24 February 2014
Laravel 4.1 provides us with a handful routing API which can be used for both small and large application .Also with this API you can define RESTful controllers ,and controllers can have predefined methods to receive requests via GET,PUT,DELETE,POST and UPDATE .we will see this later in subsequent tutorials but now we will discus basic routing API.
19 February 2014
PHP provides some handful methods which can be used within your classes to intercept messages sent to undefined methods and properties .Some developers call this overloading .These methods like `__construct()` method which invoked when you instantiate object. Let's explores these methods.
19 February 2014
Package is a set of PHP classes grouped in some manner .Many developers use file system to organise their applications because PHP has no native concept of a package until PHP 5.3 .With PHP 5.3 ,namespaces become part of PHP .I know that most of us think many times before using namespaces in any commercial code .you know ,not all servers support PHP 5.3 but this will be for a while.
18 February 2014
WordPress creates 11 tables to store settings, users data, posts data, comments data, links and terms. In many cases wordpress tables can fit perfectly our plugin data but sometimes you need to create custom tables. WordPress provides a handful function that can create your custom tables and update their structure easily.
18 February 2014
After you fine tuned wordpress HTTP API ,it is the time to put your codes in a larger practice. I thick the best practice on HTTP API is wordpress plugin upgrades. Agreat trait of wordpress is that you can create plugins for public use and host them on wordpress servers. In this case you don't have to think about plugin upgrades because twice daily, wordpress sends requests to `api.wordpress.org` to check latest updates (visit More Details) .One of these requests a list of all plugins currently installed. The API server replies with a list of new versions and informations about them if available.
18 February 2014
In the modern web "means 2.0", Web applications communicate with each other to gather and share data in between .Your wordpress blog is no exception that's why wordpress implemented a smart and powerful class WP_Http since version 2.7.0 .This class supports all methods you need to use.
07 November 2013
Internationalization is the process of preparing your wordpress plugins for use in many languages. although wordpress uses english as its default language, it is used all over the world and many of its users don't read or write in english. also as a developer, you may need to reach a large scale of users and provide a simple tool for users to add their languages.
