Best PHP Frameworks for Beginner

Now a day, there are many PHP framework such as: CodeIgniter, Yii, Laravel, PHPCake, Zend etc. If you are a beginner PHP Developer who want to develop website with PHP Frameworks, we recommend you to try CodeIgniter.



CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

Why CodeIgniter?

• Framework with a small footprint
• Clear documentation
• Compatibility with standard hosting
• No restrictive coding rules

It's really easy, best for small projects, very well documented and you find all the answers to your questions on the internet.

Once you're familiar with it, you can start with another framework like CakePHP, Yii and Zend.

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phpDesigner 8 Best IDE for Your Next PHP Projects

phpDesigner 8 is a fast PHP IDE and PHP editor with built-in HTML5-, CSS3- and JavaScript editors boosted with features to help you create amazing websites. phpdesigner

The main pro of this one is that it's NOT Java based. This keeps the whole thing quick.

Features:

• Intelligent Syntax Highlighter - automatic switch between PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript depending on your position!
• PHP (both version 4 and 5 are supported)
• SQL (MySQL, MSSQL 2000, MSSQL 7, Ingres, Interbase 6, Oracle, Sybase)
• HTML/XHTML
• CSS (both version 1 and 2.1 are supported)
• JavaScript
• VBScript
• Java
• C#
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby
• Smarty

PHP:

• Support for both PHP 4 and PHP 5
• Code Explorer for PHP (includes, classes, extended classes, interfaces, properties, functions, constants and variables)
• Code Completion (IntelliSense) for PHP - code assist as you type
• Code Tip (code hint) for PHP - code assist as you type
• Work with any PHP frameworks (access classes, functions, variables, etc. on the fly)
• PHP object oriented programming (OOP) including nested objects
• Support for PHP heredoc
• Enclose strings with single- or double quotes, linefeed, carriage return or tabs
• PHP server variables
• PHP statement templates (if, else, then, while…)
• Powerful PHP Code Beautifier with many configurations and profile support
• phpDocumentor wizard
• Add phpDocumentor documentation to functions and classes with one click!
• phpDocumentor tags
• Comment or uncomment with one click!
• Jump to any declaration with filtering by classes, interfaces, functions, variables or constants

Debug (PHP):

• Debug with Xdebug
• Breakpoints
• Step by step debugging
• Step into
• Step over
• Run to cursor
• Run until return
• Call stack
• Watches
• Context variables
• Evaluate
• Profiling
• Multiple sessions
• Evaluation tip
• Catch errors

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Change default jQuery Validation

This jQuery plugin makes simple client side form validation easy, whilst still offering plenty of customization options. It makes a good choice if you’re building something new from scratch, but also when you’re trying to integrate something into an existing application with lots of existing markup. The plugin comes bundled with a useful set of validation methods, including URL and email validation, while providing an API to write your own methods. All bundled methods come with default error messages in English and translations into 37 other languages.

So, in this tutorial I will show you how to change the default standard messages of its plugin.

jQuery.extend(jQuery.validator.messages, {
    required: "This field is required.",
    remote: "Please fix this field.",
    email: "Please enter a valid email address.",
    url: "Please enter a valid URL.",
    date: "Please enter a valid date.",
    dateISO: "Please enter a valid date (ISO).",
    number: "Please enter a valid number.",
    digits: "Please enter only digits.",
    creditcard: "Please enter a valid credit card number.",
    equalTo: "Please enter the same value again.",
    accept: "Please enter a value with a valid extension.",
    maxlength: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter no more than {0} characters."),
    minlength: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter at least {0} characters."),
    rangelength: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value between {0} and {1} characters long."),
    range: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value between {0} and {1}."),
    max: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value less than or equal to {0}."),
    min: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value greater than or equal to {0}.")
});

Configure PayPal with Instant Payment Notification

1- Login to your PayPal Business Account
2- Go My Account -> Profile -> My selling tools
3- Click update on Website preferences
4- Choose off for Auto Return and remove the url inside

5- Choose off for Payment Data Transfer

6- Click save button

7- Go to Instant Payment Notification Preferences
8- Enable IPN message -> Pass your notification URL

9- Save

More detail about IPN

1- https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNIntro/

2- https://github.com/paypal/ipn-code-samples

3- https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNandPDTVariables/

4- https://www.paypal.com/kh/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/acc/ipn-subscriptions-outside

Check OS and Browser Agent with PHP

The user agent string is a text that the browsers themselves send to the webserver to identify themselves, so that websites can send different content based on the browser or based on browser compatibility.

Mozilla is a browser rendering engine (the one at the core of Firefox) and the fact that Chrome and IE contain the string Mozilla/4 or /5 identifies them as being compatible with that rendering engine.

In this case I will show you how to detect the Os or Browser Agent using PHP ,

* Check OS

$agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
// get os
if (preg_match('/linux/i', $agent)) {
    $os = 'linux';
} elseif (preg_match('/macintosh|mac os x/i', $agent)) {
    $os = 'mac';
} elseif (preg_match('/windows|win32/i', $agent)) {
    $os = 'windows';
}

* Check Browser Agent

if (preg_match('/Chrome/i', $agent)) {
    if ($os == 'windows') {
        //impleted;
     } else {
        //impleted;
     }
} elseif (preg_match('/Firefox/i', $agent)) {
   if ($os == 'windows') {
      //impleted;
   } else {
     //impleted;
   }
} elseif (preg_match('/Safari/i', $agent)) {
   if ($os == 'windows') {
      //impleted;
   } else {
      //impleted;
   }
}

- Let's enjoy!

Different language message error from Model Cakephp

That is just a small trick how how we can make our website to be multiple language. For the concept is not different from other
framework, by the way you have understand about folder structure of Cakephp.

In this case you will see the Local folder which its contain the two folder inside.

I have created two folder of language "en and jp".

1- Create language folder. ex. ('en and jp')

2- Create file with extension ".po"
3- There are two key word in the file which you have to understand :
    msgid : it is the key or id which represent the message as a global
    msgstr: it is the message of the key a head
4- Use in model. ex.

public $validate = array(
        'username' => array(
            'required' => array(
                'rule' => array('notBlank'),
                'message' => 'This field is required!'
            )
        ),
        'password' => array(
            'required' => array(
                'rule' => array('notBlank'),
                'message' => 'This field is required!',
            ),
            'min_length' => array(
                'rule' => array('minLength', '5'),
                'message' => 'Password must over 5',
            )
        ),
);

5- check in the file .po syntax
    a- Example in en folder :

msgid "This field is required!"
msgstr "This field is required!"

msgid "Please enter the same value again!"
msgstr "Please enter the same value again!"

msgid "Password must over 5!"
msgstr "Password must over 5!"

msgid "Email already exist!"
msgstr "Email already exist!"

msgid "Please enter valid phone number!"
msgstr "Please enter valid phone number!"

msgid "This field must be number!"
msgstr "This field must be number!"

msgid "Invalid email format!"
msgstr "Invalid email format!"

   b- Example in jp folder :

msgid "This field is required!"
msgstr "必須項目です。"

msgid "Please enter the same value again!"
msgstr "必須項目です。"

msgid "Password must over 5!"
msgstr "パスワードは5文字以上を入力ください。"

msgid "Email already exist!"
msgstr "入力されたEメールは既に存在しています。"

msgid "Please enter valid phone number!"
msgstr "電話の形式ではありません。"

msgid "This field must be number!"
msgstr "数値ではありません。"

msgid "Invalid email format!"
msgstr "Eメールの形式ではありません。"

6- Please configure the language in AppController :

Configure::write('Config.language', 'jp or en');

Ok, that is. Let's enjoy.

Go to position with jQuery

This is just a small trick on how to go to the page section with Jquery by referenced from url. So the concept is not difficult first you need to do is to add the # which will be connected with your link (eg. www.url.com/page#id). After that you can use Jquery window.location.hash to get the "#id" from url. In this code I have used animate function to show the transition while the page is scrolled to the section.

ID

Text Description

$(function() {
        var ha = window.location.hash;
        if(ha) {
            var divLoc = $(ha).offset();
            $('html, body').animate({scrollTop: divLoc.top}, "slow");
        }
    })
 }
}