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How to create sliding feedback form using jQuery
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create fancy looking feedback form which slides from the right/left side of your web page. I am sure there are many plugins available for CMS like Joomla, WordPress but it's always a good idea to code something of your own. Certainly, you require this co
Read Full PostIncrease logout or session time in phpmyadmin
What can be more annoying than logging repeatedly into phpmyadmin while you are working on a project. So in this post I am going to discuss how you can increase the logout time for phpmyadmin. The default session storage method is via cookies, hence we need to increase the logout time set inside the
Read Full Post[Solution] HTML validation fail for AddThis buttons
Recently I was doing W3C validation for a website and bumped into a validation trouble because of some social media buttons added to the website. These buttons was added using the famous & widely used AddThis Share Buttons. On Validating I was getting following errors - there is no attribute
Read Full PostAjax:Quickly submit a form in JQuery using serialize
I am sure you often do a form submission via Ajax and more easily using JQuery. But did you know using a simple method called serialize in JQuery form submission could be more easier. Serialize method converts the form elements & values in an encoded string and submits to the form action. This h
Read Full Post1and1.com error “300 Multiple Choices”
Lately I bought hosting from 1and1.com since Dreamhost has been having lot of downtime. In short, experience with 1and1.com has been an awkward till date and I have already requested them to cancel my account under there refund policy. However,while writing .htaccess rules I faced many issues. On
Read Full PostSamsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 with a “Plus”
For every product there comes a time, when improvements are a must to prolong its life-cycle in the market. Samsung has done just that & has just launched a “New & Improved” Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus (P6200). Similar to the earlier model (P1000), Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus (P6200) does have su
Read Full Post5 commonly used url rewriting examples using .htaccess
URL rewriting using .htaccess is pretty common today. Most of the frameworks like WordPress, CodeIgniter,cakePHP etc. provide their own URL rewriting techniques. However, there is always a necessity to beautify the URLs using .htaccess when you are using any of the framework. Without talking abou
Read Full PostSet the User Agent With PHP cURL
cURL is a sleek way to grab contents from a URL. It's helpful in PHP where servers have banned using the function file_get_contents() . A while back I had shared a post which show on how to grab the contents of a URL using cURL. However, cURL is much more than just grabbing data. It can be used to m
Read Full PostBatch resize using ImageMagick
People who do not use or cannot use Adobe Photoshop ,whatever the reason maybe, processing large number of images could be a pain for them. And for those who use Photoshop, it could be a slow process. Using ImageMagick to resize images from Command Line is faster. It may not be as easy as click-cl
Read Full PostPNG Transparency with ImageMagick
I am sure it took you long to figure it out as to how do we change the Transparency of PNG images using ImageMagick. Same was the case with me and that is why I decided to write a post for the same. As you might be aware, ImageMagick is really awesome tool for image manipulation. It performs Imag
Read Full PostHow to pass data into Facebook iFrame application
While you are developing Facebook application you sometimes need to pass data to the application. As a matter of fact iFrame cannot access data from the parent window. Hence you cannot access certain parameters from the URL using $_GET as a usual process. Facebook provides a way to pass certain d
Read Full PostDecoding Art Clokey Google Doodle
Google Doodle always amazes each one of us which their extra ordinary creativeness. Be it the Guitar Le Paul's birthday or today's Google doodle on Art Clokey's birthday. When I opened twitter this morning found that lot many people are discussing about the Google Doodle being made in flash. Howev
Read Full PostShow loading icon in JQuery Ajax request
JQuery is the most used Javascript framework. It's exceptionally simpler and famous. The best part of JQuery is that it has very nicely done documentation and lot many resources available online. Lately, while doing one of my codeigniter I used JQuery and wanted to share a little snippet of code
Read Full Postmysql.sock path in Mac OS X
In my last post I discuss how to enable PHP over Apache in Mac OS X lion and today I bumped into a new problem. The problem is that when you install MySQL on Mac OS X and try to connect it via PHP, you will get an error. This error is thrown due to the fact that the path of the MySQL sockets are dif
Read Full PostHow to inspect css hover , active property using firebug
I am sure that while Design and Development of a website you definitely want to see the :hover property of an element using your favorite addon in FireFox called Firebug. But I have found that many newbie developers do not know how to see this property. Default settings of firebug shows only the "De
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