19Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

The power of Globally Recognized Avatar (aka Gravatar)

How to, PHP, Resources, Reviews, Tips and Tricks, Tutorials
Gravatar has a very sleak concept but not many people know and understand it. It is one place for your display pictures and you can use the same at any Gravatar enabled website / application. Gravatar is currently used in Wordpress, Movable Type, Drupal, Joomla and Mac OS X Addressbook. Advantages are mainly on the user end where he/she can change one photo and reflect it in multiple places. It includes support for content-rating etc. Here, I will show how it is implemented in PHP [php] $email = "my-email@hotmail.com"; $default = "http://www.somewhere.com/homestar.jpg"; $size = 100; $grav_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5(strtolower($email)). "&default=".urlencode($default). "&size=".$size; [/php] Now use it in your HTML as [sourcecode language="xml"]<img src="<?php echo $grav_url; ?/>" width="< ?php echo $size; ?>" alt="Gravatar" />[/sourcecode] Simple!! More info at the URLs below http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/ http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/php…
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06Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits

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As the website says Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits and shows a notification to the user when that happens. Download Commit Monitor @ Google Code. It is a great tool that helps me monitor when a new commit has been made to SVN by a developer working on the same project as I am :), cool na? P.S. Its a Windows tool
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29Dec 2008 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

CakePHP – link / include JavaScript files in layouts

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Create (or modify the) file [code lang="plain"]app/app_controller.php[/code] add this code [php] class AppController extends Controller { var $helpers = array('Html', 'Form', 'Javascript'); } [/php] CakePHP 1.2 allows you to define a reference to a Javascript file which is then added to the head section of the generated code. For this purpose the variable $scripts_for_layout has to be added to the layout: [php] <head> < ?php echo $scripts_for_layout; ?> </head> [/php] In the view you can now link to the Javascript file with: [php] $javascript->link('script.js', false); // OR you can simply use $javascript->link('script.js'); [/php]
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31May 2008 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

A Bug in WordPress v 2.5.1

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A Bug in Wordpress v 2.5.1, originally uploaded by asim.zeeshan. Excerpts from PHPCommunity I discovered a BUG in Wordpress Version 2.5.1, the forgot password sends you an email with the "key" that is supposed to generate a new email but the "key" itself contains characters like "&" which appends to the URL like query string and wordpress gives an error that the "key" is invalid.
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