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Last month @ SANIsoft blog April 1, 2011
- Announcing the release of Sphinx Search book
Many of you must be following my posts on Sphinx Search Engine over the past one year or so. Well, today I am happy to announce the release of my book Sphinx Search - Beginner’s Guide published by Packt Publishing. The book was released earlier this month, that is, March 2011. As the name suggests ( Read more... )
- Announcing the release of Sphinx Search book
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog March 1, 2011
- [CakePHP] How to show ‘all’ records options while still using paginate
Admittedly this is a marginal case but recently a client wanted to show “All” records along with a list of ‘per page’ options for paginated records, for example, something like ’2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, All’ or you need to use ‘field sort’ feature of pagination while displaying ( Read more... )
- [CakePHP] How to show ‘all’ records options while still using paginate
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog February 1, 2011
- [How to] Optgroups in select for Drupal CCK module
Many times we have taxonomy terms with parent/child relation with requirement that only the child taxonomy should be selected while adding a new content. One such case is Category/Albums in a photo gallery where one must select an album while adding a photo but category plays an important role in ( Read more... )
- [How to] Optgroups in select for Drupal CCK module
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog January 1, 2011
- [How To] Live index updates in Sphinx search
Sphinx search engine can index huge databases with ease and speed. However, when new data (in database or the configured data source) comes in, there is no point in re-indexing everything again and waste our CPU cycles and other resources. Sphinx offers live (almost real time) index updates using a ( Read more... )
- [How To] Live index updates in Sphinx search
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog December 1, 2010
- [How To] Post data using PHP streams
Recently, I needed to work on a project that needed to post information to another site without the user actually leaving the site and I needed to do this more than thrice and to different urls ! And I did it! Any guesses how ? What ? Ajax ? No! ? CURL you say ? [...] - [How To]Use user-defined variable in MySQL ( Read more... )
- [How To] Post data using PHP streams
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog November 1, 2010
- [HowTo] Backup and Restore MySql Databases
Do you have a backup of your important mysql databases ? No ? Think about it .. What if you have a Operating System / Filesystem crash ? What if your databases get corrupted due to some reason ? What if you accidentally drop your database or some important tables ? What if you want [...] - [CakePHP] Sending ( Read more... )
- [HowTo] Backup and Restore MySql Databases
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog October 1, 2010
- [Getting Started] Functional tests using Selenium Remote Control (RC)
If you don’t like testing your application, most likely your users won’t like to test it either. If you have read my last post on Selenium IDE or have used Selenium IDE before read on, we are moving into the next level, if you have not I really recommend reading this post or ( Read more... )
- [Getting Started] Functional tests using Selenium Remote Control (RC)
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog September 1, 2010
- [CakePHP] How to re-size images at run-time
This is a helper + controller combo for CakePHP which I often use. It helps to re-size images at run-time and also aid display them. Oh yes! once the image is resized it also caches them. First let’s look at helper method. PLAIN TEXT PHP: class MyHelper extends AppHelper { function getImageUrl($path ( Read more... )
- [CakePHP] How to re-size images at run-time
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Last month @ SANIsoft blog August 1, 2010
- [Zend Framework] Slug filter
While studying for my Zend Framework certification, I tried to build a small application to test my knowledge. One of the tasks in that project was to try and build a slug filter which converts a particular string to slug, for example, ‘My Test String’ to ‘my-test-string’. It also checks for slug duplication if you ( Read more... )
- [Zend Framework] Slug filter
