If you are using some WYSIWYG Editor and wonder how data in database if full of  \\\\"\\\\   Mess then following code will be helpful to you. Add this code on the top of the script or in any common file, which is include on top of  the code.
// Turn off magic_quotes_runtime
if (get_magic_quotes_runtime())
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0);
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
function stripslashes_gpc(&$value)
{
$value = stripslashes($value);
}
array_walk_recursive($_GET, ’stripslashes_gpc’);
array_walk_recursive($_POST, ’stripslashes_gpc’);
array_walk_recursive($_COOKIE, ’stripslashes_gpc’);
array_walk_recursive($_REQUEST, ’stripslashes_gpc’);
}

I bought new Vodafone sim about 1 month ago. I selected vodafone because of it’s good publicity in television. Everything was going fine for first 7 days. On 10th January 2010 I recharged my phone with the amount of 350.00 from website. In vodafone website the mentioned on 350.00 INR recharge I will get talktime of 315.00 INR. Following is the print screen.

I immidiately called customer care and talked her about my problem. She checked and replied that you got INR 177.32. Customer care executive was in very hurry and …

Update:

From this new year we are diving fully in to the business. Now it’s time to do something big. So Elrada office is now shifting from Lucknow to the City Beautiful Chandigarh from 1st January. I will post pics very soon

http://elrada.com

Some, rather most organizations reject his CV today because he has changed jobs frequently (10 in 14 years). My friend, the “job hopper” (referred here as Mr. JH), does not mind it. well he does not need to mind it at all. Having worked full-time with 10 employer companies in just 14 years gives Mr. JH the relaxing edge that most of the “company loyal” employees are struggling for today.

Yes!! you can download eSnips files without even create account in eSnips. Follow these steps to download files. Follow these simple steps and download music for free.

Recently I faces a problem in admin module,  developed by some programmer that when I submit add entry button it adds two records but when I submit for Firefox, I was working  fine.
After 3 hour of mess I found error, In IE8 you have to return false, if you are submitting form through javascript. Here is example
<form name=”frm” onsubmit=”return chkForm();”>
function chkForm()
{
//Variuos checks
document.frm1.submit();
return false;
}

MySql 5.0 come up with many great features.  One most important feature is trigger. Triggere support is in initial phase but, will be extended in future release.  here I am going to present a brief easy to understand tutorial for mysql triggers.
Triggers are MySql statements, commends which are executed on a definded event. These events may be (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE). So at the top level we can categorize triggers in 3 categories
1. Create
2. Update
3. Delete
The basic syntax of trigger definition is
CREATE
[DEFINER = { user | CURRENT_USER …

Recently I faced problem to move magento site from local (LAMP) environment to web server. I am posting steps to upload site on server.

1. Make tar / zip of code.

$ tar -cvvf site.tar /opt/lampp/magento/

2. Take backup of database through phpmyadmin. Check “Disable foreign key checks” to avoid error in restore process.

Google Latitude is free and have good coverage in India. I am using this for Chandigarh. It has My Location, Driving direction support for Chandigarh.

You can download it from here : http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/latitude/intro.html

The best feature of latitude is, track your friend’s locaiton on web (iGoogle). You can select your friends to view your current location. This application automatically activate backgroung services which update your location automatically on server.

Regular expressions are a very useful tool for developers. They allow to find, identify or replace text, words or any kind of characters. In this article, I have compiled 15+ extremely useful regular expressions that any web developer should have in his toolkit.