Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

How can I create custom SEO-friendly URLs in OpenCart?

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
How can I create custom SEO-friendly URLs in OpenCart?

It turns out this can be done with a relatively simple change to a single file. No .htaccess rewrite rules, simply patch the catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php file and add your pretty URLs to an existing database table. The patch to seo_url.php: Index: catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php =================================================================== — catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (old) +++ catalog/controller/common/seo_url.php (new) @@ -48,7 +42,12 @@ $this->request->get['route'] = ‘product/manufacturer/product’; [...]

Export/Import Data From Local Database To Remote Database With MS SQL Server 2008

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Export/Import Data From Local Database To Remote Database With MS SQL Server 2008

If you would like to migrate the data in a SQL Server Database from development server to production server or vice versa , there is a tool called DTSWizard which comes with SQL Server installation that import and export data between a Data Source and Destination Source. These instructions below will show step by step [...]

How to Install phpMyAdmin on Windows 2003/ IIS 6.0?

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
How to Install phpMyAdmin on Windows 2003/ IIS 6.0?

This is the fourth part of the Installing WordPress From the Ground Up series. Previously I discussed installing MySQL, the FastCGI extension, and PHP. This article will show the exact steps for setting up phpMyAdmin on Windows and IIS 6.0. phpMyAdmin is a web-based tool for managing MySQL database servers. I would go so far [...]

Install PHP FastCGI MySql and PHPMyAdmin On IIS6

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

This is just a note to remind myself the process of installing PHP,MySql and PHPMyAdmin on IIS6 and Windows Server 2003. If it is of any use to you, that will be great. There are many ways to run php and mysql stack on windows, if you are from a background of linux, or as [...]

PHP 5 with IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 Tutorial

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

A few years back I wrote a simple tutorial on how to install and configure PHP5 with IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 in five easy steps. Back then things were not as straight forward as they turned out to be when I tried it again today on a different server setup. The following worked like [...]

TCP vs. UDP difference between two protocols

Friday, June 3rd, 2011
TCP vs. UDP difference between two protocols

TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is the most commonly used protocol on the Internet. The reason for this is because TCP offers error correction. When the TCP protocol is used there is a “guaranteed delivery.” This is due largely in part to a method called “flow control.” Flow control determines when data needs to be re-sent, [...]

How to Installing Mac OS X 10.5.6 under VMware 6.5.2 + 7.0

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
How to Installing Mac OS X 10.5.6 under VMware 6.5.2 + 7.0

One of the current “Holy Grails” of virtual machinery is getting a functional installation of Mac OS X into a VMware virtual machine.   There’s a lot of Google talk out there about how to do it, but not everybody seems to be successful.  I certainly wasn’t for quiet some time.  However, I sat down [...]