I got a good news to share with you! You might know that I was writing a book titled Magento 1.4 Development Cookbook from Packt Publishing. My book has been uploaded and available for buying. I am pretty much happy with it! For those who have no idea what I am talking about: It is a book both on paper back and pdf format available to buy from Packt Publishing, Amazon and book stores. This book has 12 chapters with more than 80 real world...

What is Doctrine? Doctrine is a popular ORM for PHP which works with RDBMS via PHP objects. This is built inspired by Hibernate from JAVA. This acts as an abstraction layer between PHP and RDBMS. What is it good for? It really hide the the business logics (tables, sql, relations) via the db abstraction layer while active record map objects to tables. It has a strong caching (of cached caching) system with apc, memcached, sqlite Caching...

this is a file by putting it in a folder containing some images will be displayed as gallery in thumbnail. it will generate thumbnail for the first time only. later it will grab the thumbnails from it’s cache directory. the class itself and instantiation is in same class. you just need put it in the folder where your images resides. NO JAILBREAK REQUIRED! Good...

We must have seen the human readable time in twitter saying that something like about 2 hours ago… etc. In this post we will see a walk around on how to do it in a Symfony2, Zend Framework2 or any other PHP based application. I wrote and used this class as helper in one of my Symfony2 project. This helper could be used in Zend Framework as well. I used some PHP magic methods to cope with different configuration settings so that any...

Recently I made a news bot named news@bot.im AKA newsbot24@yahoo.com with the help of a wrapper class wrote by Hasin Hayder. This cool API has been provided by imified recently to make your application IM enable easily . You may test my bot by sending any instant message to newsbot24@yahoo.com or sending a message from your GTalk. It will grab one of the latest 25 top news from www.news.google.com or www.bdnews24.com RSS feed. I have set...