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Philippine PayPal Account

2007-09-30T08:52:00.000-07:00

The long wait is now finally over.

Philippines paypal account user can now send/receive money.

Just sign up on paypal.com it is free.

And when the form asks for a credit card account number, you can use your local banks debit card (if you don’t have a credit card).

Like Union Bank’s EON card.

Signing up for both account is free.

on Union Bank, there is a payment of P365.00 when you will get the card, thats for the card processing, and an annual payment of the same amount for the maintenance of your account.

No minimum balance needed.
No interest.
can be used as a ATM/DEBIT card.
can be used in paypal for sending /recieving money.

on Paypal, free signup, no payments needed when adding a card account. only needs to pay when withdrawing from your account. 5$, and a minimum of 10$ for withdrawal.

Thanks

Joomla Component Front End

2007-09-16T07:31:00.000-07:00

Hello Guys,

I know there are a lot of Free Joomla Component out there, but what if what is out there is not exactly what you need?

This will be the first post in creating a simple Joomla Component.

In a Joomla Component there are 2 required files, first the scripting side and the html output side.

First were gonna tackle on the scripting side:

Lets make the name of our component "example".

If you are a Joomla / Mambo you can clearly see in the url the "option=com_componentname"

Then the files located are in the "/components/com_componentname/componentname.php" and "/components/com_componentname/componentname.html.php"

The "componentname.php" file is the scripting file where you usually execute database queries, variable manipulation etc.

The "componentname.html.php" file is where you usually display the result and add html tags so that you can manipulate the design of the output.

So we will first tackle the scripting side file.

so we need to create a folder inside "/components" named "com_example" and inside the com_example folder we create a php file called example.php.

Inside example.php:

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Restricted access' );
// this is required so that we will have access on the browser in viewing this component, another Joomla security measure so that people wont accidentally see your pages.

require_once( $mainframe->getPath( 'front_html' ) );
//this line calls and loads the html side of the component.

switch($task){
//this line takes the task value in the url and chooses what function to execute.
default:
//this is chosen when the the task value is empty.
display_hello_world();
//calling the function
break;
//exists the switch function
}

function display_hello_world(){
$name = "Place Name Here";
//adding a name variable
HTML_example::hello_world($name);
//calling the function in html file and passing the variable name
//the HTML_example is the class name inside the html file, and the hello_world() is a function inside that class.
}

Next Post will discuss the html side so stay tuned...

Software Freedom Day

2007-09-15T12:32:00.000-07:00

Yoyoyo!

Today Sept. 15 is Software Freedom Day this is the day where we celebrate the liberation from Propriety softwares :)

I don't have against propriety softwares they are good and excellent, but for a programmer that is on a tight budget and want to learn some programming, why not go for free softwares? :)

I personally appreciate the people behind this liberation because without them we all still would have to buy softwares just to learn firsthand.

Specially to the Joomla Core Developers, man if not for these people, making websites will still be in manual, yes there are still manual codings to make in order to make the site to look and feel like what you imagine, but you don't have to do them all :)

Again thanks for all the Software Liberators :)

Long Live Open Source :)

Welcome

2007-09-15T12:19:00.000-07:00

Hello and Welcome to the site where you can Learn Programming in an easy and very understandable way :)