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Proud to be a technical reviewer of these 2 books ….

Posted by: junal on: July 27, 2008

Today, I have received technical reviewer copies of CakePHP Application Development that is written by Anupom Syam and Ahsanur Bari. Both of them are my colleagues and it makes me proud to think that they are Bangladeshi! Another great thing is that i was also a technical reviewer of Hasin Hayder’s Learning Facebook Application [...]

Checking if an image URL exist with PHP….

Posted by: junal on: July 22, 2008

To check if an image/file URL exist, first thing came in my mind was file_exist() function. Thought it would be the best way to find whether my parameter that is throwing an image url is right or wrong. So I had to set a default image if there was no image found from the given [...]

Some interesting PHP functions…

Posted by: junal on: February 9, 2008

Recently, I have studied three types of PHP functions and they are: String functions, Date functions and Array functions. I have noted down some functions that were interesting. Well, PHP got thousands of built in functionality and I guess this is what makes PHP great. So, let’s have a look at some interesting functions from [...]

PHP tutorials for beginners

Posted by: junal on: December 24, 2007

There are tons of PHP tutorials in the web. But a good tutorial depends on how easily it’s written and of course example is very vital to make a tutorial better. I have just read this tutorial from here, which are actually written for beginners. This tutorial that I’m talking about has three parts. I’m [...]

Okay, in my last post I stopped with model. Today, I’m going to start with Controller.
Controller: There is no significant difference between these framework controllers. Cake follows strict naming convention. So that once I follow the naming convention, I don’t have to worry about adding my model in controller. Let me make it clear. In [...]

Both of these PHP Frameworks follow model-view-controller architecture. This is why both of them got lots of things in common but at the same time they have some dissimilarity too. I was thinking to make a list of all those similarities and dissimilarities with some small examples so that when I move one framework to [...]