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How to Add Translation to Custom Module in Magento

2013-06-05T22:53:00.005-07:00

If you are a Magento extension or module developer then you might want to internationalize your module/extension by translating it into different languages. This article will tell you how to add translation to your Magento module or extension. First of all you need to keep in mind that to make translation work in Magento, you should never write bare strings anywhere in your module.

How to Add Date Picker in Magento Config Page

2013-05-15T01:54:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you may want to add date picker in the Magento admin configuration page. There is no direct model that can be called to add the date picker. However there is an easy workaround. Just follow these simple steps and add the date picker. You can find this implementation working in my new Magento extension Featurise.

Featurise - A Feature Tour Plugin for Magento Released

2013-05-15T01:27:00.000-07:00

Featurise is a new feature tour extension. This extension allows you to highlight new features on your Magento store. You can specify newly added features through back-end which are highlighted in form of a beautiful demo playback on your store.

Identifying WordPress Vulnerabilities

2013-05-05T23:15:00.000-07:00

Introduction

We all know that Wordpress is the primary CMS system used on the Internet. We also know that security in Wordpress is not always taken for granted. The Wordpress CMS system can have different vulnerabilities in older versions, so it’s vital keep it up-to-date. We should also be on alert for new zero-day vulnerabilities and patch those systems that are affected. Keep in mind that it's not uncommon to see new zero-day vulnerabilities being discovered in newest versions of Wordpress. We should also configure the Wordpress system as securely as possible; there are multiple articles on the Internet describing how to do that, so we won't go into that in this article. Instead, we'll describe basic principles of identifying vulnerabilities on Wordpress.

Fancy Product Compare Magento Extension Released

2013-04-15T22:48:00.001-07:00

Recently I have released my new Magento extension with the name 'Fancy Product Compare'. Fancy Product Compare allows the visitors on your store to compare the products in a very convenient way. Product comparison is done in a fancy popup window where user can add the product to cart or wishlist. So user is never moved away from the current page and can manage the product comparison list easily and effectively.

Advanced Version of Basket Magento Extension Released

2013-04-14T23:12:00.000-07:00

I have upgraded the 'Basktet' Magento extension to its advanced version. Basket shows all your cart details on a popup box in a beautiful fashion. Just click on 'My Cart' and all products are shown in the popup window. You can easily remove and update the items in the cart without navigating to any other page and your cart is updated in seconds. So Basket can save a lot of customer's time that they spend navigating here and there.

Ordered By Customer Magento Extension Released

2013-04-14T23:03:00.000-07:00

I have recently released my new Magento extension on Magento connect. The extension named 'Ordered By Customer' is a simple application that shows the names and location of customers who ordered the product recently in the sidebars.

Add color picker in Magento Admin Configuration Page

2013-04-10T22:32:00.002-07:00

Sometimes you may want to add color picker in the admin configuration page of your Magento module or extension. You may think this as a big task but believe me this is as simple as anything. Few lines of XML code will do it for you. Here are the exact steps to do this.

Gmail Style Animated Emoticons jQuery Plugin

2012-09-21T00:44:00.000-07:00

Here is the new jQuery plugin for showing Gmail like animated emoticons. If you have loved the animated emoticons of Gmail then you will love this jQuery plugin. The emoticons start animating when you place the mouse over them. The plugin uses regular expressions to find the symbols and convert them into animated characters. See the emoticons in action.

Live Text Search & Highlight Using jQuery

2012-09-13T02:36:00.000-07:00

In this tutorial I will demonstrate the live text search with JavaScript and jQuery. Sometimes you may want to filter the results on a web page with the specified keyword in a text box. This article will search the results and highlight them according to the user input. The results will be shown in the fancy dropdown list below the textbox. Here is the live demo.

Choosing the Right Data Type for MySQL Table Fields

2012-09-06T23:24:00.001-07:00

Choosing the right data type for the field of MySQL tables is always a task full of confusions. You have a number of data types available that can fulfill your needs. So its hard to decide which data type will fit the requirements. In this article I have discussed about the most used data types of MySQL which may help you in deciding about the exact data type to be used for your MySQL fields.

Implementing Openlayers Maps - Free Alternate of Google Maps

2012-08-27T22:40:00.000-07:00

Openlayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. OpenLayers has been developed to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript. In this tutorial I will show show how to implement Openlayer maps in your webpage. See the live demo.

Upload Files from Android to Server Using Multipart Post Entity

2012-08-13T03:02:00.000-07:00

Uploading files and data from an Android device to a server is not a big deal until you are doing this on a high end (high memory) device. But if the memory of your device is low and the size of the file being uploaded is large, then your android application may crash at some moment giving the 'Out of memory' error. To avoid this 'Out of memory' error while uploading files through android device, you need to use the 'Multipart entity' client by apache. You need to download the jar files and then add to your Android project.

Post Link on Facebook Timeline using CURL and PHP

2012-08-09T23:58:00.000-07:00

If you want your web application to post links on the Facebook timeline then this article is for you. In this tutorial I will tell you how to post a link on your Facebook timeline with an image. Here we will post an image with the link. Note that Facebook shows the image posted with the link from its original location i.e the image is not actually uploaded on Facebook server. So you need to upload the image to a publicly accessible server so that it can be accessed by Facebook. Here is the live demo.

How to Switch Between Activities in Android and Using Intents

2012-07-16T03:16:00.000-07:00

Generally the complex Android Applications involve more than one screen and frequent switching between those screens. You also need to pass the data from one screen to another. In this tutorial we will learn how to switch between multiple activities in Android and how to pass data between them using intents. First of all I will tell you about the basic functions needed to create various activities and intents. After that we will create a test project to demonstrate the feature.

First Activity

Twitter like Fixed Header Using LESS CSS Preprocessor

2012-07-12T23:06:00.000-07:00

Less is the widely used CSS preprocessor that extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. From the beginning of web designing CSS has not been given the required attention but LESS provides a totally different way to code the stylesheets.
Style like a Programmer:
Since now you have been 'writing' CSS stylesheets but with LESS you will be 'coding' the stylesheets. So if you are a programmer and hate writing the styles, LESS can be more interesting to you. In LESS you can write functions(mixins), expressions, conditions, operators, classes and much more. So now you will get all spice of programming in styling as well. Happy now:)

Twitter Like Fixed Header

How to Customize the Default Toast Message in Android

2012-07-05T23:18:00.003-07:00

Android provides a very convinient way of showing messages to the user in form of Toasts. Toasts do not require any user interaction, these are just a way of informing some useful or not message to the user. Toasts disappear automatically after a short time. However if you do not like the default Toast message, Android provides you the ability to customize the Toast according to your needs. You can customize the position as well as the appearance of the Toast. However the duration of Toast can accept only two parameters: Toast.LENGTH_SHORT and Toast.LENGTH_LONG. The Toast.LENGTH_SHORT shows the Toast for 2 seconds while the Toast.LENGTH_LONG shows the Toast for 3.5 seconds. You cannot change the duration of the Toast.

Custom Toast Message in Android

How to Generate HTML elements using PHP

2012-06-24T23:45:00.000-07:00

Recently I faced a situation in which I needed to generate HTML documents using core PHP. When I searched php.net I came out with very interesting PHP utility to generate XML/HTML documents and tags. This utility is DOMDocument class. DOMDocument provide us a number of functions to create new XML/HTML tags and insert those tags into the DOM. See the live demo.

Simple Text Spinning Effect with jQuery

2012-06-14T23:15:00.000-07:00

jQuery has always been used to create random animations and effects on web pages. I have written a simple script in jQuery that animates the text in such a way that it looks like if it is spinning on its axis. I have used simple jQuery functions to provide the effect. Main logic is increasing and decreasing the 'letter-spacing' CSS property of the text which gives the simple spinning effect. See it working.

Extract the Content of Zip file Using PHP

2012-06-11T23:52:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you may want the users on your site to upload the zip file and then check what are the contents of that zip file. In this article I will tell you how to extract the contents of the zip file. I temporarily extract the zip files to a directory and then delete it afterwards. You can chose to keep the extracted content if you want. See the live demo here.

How to Add Sound/Audio Effects in HTML5 Canvas Element

2012-06-08T03:50:00.000-07:00

HTML5 canvas is a good playground if you are kind of creative guy. If you are developing a game on the canvas you will surely like to add the sound effects in it. In HTML5 you can play the sound/audio files using the <audio> element. But you cannot use <audio> element directly while developing your own game or animation. But using JavaScript, you can do it very easily. I have used enough sound effects in my game Beerchaser. To add the sound/audio on your canvas just need to add following lines in JavaScript file:

var audio = new Audio("files/sounds/audio.mp3");
audio.play();

Writing My First HTML5 Game

2012-06-07T03:23:00.000-07:00

Writing My First HTML5 Game Recently I started studying about game development in HTML5 using canvas feature of HTML5. HTML5 canvas is really a good place to start game development. I tried writing a simple game called 'Beerchaser'. This game uses very basic HTML5 canvas objects like arc, rectangle, and radialgradients. Although the game is very simple and primitive, it helped me a lot in learning animations on HTML5 canvas. I have added sound effects to the game to make it little bit fancy. You can play it here.

Login and Register Script with Linkedin API and Javascript

2012-05-31T04:56:00.001-07:00

Linkedin is the topmost social network for professionals. In this article I have explained how to use the Linkedin JavaScript API to access and use the user details from Linkedin. Linkedin provides a very beautiful API for developers to fetch the user details. We can use these details for a number of purpose on our web pages like login/register using Linkedin, showing user details from Linkedin, form autofills etc. See the live demo.

Highlight Threaded Author Comments on Blogger - The Simplest Way

2012-05-29T05:17:00.000-07:00

If you have implemented the threaded comments on your blogger blog then it is a bit tricky to highlight the author comments. The template hacks are rarely available for this. I searched over the web and came up by solutions that involved using jQuery library for highlighting the author comments. But that would increase the page load time. So I decided to find the hack myself. After half an hour I came up with the simple solution written in pure JavaScript. This hack finds all the comments on the page and then detects if the comment has been posted by author or someone else. Then we add our custom class to highlight the comment posted by the author.
Note: This hack has been developed for the default blogger template. If you have customized the comment section, implementation may vary. You can check this implementation on this blog at this article.

Search Google Plus Profiles using PHP and Google Plus API

2012-05-28T22:46:00.000-07:00

The main aim of this application is to go familiar with the Google Plus API usage. Google Plus provides an extremely easy to use API to access the public contents on it. Here we will create a simple search application to search user profiles on Google Plus. See the live demo.