Archive for January, 2010

class MyController extends AppController { // var $uses = null; works too var $uses = array(); function index() { } } If you omit the “var $uses = array();” you will get a “missing model” error.

Many companies often neglect the importance of having a nice letterhead design. If you are unaware of the effectiveness of having a professionally designed letterhead, do note that you can literally turn this material in to an excellent, low-cost form of promotion and promotion gizmo. In the highly competitive business world today, it is crucial that you show people how you value your …

To follow ALL redirects using CURL brings up a lot of special cases. Here’s a function that takes everything into account (even javascript redirects) <?php function get_final_url( $url, $timeout = 5 ) { $url = str_replace( "&amp;", "&", urldecode(trim($url)) ); $cookie = tempnam ("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE"); $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1" ); curl_setopt( $ch, …

Please check all the pages!. http://www.webometrics.info/university_by_country.asp?country=pk&offset=-1&zoom_highlight=virtual+university The catalogue lists all the Universities and other Higher Education Institutions with an independent URL domain. The list is organized alphabetically by the name of the organization. If you know of any mistake, changes of the name or the URL, universities missed or institutions listed not belonging to the academic sector, please send an email to the …

Watch Online Lectures The Virtual University, Pakistan’s first University based completely on modern Information and Communication Technologies, was established by the Government as a public sector, not-for-profit institution with a clear mission: to provide extremely affordable world class education to aspiring students all over the country. Using free-to-air satellite television broadcasts and the Internet, the Virtual University allows students to follow its rigorous …

Please go to APP -> WEBROOT -> INDEX.PHP . There you will find the following code. Just comment it. //Just comment the following code in APP -> WEBROOT -> INDEX.PHP if (Configure::read() > 0) { echo "<!– " . round(getMicrotime() – $TIME_START, 4) . "s –>"; }

If you do not want to make any view against particular action. Then you can set autorender() to false. $this->autoRender = false; Here is example: //Use autoRender if you do not want to make getproptypes.ctp file in views. function getproptypes(){ $this->autoRender = false; }

Basics of Graphic Designing

 on January 5, 2010

Graphic design fundamentally is visual problem solving using text or graphical elements. Your aim is to generate something that is catchy to the eye, and gets the attention of the viewer. But things can”t look great. They must work as well. Web-based applications have brought graphic designers closer to program development projects than ever before. Because the buttons, menus, and other screen elements …