Harshad Narvekar

Recently I saw twitter tool integrated on 1 of the blog. I thought to my self what a well-chosen plug-in it is to be used on your blog. I immediately integrated the plug-in on to my blog.

The features were simple and straight forward, however very effective.

1) You can Post tweets from the blog itself.

2) You can show the last few tweets on your blog.

3) (The most adored one) You can make post of your each tweet, or you can post the entire weeks or months tweets as a post on the blog and that too automatically.

Here is a snapshot of the settings:

Thus we can keep updating our blogs daily, or weekly basis. This means you keep track of your daily rather min by min detail. Isnt that great!! Keeping a track of min by min details on your online diary?

I think this tool is great and will post blog post on your behalf. Increase in the post shall increase the number of pages and that in turn may increase your seo ranking, isnt it?

Recently was working on a social networking project, where site was divided into subdomains based on states. Thus if user wanted to swtich from 1 state to another (i.e. 1 subdomain to other), system had to pass the user session from 1subdomain to another subdomain.

Here is the solution:

1) If you have the access to php.ini file then you need to add this line to your php.ini file

session.cookie_domain = .mydomain.com

2) If you dont have access to the php.ini file then you need to add the following before the session.start() function on any page which creates the session cookie.

ini_set(”session.cookie_domain”, “.mydomain.com”);

Incase there is any better or alternate way then kindly share with me.

Thanks for reading!

I am sure you must be using google for searching anything/something on internet (What a foolish question). While doing that you must have noticed a new arrow button to each search result (1 shown in the above image). Yes that arrow up and arrow down button is called the google promote buttons. This is a new google gizmo which is introduced again to make user experience better on google.

It is rather simple button, when we click takes that search result on the top. But people (where I mean ‘I’) thought that is another SEO antic which Google might have introduced to help increase the page rank of that site and that so instantally. Hurray!! Isnt it? Hmm….Not quite so…the Google promote button is meant to be a personal button, a way to ensure that sites you like stay at the top of your search results. It does not mean a credit card affiliate can type “credit card” in Google, click their site, and think that this further optimizes the site for that search term. If anything, it’s just a way for webmasters to get a little ego boost seeing their results at the top of the page.

But does this promote button have any SEO value? Will it help increase the SERPS or SEO of a page? What if 1000 of people click the promote button for a site/page and increase their chance on google? There are so many black hat SEO techniques which already are doing it and this will engage people into a new SEO war.

Do you think Google thinks the way we do? Or has google already contemplated these point? Google must have already chalked out a solvent to all these problems. Google is not dump. Google just kept these buttons - promote and remove per-user. These are not yet digg or hot or not tools. They are just mean to organize your search results. The fav ones on the top and the less fav ones below.
Isnt it this a out of box feature or just a simple feature but affective one? Thats what google aims to - Make life simple. God! Please give me brains 1% as Google has.

Problems Using Absolute Paths with SSL

If you are borrowing use of an SSL certificate, such as the one provided free of charge to Internet Connection customers, when a webpage changes from http protocol to https (SSL), if you embed any images by absolute paths without domain names (/images/o.jpg), they will be broken.
If you embed images with full URL absolute paths (http://yourdomain.com/images/o.jpg), the images will show up, but the user will get warning messages that the page is a mix between secure and non-secure items.

On web pages that make transitions between http and https, one should use relative paths to avoid these problems.

We had build an online dating website with a online chat functionality/feature.
The client had a requirement to show an user offline once user clicks on either Logout button
or closes the tab or browser. The first part was easily achieved, however for the 2nd part I had to spend
around 2 hours to find out the solution.

Problem:
When the user forgot to log out and closes the browser directly, the
session stil exists because when the user opens the browser again and comes back to the site
user is still loged in. And client does not want that to happen.
I/Client want the session to be destroyed when the user closes the browser
immediately.

There were a couple of solutions which came across, however i tested and used the 2nd option

1)

<body onunload=”destroy()”>

<script lenguage=”javascript”>
function destroy()
{
window.open(’destroyCode.php’); <– this page would have the PHP Destroy session code..
}
</script>

PHP file (destroyCode.php):
session_destroy();

2) In your php.ini file, set the value:

session.cookie_lifetime=0

Or, before EVERY session_start() call, use:

session_set_cookie_params(0);

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I had a conception that if you set a cookie (or session), the session automatically destroys on browser close. Howerver this did not happen as I had the session/cookie available in my temp folder.

While that can be true for cookies (depending on the settings), that is not true for sessions. Sessions are stored on the server, the server has no way of knowing when you close your browser. Sessions are destroyed after a certain amount of time of inactivity.

You cant destroy a session when the browser closes. It requires a server side command to do close a session. That mean, you could have javascript make an ajax call to a script when the browser closes.

I was recently reading few articles and I learned few new things in php, which I would like to share with you all!

What are classes?

Classes are nothing but a template or blue print for an object. if you say in common language classes are nothing but noun.

So it would be not wrong to say functions would be called as verbs. Right?

Example:

class UserManager{ //This shall be the class name which is a noun.

function getUserDetails ()

//This shall be the function name which is verb.

{

function definition here

}

}

What are Objects now? (in object-oriented PHP) objects are just like the bricks used to build a building:
Objects are the building bricks of object-oriented PHP projects.

Objects in a program means - imagine there are mini programs in a bigger program.

OOPs mostly is done because of having organized code, that is the most important thing which i felt.

Advantages:
1) Re-usable blocks/code
2) Since it is in model it is easy to update aspects of your software
3) Allows many programmers on same project. Since it is segmented it allows many programmers to work on same project without fearing of breaking other users code.
4) Good for bigger project
5) Can build up personal library and reuse it in different project
6) Crucial for programmers

Disadvantage:
1) Small projects are effected because for OO we might have to write more code which would not be suitable for small projects
2) OO php can be little slower at run time.

Hope this will help!

Will like to learn from your comments!