I was asked for an AS3 Flash counter displaying the time in seconds as they go by and seconds conversion into the proper hours : minutes : seconds display format. To count the seconds, I used AS3 Timer class and for formatting I found this formatTime function of Jeff Depascale and put together following Flash…
There are times when you need to add custom directives in your php.ini and use it for a specific directory or for your entire website. There are two steps involved to force your server to use the updated php.ini and not he default one. First copy the existing php.ini file from this usual location “/usr/local/lib/php.ini”…
Based on Zend Framework, jQuery and 960grid, TomatoCMS is a powerful Content Management System. It’s free and open source licensed under GNU GPL. I installed it just yesterday and completed its configurations and fixed its missing images errors today and I’m already liking muchly whatever I’ve seen until now. There are tons of features in…
There are times when you want to change your website directory structure for the latest directory structure on the request of your SEO team or for some other reason, and using 301 redirects in apache’s .htaccess, this can be done very quickly and efficiently. Here are some scenarios that I have encountered and used .htaccess…
The recent update to the Facebook Fan Pages Profile Photos has improved the design potential quite a bit and it has increased the scope of your Fan Page and Brand promotion and marketing efforts on Facebook. In the new Facebook Fan Page layout, old tabs have been moved from the top of the page to…
Lately, I’ve been in reflection mode. As the financial year closes on June 30th and I complete another year in my day job, and while I do the maths for my financials, I also tend to take stock of my life and things going on and those that are stuck somewhere. May be it’s just…
Google toolbar PR update is rolling today and here are some of the observations for this toolbar PR update: It looks like that there is a new way of calculating PR with this update. I manage and watch many websites and I have rarely seen such a generous PR update before. Websites who are involved…
I recently developed a custom osCommerce Payment Module, and although I have developed payment modules for osCommerce based stores in the past, it was first time that I had to submit the form using the GET method to merchant website for further processing of the order. The issue got further complicated due to the fact…
In MySQL date data type, if the date value is not provided while inserting record, ‘0000-00-00’ will be added as If you want to insert empty value for date field and do not want it saved as 0000-00-00, make your date firled NULL as default and do one of the following. Either specify the data…
In a recent AS3 project, I needed to do draw some shapes using the the Flash AS3 graphics class. Following is a sample how I drew a circle using the graphics class, also how I made it a button and added EventListeners for Mouse Hover and Roll out states. Just open your Actions Panel on…
In Flash CS4 & CS5, Slider component can be used as navigation to move through different frames of a MovieClip on stage. It will display different frames of a MovieClip when dragged. To use the following AS3 code, just create a MovieClip named mc on your stage. You can place different animations/text/artwork/nested clips or whatever…
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…