Archive for February, 2008
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Today while browsing through my fb account, I wonder how powerful and important facebook has become to all of us. It is like Gmail or a Cell Phone that we can’t live without. 2 years ago when fb was becoming increasingly popular, I was smiling on my own and never wanted to believe a social networking site would become so famous. But its true, with continuous innovation and correct use of Web 2.0, fb has proved me and many others like me completely wrong. Anyways, this post isnt about fb’s innovation but about building rich applications for fb. (more…)
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Here is an example how you can add search box in sidebar. Demo
Download the file here: Pligg - Search Sidebar
Instructions:-
- Create a backup of sidebar.tpl before proceeding
- Refer the attached file. To be used at your own risk.
- Create a new file and name it search.tpl in /template/<yourtemplate>/sidebar_modules/
- Copy the code into search.tpl
- Save the file.
- Open and edit sidebar.tpl file found in /template/<yourtemplate>/
- Append the code where ever you want the search box to appear in sidebar.
- Thats it. Visit your website to see the search box right in your sidebox.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
In my recent project with a client. I was involved in integrating Pligg with his existing website. The project mainly involved design and user login integration. Throughout the website there were many hick-ups and I got to learn a lot about Pligg. One of the tasks was to move the site from development server to live server. I thought this may will help a newbie to learn how to migrate or move a Pligg website.
- Create a backup. Yes, its very important to create a backup no matter what you do. If you are using cpanel then go to Backups > New backup > Full backup (files and database)
- Using an FTP client, download all the files from your root folder (public_html). This step is not required if you’re moving the site from localhost to live server.
- Using Phpmyadmin or equivalent software, export the database tables. This step is required even if the database is on localhost.
- Upload all the downloaded files to the new server. Either in root folder or sub-folder.
- Create the database and user. In cpanel, go to Databases > New Database and similarly create new user and map user to the database.
- Now open lib/dbconnect.php file in your favorite text editor (editplus, dreamweaver etc) and change the database connection strings as per your new database.
- CHMOD /cache and /template_c folders to 777.
- Edit your site name in /config.php
- Also, login to Pligg Administration, go to Configuration > Location >Update site url.
Thats it, visit your site and you should see it as it is. Test your site fully before launching or marketing it. If you land into any trouble do comment here and will try to help you out.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
After months of research and getting to know my needs, I’ve picked up a 1-800 toll free number provider. It took a while and lot of research just to understand my needs. If you’ve gone through my last post on 1-800-number for your company, you would know a little bit about my research and importance of getting a toll free number for the freelance business. (more…)
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I mean it. Many times we hear people talking about essence of Sleep in our lives and how important it is to take night time sleep. But its something that you can’t apply in Freelancing world. Freelancers like me spend more than 16 hours a day working, troubleshooting, responding to emails, and what not, 4 hours go in little social and daily life and the remaining 4 hours to sleep if we are lucky.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Ever thought about building a simple app in your Joomla website to allow certain calculation or a simple contact us form or a complex application form? I worked on a school website a year ago on Joomla and the other day I got a call from the client for a web based application form for the school. To keep things in short, these were the requirements of the project:
- Online application form embedded in site with current design and style
- Process required fields and reduce spam
- Email results to site admin and CC a copy to applicant
- Store Results in database and be able to export in excel sheet
With all the requirements in mind, I started researching on available Joomla components and also ways of getting it done manually (without any extensions). I ended up testing almost every Form Component and thought it would make some sense to put a report on vaked! So here it is, a short report on all the major Form Components for Joomla. BTW, I went with ChronoForms for this project.
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
I’ve experienced it over time after time. TemplateMonster.com does not upgrade their template to work with latest ecommerce packages. This has been a real pain to most of web developers looking to use template monster designs for their osCommerce or Zen-cart projects. The worst thing is, there is no customer support team that can answer your questions at templatemoster. (more…)
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