To convert the current date and time to a UNIX timestamp do the following:

getTime() returns milliseconds from the UNIX epoch, so I divide it by 1000 to get the seconds representation and rounded using Math.round() to make it a whole number. Now “timestamp” variable has the UNIX timestamp for the current date and time relevant to the user’s web browser.

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What I won 2011

1. In the beginning of the year 3rd January 2011 I joined Leevio. For me it was like my dream come true!. I won what I was planned to be in my life. For the opportunity I’m thankful to Hasin Hayder.
2. Find a nice and friendly environment to work. I think that was very important for me to work with experts.
3. Later I bought my first Dell 15R Laptop.
4. Learned Zend Framework and knowledge on web development.
5. Enjoyed my professional life in Leevio and hell of fun with Leevians.
6. Played Urban Terror
7. Bought my first apple product MacBook Pro in 2nd May. Thanks goes to Saidur Rahman Bijon bhai for his help.
8. Contribute my knowledge in various project in Leevio. I just want to mention some of them as I learned hell of good things from those. Deploy Ninja, Google From Builder, Kuestions etc.
9. Learned mobile application development.
10. First time spoke at JSConf 2011.
11. Learned about Javascript and jQuery. Improved my knowledge in design and CSS.
12. Learned Git and started using Github.
13. First time spoke in the biggest annual phpXperts Seminar 2011 in Bangladesh.
14. Start contributing my knowledge in Open Source. Get involved in LightBulb.
15. Finally Happy ending of 2011.

After all these achievements I forgot all of my loss and sad things. In fact 2011 was fantastic year for me. Isn’t it? Thanks Allah for blessing me such an year and I pray for your kindness for upcoming years.

Happy new year and wishing you all a happy and prosperous life.

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Okay going back to the point. To get started with ZF what you need?

1. PHP 5.2.4 or higher
2. Web server with mod_rewrite

Your Apache installation must have the mod_rewrite extension installed and configured to support .htaccess files.

This is usually done by changing this line

to

in httpd.conf.

Setting Zend_Tool

Download latest ZF from here. All we are interested about the Zend Framework Minimal Package.

• Extract the archive.
• Copy the contents of the folder to /usr/local/ via terminal

  1	sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/ZendFramework-1.10.6-minimal /usr/local/ZendFrameworkCli

  

• Open bash profile

  1	sudo nano ~/.profile

  from terminal and add this line

  1	aliaszf=/usr/local/ZendFrameworkCli/bin/zf.sh

  at the end of the file.

• Save and exit (press ctrl+x then hit y).

All set. Now if everything is okay, from terminal type

. This will show all the commands available to ZF.

Creating our first project

We can now create project using zf command line tool as it’s easy, saves time and effort. So run this command in terminal

The zf tool will create a directory called kickstart and populate it with the recommended directory structure as you can see below.

The application/ directory is where the source code for kickstart website lives. As you can see, we have separate directories for the model, view and controller files of our application. The public/ directory is the public-facing root of the website, which means that the URL to get to the application will be http://localhost/kickstart/public/. This is so that most of the applicationʼs files are not accessible directly by Apache and so are more secure.

Supporting images, javascripts, css files are stored in separate directories under public/ directory.

As everything is accessible from public so we have to set public folder as document root by creating a virtual host. If you don’t know how to create it please follow this post. Here’s a sample code I used to create virtual host.

ServerName local.kickstart.com
ServerAlias local.kickstart.com
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/kickstart/public
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5

Options -Indexes +IncludesNOEXEC +FollowSymLinks
allow from all
AllowOverride All

Finally, we need to copy the Zend folder and paste it under our project library folder (library/Zend) or make a symbolink to /user/local/ZendFrameworkCli/library/Zend from library.

That’s it. Open your favorite browser any type http://local.kickstart.com if all okay you will see below picture.

Cheers!!! Happy coding.

N:B This article is tested on Mac OS X and hopefully same procedure will work on Linux server too. I will write soon about CRUD operation in Zend Framework in my next post. Stay tuned

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N:B: Make sure to change YourNewPasswordHere with your new password that you want to set. Press enter. If prompt enter your mysql password.

Now we need to change few more files to make sure it’s working perfectly. Open following files in your favorite text editor of choice and seek for user root and proot / root (Usually states for “root, root”). Change only the root password with your new password.

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Fews days ago I tried titanium it’s also quite good but for building UI needs lots of coding. But with PhoneGap and jQuery mobile it’s too much easy for me.

Here my code snippet for this.

All you need to know how to use jQuery mobile. Here in my code I just link jquery mobile js and css files and use jQuery mobile page structure. Code is pretty simple and self descriptive I think. Isn’t it cool?

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Let’s start.

Step-01. First make directory under /var/www/ folder. Suppose a folder name ‘smronju’. You can do it in command line like

Step-02. As a best practice, many people install the symfony framework files in the lib/vendor directory. Let’s create these directory:

Step-03. Download the symfony 1.4 project files from here and after that put the archive under the freshly created lib/vendor/ directory, un-archive it, and rename the directory to symfony

tar zxpf symfony-1.4.0.tgz

mv symfony-1.4.0 symfony //You can use any name instead of symfony as you want

rm symfony-1.4.0.tgz

You can check symfony version using this command.

// note that capital V.

Step-04. Project creation

From the smronju directory run the symfony generate:project task to create project.

//Change myproject to your own project name.

Step-05. Application creation

Now create the frontend application by running the generate:app task

Before trying to access our newly created project, we need to set the write permisstions on cache/ and log/ directories to the appropriate levels, so that our web server can write to them

That’s it we are almost done. Finally we will create virtual host for it. Go to the /etc/apache2/sites-available/ folder and make a file named ‘smronju’. Open it using text editor or medit. Paste the following code snippet in it.

Make this available to sites-available using this command

Finally restart or reload your apache server using

. Now test symfony by typing local.smronju.com in your browsers address bar. If everything goes well you will see below image.

Any bug please comment and happy coding

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. Just follow the steps below…

1. Open your hosts file located in

   1	/etc/hosts

   . To open a file either you can use your favorite text editor or use nano in command line.

   1	sudo nano /etc/hosts

   . Now add the following line

   1	127.0.0.1 local.myweb.com

   (Save and exit. If you are using nano then press ctrl+x, press y then press enter).

2. Create a file named

   1	vhosts.conf

   in

   1	/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/vhosts.conf

   and then open it.

3. Copy and paste following lines in it.

   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

   <VirtualHost *:80>   ServerName local.myweb.com   ServerAlias local.myweb.com   DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myweb   ErrorLog /Applications/MAMP/logs/myweb.log.txt   DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php4 index.php5   <Directory /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/myweb/>     Options -Indexes +IncludesNOEXEC +FollowSymLinks     allow from all     AllowOverride All   </Directory> </VirtualHost>

4. Enable your virtualhost by adding below line in

   1	/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/httpd.conf

   at the bottom of the file.

   1 2	NameVirtualHost *:80 Include /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/vhosts.conf

5. Restart your apache server and test it. Open your web browser and type local.myweb.com you will see
   

Tada you are done! Enjoy and correct me if I’m wrong

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Before you do that you need some package to be in your system. If not just copy and paste these commands in terminal.

1
sudo apt-get install apt-build //if prompt, choose your options and processor type.
1
2
sudo apt-build source gnome-panel

sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-panel

I believe you already have gnome-panel_2.30.2.orig.tar.gz in /var/cache/apt-build/build/ folder.

1. Now go to that folder using following

   1	cd /var/cache/apt-build/build/

2. Then unzip the folder

   1	tar -xzvf /var/cache/apt-build/build/gnome-panel_2.30.2.orig.tar.gz -C ~/

   (this will extract the folder into your home folder after job you can remove it.)

3. Open

   1	panel-menu-button.c

   for necessary changes

   1	cd ~/gnome-panel-2.30.2/ sudo gedit gnome-panel/panel-menu-button.c

4. Find the line

   1	"has-arrow", <strong>TRUE</strong>, NULL);

   and change it to

   1	"has-arrow", <strong>FALSE</strong>,NULL);

5. Finally run these commands

   1	sudo ./configure

   1

   sudo make

   1	sudo make install

   1	sudo killall gnome-panel

That’s it you are done.

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1. Boot your ubuntu from live cd, mount drive where ubuntu were installed then open terminal from applications->accessories->terminal. Type

   1	grub-install -v

   . This will prompt your installed grub version.

2. 1	mount | tail -1

   verify that you mount the correct drive. If it’s ok then following output will be shown

   1	/dev/sda2 on /media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit)

3. To make sure this is indeed the Ubuntu boot partition, run

   1	ls /media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444/boot

4. In either case, the output should be something like this:

   1 2 3

   config-2.6.18-3-686      initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686.bak  System.map-2.6.18-3-686 grub                     lost+found                   vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 initrd.img-2.6.18-3-686  memtest86+.bin

5. Now that everything is mounted, we just need to reinstall GRUB by specifying the correct directory and the correct drive name:

   1	sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/0d104aff-ec8c-44c8-b811-92b993823444 /dev/sda

6. If all went well, you should see something like this:

   1 2 3 4

   Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

    

   (hd0) /dev/sda

7. Reboot, making sure to boot to your hard drive and not to the live CD. Grub should be installed and both Ubuntu and Windows should have been automatically detected and listed in the menu.The Master Boot Record will execute Grub as the initial boot-loader. The Windows boot-loader is contained within the Windows partition and will then be chainloaded by the Grub boot-loader.

Enjoy!

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First install the apache2 php5 and mysql

This will install all the necessary applications you need. You may be prompted to decide on a MySQL root password (set one if you want), and to configure PHPMyAdmin (select apache2 as the server type). After that, we need to perform some minor configuration to get PHPMyAdmin working.

Open your terminal from applications->accessories->terminal and type the following line.

Add this line at the bottom

Now Save and Exit then restart Apache

Everything should now be configured – go to http://localhost/your_project_folder for local webpages , and http://localhost/phpmyadmin for database administration. If everything is okay you should see

Adding a virtual host to your LAMP server

To add virtual hosts in your server follow my previous post here.

Now enable mod_rewrite

Now paste this following line

Then edit

Find the following lines

and change it to

Finally restart Apache

That’s it now your PC is ready for development. Enjoy!

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