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Memcache with PHP Today I have new article for PHP. Last time I did post about  Memcache with PHP . Today we will talking about caching in PHP again. I will show you how you can use  Memcache in PHP . We will prepare useful class for working with Memcache for us and several examples. Memcache itself providing procedural and object oriented interface to memcached, highly effective caching daemon, which was especially designed to decrease database load in dynamic web applications. I don`t have online demo for today, just because haven`t installed Memcache at our hosting. But I will include samples of using our new library in this article too (as I did for our previous APC-related post). Also, pay attention that Memcache extension not bundled with PHP by default. This extension available in PECL.  Step 1. PHP I made this useful class for you. We will use this class to working with memory using Memcache system. classes/memcache.caching.php oCache = new Memcache(...

This post is more like a note to me, so that in future I can look up for steps involved in installing  memcache  on Linux servers like Centos or RHEL. Those of you who  follow me on twitter , will know that me and my friends spends hours trying to install memcache on one of our web server. Normally this is a five minute job, but unfortunately for us those tricks did not work out. So if you have tried YUM and APT-GET and still could not install the memcache then read on, to find the alternate( read manual, without magic ) way of doing it. When we talk about Memcache their two things that needs to be installed Memcache Daemon  know as memcached, and Memcache client  for your programing language, in this case PHP. Installing Memcache Daemon Note these steps has been taken from http://in2.php.net/manual/en/memcache.installation.php Steps to install Libevent(memcached dependency) First we need to check if libevent is installed or not? type...

This article describing how to use ESF Database Migration Toolkit to migrating data from MS-Access 2000-2007 to MySQL database and vice versa. Introduction: If you have not installed ESF Database Migration Toolkit,  get it now . 1).  In "Choose a Data Source" dialog, choose "Microsoft Access (*.mdb)" or "Microsoft Access 2007 (*.mdb;*.accdb)" if you are migrating data from Access 2007; Then press "Browse" to find the Access MDB (or ACCDB) file, if the file has a password, fill out password in "Password" field, then click "Next" to continue. 2).  In "Choose a Data Destination" dialog, choose "MySQL Database", fill out the server name where MySQL locating and the server port (default is 3306), plus, you want to offer a username and password to connect it. MySQL supporting some different Storage Engines, please click  here  to get more information about MySQL Storage Engine. In "CharacterSet" ...

The Form Creating a nice, easy to maintain form, starts with a form class. Creating your forms procedurally in your controller/actions is horrid. please don’t do it. To start with creating your form classes, you need your own namespace in your library. If you don’t have this, register one. This can be done by adding an _initAutoloading method to your Bootstrap. below is a short example. its not comprehensive (you can also do this in your ini i believe, but I use php configuration files similar to DASPRiD ‘s, and i’m not trying to show how to set up autoloading here.) class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap { //... /** * Initilise autoloader and library namespaces */ public function _initAutoloading ( ) { $loader = Zend_Loader_Autoloader :: getInstance ( ) ; $loader -> registerNamespace ( 'My_' ) ; } //... } Your next task, create a form. This is pretty simple. I will demonstrate us...

The jQuery webcam plugin is a transparent layer to communicate with a camera directly in JavaScript. Overview This plugin provides three different modes to access a webcam through a small API directly with JavaScript - or more precisely jQuery. Thus, it is possible to bring the image on a Canvas (callback mode), to store the image on the server (save mode) and to stream the live image of the Flash element on a Canvas (stream mode). If you just want to download the plugin, click here: Download the jQuery webcam plugin jQuery webcam example jQuery Take a picture after 3 seconds | Take a picture instantly Available Cameras HP Webcam [2 MP Fixed] (V4L2) If you activate the filter with the button on the right side of the picture, methods of my already published jQuery plugin xcolor will be used to distort the colors of the Canvas. General information about the interface The following snippet describes the interface of the webcam API: $ ( ...