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.
Here’s a good bit and if you are wondering what’s this shining award for, read on. Two days back, one of my designed and developed web portal FashionCentral.pk won the runners up award for the ‘New Media and Entertainment App’ category. By virtue of being acclaimed as proud winners, Fashion Central along with other winners…
Before you go live with your osCommerce store, make sure your checkout process page are secure and opening over SSL protocol (https://). Of course you need to have SSL certficate installed on your domain. Before you attempt this, open your store domain over SSL https://www.yourstore.com/ and if it opens fine without any browser warning, your…
If you keep getting following error on osCommerce Checkout > Shipping Method page (for any or all post methods on the AusPOST module parcel, express): ERROR: We apologise, we are unable to obtain a valid quote from the Australia Post Server. If you would like to use this option as your shipping method, please contact…
If you get the following error at bash [root@server.com]# service mysqld stop [root@server.com]# service: command not found Then try following command: [root@server.com]# /sbin/service mysqld stop Cheers!
While trying to uncompress a tar.gz file, if you get a message something like this: tar: z: unknown function modifier Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x}[BDeEFhilmnopPqTvw@/[0-7]][bfk][X…] You are using a Sun’s release of tar and -z is not a valid option. Instead, try following commands: gunzip file.tar.gz You will get a tar file, run this: tar xf file.tar…
Sometimes osCommerce store’s default search feature finds no product and search repeatedly returned ‘There is no product that matches the search criteria.’ even though you know products are there. And I had searched the exact name of product which was there and search could not even fetch that! It took me an hour or so,…
After installing the SSL certificate successfully on your web server, If you are getting some error like "unknown certificate issuer" while accessing the URL "https://www.yourdomain.com/", this blog post might resolve your problem, read on! SSL protocol (https://) is a must for any E-Commerce website if you intend to accept payments on your own website. The…
Uploading and downloading files is a chore every webmaster has to cope with on daily basis, but if you do this by compressing the files, uploading the tar or zipped and uncompressing them on server, life becomes a little easier. Similarly taking backup on a server becomes easier if you just compress the files/folder on…
If you want a select drop down option to show/hide specific div contents, here’s a simple solution using jQuery. $(document).ready(function(){ $(“#select_id”).change(function(){ var test = $(this).val(); if(test==\’option value to show\’) { $(“#container”).show(“slow”); }else { $(“#container”).hide(“slow”); } }); HTML code will look something like this. Hey! here are your hidden contents. Cheers!
This is one of the minor CSS problems that we face on every other web project. Checkboxes and radio button labels are not aligned. This can easily be avoided by setting vertical-align of checkbox or radio button. Just define a class and add it to the checkboxes/radio buttons. This will correctly align them with the…
I loved the animation and music was awesome! I don’t care much about priority inbox (yet) but the way they advertised it is really neat. I usually don’t post videos but it was too good.
Taking backup databases is a routine for every webmaster. Make your life a little easier by delegating this boring but extremely important chore to the shell script that will do this automatically and silently everyday, or whatever time you choose, for you For automatic MySql database backup, please use following script to take backup using…
While working recently on a Flash AS3 project, I had a hard time setting up MovieClips as buttons and once I got MovieClips working as buttons, it took some time to figure out how to disable them as button or actually I should call it a clickable area in Action Script 3! In the good…
From my experience as a web designer and developer, I have seen websites getting designed, developed and launched without Search engine optimization (SEO) considered at all in the process and even if it is ever implemented, search engine optimization is mostly only an after-thought half hearted attempt to make up with the internet marketers’ complaints.…
If you ever faced a scenario where you had to parse the rss feed with image thumbnails placed inside “enclosure” tags, SimplePie is the perfect solution. In fact SimplePie can parse mediaRSS. There are several other php classes such as Magpie which can do the job as well. Magpie can parse rss2.0 enclosure but not…