db for database configuration and at the end we set default adapter for our database tables.
That’s it. We have now done all necessary configurations.
Next step is to store and retrieve data from database
5. Working with database data
Now we are going to make an application that will save, display and edit data in the database.
First execute the following query.

CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` INT( 11 ) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
`firstName` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
`lastName` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
`username` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
`email` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL ,
`password` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL
)

This query create a table called users in the database.
Next step is to create model against this table. In your html_root/application/models/ create Users.php and write the following code in it.

<?php
class Users extends Zend_Db_Table
{
   protected $_name = "users";
}

The only thing we have done is extend our Zend_Db_Table and define name of the model. This name must be same as the database table name.
Now in your html_root/application/controllers/IndexController.php, write

<?php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
   public function indexAction()
   {
       $users = new Users();
       $data = $users->fetchAll($users->select());
       $this->view->data = $data;
   }
}

After making changes in IndexController.php, next step is to make changes in html_root/application/views/scripts/index/index.phtml. write the following code in it.

<h4>List of users</h4>
<h5><a href="add" style="color:blue">Add new user</a></h5>
<table border="1">
   <thead>   
       <tr>
           <th>First Name</th>
           <th>Last Name</th>
           <th>Username</th>
           <th>Email</th>
           <th>Action</th>
       </tr>
   </thead>
   <tboody>
       <?php foreach ($this->data as $d) {?>
       <tr>
           <td><?=$d['firstName']?></td>
           <td><?=$d['lastName']?></td>
           <td><?=$d['username']?></td>
           <td><?=$d['email']?></td>
           <td><a href="edit/id/<?=$d['id']?>" style="color:blue">Edit</a></td>
       </tr>
       <?php }?>
   </tbody>
</table>

This will show the list of users.
Next we are going to create a form for adding data to users table.
In your html_root/application/forms/ create CustomForm.php and write the following code in it.

<?php
class CustomForm extends Zend_Form
{
   public function init()
   {
       $this->setMethod('post');
       //$this->setAction('add');

       $id = $this->createElement('hidden','id');
       $firstname = $this->createElement('text','firstname');
       $firstname->setLabel('First Name:')
                   ->setAttrib('size',50);
       $lastname = $this->createElement('text','lastname');
       $lastname->setLabel('Last Name:')
               ->setAttrib('size',50);
       $username = $this->createElement('text','username');
       $username->setLabel('Username:')
               ->setAttrib('size',50);
       $email = $this->createElement('text','email');
       $email->setLabel('Email:')
               ->setAttrib('size',50);
       $password = $this->createElement('password','password');
       $password->setLabel('Password:')
                   ->setAttrib('size',50);

       $password2 = $this->createElement('password','password2');
       $password2->setLabel('Confirm Password::')
                   ->setAttrib('size',50);
       $register = $this->createElement('submit','register');
       $register->setLabel("Register")
               ->setIgnore(true);

       $this->addElements(array(
           $firstname,
           $lastname,
           $username,
           $email,
           $password,
           $password2,
           $id,
           $register
       ));
   }
}

We have successfully created our form, next we are going to write necessary code in our IndexController.php
Write the following code in it

<?php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
   public function indexAction()
   {
       $users  = new Users();
       $data  = $users->fetchAll($users->select());
       $this->view->data = $data->toArray();
   }
  
   public function addAction()
   {
       $users  = new Users();
       $form = new CustomForm();
       $this->view->form = $form;
  

       if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
       $formData  = $this->_request->getPost();
           if ($form->isValid($formData)) {
               if ($formData['password'] != $formData['password2']) {
                   $this->view->errorMsg = "Password and Confirm Password must match.";
                   $this->render('add');
                   return;
           }
           unset($formData['password2']);
           unset($formData['register']);
           $users->insert($formData);
               }
       }
   }
}

The code in addAction create form, get posted data, check whether password and confirm password match and then insert data in the users table.

Now create add.phtml in html_root/application/views/scripts/index/ and write the following code in it.

<h3>Add User</h3>
<?php
   if ($this->errorMsg) {
   echo $this->errorMsg;
}
?>
<?php
   // for displaying form
   echo $this->form;
?>

Next we are going to create action for editing the users table data. Write the following code in the your IndexController.php

<?php
class IndexController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
   public function indexAction()
   {
       //$this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
       $users  = new Users();
       $data  = $users->fetchAll($users->select());
       $this->view->data = $data->toArray();
   }
  
   public function addAction()
   {
       $users  = new Users();
       $form = new CustomForm();
       $this->view->form = $form;
  

       if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
       $formData  = $this->_request->getPost();
           if ($form->isValid($formData)) {
               if ($formData['password'] != $formData['password2']) {
                   $this->view->errorMsg = "Password and Confirm Password must match.";
                   $this->render('add');
                   return;
               }
           unset($formData['password2']);
           unset($formData['register']);
           $users->insert($formData);
           }
       }
   }
  
   public function editAction()
   {
       $users  = new Users();
       $form = new CustomForm();
      
       $id = $this->_getParam("id",1);
       $select = $users->select()
               ->where("id = ?",$id);
       $data = $users->fetchRow($select);
       $form->populate($data->toArray());


       if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
       $formData  = $this->_request->getPost();
           if ($form->isValid($formData)) {
               if ($formData['password'] != $formData['password2']) {
                   $this->view->errorMsg = "Password and Confirm Password must match.";
                   $this->render('add');
                   return;
               }
           unset($formData['password2']);
           unset($formData['register']);
           $users->update($formData,"id = $id");
               }
       }
       $this->view->form = $form;
   }
  
}

The above code fetch the data and populate the form, and then get the posted data and update the users table based on the id.

Create edit.phtml in html_root/application/views/scripts/index/ and write the following code in it.

<h3>Edit User</h3>
<?php
   if ($this->errorMsg) {
   echo $this->errorMsg;
}
?>
<?php
   // for displaying form
   echo $this->form;
?>

6. Create authentication application
As now we have created database application successfully, we are going to create authentication application.

(i). Creating login form
in your html_root/application/forms/ create LoginForm.php and write the following code in it.

<?php
class LoginForm extends Zend_Form
{
   public function init()
   {
       $this->setName('login');
       $this->setMethod('post');
      
       $userName =  $this->createElement('text', 'userName',array('label' => 'username'  ));
       $userName->addFilters(array('StringTrim'))
           ->addValidator('StringLength', false,array(5,50))
           ->setValue('')
           ->setRequired(true);

       $password =  $this->createElement('password','password',array('label' => 'password'  ));
       $password ->setRequired(true)
           ->addValidator('StringLength', false,array(5,50))
           ->setValue('');
          
       $submit =  $this->createElement('submit','save',array('label' => 'login'));
       $submit->setRequired(false)
           ->setIgnore(true);
          
       $this->addElements(array(
                   $userName,
                   $password,
                   $submit,
                   ));
   }
}

In the above form we add two elements, a text box for entering username and password field for entering user password. We also add submit input box.
(ii).Next we create AuthController.php in html_root/application/controllers/ and write the following code

<?php
class AuthController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
   public function loginAction()
   {
       $form = new LoginForm();
       if ($this->getRequest()->isPost()) {
       $values = $this->_request->getPost();
           if ($form->isValid($values)) {
               $users  = new Users();
               $auth = Zend_Auth::getInstance();
               $authAdapter = new Zend_Auth_Adapter_DbTable($users->getAdapter());
       $authAdapter->setTableName('users');
               $authAdapter->setIdentityColumn('userName');
               $authAdapter->setCredentialColumn('password');
              
               $authAdapter->setIdentity($values['userName']);
               $authAdapter->setCredential($values['password']);
       try {
                    $result = $auth->authenticate($authAdapter);
       } catch (Zend_Exception $e) {
                    $this->view->errorMsg = $e->getMessage() . "<br>";
               }
              
           if ($result->isValid()) {
               $data = $authAdapter->getResultRowObject();
               $sess = new Zend_Session_Namespace();
               $sess->username = $data->useruame;
               echo "Welcome <b>".$data->username.'</b><br>You successfully logged in.';
} else {
   echo "invalid username or password try again.";
}
       }
       }
       $this->view->form = $form;
   }
}

In login action we initialize our login form, check for submitted data. We then instantiate our user model as well as Zend_Auth. Setting table name, identity column and credential column. We then pass values submitted through form to identity column and credential column. After setting these things we call authenticate() method.
This authenticate column perform authentication for us.
We then call isValid() method that return true or false based on the authentication.
If isValid() return true, we get the user specific information by calling getResultRowObject() method.
We then create session and assign username to it.
The last thing we will need to create is view template against login action. In html_root/application/views/scripts create auth/login.phtml and write the following code in it.

<fieldset style="width:400px">
<legend>Login</legend>
<?php
echo $this->form;
?>
<div><a href="../index/add" style="color:blue">New user Sign up here</a></div>
</fieldset>

...Thanks for reading this.....

Coding Standards in PHP

2013-02-27T11:54:00.001+05:30

Read more
http://smarttips.in/php-coding-standards/

Calculate Last week signup in SocialEngine Group

2013-02-27T11:51:00.000+05:30

First create a new field in group membership table

field name:creation_date

type:timestamp

default:CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

Use the following code in controller

   $subject=Engine_Api::_()->core()->getSubject('group');
       $this->view->subject=$subject;
       $oUser = new User_Model_DbTable_Users();
       $groupId = (int) $this->_getParam('id');

       //calculate lastweek joined members count
       $oSignups                    = new Group_Model_DbTable_Membership();
       $lastWeekSignups             = $oSignups->getSignups($groupId,date('Y-m-d'));
       $this->view->lastweeksignups = count($lastWeekSignups);

Use the code in model

      $oneWeekAgo = strtotime ( '-1 week' , strtotime ($date));
      $oneWeekdate = date ( 'Y-m-j G:i:s' , $oneWeekAgo );

      $oAdapter   = $this->getAdapter();
      $sSelect    = $oAdapter->select();
      $sSelect->from($this->_name,'user_id AS id');
      $sSelect->where('active = ?', 1);
      $sSelect->where('resource_approved = ?', 1);
      $sSelect->where('resource_id = ?', $groupId);
      if($date != ''):
      $sSelect->where('creation_date > ?',$oneWeekdate);
      endif;
      $aResult    = $oAdapter->fetchAll($sSelect);
      $aIds    = array();
      foreach ($aResult as $aVal) {
    $aIds[]    = $aVal['id'];
      }
      return $aIds;

Import Large Database using Command Prompt in Ubuntu

2013-02-22T15:40:00.000+05:30

http://smarttips.in/import-and-export-large-database-in-phpmyadmin/

Create a widget in socialEngine

2013-02-15T12:54:00.000+05:30

Steps
We can create create widgets in socialengine.There is two ways to do this 1.one is that create widget as common for all modules
1.Go to the folder applications/widgets/
2.Create a folder and rename it as your widget name
3.Then create three files inside the above folder
a,controller file Controller.php
    b,a tpl file index.tpl
    c, a manifest file

Controller.php
<?php

class Widget_PageBlockController extends Engine_Content_Widget_Abstract
{
public function indexAction()
{
    $this->view->data = $this->_getParam('data');
}
}
index.tpl
<?php
/**
* social engine
*
*Author sijo thomas
*/
?>
<div>
<?php echo $this->data ?>
</div>

radio button,checkbox styling using css3 and HTML5

2013-02-15T10:17:00.001+05:30


Fig:check_radio_sheet.png

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="gift.css?v=1.0">
<title>radio button,checkbox styling using css3 and HTML5</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<input type="radio" id="chkgift-1" value="1">Gift one

<label for="chkgift-1"></label>

<input type="radio" id="chkgift-2" value="2">Gift Two
<label for="chkgift-2"></label>
<p>
<p>
<p>
</body>
</html>

gift.css

input[type="radio"] {

display:none;

}
input[type="radio"] + label span {

    position: absolute;
    top:3px;
    left:3px;
    width:19px;
    height:19px;
    vertical-align:middle;
    background:url("../images/check_radio_sheet.png") -38px top no-repeat;
    cursor:pointer;

}
input[type="radio"]:checked + label span {

background:url("../images/check_radio_sheet.png") -57px top no-repeat;

}