What you should know in wordpress to be a wordpress programmer?

What you should know in wordpress to be a wordpress programmer?

I got several messages that I should point out a list of topics which a developer should know in wordpress to categorize him/her as a wordpress programmer.

“WordPress Programmer” or “WordPress Developer” terms can be new to someone but due its popularity, term is getting attention and several companies are doing hiring based on wordpress experience only.

So in this post I am just enlisting some points which a wordpress programmer should know.

  • How to install wordpress? (Yes it really easy but you should know that :))
  • How to edit config file of wordpress if needed?
WordPress : A PHP Developer’s delight

WordPress : A PHP Developer’s delight

First in the series of my experiments with Open Source CMS, today I will write about my experiments with wordpress as PHP developer.

I heard about wordpress long ago but have used it on large scale since year 2007. I have created some custom setups so different domains can run from same code base. I have also created lots of plugins to handle content customization, displaying different source content like google maps, creating automated posts with different source database, url customizations and lots of things.…

Smarty Sponsorship : Nes Web Design now Sponsors Best  PHP Template Engine  Smarty

Smarty Sponsorship : Nes Web Design now Sponsors Best PHP Template Engine Smarty

I am really feeling good by announcing that Nes Web Design (ONS Interactive Solutions Pvt. Ltd.), company with which I am working as CTO is sponsoring Smarty Template Engine, which in my view is the best Template Engine in PHP.Smarty helps a php developer in separating business logic from display logic.

It was year 2003 when I first got a chance to work with Smarty for a big project and today I am still proud of my decision.

Smarty is not just a presentation layer or tool to separate the html from programming code, it is in fact a complete system to handle display logic of your application.…

My Experiments with Open Source CMS and E-commerce Solutions

My Experiments with Open Source CMS and E-commerce Solutions

From now I will write about my experiences with Open Source CMSs/E-commerce Solutions everyday, I have planned to write about my projects and my work in those CMSs as a php developer.

I have planned following CMSs :

1. Joomla
2. WordPress
3. Drupal
4. SugarCRM
5. OsCommerce
6. Magento
7. PHPbb
8. ZenCart

Of course this list will increase everyday,…

Zundoo : Zend CMS : Zend Framework based CMS : A new initiative

Zundoo : Zend CMS : Zend Framework based CMS : A new initiative

We have just started a new ambitious project Zundoo.

Zundoo is aiming to be a best project for a CMS based on Zend Framwork.

Some of Zundoo’s planned features

1. Easy to Start like WordPress
2. Extensible like Drupal and Joomla
3. Security above everything
4.Automated update of the core
5. Yes, based on Zend Framework 🙂
6. Plugin System
7. Theme Based
8. Theme converter for migration from WordPress or similar types of simple CMS
9. Content importer for different CMS

…………………………… and many more
This will one of the first Zend CMS in the market.…

Fear of pain is more painful than pain itself

Fear of pain is more painful than pain itself

I normally donÂ’t write about my personal thoughts and life very frequently due to a simple reason that I am a professional and I am attached to many projects at the same time and I always fear that my personal thought or experience may be bad for my relationship with some of my colleagues or companies I am working with.

As a professional I had made a policy decision that I would resist myself from writing about my personal experiences about my work and projects on my public blogs.…

PHP Functions to work with PHP functions

PHP Functions to work with PHP functions

In this article, I am going to write about the functions using which you can get the information about php functions.

For a full list of PHP functions you can visit http://www.zend.com/phpfunc/

Using these functions you can query the stats/status of your functions, these functions are very useful in dynamic application creation.

For example, using func_get_arg and func_num_args functions you can simulate the function overloading in PHP.

Read a good example for http://www.dubi.org/php-function-overloading

Functions I will write in this article are :-

get_defined_functions();

You want to how many functions are in your installation of PHP, just call this function, it will return an array of all php functions you can call.…

PHP Training Education Tutor in Delhi NCR

PHP Training Education Tutor in Delhi NCR

As PHP is gaining the ground in India, numbers of initial level jobs are also increasing day by day. Almost every day I got questions from new comers how they can learn PHP? Which training institute is providing the training in PHP?

Unfortunately almost all major player of training industry in India, specially Delhi are still not doing much (I should nothing) in this regard.

So I am thinking about organizing PHP training camps in and around Delhi in this summer, If you would like to be in that camp, I would request you for sending a message via my contact us page.…

Use Exit after redirecting user via header function

Use Exit after redirecting user via header function

Some weeks ago I got an old PHP application to work with. I was asked to look for the potential problems and bottlenecks in the application. So I decide to use APD as a profiler for the application, after installing the APD on that server. I enabled profiler on one of the reportedly slow page.

That page was meant to be displayed and executed only if user is logged in and session variables are set. If we donÂ’t found user session then user was being redirected to Login page of the application.…

PHP Development Notes

PHP Development Notes

While writing PHP code or planning an application to be written in PHP, Every other day we have to face different aspects of programming, and we also need to find the work around or solutions to the problem we got during our development work.

Many times I surf the online pages of PHP manual to solve my problems and I found comments by other people very useful, so I have decided to compile the list of notes I normally took while working on the project.…

Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good  practice?

Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good practice?

This question again struck me today, somebody just throw a simple question about EXPLAIN statement in MySQL and in hast I relate that to DESCRIBE. When that person cut the line of phone, I suddenly realize my mistake.

I am working with PHP and MySQL since last seven years then why this happen to me? This is because I am not using MySQL frequently, although it is the integral part of almost every application I am working on. I am fairly away from MySQL queries because I am using my factory classes or framework like cakephp which does not require me to write the SQL queries.…

PHP4 and PHP5  version conflicts and why we should stop using PHP 4

PHP4 and PHP5 version conflicts and why we should stop using PHP 4

PHP 5 is in the market since many years, but it still has to capture the market.

Why? Is it not efficient version of PHP language?

What are main reasons behind slow-adoption of PHP version 5.

I am compiling a list of reasons; you can also send me the reason why you have moved to PHP5 or why you are not able to do that?

I will write about that list in my coming articles.…

How to create a file upload progress bar in any version of PHP?

How to create a file upload progress bar in any version of PHP?

In this article I am going to write my experience with a work in which I was supposed to do file upload progress bar.

First of all I consider using APC then came to know about PECL extension uploadprogress

Unfortunately both were not possible for me as I have no control on the server on which it was supposed to run.

Tweaking with installed version of PHP or up gradation of PHP was also ruled out.

In India we have a word which is very common in use whenever someone is in a deadlock, the magic word is ‘Jugad’, if simply translated into English, it will mean ‘system’, but in contextual meaning it stands for ‘Smart Work’.…

Buyout of JBoss by Redhat may create an open source powerhous

Buyout of JBoss by Redhat may create an open source powerhous

The proposed $350 million buyout announced in the first half April,2006 by Linux distributor Red Hat, Inc., of Java middleware maker JBoss, Inc. is seen by analysts as the first major consolidation initiative in the open source software realm that has potential to challenge the might of software giants like Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

They admit the cash and stock deal has fallacies — The $350 million Red Hat is paying for JBoss ($420 million if JBoss hits all revenue targets) is higher than Red Hat’s $278 million in revenue for the fiscal ended 28 February.…

Open Source is a HIT in india

Open Source is a HIT in india

It has been over a year since UTI Bank set up its call center that handles over 7,000 calls per day. The bank was looking for a robust platform that could guarantee it “high availability of services and uninterrupted call traffic”. It had options but finally decided on Linux for its core business applications.

“Today, we are really happy with Linux that has delivered 99.99 per cent uptime so far,” says Pritesh Thaker, AVP, IT, UTI Bank. The bank, in fact, is now planning to base its credit card-based system on Linux too.…