This article explains how to implement OAuth 2 with Google API (gapi) on Phonegap using Childbrowser Plugin. We will authorize Google Tasks API from Phonegap and then retrieve a list of Tasks (of default list) from Google Server. Because the App is built using Phonegap, it can be deployed in iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone […]
I decided to share some of the best practices of Javascript which I have learned from various blogs and books over the years. Although, I used Javascript back in 2003, I didn’t learn Javascript properly and just happened to use it for some fun webpages. However, as I revisited Javascript from 2007 onwards, I have […]
ezMark is a jQuery Plugin that allows you to stylize Radio button and Checkbox easily. Its very small (minified version is ~1.5kb) compared to other similar scripts. It has been tested and works on all major browsers (IE 6/7/8, Firefox, Safari, Chrome) and it gracefully degrades. It has the following Method: $(‘selector’).ezMark( [options] ); Basic […]
I decided to write a simple Canadian Postal Code and US Zip Code Regex. There are already good ones on the web, like here for example. But, I decided to write my own to make it slightly more accurate. Canadian Postal Code Regex Canada’s Postal Code format is ‘A1A 1X1’ or ‘a1a1x1’. Its made up […]
Recently, I have been working on an Application which involved rating system. There are 2 cases where we would want to display ratings. On 1st case, we would just want to display the list of contents (videos, blogs etc.) with its rating (just displayed). On another case, show the rating and also allow viewer to […]
XPath allows traversing through XML elements and attributes very easily. For complex XMLs, using XPath can significantly reduce the complexity of coding. Good Tutorial of XPath can be viewed on W3C schools here. Reference on DomXPath can be viewed here. XPath is useful if someone needs to extract a specific node from an entire XML, […]
Over the last month I have been working on an e-commerce store for our company and realized most of the shipping modules out there are quite complex to use. So, I decided to create a simple Canada Post PHP Class. Canada Post’s specification requires parsing of XML files to retrieve values, hence I have used […]
This is a continuation of previous article, where I wrote on how to use PHP’5 DOM to read XML Files easily. But, for large files, its better to use XMLReader. Unlike DomDocument, XMLReader does not load the entire File on memory. It reads an XML file one node at a time. I hardly use XMLReader […]
PHP-5’s DOM and XMLReader provides the ability to read XML files easily. The good thing about PHP-5’s DOM (mainly DomDocument, DomNodeList, DomNode) is that it implements the standard DOM features as specified by W3C. W3C’s reference on DOM can be viewed here. So, if someone has used DOM before (say on JavaScript), then it would […]
DomDocument is a powerful library of PHP-5 to create XML. In this article, I will try to explain the basics of DomDocument and then will create a couple of simple XML files. First, lets have a look at a simple XML file: Taken from W3C’s example: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?> >note> <to>Tove>/to> <from>Jani>/from> <heading>Reminder>/heading> <desc>Don’t forget […]