Thursday, May 17, 2012

Insert 'Read More' button in Blogger Imported posts in Wordpress

If you have just imported your posts and comments from Blogger to WordPress then you might have faced two problems:
1. There is a '>' symbol prepended to each post title and post content.
2. Your 'Read more' button from blogger posts is missing.
I have found a simple solution for these problems.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

jCouch - A jQuery Plugin for Distraction Free Page View

jCouch is a very lightweight jQuery plugin that provides you the feature of viewing a web page in distraction free mode. If your website is text oriented and the visitors on your site prefer reading your site content then this plugin will allow the users to read your web pages in the most convenient way without being distracted by other less useful content on the site. The plugin allows you to combine the selective parts of the web page in a single view. See the live demo.
 Features
  • Light weight
  • Easily customizable
  • Zoom text feature
  • Full jQuery Selectors Support
  • Disable on pressing 'Esc'

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

How to create custom module in TikiWiki

TikiWiki or simply Tiki, is a free and open source wiki-based, content management system and Online office suite written primarily in PHP. Tiki is a powerful all-in-one web-based application, offering collaboration, publishing, commerce, social networking, CRM and office productivity tools. If you have just started your Tiki development then you will frequently need to create custom modules in TikiWiki. In this article I will tell you how to create your custom TikiWiki module from scratch. For creating you own module, you need to add two files in TikiWiki:
  • A php module file
  • A smarty template file

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

How to Test PHP Emails on Localhost

While developing web applications on localhost you must have always missed the functionality to send mails. As localhost does not support email service, so it has always been a bottleneck for email testing on localhost. But I have found a simple way to test emails on localhost using PHP. I have overridden the default mail() function of PHP to create a text/html file based on the email format. If the email is in html format, an HTML file is created otherwise a text file is created. You can see in this file what exactly is the content sent in your mail. See how does it work.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Magento Customer Chat Extension - Live Demo Released

I have released the live demo of my 'Customer Chat' extension for Magento. If you still dont know what this extension is, read this article.
Quick Overview: Magento Customer Chat extension allows the customers on your store to communicate with each other in real time. The logged in customers on your store can see other logged in customers and chat with each other. The chat boxes are opened in Gmail style and new chat notifications are also shown over the browser window title bar.