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Chrome extension for visitor impressions
Google Chrome extensions are being used to enhance UI experience by many folds. You can download various types of extensions from Chrome Web Store. This article will take you through the course of building a Chrome extension that tracks the amount of time visitors spend on web pages. Basic Structure Each extension entails the following files....
Migrating-Cakephp-sites-to-php7
Rapid developments in CakePHP framework enable the e-commerce websites to work in a structured and rapid manner. For a much smoother transition, migration of CakePHP7 to PHP7 became a necessity. Thus, after a series of incompatible versions, one official support came out in CakePHP 2.8 version that showed full consistency with the PHP7. This article is going....
Magento-to-PHP7
Magento is one of the biggest and most popular e-commerce platforms written in PHP. However, migrating Magento sites to PHP 7 can prove to be a tedious task. While most of the Magento code is still valid in PHP 7, a few situations can arise where there are incompatibilities. This article will take you through these incompatibilities step by step....
Building and Deploying a PHP Application using TeamCity
Recently, vteams encountered a scenario where we had to deploy a PHP application on multiple web staging servers. Our first thought was going with the usual approach - checking out the files on both servers and manually pulling on each whenever needed. At first it worked out fine but when some server specific configuration changes were made they....
PHP and MATLAB Interfacing
In a project, the interfacing of PHP and MATLAB was required as client wanted the calculation of calories and quantity from a provided food image. Pre-requisites for this project were to have MATLAB installed on either Windows or Linux machine along with the Web server set up on the same machine. Before working on the actual project, we created a working demo....
Video Conferencing Setup using OpenTok
Opentok is a video conferencing solution which supports upto 20 users in a video conference call at a time. OpenTok supports video archiving and text chat can also be implemented using OpenTok. Integration of OpenTok with website required following browser specs: Google Chrome (latest release version) Firefox (latest release version) Internet....
A medical web portal developed using Drupal version 6 had to communicate with a desktop application developed in .NET framework to get a record list of locations. For this, a custom API (web service) was written in XML-RPC protocol. The web service used for the communication was working fine in Drupal 6 version of web application. Another small....
Nowadays, Multi-Tenant or SaaS based applications are all over the web. Concept behind multi-tenancy is to use single code base to serve multiple clients with same functionality. Recently, we interacted with a client who was managing several schools. He wanted to keep every school separate from one another on different sub-domains with separate databases....
vteam #334 was hired to work on the SmartSIS application system. It is an inquiry management solution that manages the inquiries coming from variety of sources, including website inquiry form, external marketing websites and inquiry providers. It was designed and developed for Living Arts College as they offer creative and medical courses to graduate....
vteam #448 was formed to create a secure application for multiple clients having their own private portals and users for a booking software. Previously the architecture of this booking software was built in custom PHP. But now client wanted us to revamp its architecture completely. The framework required for that was Laravel 5.1 and AngularJS. Website features....
Volt being a Reactive web framework can be an ideal choice to run your Ruby Code on the server as well as on the client side. The DOM shows the Prompt response on automated basis whenever a user interaction with the page takes place. It is systematically efficient in a way that it only updates the nodes which require change. Data can be stored conveniently on....
PHP Traits is basically the method of code reuse implemented by PHP as of PHP 5.4.0. It is an exciting phenomenon which enhances the functional capabilities of PHP. Group functionality in PHP is driven by PHP Traits in a highly sophisticated manner. You cannot trigger a trait independently. It works in a grouped way according to the traditional inheritance system. It....