http://www.tanzilo.com Talks on Web Technology and Better Product Development Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello Guy! Often in many blogging sites, you will see two or three columns of the most important categories. Recently I had to do this for a blog. It was a little bit cumbersome and time consuming. So, I would like to share the solution so that you can kill the ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2009/01/06/wordpress-display-posts-by-category-id-solution-with-code-example/ Hello Folks! When I was new to PHP 5 Object Oriented Programming (OOP), the serialization and un-serialization issues were not clear to me and I used to get confused with them often. Nowadays I can play with them easily and I will try to share my knowledge with you so that ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/31/php-serialization-unserialization-explanation-code-example/ Hello Developer, You know English is the international language and accepted as international communication. So, most of the websites have been developed in English. But in many other times, a developer needs to work with local languages where they are developing a website in PHP. If you develop in local language, ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/29/php-mysql-creating-a-website-in-your-local-language-smoothly/ Hello Coders! Recently a visitor from my country asked me how he can add Unicode numbers stored in MySQL database.  I was thinking that it is really a good question. Because you may store any number in any local language to your database and later you may try to add or ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/23/php-mysql-unicode-number-add-subtract-etc-for-any-language/ Hey Guys! Often I see people coming to my site searching with the terms wordpress get page id, wordpress get page content or something similar. I think wordpress developers face situations when they need to get page or post information in customized way. It happened to me too and I would ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/19/wordpress-get-page-id-and-content-with-example-code/ Hello! Recently I was working for a Irish guy who has opened a wordpress blog few months ago. I did the theme for him. Recently he requested me for modifying and/or upgrading the project. One of the project requirements was URL rewriting. For example, there can a URL as follows: http://www.sitename.com/index.php?group_name=My-Input-Value-Goes-Here But after ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/17/wordpress-custom-url-rewrite-and-reading-url-values/ Hello! It is actually not only for a wordpress developer but also for all those developers who face situation where they must upload many files to the server. Recently in a wordpress project, I had to upload wordpress 2.7 version files in the server. In the wordpress 2.7 package, you will ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/15/wordpress-upload-many-php-files-quickly-by-zip-unzip/ Recently I was working in an American project where my client wanted to convert this static site to dynamic. Everything was fine except the gallery. The existing gallery was done using Lightbox effect and there was a flash audio file. The audio file was avoiding the Lightbox effect and coming ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/12/13/flash-swf-and-lightbox-overlapping-problem-solution/ Hello Wordpress Developer! When I was new to wordpress blog devevelopment, I got few projects where the clients wanted a static homepage and a Blog link in the menu. In some other projects, the clients wanted to make the homepage to be semi dynamic; that means in the homepage we will ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/11/28/wordpress-creating-a-static-front-home-page-without-plugin/ Hello! Recently I added a gallery in wordpress blog that displays photos from a wordpress plugin FAlbum. This plugin is very nice one and works very smoothly with wordpress. Installing and configuring it with wordpress is somewhat tricky and time consuming. Once you set it up, it will be your great ... http://www.tanzilo.com/2008/11/23/flickr-gallery-in-wordpress-integration-with-falbum-plugin/