Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to “connect” their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any site. This enables third party websites to implement and offer even more features of Facebook Platform off of Facebook – similar to features available to third party applications today on Facebook. Facebook has [...]

The OpenSocial API is a set of common APIs for building social applications on many websites. There are two ways to access the OpenSocial API: client-side using the JavaScript API, and server-side using REST or RPC protocols. JavaScript API

Suppose you want to show your google adsense in the top-left side of your post. If you simply put your adsense code in the single post page (single.php) of wordpress then the text of your post will appear below the adsense. To solve this problem, I used stylesheet property called ‘margin’. The example below is [...]

Suppose, you have many sub pages (child pages) of a single parent page. You want to show the list of all the child pages in the parent page. You can show the list of pages and sub pages in the sidebar of your wordpress theme with the addition of in-built sidebar widget called ‘Pages’. This [...]

Earlier I had written an article on How to get(view) html source code of a website . I had created an application and that would grab the html code of any website. In this article, I will be writing on how you can modify the looks of a website by changing the html source code [...]

Exactly before one year, I was doing a shopping cart project in Zen-cart. I had to display ‘All Products’ and ‘New Products’ listing in column/grid layout. The default layout was row layout. Then I searched if there was any addon which could help in my problem. But I couldn’t find any. The response that I [...]

Almost one year back, I had problem with the product display in Zen-cart. I searched for help in zen-cart forum. I started a topic over there. But at last, I myself had to post the solution on that thread.. coz, I found the solution. ;) I just wanted to include that problem and solution in [...]

For uploading files, you need to install a package of PEAR called ‘HTTP_Upload’ along with the installation of PEAR and Smarty.

First of all, you need to install PEAR in your web server. Then you need to install Smarty. After that, you need to install a package in PEAR. It’s called ‘Pager’.

For using database, you need to install a package of PEAR called ‘MDB2’ along with the installation of PEAR and Smarty. MDB2 provides a common API for all support RDBMS.

In this article, I will be illustrating and explaining about foreach and section loop used in Smarty. I will be using these loops for creating a selection list.

You can also include other smarty template files in one smarty template. This brings the use of template function available in Smarty. You may want to make a constant header and footer for your entire website. For this purpose, you can use the ‘include’ tag. Include tags are used for including other templates in the [...]

At first you need to download Smarty from http://smarty.php.net/download.php or you can download it directly from http://chapagain.googlecode.com/files/smarty.zip. Extract the zip file. Rename the extracted folder as ‘smarty’. Then, copy the folder ‘smarty’ to your working directory present inside the root directory of your web server.

This article will provide you step by step guide to setup Google AdSense.

In this article, I will be illustrating about getting html source code of any website. I have done this in PHP.