17Jun 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Installing / re-installing and Configuring phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu

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phpMyAdmin is a very common and handy tool that most of the developers use. It is available on almost every server. Installing phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu server is even easier, you just need to but what if we accidently skip the configuration screen where phpmyadmin makes modifications to apache? Dont worry just do the following Edit Apache's configuration file (assuming you are using apache2) Add the following line of code inside apache2.conf: Now restart Apache: Go to /phpmyadmin/ and login with your mysql username and password.
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14May 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 21 Comments

Creating and Installing crontabs using CodeIgniter

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Last night, I was trying to get a crontab working in CodeIgniter, since my current project (a personal project) is using CodeIgniter now. I didn't wanted to use the conventional approach of running crontabs and my code seperate. Unfortunately, CodeIgniter does not have support for Crontabs and I didn't wanted to user wget in linux crontab to initiate unwanted requests. I spent some time and came up with a solution. It uses CodeIgniter backend Does not modify any core architecture of CodeIgniter Keeps configuration at one place So enough of the summary and let me show you how its done. Create a file (e.g. cron.php) in the same place as your index.php and system folder. Here is its code Now, we need a controller e.g. test so the controller code…
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07May 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

Template Library for CodeIgniter, Simple, Fast and Easy!

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If you have not noticed, I just got started on CodeIgniter. I was really disappointed today when I noticed the lack of a template system in CodeIngiter to skin my little application. They say The Template Parser Class is not a full-blown template parsing solution. We've kept it very lean on purpose in order to maintain maximum performance. Lucky for me, I got a little help here, the library is great and works well for the latest version of CI too best of all its small and does not modify the CI code in anyway. It just uses the already available code to skin the application. Sleak! I made a couple of modifications in the original library, here are my modifications So now I use it like instead of Hope…
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01May 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

Installing MySQL 5.1 on Ubuntu

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I wanted to use PARTITIONING introduced in MySQL 5.1 to handle some 2 Million records (and growing everyday) in a table. Ubuntu 8.10 does not have MySQL 5.1 available if you do apt-get the latest version available is 5.0 So this is what I did, its easy and this might help somebody. I prefer nano editor but you can use any editor of your choice. Add these new lines at the end of the end of the file. (These packages were targeted for 7.10 so I will recommend using them and removing them from this list once you got the latest MySQL version) Now run the following commands Note that you may need to do sudo prefix to these commands if you are using a non-root account. Now lets do…
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04Mar 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Join Vteams (NEXTBRIDGE) Network on Facebook

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I have recently request FaceBook to add the Vteams (aka NEXTBRIDGE in Lahore, Pakistan) as a network. To join, you must have an active @nxvt.com email account, just go to Setting -> Account, select network tab. In network name box type "Vteams", enter email address and click JOIN. Check your email and click on the confirmation link Congratulation, you have joined the Vteams Network
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