in this article i’ll show how you could integrate google friend connect in your site.

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a nice article to learn about scalable applications with memcached and mysql. a 15 page article but worth to read. download and read

sometimes it’s very essential to convert document file to pdf. and today i found a site http://www.doc2pdf.net/ that is nice to do this job.

So far now, some days ago I analyzed the base of Magento. You can download this web application from here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/

So, what is Magento?

Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework.

Magento is available under the Open Software License version 3.0

So basically it is an eCommerce open source web application like OSCommerce. Now, we’ll see the features of it:

General Feature List

• Site Management
• Mobile Commerce
• Marketing Promotions and Tools
• International Support
• Search Engine Optimization
• Checkout
• Shipping
• Payment
• Order Management
• Customer Service
• Customer Accounts
• Catalog Management
• Catalog Browsing
• Product Browsing
• Analytics and Reporting
• Customer Reviews
• Cross-Selling
• Customer Tags
• Compare Products
• Wishlists

You could see the complete feature list from here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/doc/magento-feature-list.pdf

A comment about Magento:

Magento is going to win the eCommerce software war, hands down. I’ve never seen another ecommerce platform so well architected and well designed as Magento.
- Jack Aboutboul, Red Hat

I attracted on the core architecture of Magento. Many open source web application doesn’t start from a good architecture so when that becomes popular, people need to adjust to use that. Magento is different because it’s based on Zend Framework. So, this application is built upon a good structure. I hope to write more in future about this application.

I’ve used 4 IDEs for php based web application development. In my old laptop, I used notepad++ to write php, html, javascript, css code. notepad++ is a very light weight IDE and takes less resources.

**notepad++ IDE is best if your laptop/pc’s configuaration is old.

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Today, in one of my project I’ve to check empty fields.

The field name is: answer it’s type is TEXT and Default value is NULL

In my SQL query I was checked at first answer != NULL (if the answer is not null, i.e if the answer is not empty), But this was not showing the correct result.

Then I changed it to answer != ” ( i.e ” means empty string) then it showed the correct result.
Then I test with this answer != ‘NULL’, and it also showed the correct result.

Today I created a new group called PHP Expert in facebook.

I welcome all of you to join in this group and share whatever you like to develop web application using php.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=48608046806&ref=mf

After 6 months I got my ZCE Certificate. It looks cool. It comes with a sticker. Here it is: 

Visual database design is very essential. Almost every web application needs database. And by designing visual representation, relation of tables makes an developer easy to understand on the database. There are many tools to design database like DBDesigner, SQLYog. Recently I found another application that is called MySQL Workbench. It can be used to efficiently design, manage and document database schemata. After using it’s functionality, I found this is a really good tool for design database specially for MySQL.

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Here I'm showing how to integrate paypal in your site.

Case 1: Suppose you have a paypal account. You want to sell something and want to make money transaction through paypal. Now there are a critical situation. When someone buy your product through paypal, suppose a software, you want that automatically a license key will send to that user if payment make successful. So, here is the integration process step by step:

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