These flash components are used for extending the functionality of flash. These flash components or flash extensions are installed in Flash Authoring environment(IDE).

Various Flash Components

Flashloaded.com has varieties of flash components divided in various categories like Menus, CMS, sounds and effects, charts etc. These exclusive collections of flash components or extensions can be useful to you for adding more visualization, effects and interactivity to your web based projects.

Now, I’m going to talk about few flash components from their website which I liked during my browsing to that website.

3D Menus Component

You can view the demo of 3D menu flash components in their website. You can different kind of 3D fancy in their website menu available at reasonable price. Once you buy them, you can easily create fancy menus with a very little code in your web application.

Hotflashvideo extension

Another very useful flash extension, which might be handy tool if you’re going to build a community based website or video portal. This extension allows you to easily add interactive hotspots to your Flash Video without embedding a heavy .flv into your SWF file. You can view the demo of hotstop and this extension from here.

http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/hotflashvideo/example1.html

If you click on the man in the video, you’ll see the detail of that person in the right hand side. Isn’t this a cool component?

Try Free Components

Even flashloaded.com is providing some of the components at free of cost. You can download and use them in your project. Why don’t you try and use these free flash components from flashloaded.com?

Icons divided in Various Category

There are more than 15 categories under which icons are categorized in Free Icons Download. So it will be easy for you to find the icon of certain category of your choice. Furthermore, you can browser the icon-sets by various options such as Latest, Most Downloads, Most Populars .

Useful Icons

Whenever I need icons for me, my first choice is Freeiconsdownloads as they have exclusive collections of useful items icons divided under various category. You can find the icons in that website easily navigating from different category.

Other free designing Stuff

Including free Icons,Freeiconsdownload has many other free designing stuffs like free banners, free logos and designs and interfaces. You can browser all these other free designing stuffs from the right sider bar of their website.

Have look at freeiconsdownloads.com , it very useful website for for designing stuffs which you may need on your daily works.

Yesterday, my friend Sujit asked me how can we get the mouse clicked position and display the pop-up message in that mouse clicked position using jQuery.Today, I’ve come up with the tutorial for the solution of this problem. In this tutorial, you’ll see how to display the pop-up message in mouse clicked position using jQuery. When you click the mouse in any position of document, the pop-up message gets displayed with the mouse position around the middle part of the pop-up message.

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HTML code to display pop-up message on mouse clicked position

<div id="popuup_div" class="popup_msg">
   ....you can write the mssage here...
</div>

As you can above, the element displaying pop-up message is defined with the id “popup_div” and class of this element is “popup_msg“. You can write your custom message inside that div.

CSS code to display pop-up message on mouse clicked position

.popup_msg{
position:absolute;
z-index:10;
width:172px;
height:102px;
text-align:center;
color:#FF0000;
font: 14px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background:url(bg_image.gif) bottom right no-repeat;
display:none;
}

The above CSS attribute is straightforward and you can change the attribute according to your requirement. But remember that, the position attribute should be set to absolute value and z-index should be greater than the other element’s z-index. Furthermore, the width and height attribute must be set according to the background image of pop-up message.

JavaScript ( jQuery ) code for displaying pop-up message

$(document).click(function(e)
{
  //getting height and width of the message box
  var height = $('#popuup_div').height();
  var width = $('#popuup_div').width();
  //calculating offset for displaying popup message
  leftVal=e.pageX-(width/2)+"px";
  topVal=e.pageY-(height/2)+"px";
  //show the popup message and hide with fading effect
  $('#popuup_div').css({left:leftVal,top:topVal}).show().fadeOut(1500);
});

As the above code is well document. I’m just going to give you the brief description. First of all, we took the height and width of the pop-up element. After that, we’ve calculated the left and top offset of element so that it gets displayed with the mouse position is around in it’s middle part. of the element With the last line of jQuery code, pop-up message’s left and top position is set and displayed. This pop-up message gets hidden with fading effect with the fadeOut() function of jQuery.

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Companion suite has got very good reviews from their clients as a CRM software. The major corporate clients in business are using this software suite which includes Coca-cola, Danone, Nestle and many more. So, If you want to improve and manage customer relationship in your business then why don’t you give Companion Suite a try.

What is web services?

In a typical web surfing scenario, a visitor visits a website and use the functionality provided by that particular website.HTTP request is send to server from web browsers and server responses are translated by browser to display the desired result of the visitor. But, this scenario has been changed in the recenttdays. You don’t need to visit the particular website to use their service and functionality if they are providing web services. Web services are set of platform independent exposed APIs(functions) which can be used used from remote server over the Internet. There are basically two parties involved in this, one which provides a set of exposed APIs and the another one ,commonly know as web services consumers,is the party which uses the functionality and services provided by web services providing party.

There are different method for providing web services but the most common are SOAP, XML-RPC and REST .

SOAP

SOAP was the acronym of Simple Object Access Protocal but this acronym was dropped in the version of 1.2 of SOAP. It is method for exchanging XML based message over the Internet for providing and consuming web services. SOAP message are transferred forming the SOAP-Envelope.You can view the typical SOAP Message articture from here. SOAP is widely criticized for it’s design complexity.

In PHP 5, there is built-in extension for the providing and consuming web services. But, I personally prefer Nusoap toolkit of PHP for providing and consuming web services using SOAP in PHP.

XML-RPC

XML-RPC (remote procedure call) another way of providing and consuming web services. It uses XML to encode and decode the remote procedure call along with it’s parameter. Compared to the articture of SOAP, it has simpler architecture. You can even define data type of parameters of procedure in XML-RPC. You can visit the official website www.xmlrpc.com to know more about XML-RPC.

In PHP, there is extension which contain various functions for facilating XML-RPC request and response. But the functions xmlrpc_encode_request() and xmlrpc_decode_request() available in PHP is very useful for when it comes to encode and decode XML-RPC request and response.

I’ve built  Nepali Currency Converter using XML-RPC web services provided by foxrate.org.

REST

Representational State Trasfer(REST) is comparatively simpler method for providing and consuming web services. Nowadays, this method is becoming popular in the arena of web services. Unlike above two method, it is not necessary to use XML as a data interchange format in REST. REST architecture is basically focused on two things : Resources and Interface.RESTful  is another term to define REST web services .

Resources are application’s state and functionality which is represented by a unique URL. The resources share a uniform interface to transfer the state between the client and server.

For example the URL, http://example.com/product/11 can be a resource.Suppose, GET method is used to retrieve product detail from that URL, POST method is used to modify the production information and DELETE method can be used to delete the product from the same URL. Here, the HTTP methods works as a interface to access the resources.

Talking about PHP, the format of information(representation) returned can be in XML, JSON or even in HTML format. DOM functions, SimpleXML functions and JSON functions comes handy when you are handling RESTful interfaces in PHP.

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In last poll, Many people supported Zend Framework as the first choice for the PHP developments. And, today I would like to announce the result of the poll “which is the best JavaScript and Ajax framework ?” I would like to thanks all of you 690 voters who has participated in this poll. Today, I’ve no hesitation on saying that jQuery is the most popular and leading choice of web developer as a JavaScript and Ajax framework.

You can look at the poll result below. There is no dispute that  John Resig’s JavaScript library (jQuery) is their first choice as 52% web developers have voted for this library. In this blog, I’ve also posted many jQuery tutorials, Check them out .

View Nepali Currency Converter Tool

You might be wondering, why this person hasn’t posted the code here. Don’t worry I’m a good boy, I’ll post the code for currency conversion in next post and you’ll also be able to make the currency convertion tool for your  native currency.

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I’m not going to post the HTML code, it is same the previous post of floating message box using jQuery. You can refer to that article for HTML code.

CSS code for state preserved hanging message

#message_box { 
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
z-index: 10;
background:#ffc;
padding:5px;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
text-align:center;
width:99%;
display:none;
color:#0000FF;
font: bold 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

The element with id “message_box” is made hidden first with it’s position set to “absolute” for making it hanging. Other attribute you can change according to your need.

JavaScript Code for state preserved hanging message box

As this time, I’ve come up with the state preserved solution. I’ve used JavaScript for setting and getting value from cookie. I’ve used two functions getCookie() directly taken from w2school’s JavaScript cookie tutorial.But I’ve modified the setCookie() functions where you can set the cookie expirty time in number of hours Here is that function,

//function to set the cookie name, values and expiry time in hours
function setCookie(c_name,value,expireHours)
{
  var exhour=new Date(); //create the current date object
  exhour.setHours(exhour.getHours()+1); //setting hours
  document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+
  ((expireHours==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exhour.toGMTString());
}

Now, let’s dig through the jQuery code to provide the state preserved bottom hanging message box.

//when the close button at right corner of the message box is clicked
$('#close_message').click(function()
{
  //the messagebox gets scrool down with top property and gets hidden with zero opacity
  $('#message_box').animate({ top:"-=15px",opacity:0 }, "slow");
   setCookie('show_message','no',1); //cookies is set to "no" value
});

As you can see above, when the cross icon is clicked the message box gets hidden and furtheremroe, it sets a cookie “show_message” with value “no” which expires in one hour. Now, look at the jquery code,

if(getCookie('show_message')!='no')
{
  var pos=parseInt($(window).scrollTop())+parseInt($(window).height());
  $('#message_box').css("top",pos-26+"px");
  $('#message_box').show(); //display the message box

  //scroll the message box to the top offset of browser's scrool bar
  $(window).scroll(function()
  {
    var pos=parseInt($(window).scrollTop())+parseInt($(window).height());
    $('#message_box').animate({top:pos-26+"px" },{queue: false, duration: 500});
  });
}

As, you can see there is condition to show the message box and  code inside scroll event to execute. If the cookie is not set then the message box gets displayed and it will be shown to the bottom of the page according to the requirement.

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Struct female_professional s
{
double styles;
short skirts;
long time_to_understand_ problems;
float mind;
void knowledge;
char non_co-operative;
}

Struct married_females
{
double weight;
Short tempered;
long gossip;
Float hopes;
void word;
char unstable;
}

Struct engaged_females
{
double time_on_phone;
short attention_on_ work;
long boast;
float on_cloud_nine;
void understanding;
char edgy;
}

Struct newly_married_ females
{
double dinner_invitation;
Short time_at_work;
long lunch_break;
void bank_balance;
char hen_pecked;
}

Struct husband_wife_ professionals
{
double income;
Short tempered;
long time_no_see_ each_other;
void love_life;
char money_making;
}

Struct beautiful_city_ girl
{
double boyfriends;
short affairs;
long stories;
void greymatter;
char flirt;
}

Struct old_lady
{
double chin;
Short memory;
long sighs ;
void attention_from_ men ;
char chatterbox;
}

Function to return country, city name from IP address in PHP

function countryCityFromIP($ipAddr)
{
//function to find country and city from IP address
//Developed by Roshan Bhattarai http://roshanbh.com.np

//verify the IP address for the
ip2long($ipAddr)== -1 || ip2long($ipAddr) === false ? trigger_error("Invalid IP", E_USER_ERROR) : "";
$ipDetail=array(); //initialize a blank array

//get the XML result from hostip.info
$xml = file_get_contents("http://api.hostip.info/?ip=".$ipAddr);

//get the city name inside the node <gml:name> and </gml:name>
preg_match("@<Hostip>(\s)*<gml:name>(.*?)</gml:name>@si",$xml,$match);

//assing the city name to the array
$ipDetail['city']=$match[2]; 

//get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryName>(.*?)</countryName>@si",$xml,$matches);

//assign the country name to the $ipDetail array
$ipDetail['country']=$matches[1];

//get the country name inside the node <countryName> and </countryName>
preg_match("@<countryAbbrev>(.*?)</countryAbbrev>@si",$xml,$cc_match);
$ipDetail['country_code']=$cc_match[1]; //assing the country code to array

//return the array containing city, country and country code
return $ipDetail;

}

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As you can see, I’ve documented all the PHP code and I don’t think I need explain anymore about that code. Just notice that, this function returns the array containg three key elements “country” , “city” and “country_code”. Each elements have the value of city, country and country code.

Now, look the the how we can use the above function in PHP,

$IPDetail=countryCityFromIP('12.215.42.19');
echo $IPDetail['country']; //country of that IP address
echo $IPDetail['city']; //outputs the IP detail of the city

Notice that the above PHP function returns the array containing the country , city and country code from IP Address and we can use them in PHP. If you want to know how to get IP address in PHP, you can check this post how you can get real IP address in PHP.

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But, those who are not registered to the Technorati, here is the shortcut method to get the ranking of blogs indexed under Technorati without using their Api. I’ve used the following  URL of technorati

“http://www.technorati.com/blogs/<blog-url>”

and used some regular expression to find the ranking of the blog indexed under technorati withoug using their API.

PHP code to find the technorati ranking without using API

<?php
//enter the blog url don't include http
$blog_url="roshanbh.com.np";
//seeting the URL for technorati
$technorati_url="http://www.technorati.com/blogs/".$blog_url;
//get the html code of the URL
$html_values=file_get_contents($technorati_url);
//get the string within <div class="rank"></div>
preg_match("@<div\b[^>]* class=\"rank\">(.*?)</div>@si",$html_values,$matches);
//strip out of the HTML element from the matches
$rankvalue=strip_tags($matches[1]);
//geting the the rank values out of the string
preg_match("/(\d+(,\d+)?(,\d+)?)/",$rank_value,$matches);
//Display the rank.
echo "Technorati rank is : ".$matches[0];
?>

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As you can above, I’ve used file_get_contens() function of PHP to get the content from Technorati. The rank of the blog if found under the division “<div class=”rank”></div>” in that page of Technorati, you can verify it by viewing the source of that page. After that, I’ve used few regular expression to find the ranking of the blog in PHP.

One thing you must notice that this code will works under this design of Technorati, if the technorati will change the design then there is no guarantee that this code will work at that scenario.