Apr
30
24th April, 2010 – PHP WORKSHOP Q&A
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Q1: How to become a Professional Webmaster?
A professional webmaster must always maintain a good coding style, the use of graphic resolution, and complete the browser compatibility checking before a website is publish.
Q2: A PHP variable can store up to how many characters?
In comparison to .NET programming, variable and text string is two different things. However, in PHP a variable can use to DEFINE a value, variable and also be use to store a long string text.
More about string functions: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.strings.php
Q3: When to use ‘For’ loop, ‘While’ loop, ‘Do-While’ loop?
In computer science a ‘For’ loop, ‘While’ loop, ‘Do-While’ loop is a programming language statement which allows code to be repeatedly executed. In some cases, which LOOP should I decide to use? Here you go: http://mathbits.com/mathbits/compsci/looping/whichloop.htm
Q4: PHP Reserve Words
A list of predefined identifiers in PHP should not be used as identifiers in any of your scripts. These lists include keywords and predefined variable, constant, and class names.
More detail information at: http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.php
Q5: Multidimensional Arrays
Array does not have to be a simple list of keys and values; each array element can contain another array as a value, which in turn can hold other arrays as well. In such a way you can create two-dimensional or three-dimensional array.
Read more: http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/multidimensional_arrays.php
Q6: Date – Format a local time/date
Returns a string formatted according to the given format string using the given integer timestamp or the current time if no timestamp is given. In other words, timestamp is optional and defaults to the value of time().
Read more: http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Apr
20
Apr
7
MSC – We Are At AIMS KL Now!
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To all our valued customers,
At Maple Software Creation (MSC), our premium customer care does not stop when you purchase a hosting service from us. We are passionate in providing the best services to you, because quality is what we strive for, and passion is what keeps us going.
After a month since we have completed our last batch of data center migration exercise at end of Feb 2010, we would like to express our greatest appreciation for your patience with us throughout the past 3 months of data center migration period. We have been monitoring the network performance throughout the recent month to ensure everything runs smooth. We do appreciate hearing from our customers such as you, as your comments/feedback are vital for us to continue improving our services.
We will be having another round of upgrade be done across our shared hosting servers throughout April and May such as cPanel update to the latest version, Windows scheduled update, etc. We have blasted out an announcement for some of these planned maintenance during the last week and this week.
Last but not least, we are pleased and proud that you have chosen Maple Software Creation as your premium web services partner. Once again, thank you for taking the time to let us know how you feel. We truly want to make your experience as pleasant as possible and we look forward to your valuable feedback which will inspire us to improve tremendously!
Best Regards,
Jim Tan
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Managing Director
MAPLE SOFTWARE CREATION
URL: http://www.maplecreation.com
Mar
27
At 8.30pm on 27 March 2010, millions of people in cities across the planet will turn off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – to show the world that a solution to the threat of global warming is possible through collective action. WWF and Earth Hour supporters around the world want your business to be part of this historic moment.
There are many ways businesses can support Earth Hour, from turning out the lights in their buildings/facilities on the night through to encouraging staff and clients to join the Earth Hour initiative. Show current and future staff and clients you’re supporting Earth Hour and contributing to a global climate resolution!
The following information outlines the various levels of commitment to Earth Hour, be it big or small.
Click here to learn how your business can support Earth Hour
Mar
17
Understanding Joomla Structure
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Difficult to understand how section and categories in Joomla works?
Want to know how menus work on your website and how they are linked with sections and categories?
Click on the link below and you will get answers for the above questions.
Understanding Joomla Structure
Mar
6
Login to Read Fulltext will protect your article content from unregistered (public) visitors. It will only display the IntroText together with a link to your registration page to public visitors. After login in, your registered users can read the fulltext of the article.
You don’t need to insert any {} like syntax in the article to trigger this plugin. Just install and enable it, then Login to Read Fulltext plugin will start to protect all the articles on your Joomla! 1.5 website.
While human eyes will be blocked by this plugin, the spiders/crawlers from search engines will see the fulltext without any handicap and index your article content completely so that it can be found more easily.
If you want only protect certain sections or categories, you can define your ID list at the Admin side of this plugin.
You also can specify an alternative link for registration if your website is using some special registration extension or bridge URL instead of the default link in Joomla!.
New feature added: In old version, if you enabled PDF for the article, then the visitor will still get your full text by press that PDF button, though you had installed this plugin. Thanks to Oliver who reported this bug, we fixed it in v1.5 .
At last, I feel sorry to tell you that my website is in Chinese, but I am sure you can find that green button for download.
It was developed by a Chinese programmer, but has multi-lingual support. English language file inside.
Please test this plugin and send your feedback/feature request to joomlagate#gmail.com, you also can discuss this plugin on my forum at :
http://www.joomlagate.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,31/board,37.0/
Thanks.
Dec
1
JCE Content Editor for Joomla!
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| JCE makes creating and editing Joomla!® content easy
Add a set of tools to your Joomla!® environment that give you the power to create the kind of content you want, without limitations, and without needing to know or learn HTML, XHTML, CSS…
JCE Office Website: http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net |
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Nov
11
MSC- Scheduled Data Center Migration
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Dear Valued Clients,
Greetings from MSC! As part of our continuous commitment to provide a better service and better hosting experience to our valued clients, we would like to hereby announce that there will be a major data center migration and consolidation exercise that will be carried out starting from December 2009 and estimated to end by March 2010.
Where are we migrating to?
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We are migrating all our servers from present 4 data centers located across Cyberjaya to Raja Chulan, Kuala Lumpur. We are taking up a 1000 square feet of data center floor space from AIMS data center. The new data center provider which will be hosting the servers after the migration would be AIMS Data Center ( www.aims.com.my ).
Who is AIMS?
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AIMS is one of the premier data center facilities providers in Malaysia. AIMS has emerged as the most densely populated communications facility in the country. With more than 70% of licensed service providers calling it home, AIMS is a mesh of networks that have catalyzed the industry’s liberalization efforts. AIMS operates in strategic locations that are natural focal points for businesses to convene and hook up as well as offering reduced last mile costs. 70% of the active Voice Over IP (VOIP) players in the country are currently using the services from AIMS data center. AIMS is also one of the three sites elected to host the MyIX Exchange (http://www.myix.gov.my/)
Why are we migrating?
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Some of the benefits of co-locating at the AIMS data center are:
1.)Redundant network connectivity from bandwidth providers.
2.)Reduced network downtime by having redundant network connectivity from multiple bandwidth providers.
3.)Reduced servers and equipment outage by having Redundant power supply with One Primary and One redundant final sub-circuits from Separate Power Distribution Units within the data center
4.)Improved connectivity with the Comprehensive Layer 1 presence of all the Domestic Telcos, namely Telekom Malaysia, TIME, Maxis, DIGI, Fibrecomm, Fibrerail, Petrofibre, Pan Eagle and Celcom. 70% of the active Voice Over IP (VOIP) players in the country are currently using the services from AIMS data center.
5.)Improved security with 24×7 multi-level security control access and monitored by a CCTV Surveillance Camera System
6.)Improved protection by having Fire Suppression & Protection system throughout the data center area
7.)Improved safety of data centers by having Water Leakage Detection system which is installed in the data center area.
8.)70% of the active Voice Over IP (VOIP) players in the country are currently using the services from AIMS data center.
9.)Fire Suppression & Protection system throughout the data center area
10.)Water Leakage Detection system which is installed in the data center area
11.)One of the three sites elected to host the MyIX Exchange (http://www.myix.gov.my/)And many more.
More info about AIMS Data Center: http://www.aims.com.my/
This migration exercise will also allow us to provide you with better network accessibility in terms of speed and stability. We will also be able to respond to any unexpected incident in a timely manner as our engineers will be stationed in the same building of the data center for 24×7. Yes, our new KL office will be located at the same building as the new data center.
Who will be affected?
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All clients currently hosted under Maple Software Creation will be affected by this migration exercise. This includes Shared Hosting Clients, Dedicated Server Clients, Co-location Clients and Resellers.
Servers in following IP ranges will be included as part of this data center migration exercise.
1.)202.75.42.x
2.)202.75.48.x
3.)210.48.145.x
4.)210.48.157.x
5.)119.110.99.x
6.)116.0.101.x
7.)110.4.40.x
When will this happened?
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The migration and consolidation exercise will be carried out in several small batches in order to ensure a smooth migration. We expect the first batch of migration to be started in December and the last batch of migration to be completed by the end of March 2010.
Separate announcements will be emailed to you with detailed information regarding the actual date of migration.
What will happen during the migration?
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1.We will physically unplug the servers from present Cyberjaya Data Centers and transport them to the new data centers located at Kuala Lumpur.
2.A 5-9 hours of downtime is to be expected during the migration exercise.
3.There will be changes of IP addresses to most of your hosting accounts / servers upon the completion the new data center migration.
4.Please be assured that we will keep you informed, before, throughout and after the migration. A separate detailed announcement will be sent to you for the actual date of migration that will affect your hosting services / servers.
Once again, we would like to thank you for your support, your kind understanding and your great patience. Upon completion of this migration and consolidation exercise, we believe that we will be able to provide you with better service which will guarantee a better hosting experience with us.
Apr
17
Ever wondered how to make sure that those guys that doesn’t speak your language understands what you are talking about in your website? Are you trying to sell products that caters for the entire population on Earth but not capable to speak hundreds of different languages?
Well, the easiest and fastest way to turn your website (be it personal, portfolio, shopping site, business site, etc etc) into a multi-language website is to plug in Joomla! with those nifty translations modules.
Apr
17
Setting up a Newsletter for your Joomla! website is extremely easy. There are lots of newsletter components out there for you to choose, but it all comes to the level of easiness and updates. One of the most recognized newsletter component for Joomla! is Acajoom News.