JoomlaPack – Simply the best backup component for Joomla!

I used JoomlaPack for backing up my Joomla! CMS site and I cannot stop writing about it. It’s simple, easy to use, quick, efficient and moreover it’s FREE. It creates a full backup of your site in a single archive. The archive contains all the files, a sql file with database script and a restoration … Read more

How to Install Sample Data for Magento?

Remember that, Sample Data must be installed prior to the basic Magento Installation. But never mind if you forgot to install sample data before installing Magento. Here, I will show you how you can install sample data after you have installed Magento. 1) Download Sample Data zip file from Magento Website 2) Extract the zip … Read more

Configuration error on new Magento installation

Scenario: < p style=”text-align: justify;”>I am installing a fresh magento 1.3.2.1 in my Windows XP computer. I have Xampp installed. While installing magento, I had a problem at the configuration step where I had to fill database host, username, password etc. When I click continue after filling the required fields, the installation process doesn’t move … Read more

PHP extension error while installing Magento

I was installing Magento 1.3.2.1 in my Windows XP computer. I am using Xampp. I encountered the following errors during the installation. < p style=”text-align: justify;”>PHP Extension “curl” must be loaded PHP Extension “mcrypt” must be loaded PHP Extension “pdo_mysql” must be loaded I googled and the answer was to load the extension in php.ini … Read more

Multiple file upload using jQuery and PHP

This tutorial shows how easy it is to upload multiple files using jQuery and PHP. I have used jQuery MultiFile Plugin for this purpose. The input type file should have name in list format like “pic[]” and the class name of the input should be “multi”. <input type="file" name="pic[]" class="multi" /> Below is the complete … Read more

PHP: How to get working website path and directory name?

This tutorial shows site name, working directory name, etc. with the help of $_SERVER variable. Let us suppose, that our website is: http://wwww.example.com/test/admin/index.php 1) Get name of the website echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; OR, echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; This will print: www.example.com 2) Get the path of the page you are working on echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; This will print: /test/admin/index.php … Read more