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Creating a Fancy menu using CSS3 and jQuery

Creating a Fancy menu using CSS3 and jQuery

Fancy menu was made popular by devthought, it is develop on top of the Mootools library. And later a jQuery version of this menu called lavalamp was made popular by Ganesh. This time I will show you how to achieve the same effect using the CSS3 new features.

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Building a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter’s Shopping Cart Class

Building a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter’s Shopping Cart Class

Late last year CodeIgniter v1.7.2 was released with a lot of improvements and bug fixes. This version is now compatible with PHP5.3.0, they added is_php() to Common functions to facilitate PHP version comparisons,

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Reading CSV File in CodeIgniter

Reading CSV File in CodeIgniter

A Comma separated values (CSV) file is a computer data file used for implementing the tried and true organizational tool, the Comma Separated List. The CSV file is used for the digital storage of data structured in a table of lists form, where each associated item (member) in a group is in association with others [...]

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Parsing XML file using CodeIgniter’s SimpleXML library

Parsing XML file using CodeIgniter’s SimpleXML library

This Simplexml class provides an alternative implementation of the SimpleXML API that works under PHP 4, so if you have an application that is running under PHP4 environment this is really helpful for you. The original class was created by Taha Paksu of http://www.phpclasses.org and it was modified by Chris Brainard so that it would [...]

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Building a basic PHP E-Commerce Application using CodeIgniter Framework – Part 3

Building a basic PHP E-Commerce Application using CodeIgniter Framework – Part 3

Part III – Creating the site mockup and Preparing our View. In this part of the series we will create a design mockup for our e-commerce site. And create a reusable component of our view. First we need to know how our site should looks like. And how we showcase our products. Basically our site [...]

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Building a basic PHP E-Commerce Application using CodeIgniter Framework – Part 2

Building a basic PHP E-Commerce Application using CodeIgniter Framework – Part 2

Now that we are done the CI installation. We are ready to start building our e-commerce application. What we need to do first is design our database structure. You can of course freely design your own structure, but for this tutorial I made it simple.

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Building a basic PHP E-Commerce Application using CodeIgniter Framework – Part 1

Building a basic PHP E-Commerce Application using CodeIgniter Framework – Part 1

E-commerce application nowadays is a must for those who are selling their product online. And yes there’s a lot of good open source e-commerce application available and ready to use.

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Secure File Upload in PHP Web Applications

Providing file upload function without opening security holes proved to be quite a challenge in PHP web applications. The applications we have tested suffered from a variety of security problems, ranging from arbitrary file disclosure to remote arbitrary code execution. In this article I am going to point out various security holes occurring in file upload implementations and suggest a way to implement a secure file upload.

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The Five Styles of AJAX

I have read a book entitled “The Art of Rails by Edward Benson” Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. www.wiley.com. Its a must read book if you want to accelerate your knowledge in rails to the next level. In a certain chapter of this book covers about the five different styles of applying AJAX to enhance [...]

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10 Basic tips on How to improve Usability in Webdesign

Web page usability is a vital criteria in any web design project as it is this factor that can get repeat visitors to a website. Improving usability of web pages may not be an easy job even for the most skilled web designers. Usability based web designing is all about habit formation, it cant be [...]

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