Web Developers Pit

IF Browsers were women

2009-12-29T19:42:00.001+05:30

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PHP Regular expressions tool

2009-10-22T23:23:00.000+05:30

Regular expressions can be a pain. This tool is designed to help developers learn, practice, and compose regular expressions.http://gethifi.com/regexp/http://gethifi.com/regexp/http://gethifi.com/regexp/

Mysql Timestamps

2009-07-30T01:44:00.001+05:30

All that you want to know abouy MySQL timestamps is well documented here.http://www.gizmola.com/blog/archives/93-Too-much-information-about-the-MySQL-TIMESTAMP.html

Twitter extensions

2009-07-29T20:22:00.001+05:30

Twitter is on rage these days.Twitters apps as firefox extensions just keeps on increasinghttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=twitter&cat=all

MySql GROUP_CONCAT() tip

2009-06-05T19:37:00.003+05:30

Recently I found myself into a silly problem because of misunderstaning / confusion relating to data type of variable set in SELECT commmand using GROUP_CONCAT()I wanted to get all integer ids as comma separated string to be used in other update querymy query:SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(spm_ids) INTO @csvIds FROM someTable WHERE is_active = 1;Whenever my select executed correctly it gave e.g. '2,5,6' as

Python Type Conversions

2009-02-11T16:41:00.003+05:30

FunctionDescriptionint(x [,base])converts x to an integerlong(x [,base])converts x to a long integerfloat(x)converts x to a floating-point numbercomplex(real [,imag])creates a complex numberstr(x)converts x to a string representationrepr(x)converts x to an expression stringeval(str)evaluates str and returns an objecttuple(s)converts a sequence object to a tuplelist(

Clone node issue in IE

2009-02-06T22:06:00.005+05:30

Hi all,I am writing after a long time.If you are wondering why so long?didnt I had anything worthwhile to type?Yes, I didnt had anything to write, coz whatever I learnt in last few months its well documented all over internet.Not to forget an important fact that during my free time last year i Played a lot with my Canon SLR-Like Camera.You can check my photography @ Sinless PhotographyBut this

Mozilla Keyboard Shortcuts

2008-08-06T14:24:00.003+05:30

As you start spending more and more time on Internet and Web Browsers, you will soon realise that you got to surf faster and faster. This is where Mozilla Shortcuts will help.This is a list of keyboard shortcuts in Mozilla Firefox. If you have enabled Emacs-style text

Problems with JS for...in Loop

2008-03-21T11:25:00.003+05:30

Sometimes on pleasant mornings when you have got all the reasons to smile your code breaks down suddenly and your Page contains errors n errors.Similar thing happen to me recently.My webpage was full of JS errors on one fine morning.I just could understand why..... but again google came to my rescue.I found this article.... about dangers of using for...in loopThe Problem Try the following code on

The Guru's

2008-01-24T18:21:00.000+05:30

This image is posted here coz all these Guru's (Father's) have influenced me in some point of time.

PHP filters

2007-12-19T12:58:00.000+05:30

Gone are days of writing a validation class for vaildating different user inputs.Gone are days of writing secure functions for validating URL, email address,etc.In october 2005, first version of Filter package was released by PECL and within 1 year and 5 more releases PECL released final version 0.11 of Filter package.You can download filter package from here http://pecl.php.net/package/

Checking Apache Runtime Status

2007-11-16T17:45:00.000+05:30

mod_status provides information on your apache server activity and performance.This tutorial will show you how to enable this feature in such a way that only requested issued from localhost will be accepted and served. Setting mod_status up By default, server status report is commented so you can not access it. To enable it, you need to uncomment from /etc/apache2/apache2.conf or /usr/local/

Web Developers Link Farm

2007-11-15T15:25:00.000+05:30

Recently I found this cool link [ http://www.devlisting.com/ ] which displays all useful links that can be referred during Web Development. Its a resourceful link farm.Some of the link categories of this farm contains are listed below:AjaxFirefox PluginsRubyTraffic / SEOFlashAsp.netDesignGo here http://www.devlisting.com/

Steps to Improve Front End

2007-10-26T12:25:00.000+05:30

With reference to my last post that Front End Performance are more important than Back End performance I have finally managed to find a nice descriptive article stating how to exactly achieve it. The below are some of the common steps taken at Yahoo to improve performance of Yahoo Products. All the points are covered in this link http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.htmlThe

Reduce your page load time

2007-10-24T18:02:00.000+05:30

Ever wondered why your page loads slowly even when your database queries execute at lightning speed.Ever wondered why Super sites like Yahoo, AOL, etc load faster than your site.If you are still wondering than this small article and the link mentioned at the bottom may help you reduce your page load time.In any optimization effort it's critical to profile current performance to identify where the

Send Header without error

2007-08-31T22:49:00.000+05:30

One of the common errors a web developer often gets is "Headers already sent" error.This happens when we render some text/characters /space in the browser and then try to redirect the page using header function of php.For long I always thought that header function will only work when there is nothing rendered before the header call.But recently I discovered(ofcorse with help of google) that we

Store procedure usage in PHP

2007-08-18T23:42:00.000+05:30

Stored routines (procedures and functions) are supported in MySQL 5.1. A stored procedure is a set of SQL statements that can be stored in the server. Once this has been done, clients don't need to keep reissuing the individual statements but can refer to the stored procedure instead.A stored routine is either a procedure . Stored routines are created with CREATE PROCEDURE statements. A

Control Flow Functions of MySQL

2007-08-09T15:57:00.000+05:30

While doing web programming many times you fetch data from database and depending on the value fetched, the user is shown something or other.In case of optional fields in table it is quite likely that the value may be NULL or something default that you have set.Take for example and option field called product awards which lists all awards bagged by that product.When you write querySELECT pro_id,

2007-07-14T16:02:00.000+05:30

Backward Incompatible Changes Although most existing PHP 4 code should work without changes in PHP5, you should pay attention to the following backward incompatible changes: There are some new reserved keywords. strrpos() and strripos() now use the entire string as a needle. Illegal use of string offsets causes E_ERROR instead of E_WARNING. An example illegal use is: $str = 'abc';

Boolean Full-Text Searches

2007-07-05T01:27:00.000+05:30

Full-text searching is performed using MATCH() ... AGAINST syntax. MATCH() takes a comma-separated list that names the columns to be searched. AGAINST takes a string to search for, and an optional modifier that indicates what type of search to perform. The search string must be a literal string, not a variable or a column name.Interesting Full Text searches for web developers can be Boolean

Ajax Loader Generator

2007-06-15T00:39:00.000+05:30

Well, I have been bit lazy these days by not posting regularly...well actually earlier i was quite busy and now i m very free on a leave from office so dont feel like Starting my PC.Some weeks ago i found this interesting stuff for all you guys for whom AJAX has become a norm in your web applications...Got bored of simple "loading..." text or also bored of simple circular loader...then its time

IE DOM Issue

2007-06-02T16:54:00.000+05:30

Recently I had an issue wherein I had to create new HTML element via DOM.And these HTML elements needed to have some properties as well HTML events like onClick(), onMouseOver(), etc.While doing so my code worked perfectly fine in FireFox, but in IE the new elements created did not behaved in desired manner. After a bit research I found that setAttribute() function doesnt work always in IE (

JavaScript Conditional Compilation.

2007-05-30T10:59:00.000+05:30

Below are few inbuilt JS variable using which we can know some details of Client machine.Predefined conditional compilation variables for JavaScript Variable Description @_win32 Returns true if running on a Win32 system, otherwise NaN. @_win16 Returns true if running on a Win16 system, otherwise NaN. @_mac Returns true if running on an Apple Macintosh system, otherwise NaN. @_alpha

JavaScript No click links

2007-05-25T01:39:00.000+05:30

No-click-links are link which you don't have to click.While Googling for Eazy no click links, I found a Javascript code which enables us to navigate without clicking.The example is given herehttp://labs.mininova.org/noclick/Other than no Clicks, there quite good number of other examples also likemulitselect without control button use,Visual Passwords,Instant Form Validation,etc. ;)btw myself

Browser-Specific selectors (CSS)

2007-05-24T20:02:00.000+05:30

These selectors are very useful when you want to change a style in one browser but not the others. IE 6 and below * html {} IE 7 and below *:first-child+html {} * html {} IE 7 only *:first-child+html {} IE 7 and modern browsers only html>body {} Modern browsers only (not IE 7) html>/**/body {} Recent Opera versions 9 and below html:first-child {} Safari html[

Get First Buisness day of Month- PHP

2007-05-24T15:03:00.000+05:30

I have written a small function which calculates if given date is first buisness day of that month.This can be set in cron job and run every day to check if this is first buisness day.This can be useful for sending newsletters / promotional offers , etc on first buisness day of every month.function definition is given below/*** Function which checks if current date passed is a first buisness day

Navigation Without Mouse Clicks

2007-05-23T18:55:00.000+05:30

Have you ever wondered how Surfing would be without mouse-clicks.Still thinking what I mean.Let me make it straight then.lets Say there exist a "Link". Now inorder to view this page, people would normally click it.Navigating without mouse clicks is that -all we need to do is just do mouseover on it and the link will be clicked and we will be taken to the desired page.This is very much possible

Search Engines

2007-05-21T01:31:00.000+05:30

These days most search engines will automatically index your web page.But if you are interested to do it manually, here is a list of few popular search engines wherein you can feed in your web page address ;)Search Engines that will accept your URLGoogle http://www.google.com/addurl.htmlYahoo! http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/Altavista http://

Web Glossary

2007-05-21T01:00:00.000+05:30

This is a short glossary list for some commonest and few lesser known terms used over www.Web GlossaryActiveMovieA web technology for streaming movies from a web server to a web client. Developed by Microsoft.ActiveXA programming interface (API) that allows web browsers to download and execute Windows programs.AmayaAn open source web browser editor from W3C, used to push leading-edge ideas in

Label / Tag Cloud for Blogger

2007-05-17T15:08:00.000+05:30

After a bit googling, I finally managed to find a good piece of code for making my own tag cloud.This person "phydeaux3" has made it so simple that even a kindergarten kid can do all by his own.Hats off to this person.I wont speak much about it here, you should better check out here, If you like it, go ahead and praise phydeaux3.For those who couldn't find the link here it is once againhttp://

SEO Types

2007-05-16T13:55:00.000+05:30

Types of SEO SEO techniques are classified by some into two broad categories: techniques that search engines recommend as part of good design, and those techniques that search engines do not approve of and attempt to minimize the effect of, referred to as spamdexing. Professional SEO consultants do not offer spamming and spamdexing techniques amongst the services that they provide to clients.

Google bomb

2007-05-12T01:56:00.000+05:30

A Google bomb (also referred to as a 'link bomb') is Internet slang for a certain kind of attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine, often with humorous or political intentions. Because of the way that Google's algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is

Whack your Boss

2007-05-11T01:25:00.000+05:30

Time to Whack your Boss.Its PayBack time....(this is how u embed games in a webpage)Source

About Pit

2007-05-11T00:50:00.000+05:30

True source of inspiration to start this blog were these two adagesKnowledge without sharing is worthless.Knowledge without sharing is as a stagnant water so Experience Learning with Sharing. This is called Web Developers Pit. Hence all articles / news and every damn thing related to web will be published here. Yeah you can mine this pit to any level.

Contact Me

2007-05-11T00:15:00.000+05:30

I would love to hear what you have to say about my writing and what I do. If you have any positive or negative feed back, please take a moment of yours to give back to me, so I can help give you and everyone else a lot more.If you come across anything that you think would interest me and it can feature on my blog, let me know I would love to publish something that our readers like especially if

Google Logo's

2007-05-10T00:45:00.000+05:30

Google Logo'sWell call it googlogy or googleX. I just can't stop exploring google. Google has provided so many tools / pages / features to its users, just to prevent them moving out of google.com and invite more new users.One of its steps in doing so was to connect with peoples emotions and google did it with logo's.Initially Google developers mostly Larry Page customised Google logos just to

Google and You = iGoogle

2007-05-10T00:32:00.000+05:30

Google and You = iGoogleGoogle has transformed its rather plain-sounding Google Personalized Homepage into the new, (hopefully) sexier iGoogle. Apparently it's something of an old idea; according to Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience, iGoogle was floated as a name for the Personalized Homepage back in 2005 when the service was being assembled. Google then decided to

Google results Incomplete

2007-04-26T19:58:00.000+05:30

While playing around with Google, I found that although Google claims it has returned lakhs of entries for your search it never shows more than 1000 entries. check this link out http://www.google.com/search?q=google&hl=en&rls=WZPA,WZPA:2006-37,WZPA:en&start=990&sa=N this is the last page of the results for search keyword google. and at the bottom it shows If the above link

String Manipulation . explode string

2007-04-20T20:42:00.000+05:30

exploding string at each component characterthe below mentioned preg_Split() function is very useful in exploding entire string for each of its characters;$str = 'Mumbai';$chars = preg_split('//', $str,-1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);print_r($chars);outputArray([0] => M[1] => u[2] => m[3] => b[4] => a[5] => i)

JS 3d arrays

2007-04-19T19:55:00.000+05:30

To use multi-dimensional arrays in js, we have to define it as an array at each dimension. -eg:abc['test1'] = new Array();abc['test1'][test2'] = new Array();abc['test1'][test2']['test3'] = new Array();

foreach() substitute in JavaScript JS

2007-04-19T19:35:00.000+05:30

JavaScript For...In StatementThe for...in statement is used to loop (iterate) through the elements of an array or through the properties of an object.The code in the body of the for ... in loop is executed once for each element/property.Syntaxfor (variable in object){code to be executed}The variable argument can be a named variable, an array element, or a property of an object.ExampleUsing for...

appendchild issue in IE

2007-04-19T19:17:00.000+05:30

While Working in one of my applications I had to create new row dynamically on click of a button.The below code worked fine with Mozilla, however nothing happened in IE also no errors were shownvar theTable = document.getElementById(tableId);var rowIdAttribute = i+1;var newRow = document.createElement('tr');newRow.setAttribute("id", rowIdAttribute); theTable.appendChild(newRow );I found that IE