Sumit Gupta

Category: PHP

  • WordPress: Black and White Post Overlay Image

    One of my client ask us to create Black and white thumbnail for wordpress blog post that on mouse over turn coloured. This is pretty common effect now a days and with my custom PHP or ASP.NET programming we usually create black and white image at time of upload and save it. This is what…

  • PHP Mobile Detection

    Just a quick note, to detect the mobile/tablet/desktop this script looks promising : http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/ I try to detect it my Windows Mango phone, it does detect it as Mobile, though I hate that it doesn’t recognize Windows Mango yet. But looks promising and it is easier to implement it as well.

  • WKHTMLTOPDF: A Free PDF solution

    As any other developer we often find it difficult to get a Website to print something accurately, specially when printing labels for mailing as they are outside the default print area for most browser and no client want to adjust or memorize the print setting to adjust them manually. Also it doesn’t make sense to…

  • PHP Upgrade on Plesk/Linux

    Well if you search topic on google you will find lot about it. But here is quick guide for me with little explanation. 1. Plesk do not ship PHP as it’s integrated part, so it ask you to upgrade outside plesk and they do not provide support on it. 2. On Linux you can use…

  • .htaccess Hack

    Today, I got another wordpress that stop working and start giving 404 error. Previously client got it fixed by removing .htaccess from his installation and get it working. I thought he might mess his wordpress himself. But when we got similar error today I search and little and find that in .htaccess there is a…

  • Make Web Not War

    This is what Microsoft has to say through it’s WEB portal (http://www.microsoft.com/web ), where it distribute one of leading platform for Web application development and deployment. Well this message can be a direct/indirect attack on those who thing Microsoft is up again only making $$$ and not services. Well guys you are wrong, check this…

  • 1and1.com hosting – WordPress upgrade failure

    Today I was upgrading one of my client’s wordpress installation, but it was failing, later I found in some forum that this failure is because 1and1.com hosting doesn’t have PHP enable by default and that we need to map php5 compiler properly. For this all you need to do is just add AddType x-mapp-php5 .php…