Archive for the ‘Php’ Category

Interview for PHP programmer

11, Jan 2010

So, in Blueliner Bangladesh, we needed some PHP programmers in the coming months. I almost took over 20  interviews from screened out CVs and found some good candidates. There’s some points we’d like the programmers of this country to be concerned about. Here are some of my observations and recommendations. You have to learn yourself. [...]

Sorting table columns in mysql by adminer

7, Sep 2009

Sorting columns in a mysql table has always been a nasty way to deal with. It can be done some sql commands of course but this is not what we do more often. Even the most popular DB admin package – phpmyadmin doesn’t provide such utility to sort or re-arrange fields in mysql. It occurred [...]

Killing session on browser close in Codeigniter

20, Aug 2009

It may be well known to some people how to kill sessions on browser close but the default config in codeigniter doesn’t provide so. In lot of application which has admin interface, we don’t want browser to store the session. So it needs to kill the session when browser is closed. Example behavior can be [...]

Form Validation Callbacks in HMVC in Codeigniter

12, Aug 2009

Many of us are using the HMVC extension (Hierarchical Model View Controller) in codeigniter which is available. http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Modular_Extensions_-_HMVC HMVC helps developing modular apps in a very convenient way. All the things work simply fine just like a clean CI installation. There’re 1 or two exceptions which i have found. One is the callback of Form_validation [...]

Upload all your files in lowercase in Codeigniter

24, Mar 2009

You might all probably know that *nix systems treat myPic.jpg and MYpic.jpg different while windows systems don’t . So there’s always been a need to deal with filenames across different systems. We upload files which may be in lower case, uppercase or a mixture of both. This sometimes kills our valuable time and effort. To deal [...]

Is Kohana moving faster than Codeigniter ?

23, Mar 2009

Look at the Alexa graph above. What do u think ?   I’ve been using Codeigniter in Mid and Fairly Big project for over a year and a half. Kohana was released before i started but the amount of online support and tutorials and an active company development (EllisLab) made me decide using CodeIgniter. But [...]

PhpMinAdmin – nearest alternative to phpMyAdmin

18, Mar 2009

I can’t possibly tell how many times i’ve been seriously irritated  navigating to phpmyadmin option of my hosting or hostings of the projects i have worked with. Most of the cases you’ll have to click many times. And in Plesk ? It simply sucks when it comes to use phpMyAdmin from there. I’ve always used [...]

Always use meaningful variable and function names in PHP

2, Mar 2009

Think About the following code $a=”I Am John Doe”; $b=explode(“ “,$a); echo “Total Number of words in $a is “.count($b); Now how about this, $name=”I Am John Doe”; $num_of_words=explode(“ “,$a); echo “Total Number of words in $name is “.count($num_of_words); Well, the example was too simple. But things can go terribly wrong when not using meaningful [...]


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