Yesterday i had submitted this wordpress theme of mine to the official wordpress theme directory. I got a feedback from the guys there stating that my theme wasnt valid as it had some issues and they asked me to fix them and upload again. I was able to fix all the issues but one, ant that was : the gallery, when inserted in the post, streches out the gallery container div to around 600px! I looked at the source code of the gallery and found that the gallery was created using the dt and dl tags, and the dt containing the images was set to float to left using css and each row of dt containing images was separated out by a br styled to clear:both. This was the part of document which was causing trouble, the br tag, after clearing both side was pushing down the next row of images to at least around 600px, trying to fix this issue only had me panicking after hours of debugging,re-writing some styles and googling the solution out, but in vain . It was when i was almost exhausted and felt like my brain was going to give up and shutdown that i told myself to give it a last try , i just gave my content div (which was set to float to left and was the parent of the post div that was streching out) a fixed width of 740px, and hurray, to my amazement i found that the problem was solved!!! . I dont know what actually happened, what had the width of the parent element to do with the vertical stretchning of the gallery image rows. So if you have an explanation then please lemme know in the comments below.

If you are among the ones who give away free self written php scripts to everybody but want some way to stop script kiddies and newbies just copy-pasting and modifying your script or you just dont want code newbies to know the original code then this post is probably for you. The trick is to encode your php code as a string and then parse the encoded string as php code after decoding it. This trick is very commonly usede by developers. Though this trick cannot stop code copying but can discourage the viewer to a certain extent to copy the code.
Here is how to do it:

1. Encode your code as string using any encoding method/functions . the most commonly used is base64_encode. You can even use Dynamicguru’s Online base 64 encoder and decoder to instantly convert your code to base64 format
2. In your script file, decode the generated string using base64_decode function and assign it to a variable
3. Now call the function eval() passing your decoded string as argument and you are done!

Example :

Consider the following piece of code :

Now suppose you want to disguise the code and make it look un-interpretable , Encode it using our Online base 64 encoder and decoder . here is what the code looks like after encoding :

Now call the eval() function :

hope you enjoyed the post and learnt something new and useful

The most common use of php on the internet is probably to make Contact Forms or mail forms . Here is a free php contact form script that takes input from 5 fields : name,email,url,subject and message. The script also validates the input and checks to see if the name , email and message fields are filled out properly and also checks if the email address provided is valid. the script then sends a mail to the administrator containing the message and the visitor info and also writes (appends) the input to a “contact.log” file . The script is quiet easy to understand and edit as it is commented and well written. Just place the following code in a “contact.php” file and change the value of $admin_mail to your email id. You can style the form to your taste using css.

The web portfolio of Mujtaba Ahmed

Today i’ve launched my new website and my first web portfolio.

You can check it out here: www.dynamicguru.com/mujtaba/ .

The site is one of my best works till date and is the first site of mine to use ajax and is powered by jQuery. The site uses awesome jQuery effects for page transitions. Also it has validated XHTML 1.0 Strict markup. Check it out and tell me in the comments what you think about it?