Creating PDF documents with PHP

Step 1 - Install the PDFlib extension PDFlib is not included with the default PHP 5.3 distribution, so you will have to install it. Download the PHP version of the PHPlib library from here. The Windows build of PHP 5 comes in many different varieties. I'll assume that you are using the VC9 non-thread safe build, and that you have installed PHP to the default location. Extract the libpdf_php.dll file from the PDFlib-7.0.4p6-MSWin32-php\bind\php5\php-530-nozts_VS9\ directory in the...

Dispaying your Twitter status with PHP

Step 1 - Define a URL Regular Expression Twitter posts quite often include links. However, the Twitter API will only return a status update as text, without the HTML markup to identify a link. To get around this we will use regular expressions to turn URLs into clickable links. The following is a simple Regular Expression that will match URLs in the Twitter status posts. $url_re = ...

Installing Wamp Server (Apache+MySQL+PHP)

WampServer, originally called WAMP5, is a compilation of Apache, MySQL and PHP that is really easy to install and use. It come also with PHPMyAdmin, for you to easily manage your local databases. WAMP is the acronym of Windows + Apache + MySQL + PHP. As you can see, this is the most important for you to get ready to programming in your local computer as a server. WampServer install file is about 16MB, and at this time, these are the versions used on WampServer 2.0i: Apache 2.2.11; PHP...

Displaying Records in Multiple Columns Using PHP

For this article, i have selected a table members, containing each member's pic and some other text detail. The members will be shown in multiple columns as shown in the picture below. The technique is to use 2 loops (one nested inside the other). The outter loop creates rows and the inner loop creates columns. The only thing we have to take care of is the inner loop creates equal number of columns for each row. If there are no more records the inner loop should print a blank column....

Create a KVM-based virtual server in 3 steps

The Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is free, open source virtualization software for Linux based on the Intel VT-X and AMD-V hardware virtualization extensions and a modified version of QEMU (work is underway to get the required changes upstream). KVM—in the form of kvm.ko, a loadable kernel module that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and processor-specific modules kvm-intel.ko...

Creating Quality Document Scans

While we can all dream about the world of paper being replaced with computers and electronic documents, we all know that is still only a dream.  In the course of doing my graduate studies, I have often needed to make copies of articles and books reserved in the library.  I've grown accustom to scanning these documents and archiving them with the rest of my course work, and in the process I've learned to make high quality scans, suitable for printing if necessary, and still a ...

The Extend Command

Introduction AutoCAD drawings are rarely completed simply by drawing lines, circles etc. Most likely you will need to Modify these basic drawing objects in some way in order to create the image you need. AutoCAD provides a whole range of modify tools such as Move, Copy, Rotate and Mirror. As you can see, the command names are easily understandable. However, the way these commands work is not always obvious. This tutorial is designed to show you how all of the Modify commands work. If...

AutoCAD Creating Custom Bitmap Materials Tutorial

This tutorial describes how to create custom bitmap based materials in AutoCAD and how to create the bitmap tile from scratch in Photoshop. If you would like to follow this tutorial closely, you can download the Garden drawing used in the examples. See Download Sample Data, below. In many cases, rendering using object colours or the use of materials from the AutoCAD Material Library is all that's required to produce a semi-realistic render of a scene. However, sometimes you might want ...

Android & iPhone browser wars: Intro to the WebKit

Introduction Combined, the iPhone and Android platforms have more than 100,000 application titles available for download across their respective app stores. Native applications are those created with a platform's SDK, then compiled and installed to a device. These native applications provide thorough access to a device's inherent capabilities, including features like wireless networking, Bluetooth, data...

Creating a Google Search Application!

In this tutorial we will teach you how to create a Visual Basic application that lets you search Google Web and Google Images!   To begin, create a new windows project. File, New, Project. Name it GoogleSearch, names are important as they help us identify projects much easier. Once the project is created, you should have a blank form that looks like this Now from the Tool Box at the Left hand side, drag onto the form a Combo Box, Text Box, and Command Button, then resize...