I am a web & mobile app developer based in Lahore. I have been developing creative, interactive, usable & successful web apps, web portals, php and Flash action scripting, REST apis, WordPress plugins & themes. In recent years, I have worked on Ionic, Angular and TypeScript for hybrid mobile apps, Flutter & Dart, React & React Native, and Swift native iOS mobile app development.
For a Drupal based website to work properly, you need FFmpeg installed on server. Before going any further, please note that FFmpeg and FFmpeg PHP extension are two different things (distinct software). While FFmpeg is available as a package on Joyent Smart Machine, however you’ll need to download the FFmpeg extension package from the http://ffmpeg-php.sourceforge.net/…
I had hidden some of my friends’ feeds from my Facebook Newsfeed but when I tried to get some of them back, I had to spend some time to figure out how the hell I’m going to get them back! I thoroughly checked the Facebook Account Settings, Privacy Settings, Edit Friends and each one of…
Setting up osTicket on cPanel is easy and somewhat in Plesk as well, especially the email piping part as they have in depth articles on their wiki. But as soon as you try to set up email piping other than cPanel hosting and Plesk hosting environments, you are in the uncharted waters. Recently, I had…
If you have WordPress intalled on your domain’s root directory, you cannot access any other directory on yuor server from front end by typing that directory in your url. Reason for that is WordPress htaccess file catches all http requests and maps them to WordPress index.php file for further processing. Same is the case with…
In the good old days of AS2, if you needed to create a banner for click tracking, all you had to do was tto palce this simple two line AS code in the first frame of your banner after creating a button MovieClip and that would do the job. But no more in ActionScript3. In…
I recently did a web application for a client. After the completion, they wanted mobile app version of the same application which incidentally included, among other things, an image upload control. I went ahead and embeded a mobile friendly layout and everything worked just fine until I checked it in the iPhone. While testing in…
Google Panda Update presumably initiated to target the Content Farms in the wake of J.C. Penny NY Times article to save the reputation of Google and the quality of its search results, it may have been in the pipeline anyway but that N.Y Times article incident did hasten it, but as the changes roll out,…
It’s my Birthday today, the day when Prince Williams is getting married & giving this day a new dimension and a special place in history. Not that it needed another reference anyway. 🙂 I would like to say thanks to everybody, first of all my mom who wished me, like always, before anybody else did,…
PIM-oscSlideshow1.1 is the updated version for osCommerce v2.3.1. If your store is an earlier version than this, please refer to the PIM-oscSlideshow1.0 on this post. A while back, I needed Slideshow image gallery on the home page in one of the osCommerce based store I was developing. I searched everywhere but could not find any,…
While sharing some Blog post or website article link on Facebook, it automatically finds and shows all usable images available on that article page that you can select to post with article as thumbnail. But sometimes, some images are not shown with the feed. You can rasolve this issue very easily. All you have to…
We all are familiar with the WordPress main RSS feed for the whole Blog but only few bloggers know that WordPress provides them each Category and Comment RSS feeds separately. These feeds can be used other than just making them available for subscription. I have used these individual feeds very successfully for Search engine optimization…
RSS is one of those technologies that help you syndicate your content easily. If you use WordPress as blog, you can set up and configutre howmany blog posts you want to syndicate via RSS. You can also choose whether you want to syndicate Full Article or just its summary. The default WordPress setting of “Full…
Here is what happened today! I got this dreadful Analytics profile deletion email notification from Google: Hello, We want to alert you that the Google Analytics account “Profile Name” has been deleted by “account email”. Please tell non-Administrative users of this account that the account has been deleted. Thank you for your cooperation. Sincerely, The…
A while back, I needed Slideshow image gallery on the home page in one of the osCommerce based store I was developing. I searched everywhere but could not find any, so I ended up developing it on my own and after lot of effort and spending some time, I have put all this together as…
Although it’s not recommended to use short tags < ? instead of “< ? php" in PHP, but sometimes when short_open_tag are set to “off” on server, and when you do need to enable them to make your php application work, you can either enable short php tags in your php.ini file or in .htacess…