El Blog del Antonio
Programming Web with PHP, CSS, Javascript and ∞
Visual Lightbox
Feb 8th
This post is for those who wish to implement a beautiful Lightbox plugin on their site or blog and, unfortunately, do not have a clue about Javascript and/or jQuery and/or Html.
VisualLightBox is a free application that helps you easily generate online photo albums, lightbox gallery with a nice Lightbox-style overlay effect, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.
Just drag&drop your photos to VisualLightBox wizard window, press “Publish” and your own css web site album with beautiful LightBox effects will open in the browser instantly! No css, image editing, javascript, html coding, just a click to get More >
Hip Hop for PHP?
Feb 3rd
Guys, it seems that the days of breaking your head towards how to protect your PHP code is about to end. Following a great article from the Web explaining what happens nowadays with PHP Hip Hop Facebook’s approach.
The open source dynamic scripting language PHP is widely deployed across the Web, powering countless Web sites (including the Internet.com network). Now Facebook is aiming to change the game with today’s release of a major new PHP effort called HipHop.
With HipHop, Facebook is providing a new runtime that is intended to improve PHP use in large-scale deployments. The HipHop effort, which also includes More >
Handling Timeouts with PHP5 SoapClient Extension
Feb 2nd
I was breaking my head towards a silly thing around SoapClient Calls. My actual project requires Soap Calls to certain providers and everytime I was calling the external server, I had to wait for the server response (if any) and if the server failed to respond accordingly… damn… Warnings and/or Errors displayed and boom… My great application just looked like… well, forget it, I just used the try and catch statements for that… not big deal.
So I jump over Google’s horse and looked around implementing timeouts! because that was a true issue. Can you imagine? A user makes a request More >
Apple Reveal iPad
Jan 28th
After so much expectation, a new family member of Apple named iPad, has seen the light. Steve Jobs introduced it in his annual San Francisco event and has already produced long queues to book on major stores.
IPad is called, weighs just 680 grams, and is thin, only 13,4 mm. This is the newest member of the Apple that was released yesterday. Steve Jobs, CEO of the firm, on its annual event in San Francisco released its new device to thousands of expectant people. And that, along with the iPhone, which was introduced three years ago, has become one of the More >
Php Frameworks
Jan 26th
I decided to jump over the MVC (Model View Controller) pattern and on one of my linkedin groups I drop a question:
Which one is best?
A huge amount of PHP programmers started to join this discussion writing their personal PHP Framework tastes, providing me with a huge list of Frameworks I would like to share with you. I don’t say that one is best that another, as one of the members said, there is no ‘best PHP MVC Framework, is whatever suits you best on your project goals’.
I know the list could be much bigger, if you know more PHP More >
Get Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps V3
Jan 22nd
I would like to share with you a little piece of code that I find quite useful in my applications. I do create lots of guides that require a small utility to find out the latitude and longitude of a business location from a control panel in order to display the maps appropiately on the Web. Here I will do my best to explain a step procedure on how to do that -once you know the procedure, it is easy to create plugins or whatever you wish to do.
Step 1First of all, lets make a reference to the new More >
Germany recommends not using Internet Explorer ‘for security’
Jan 18th
Microsoft recognizes that the security of their browser failed to recent attacks on Google
Europa Press News
The Federal Office of Information Security from Germany, warned Internet users to find an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) ‘to ensure their security’, after Microsoft recognized that their browser failed in the recents attacks to Google’s sytems.
However, according BBC Channel, Microsoft rejected the advice of the Federal Office, saying that the risk to their users was low and by improving the security settings in Internet Explorer would solve the problems.
Nevertheless, German authorities said that even improving its security settings would make More >
jQuery 1.4 -Are you ready?
Jan 14th
jQuery lovers, today, 14th of January, the programmers of jQuery celebrate its anniversary releasing a new version of this wonderful library. Better iFrame support, great new shorthands, I don’t know what to say fellows but I am eager to find out what its new features are capable of.
The jQuery programmers not happy with a new release has also created a new jQuery API site. Check what they have done on their API site here.
John Resig will announce 1.4 release details tomorrow but meanwhile, you can download it and see for yourself.
Fixing 500 Internal Error on Xampp
Jan 12th
First of all, let’s talk about XAMPP a bit. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.
There are three types of distribution (Windows, Linux and Mac). I am not going to discuss anything about XAMPP, I think that with a visit to their site you will all the info required to install and run this wonderful package.
What I want to concentrate on is that when trying to use a regular .htaccess in a specific folder, Apache fires a beautiful and really annoying More >
EzRegAPI OCX Control
Jan 12th
Here is another Activex Control I have created on the old times of Visual Basic. This time, it easiest the tasks of a programmer to use the registry API functions of Windows.
Visual Basic was one of my preferred languages when I started programming, everybody thought that it was a very slow programming language and, even more, it was not a true programming language. My love for this pseudo-language was so strong that I decided to prove to everybody that, with a bit of tweaking here and there and making use of the DLL libraries, I could speed up the application More >
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