Swashata has written 209 posts

Hey there! This is the place where I write about the technologies I understand. Personally I'm a geek and professionally Web Developer. You can also check my other site to get to know about my other hobbies ;)

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As said before, we were on the move to WP! After working for almost a day, we are finally on it! Thanks to Rahul Bansal’s easy to understand tutorial following which we safely migrated to wp, without a single hickup! The only issue we had so far was the time taken during Domain Propagation! And you wont believe, but it was actually my fault that I forgot to remove the URL Forward from name.com! Just today morning I realized that and...

Finally we are on move to WP… Its been a long we have been with blogger and now we think it is the best time to move into WP!… We have been inactive for a while, as all of our team were busy dealing with our clients! We will very soon setup our portfolio to showcase what we have done so far… We wont take much time for the migration! It has already been started! The next post would be when we have shifted to...

Are you fond of playing online game? If so, then I might have the right thing for you. Basically, I too got a little interest in this game when I was asked to review their service. ZombieDobby is basically a browser based game for net savvies. You install the ZombieDobby Toolbar on your Firefox and you are a part of the zombie world… Keep on surfing the net to increase your score. When you start you get 10 Health. As you surf you...

You should have many links like http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=home OR http://www.domain.com/index.php?page=about where different pages are shown from a single script. [In this case index.php is the script]. Now the question is how to make such kind of system… Basically, what we can do is, use PHP GET method to pass variable URL to the server and response different pages accordingly. Have a look at the online demo… If, you think...

Ever wondered how to shorten a paragraph or string using PHP without broken words? There is a function in PHP substr() which cops a string upto a character length. But the problem is, that it leaves incomplete words after shortening. Say you have a paragraph: The famous astrophysicist, speaking in a new documentary, said spaceships could one day be capable of such high speeds that time slowed down for those on board. According to the Times...

Suppose you are at a URL http://yoursite.domain/dir1/subdir2/subdir/file.php and want to get the 1st level Parent directory of this URL. Evidently, the URL of the parent Directory will be http://yoursite.domain/dir1/subdir2/subdir but the question is how to generate it automatically using PHP. The answer is using PHP function dirname(). Using this, you can easily get any level of parent directories of the current URL. Before you check the...

This post has been outdated. Please check the new one here where we have discussed how to create the system using session and cookie with remember me option. In this tutorial we shall see, how to create a basic Login System in PHP using SESSION. We shall discuss, a fully secured login system with MySQL connectivity along with an Online Demo. The login system will redirect access to the admin file if not logged in! It will also show...

For my upcoming web applications, I seriously needed a good webhost. I just searched alreadyhosting.com and found that they are giving coupons for PacificHost. PacificHost is one of the leader in CPanel Webhosting. Normally, their charges are 4.95$/month for 24 months Package. But with the coupon code given above, you will be get a 20% off and will have to pay only $2.95/month. PacificHost comes with great packages which is ideal for...

Just a few days back, one of my friend asked me how to break a foreach loop in PHP after a certain number of looping. Well, foreach loop is basically the for loop for arrays. It loops until it reaches the end of the array and keeps on executing the block for each of the array content. So, it is named as foreach Loop. This is the basic structure of a foreach loop in PHP: <?php foreach($my_array as $key => $value) { //Code to...

Accidently deleted your files from your memory card and now wondering if there is a way to get them back? Well, obviously there is a way! There are many File Recovery software which does the job of undeleting or unerasing files on your device. The device can be a memory card, a pen drive or your hard disk itself! But the problem is, most of the software are either not free or consumes too much of memory! Well, its been quite a while I...