The Little Jeeni

Best Editor for Me is notepad++

August 23, 2008 @ 3:32 am · Filed under editor, php, symfony

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My New 19″ Flat Monitor cum TV

June 8, 2008 @ 11:41 pm · Filed under personal, about

Check my new Monitor and Wireless keyboard/mouse set .

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Youtube and Symfony Application Built In Only 6 Hrs

May 31, 2008 @ 5:01 am · Filed under youtube, symfony

Hi ,

I am back after a long gap ( due to my final semester exams).

This post is about my new R&D application. Last week all of sudden I got an idea to have my own cartoon website.The main purpose of the website is to bring the good collections of cartoon videos at one location. For this I initially thought to put a wordpress blog and use some plugins to get videos from youtube. But after looking into Youtube API and i found a good php client library for youtube developed by ZEND. This library is a part of Zend Framework. you can aslo use the library in any standalone php application

Using this library we can play with all google apps like docs, calendar, spreadsheet, apps, youtube… etc. After 2 days of research i thought to write the application this weekend. and on first day itself that too within 6 hrs I designed the base model with few symfony actions and partials. and I named it CartoonRiders

Currently the application is having the following features.

Categories of different cartoon characters
Display the list of related video thumbnails
Simple keyword search

Please check CartoonRiders and leave your Feedback / inputs to improve the application.

–Asif–

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Very Simple Backup script for Database and Files

April 24, 2008 @ 1:18 am · Filed under linux, backup, opensource

Hi,

This post will show you a simple way to take automatic DB backup and Files backup.

Warning: Not for Windows users

When you are setting up backups its always good idea to save them on different server (atleast on different disk / disk partition)

Here are the steps to install this script

create a file

cat > /root/mycrons/backup.sh

now copy paste following script

## ——– Begin—————–

# Set a Date stamp to append to backup file
DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d`
# DB Backup Dir
DBBACKUP=”/mnt/backups/db”
# Set Databas USER
DBUSER=”user”
# set DB password
DBPASS=”password”
#set DB Host
DBHOST=”localhost”
#list db names one per line in this file
DBLIST=”/mnt/backups/db/list.txt”
#set Location to store File backups
FILEBACKUP=”/mnt/backups/files”
# We will take WEBROOT directory backup
WEBROOT=”/opt/lampp/htdocs”
#add the excluded files/directory one per line in the this file.
# to know more about exclude option please check tar manual for –exclude-from #patterns
EXCLUDE=”/mnt/backups/files/exclude.txt”

for DBNAME in `cat $DBLIST`
do
# directory for each DB
FILEDIR=”$DBBACKUP/$DBNAME”

# create DB directory for the first time
if [ ! -d $FILEDIR ]
then
mkdir -p $FILEDIR
fi

mysqldump -h $DBHOST –user=$DBUSER -p$DBPASS –opt $DBNAME | gzip -c -9 > $FILEDIR/$DBNAME-$DATE.sql.gz

done

# Auto Delete
# Find all files that are “MaxAge” days old and delete them.
MaxAge=4
find $DBBACKUP -name ‘*.gz’ -type f -mtime +$MaxAge -exec rm -f {} \;

tar -zcf $FILEBACKUP/ufomusic_$DATE.tgz –exclude-from=$EXCLUDE $WEBROOT
find $FILEBACKUP -name ‘*.tgz’ -type f -mtime +$MaxAge -exec rm -f {} \;

## ——– End—————–

Now press ctrl + d to save the file. Before saving the script you need to change the parameters defined in the begining of script:

make the file executable

chmod u+x /root/mycrons/backup.sh

now add an entry to the crontab file to run this script on daily basis

59 23 * * * /root/mycrons/backup.sh

Thats it… this script will run on everyday at 23:59 and take the backup of DB and your Webroot directory . This script also delete the backup files which are older than MaxAge . You can set the MaxAge parameter value in the above script.

You can add n number of databases to the file defined in DBLIST parameter. all db will be dumped on daily basis.

For directories.. the logic is opposite. Define a root directory in WEBROOT and add the subdirectory names, you want to exclude in backup, in file defined in EXCLUDE variable.

–Asif–

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Multiple themes for symfony application

March 31, 2008 @ 11:16 am · Filed under plugins, themes, symfony

Hi,

After a long time i am posting my experience. This post describes the ways to implement multiple themes/skin in symfony application.I found many posts in symfony forum regarding themes and somebody suggested to use this plugin ysfDimensionsPlugin . This is really a great plugin and thanks to Yahoo for providing such a great plugin.There is no automatic installation for this plugin as it replaces 2 symfony core files. To install this plugin first you need to get the Tar file then extract it to your symfony application’s plugin directory.

Now take a back up of the files 2files by running these command. (path is specific to my system)

cp /usr/local/lib/php/symfony/config/sfLoader.class.php /usr/local/lib/php/symfony/config/sfLoader.class.php.original

cp /usr/local/lib/php/data/symfony/config/constants.php /usr/local/lib/php/data/symfony/config/constants.php.original

Now go to your application plugin directory

cd /path/to/your/symfony/application/plugin/directory
cp lib/config/sfLoader.class.php /usr/local/lib/php/symfony/config/sfLoader.class.php
cp config/constants.php /usr/local/lib/php/data/symfony/config/constants.php

Aftre this you need to add the following code to symfony project’s config.php

$culture = if(!empty($_REQUEST['culture'])) ? $_REQUEST['culture'] : 'en';

$theme = if(!empty($_REQUEST['theme'])) ? $_REQUEST['theme'] : 'classic';// define dimensions

$dimension = array('culture' => $culture, 'theme' => $theme);

// no autoloading available this early in bootstrap, so require absolutely

require_once(dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'plugins'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'ysfDimensionsPlugin'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'lib'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'config'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'sfDimensions.class.php');

// set dimensions

sfDimensions::setDimension($dimension);

Now create a dimentions.yml in the project config. this will list all the possible themes you will have for an application

dimensions:
  culture: 		  [en, fr, it, de]
  theme: 		  [classic, corporate]

Now you are ready to play with this plugin.

How it works: This plugin takes the advantage of symfony configuration features and allows you to configure three parts of application (configuration, templates, actions) . Now i will tell you how to configure the configuration part and template part for different themes.

For example you have 3 themes ( 3 different layout.php files) for your application. place those files in the following way.

apps/frontend/templates/theme1/layout.php
apps/frontend/templates/theme2/layout.php
apps/frontend/templates/theme3/layout.php

As every theme has its own css/js files you need to tell the application which one to pick in the following way.

apps/frontend/config/theme1/view.yml
apps/frontend/config/theme2/view.yml
apps/frontend/config/theme3/view.yml

Now you have defined a seperate view.yml for each theme. Now you are done with multiple themes for single application. now clear your cache and test the output by passing a theme parameter in query string

http://localhost/frontend_dev.php/?theme=theme1
http://localhost/frontend_dev.php/?theme=theme2
http://localhost/frontend_dev.php/?theme=theme3

That’s it… you got it…
This post only gives a brief info to start with this plugin. There are lots of customization you can to using this plugin. for example you can have culture based themes as well. Please check the plugin trac to know more about the plugin.

–

Asif

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Open Source Meet from 22-24 2008 at New Delhi.

February 4, 2008 @ 1:36 pm · Filed under opensource, php

Hi Guys,

This is Zaffar, As this is my first Post to “geeni.in” I very grateful to Mr. Asif for including me in his esteem and innovative team of developer‘s with a niche , as I feel its every body dream to be on par with the technology.

Let me give you our best and talented mentor’s example Mr.Asif who for the past 4 years is a active member of open source community .Spreading the messeage of Free for all. As Our Honorable Former President of India Shri.A.P.J Abdul Kalam believes that the use of open source software on large scale will bring more people the benefit of IT. . In this post of mine.Today I will you all guys kow that. we got an open source conference in Delhi with the slogan “ Knowledge shall set you free” .www.freed.in “I would like to directly Quote from their site “The event has been rescheduled to February so as to benefit from favorable weather, and the general warmth generated by the many FOSS events held around then. Thus, this year, Freed.in is scheduled from Feb. 22-24, 2008. The venue remains unchanged and we meet again at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),New Delhi.

Come be a part of the revolution, and join in the fun, again.” Open source Promoters Come join the open source stream. I will come up with some more interesting post …. Expect from me always some thing more on technology and open source community.

Zaffar

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My Company - Reload The Web

February 1, 2008 @ 5:09 am · Filed under Company, about

Hi,

Its a good time for me and my friends as we have started our web development company. and we named it as Reload the Web. The name itself represent the type of work we do at our company. There is no physical office at present but we all work remotely and keep the track of ongoing development.

At present we are 5 members

Myself - Lead Web Developer for V-Empower & founder of Reload The Web
Venu - Web developer for Pioneer Online (ISP)
Pavan - Web Developer for a US based MNC
Zaffar - Business Analyst for a US based MNC
Bala - Web Developer for a US based MNC

Except zaffar all are having technically sound knowledge in LAMP development and expertise in web development / MVC architecture/ Web 2.0 and we recommend people to use the symfony framework to develop their applications.

Zaffar also a technical guy but he would rather interested in Business Development and data analysis. He is a master in analyzing a project and preparing case studies.

We are all working for different companies. Apart from our regular 8hrs job we ll sit up to do the projects at Reload The Web. We are interested in any type of job on LAMP. we can work on small tasks / medium size / big applications and we will not work on any type of adult / drugs / illegal websites.

–Asif–

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Update on symfony

September 4, 2007 @ 11:45 pm · Filed under symfony

As the Symfony development team reaches towards the new beta release of symfony 1.1 , Fabien decided to delegate the responsibility of maintaining the 1.0 branch to two new persons Noël Guilbert and Grégoire Hubert. Their responsibilities include planning the coming releases, choosing the tickets to be included and the general packaging of the releases.

And the main development team continues refactorization of core components and prepares the upgrading process. Symfony popularity grows day by day as many of the people contributing in the community, more and more bloggers writing about the symfony and Many public sites powered by the Symfony

–Asif–

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PHP 4 end of life announcement

August 1, 2007 @ 12:29 am · Filed under php

On July 13th the Php Development team announced the end of Php4. They are not going to work on the new releases of php4 after this yr end that is after 31-12-2007 there will be no more releases of the Php4.

I feel that its a good idea so the the developer can utilize the power of Php5 and we can see more number php5 hosting providers in near future.

check this for more details

–Asif–

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my first symfony plugin

July 19, 2007 @ 3:11 am · Filed under symfony

Hi,

its been a year since i started using the symfony framework in all my projects.and i have seen a lot of contribution to symfony from all over the developer community. and this support from other developers made me to write my own plugin. i have just released sfContactGrabberPlugin. This plugin will be used to grab the address book from the yahoo/gmail / myspace. I am going to add MSN , Orkut and Rediff support in the plugin.

For more information on installing and using the plugin check this

–Asif–

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The Little Jeeni

Best Editor for Me is notepad++

My New 19″ Flat Monitor cum TV

Youtube and Symfony Application Built In Only 6 Hrs

Very Simple Backup script for Database and Files

Multiple themes for symfony application

Open Source Meet from 22-24 2008 at New Delhi.

My Company - Reload The Web

Update on symfony

PHP 4 end of life announcement

my first symfony plugin

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