Clivern

A Software Engineer and Occasional Writer.

Learning MySQL Aliases

06 May 2014

MySQL aliases are simply nicknames used to express tables, columns and functions' names. These nicknames can be used in your queries to make them short and neat. Let's explore this feature.

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Laravel URL Generation

06 May 2014

In order to build hyperlinks in our applications. We might do this by hand but laravel provides a number of helpers to build URLs. Let's explore them.

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How To Test PHP Classes and Objects

06 May 2014

PHP provides a set of functions to test classes and objects. These functions allow you to know more information about classes and objects that you are using at runtime. All these functions provided by PHP reflection API but their simplicity make them the first choice.

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Adding Help Tabs In Wordpress Plugins Pages

06 May 2014

Wordpress 3.3 introduces the ability to create custom help tabs in plugin pages. You can use these tabs for plugin documentation to allow users to quickly understand your plugin function. I will show you how to add a help tab to your plugin configuration page.

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WordPress Options API

21 April 2014

Wordpress provides a set of functions that enable easy access to plugin options. By default wordpress and plugins options are stored in `wp_options` table. Let's explore these functions.

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How To Add Custom Rewrite Rules In WordPress

21 April 2014

Wordpress rewrite API used to convert URLs from something programmatically convenient to something user and search engine friendly. This article will give you some background information about wordpress URL rewriting principles and API.

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Kick-Starting MySQL

12 April 2014

Today MySQL is one of the most popular open source databases as it supports millions of web applications. We will discuss the basics of MySQL like creating databases and tables and interacting with data.

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Working With Laravel Filters

10 April 2014

Laravel filters are a set of rules that can be applied before and after routes to change application actions. Also there is global filters that executed before and after every request. Let's explore laravel filters.

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Working With Laravel Caching

10 April 2014

Caching is a temporary data storage used to store data for a while and can be retrieved quickly. It is often used to reduce the times we need to access database or other remote services. It can be a wonderful tool to keep your application fast and responsive.

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