Simple AJAX Commenting System

This time, we are making a Simple AJAX Commenting System. It will feature a gravatar integration and demonstrate how to achieve effective communication between jQuery and PHP/MySQL with the help of JSON.

Simple AJAX Commenting System

Simple Website Layout Tutorial Using HTML 5 and CSS 3

As most of us know HTML 5 has created a big buzz on internet and is sure to give Adobe a hard time. Apple believes that HTML5 is what will define the web and would love to see more developers adopt it instead of Flash. Now that big video sites such as YouTube are testing support for HTML5 (Mashable).

HTML 5 is a breakthrough which will improve the sites from design view point, seo etc. It when combined with css3 can make amazing web sites. For this you should check out this collection of all HTML 4 & 5


Simple Website Layout Tutorial Using HTML 5 and CSS 3

5 Simple Basic Steps to Create Facebook Application

This article explains the basic steps needed to create Facebook Application. The steps and test application created in this example can be used as a template for your next more sophisticated applications. At the end of the article you will be presented with resources for the documentation, forum, blogs, and feeds to keep you up to date with the current Facebook platform status, since it is still evolving constantly.

5 Simple Basic Steps to Create Facebook Application

How to change upload file size on a Windows localhost

In a localhost Apache + PHP it is easy to change the uploaded file size to something larger than the default 16M.

An example below show you how to change the upload file size to say 50M.

* Locate the PHP.ini file, for example in c:/xampp/Apache/bin/php.ini and open it with any text editor like WordPad by right-clicking -> Open With -> then choose WordPad.


How to change upload file size on a Windows localhost

CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 5 The Mainpage

Ok, let’s start with the easiest one first. We will create a simple menu page that contains links to other modules on the system. We put it on the Mainpage controller class.

Look at the Mainpage.php controller file. There is a function on it named exactly the same with the filename: Mainpage(). This should be exactly the same including the case. This is the constructor or initialization function of the class. Each time the class is called or instantiate, this function is called automatically. We put some initialization lines inside it:

CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 5 The Mainpage

CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 4 Preparing to Code

After installing StarUML PHP 5 Code Generator Template , StarUML will have a capability to generate PHP template code based on the models we have defined before. But there’s a little hack to be done so that the naming of the file generated complies with CodeIgniter.

CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 5 The Mainpage

CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 3 ER Diagram and Creating Database

In the previous parts of this tutorial series we have discussed how to setup the application environment using XAMPP and CodeIgniter, and the application specification. We have done the analysis and design using UML use case and class diagram with free UML diagram tool StarUML.

In this part, we will discuss the database design for our application. This database is needed to hold the data for our application.

We are going to draw the entity relationship diagram (ERD) using a free tool called MySQL workbench, formerly fabForce ERD tools for MySQL. Before continuing, please download the program here and install it to your computer.

At the end of the designing process, we will create our database structure directly to a MySQL server that can be used by our application.

CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 3 ER Diagram and Creating Database