April 19th, 2009
The most recent version of this tutorial has been completely re-written at WebDev Codex.
Learn how to Install PHP 5.3,
To view the latest version, Goto Screencast #1 : Installing Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 & PHPMyAdmin 3.2 for Windows 7/Vista
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Screencast #1 : Installing Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 & PHPMyAdmin 3.2 for Windows 7/Vista
Not everyone would spend money online to buy webspace just so that they can test out how their latest application works, Well… Welcome to Vision Master Designs Blog. This tutorial will teach you to set up a developer environment for PHP/MySQL in your computer in no time.
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February 20th, 2009
How many times have you wanted to use a very cool looking font for your website, but have withdrawn the idea because you thought that font won`t display properly in everyones’s system.
Well fear not, I had previously posted a tutorial on how you can use PHP to display those lines of texts which use some odd font, by automatically converting it to an image (Tutorial : Convert Text into transparent PNG Image using PHP), this way, you can easily display text with odd fonts.
Recently I found a very neat plugin which automatically converts any text (with font of your choice) into an image i.e from now on you don`t have to worry about text with different or odd fonts. They`ll be automatically converted into a compatible image via this plugin, And don`t worry about the image tag and all, this plugin manages everything 
Plugin name : PHP / jQuery Image Replacement
Plugin Home Page/Demo : http://www.xanthir.com/pir/
Usage
The usage was pretty simple.
- After unzipping the archive, Open pir.php and First set the fonts folder in the php page.
- In your website, include jQuery and then include the jquery.pir.min.js (for production).
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$(function() {
$.pir.options.php="pir.php"; //compulsary to include the php which converts text to image.
$("h1").pir({font: "yourfont.ttf", wrap: true}); //will enable automatic text warping.
});
Pretty Simple huh ! Enjoy
November 23rd, 2008
This tutorial will help you write text on a background and output as an image using the power of PHP. This is useful during those scenarios when you want to display text using a particular font (which isn`t web friendly i.e the text won`t be displayed with the same font in other’s computer). I have used this technique to display the number of RSS subscribers (top-right). So its pretty simple and very basic.
Click Here for a Demo.
November 18th, 2008
Most of you who have blogs/website might be aware of FeedBurner. Its a service which provides custom RSS Management tools like Analysing Web-Traffic, the number of readers subscribed to you blog etc. I too use Feedburner to help me keep track of my feeds and its readers. Although I love their service, I always found the FeedBurner Chicklet (It displays the number of readers subscribed to your RSS) to be a constraint, it isn`t that flexible i.e We can modify the color of the chicklet but not the chicklet it self. So I decided to create my own Chicklet to help me display the number of readers subscribed to my blog. (Although the number isn`t that big 
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