Archive for the ‘how-to’ Category

From last day, We were having problem with a project which was shut down in the middle due to heavy traffic. As a technical manager, I was the person who to take charge over the project bring it down to the track. After doing few benchmark test, I came to know that the MySql access from a PHP file was creating the overhead to the CPU of the server. Full story

Few times back, sNare asked me how do display wordpress like overlay box where you can pass the variables when you click on the link and manipulate simultaneous actions in the overlay until user choose to close it. Today, I've come up with the solution of this with model upload overlay box using thickbox, a jquery plugin. I've used the Iframe content of thickbox while displaying the box as modal box. Full story

Sorry friends on the way of move to new home I've been lost from the blog as I didn't have internet connection for few last weeks. Now, I'm back and I try to be regular as much as I can. Inspired from the new feature of wordpress 2.6.x which displays word count of each post, I've developed jQuery plugin to display word-count of Textarea. Please note that it is word count plugin not character counter. Full story

Yesterday, I was in a party and a guy came near to me and asked me what is JSON and how can handle it via PHP. Today, I'm going to tell you something about JSON data and how we can handle them via PHP. Although, JSON stands JavaScript Object Notation, it is used by many other technologies like PHP and Java for data interchange format over the Internet. Full story

Yesterday, Steve asked me how can we have random number function in JavaScript like rand() function of PHP where the programmer can specify the range of two numbers within which we need the random number. Today, I'm going to share two functions in JavaScript, In first function , you can specify the number and the function generate the random number between 1 and N. In another JavaScript function, you can specify range of two numbers between which you've to get a random number. Furthermore, there is optional last parameter in these function for decimal places, if provided, will return the random number with the decimal places specified in the third parameter. Full story