PacktLib Review : Why these big names can not manage thier services properly?

Zareef Ahmed PacktLib Review,Personal,PHP Notes January 22, 2011 No Comments

I am really disappointed and I should emphasis, REALLY disappointed. I have gone through an online ebooks library promoted and managed by a big publication house named Packt Publishing (http://www.packtpub.com)yesterday and I was surprised to see their bad user interface in ordering system as well as major bad logical and technical decisions while planning and developing the website.

Usually I did not write reviews, but today I am writing this because I want to let other people know “How bad their site is?”..…

WordPress to Drupal Migration – Part 1

Zareef Ahmed Development,Drupal,Drupal Migration,Migration,PHP Notes,Wordpress,Wordpress Migration August 5, 2010 No Comments

Recently I have done few projects where sites were growing rapidly in terms of functionalities and their current wordpress structure was not good enough to handle those changes. I am going to write about the summary of these personal experiences in this series of articles. I will summarize the steps and work I have done to do this migration.

Why Migration?

We should not do something because we can, should only do if need is there. So before starting it is necessary to understand if you really need the migration from WordPress to Drupal.…

PHP Interview Questions

Zareef Ahmed Development,PHP,PHP Interview Questions June 22, 2010 No Comments

Hi, I have created a page on my this blog named PHP Interview Questions on which I will compile a list of questions which I normally asks to my candidates. I am not worried about leaking my questions strategy as I know only a good person can handle my supplementary questions I asked on the spot.…

What you should know in wordpress to be a wordpress programmer?

Zareef Ahmed Development,Open Source India,PHP Interview Questions,PHP Notes,Wordpress,wordpress plugin,Wordpress Programmer,wordpress theme February 20, 2010 No Comments

I got several messages that I should point out a list of topics which a developer should know in wordpress to categorize him/her as a wordpress programmer.

“WordPress Programmer” or “WordPress Developer” terms can be new to someone but due its popularity, term is getting attention and several companies are doing hiring based on wordpress experience only.

So in this post I am just enlisting some points which a wordpress programmer should know.

How to install wordpress? (Yes it really easy but you should know that :))
How to edit config file of wordpress if needed?

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WordPress : A PHP Developer’s delight

Zareef Ahmed Development,Open Source India,php developer,PHP Development,PHP Notes,Wordpress,wordpress plugin January 17, 2010 No Comments

First in the series of my experiments with Open Source CMS, today I will write about my experiments with wordpress as PHP developer.

I heard about wordpress long ago but have used it on large scale since year 2007. I have created some custom setups so different domains can run from same code base. I have also created lots of plugins to handle content customization, displaying different source content like google maps, creating automated posts with different source database, url customizations and lots of things.…

Smarty Sponsorship : Nes Web Design now Sponsors Best PHP Template Engine Smarty

Zareef Ahmed Open Source India,PHP Notes November 30, 2009 No Comments

I am really feeling good by announcing that Nes Web Design (ONS Interactive Solutions Pvt. Ltd.), company with which I am working as CTO is sponsoring Smarty Template Engine, which in my view is the best Template Engine in PHP.Smarty helps a php developer in separating business logic from display logic.

It was year 2003 when I first got a chance to work with Smarty for a big project and today I am still proud of my decision.

Smarty is not just a presentation layer or tool to separate the html from programming code, it is in fact a complete system to handle display logic of your application.…

My Experiments with Open Source CMS and E-commerce Solutions

Zareef Ahmed Drupal,E-commerce Solutions,Joomla,Magento,Open Source India,OsCommerce,PHP Notes,PHPbb,SugarCRM,Wordpress,ZenCart,Zend Framework November 5, 2009 No Comments

From now I will write about my experiences with Open Source CMSs/E-commerce Solutions everyday, I have planned to write about my projects and my work in those CMSs as a php developer.

I have planned following CMSs :

1. Joomla
2. WordPress
3. Drupal
4. SugarCRM
5. OsCommerce
6. Magento
7. PHPbb
8. ZenCart

Of course this list will increase everyday,…

Zundoo : Zend CMS : Zend Framework based CMS : A new initiative

Zareef Ahmed PHP Notes,Zend CMS,Zend Framework,Zend Framework CMS September 14, 2009 No Comments

We have just started a new ambitious project Zundoo.

Zundoo is aiming to be a best project for a CMS based on Zend Framwork.

Some of Zundoo’s planned features

1. Easy to Start like WordPress
2. Extensible like Drupal and Joomla
3. Security above everything
4.Automated update of the core
5. Yes, based on Zend Framework 🙂
6. Plugin System
7. Theme Based
8. Theme converter for migration from WordPress or similar types of simple CMS
9. Content importer for different CMS

…………………………… and many more
This will one of the first Zend CMS in the market.…

Fear of pain is more painful than pain itself

Zareef Ahmed Fear of Pain,Personal August 21, 2009 No Comments

I normally dont write about my personal thoughts and life very frequently due to a simple reason that I am a professional and I am attached to many projects at the same time and I always fear that my personal thought or experience may be bad for my relationship with some of my colleagues or companies I am working with.

As a professional I had made a policy decision that I would resist myself from writing about my personal experiences about my work and projects on my public blogs.…

PHP Functions to work with PHP functions

Zareef Ahmed Development,PHP Development,PHP Development Notes,PHP Notes July 9, 2009 No Comments

In this article, I am going to write about the functions using which you can get the information about php functions.

For a full list of PHP functions you can visit http://www.zend.com/phpfunc/

Using these functions you can query the stats/status of your functions, these functions are very useful in dynamic application creation.

For example, using func_get_arg and func_num_args functions you can simulate the function overloading in PHP.

Read a good example for http://www.dubi.org/php-function-overloading

Functions I will write in this article are :-

get_defined_functions();

You want to how many functions are in your installation of PHP, just call this function, it will return an array of all php functions you can call.…

PHP Training Education Tutor in Delhi NCR

Zareef Ahmed Development,PHP Development June 22, 2008 No Comments

As PHP is gaining the ground in India, numbers of initial level jobs are also increasing day by day. Almost every day I got questions from new comers how they can learn PHP? Which training institute is providing the training in PHP?

Unfortunately almost all major player of training industry in India, specially Delhi are still not doing much (I should nothing) in this regard.

So I am thinking about organizing PHP training camps in and around Delhi in this summer, If you would like to be in that camp, I would request you for sending a message via my contact us page.…

Use Exit after redirecting user via header function

Zareef Ahmed PHP Development Notes,PHP Notes June 18, 2008 No Comments

Some weeks ago I got an old PHP application to work with. I was asked to look for the potential problems and bottlenecks in the application. So I decide to use APD as a profiler for the application, after installing the APD on that server. I enabled profiler on one of the reportedly slow page.

That page was meant to be displayed and executed only if user is logged in and session variables are set. If we dont found user session then user was being redirected to Login page of the application.…

PHP Development Notes

Zareef Ahmed PHP Notes June 17, 2008 No Comments

While writing PHP code or planning an application to be written in PHP, Every other day we have to face different aspects of programming, and we also need to find the work around or solutions to the problem we got during our development work.

Many times I surf the online pages of PHP manual to solve my problems and I found comments by other people very useful, so I have decided to compile the list of notes I normally took while working on the project.…

Using SQL abstraction and CRUD factory classes is a good practice?

Zareef Ahmed Development,PHP Development,PHP Development Notes July 6, 2007 No Comments

This question again struck me today, somebody just throw a simple question about EXPLAIN statement in MySQL and in hast I relate that to DESCRIBE. When that person cut the line of phone, I suddenly realize my mistake.

I am working with PHP and MySQL since last seven years then why this happen to me? This is because I am not using MySQL frequently, although it is the integral part of almost every application I am working on. I am fairly away from MySQL queries because I am using my factory classes or framework like cakephp which does not require me to write the SQL queries.…

PHP4 and PHP5 version conflicts and why we should stop using PHP 4

Zareef Ahmed Development,PHP Development,PHP Development Notes June 14, 2007 No Comments

PHP 5 is in the market since many years, but it still has to capture the market.

Why? Is it not efficient version of PHP language?

What are main reasons behind slow-adoption of PHP version 5.

I am compiling a list of reasons; you can also send me the reason why you have moved to PHP5 or why you are not able to do that?

I will write about that list in my coming articles.…

Zareef Ahmed

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