You can use any desktop tool to clean-up and beautify that poorly formated JavaScript you got from a blog or web resource.

I my case I am working on a JavaScript based event calendar that displays a calendar and highlights the current date with the dates which have events associated with them.

I got this great event calendar thats totally based on JavaScript from this link and it was not formatted correctly.  As I had to make a few adjustments to the code as for my needs, I needed it to be correctly formatted so I could work on it.

So here is how I cleaned that minimized code. Its probably the best and fastest way of doing it.  I opened up this website http://jsbeautifier.org/ and pasted my javascript code that needed to be cleaned up for editing and just a click on Beautify  and Voila, my code is clean and beautiful.

Don’t firget visiting back for another JavaScript tip tomorrow. Also if you found this tip useful, you may also find the follwing Tip useful too.

Adding an pure JavaScript event calendar to your site.

You may find this tutorial very useful if you are looking for a way to do a simple event calendar on your site with no dependency on server side scripting.

Please check this simple and elegant way of adding an event calendar on your site.

I tried 100 ways to get the file extension from a complete file path including directories and file name with extension. This one works perfectly. This uses php function pathinfo to get the directory name, filename and its extension for you which is very handy.

Even though I am sitting in a better place
Where I don’t have to think of problems I had in homeland, I feel homesick. I don’t even know why

Still I wont deny
The charm of motherland
but,
my accent cannot
return to its song.

I am working on an expressionengine application these days. As I am using the beta version of expression engine until they release the final version, so the source files are encoded with the zend optimizer. Zend optimizer has a limitation that it can’t work with version 5.3 of PHP so far.

I had the latest XAMPP installed on my Windows VISTA machine for a year now but I found out that Zend optimiser isn’t compatible with version of PHP it provided i.e PHP 5.3, so I downloaded the version 1.6.8 of XAMPP from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/ which has the older version of PHP i.e 5.2 which is compatible with Zend Optimizer.

Now here is the thing, I downloaded the Zend Optimizer from this link and installed it.  In its installation steps it asks you for two locations which you have to tell it correctly or else it will not work properly.

1. The path to php.ini
2. The path to Apache websrver’s root.

Based on the installation directory of your XAMPP, you can select appropriate directories in these steps. I chose default C:\xampp while installing XAMPP,  so I selected C:\xampp\apache\bin and C:\xampp\apache for the Steps 1 and 2 respectively.

And before that, using XAMPP control panel, I had stopped the Apache so when the configuration changes take place, the next time apache runs, it loads this new php.ini file which is changed by the zend optimizer installation.

Next thing you want to do is, check the php info using phpinfo.php file using the follwing url.

http://localhost/xampp/phpinfo.php

It will open up a page with a bunch of information. Look for the text  Loaded Configuration File and open the same php file using windows explorer.

For me it was

So I opened the php.ini folder and searched for the line where Zend Optimiser properties were mentioned and

In the above code I changed


zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 0


to


zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 1


So its loaded the next time I start the apache.

I am here waiting to board the flight for Muscat, Oman. PIA was no good the last time and hope OmanAir is good. Anyhow, its a good clear day. At least seems like from the air conditioned waiting lounge of the Islamabad airport.

Google search on SSL. Good news. I woke up two hours ago and opened Google for some searchhing and Voila, a new thing every few days. Google in on SSL.

Google SSL

Most of Google Searchers may have recently come to know that Google has publicized SSL version of Google Search. Google SSL doesn’t close the normal http version but Google SSL Search is to provide more secure search service.

With Google search over SSL, you can have an end-to-end encrypted search resolution between your computer and Google Search Engine. This SSL helps defend your search terms and your search results pages from being captured by a third party.

This provides you with a more secure and better way to do your searching. More about it on Google Blog.

We need to learn from Germans. My chat with a friend in Germany

fahd.murtaza: Islamabad bhee gaon hee hai
Shabaz: lolz… Islamabad kidher gaoun hay?
fahd.murtaza: In sense of timings
fahd.murtaza: like the markets close early
Shabaz: ya, but not at 7pm like here in entire germany
Shabaz: 7pm, and even the pharmacies close down
fahd.murtaza: oh Khudaya
fahd.murtaza: yeah kiya karte hain 7 PM ke bad
Shabaz: kuch nahin
Shabaz: dinner fermatay hayn, aur 10pm lites off
fahd.murtaza: wah good
Shabaz:phir 5 am uth jatay hayn
Shabaz: school starts at 6am
Shabaz: and office at 7
Shabaz: humaray sarkaree afsaraan 9 to 5 mein 3 hours lunch, 2 hours tea, 2 hours gup shup aur 1 hour files per sign kertay hayn
Shabaz: yahan 7am to 5pm sirf kaam hota hay, 1 hour luch break

So now I think Islamabad is great

My heartiest greetings to all my friends I wish that this Eid brings you happiness. This is a time of thanksgiving and we should all be thankful to God for giving us an opportunity to be with our families once again and celebrate the togetherness.