Cyberactiva web development and optimisation

Drupal 7 first evaluation

Claudio Barba — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 22:01:41 +0000

I have looked around for some good free CMS for a while, always trying to convince myself to move from my old home made system to a more modern solution.

Having experimented WordPress on this website, I am quite happy with it, but being as I am, I need to test something more… consistent.

I finally decided [...]

My latest web projects

Claudio Barba — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:51:58 +0000

I haven’t written any post for a while now… why? because… hmm… just because

I am now in the right mood for going on this adventure and I’ll start by describing a bit what I am doing now..

I work in the IT, for the biggest insurance broker in the world. This gives me the [...]

My FIRST Facebook application

Claudio Barba — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:33:00 +0000

I have just finished, more or less, the development of my first official facebook application.

As you all know, I’m italian, also if I am not living in Italy any more… Anyway the application is in italian, so many of you will not be able to understand it.

What does it do? You can use it to [...]

Develop in PHP without spending money

Claudio Barba — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:39:07 +0000

I find PHP to be a great solution for creating websites.

I have been working for years on the microsoft side of the world, but in the last years I have worked more and more with PHP/MySql projects. The last versions of these platform are quite powerful and it turns out that it is now very [...]

History of the blog

Claudio Barba — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:03:14 +0000

I have been running this blog for seven years. I started it in 2002 as a window on my business.

At the beginning it was only a static website to publish the mission, a contact form and my portfolio: note that it is in italian as I was working for the italian market… If I look [...]

Develop facebook applications in PHP, part 1

Claudio Barba — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:33:14 +0000

I will spend some posts to talk about applications on facebook, and what to do to create one.

For sure you know this great social network, but I’m not so sure you know that it is very easy to create and publish applications on it.

You can even use your favourite language to create the application, as [...]

PHP error on webservices: extra content at the end of the document

Claudio Barba — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:27:48 +0000

I was trying to test some webservices using PHP 5.3.0 as client. Most of them were working properly, but One gave me the following error:

Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn’t load from ‘http://thisistheUrlOfTheWsdl?wsdl’ : Extra content at the end of the document

After some investigations, I realised that this is probably a bug of PHP: [...]

Select tag clickable under the above transparent div layer

Claudio Barba — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:34:36 +0000

It bothers me a lot, when I can’t find a solution for a problem that do not depend on me… Anywway here is the problem and the work-around solution I found.

Let’s say you have a form on the page, with some <select> tags.

Now, you want that on the onclick event of the submit, a semi [...]

PHP session variables

Claudio Barba — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:32:42 +0000

Managing session variables in PHP is really easy. First thing to do is to initialise the variable. For instance

$_SESSION["myvariable"] = myvalue;

To use it, in another page, you can then just use $_SESSION["myvariable"]. Just remember to put at the top of the code this instruction:

session_start();

Actually, this will not re-initialise the session, but will create the session object with [...]

AJAX example

Claudio Barba — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:28:12 +0000

There are tons of places on the net where you can find some ajax tutorial on how to make hidden calls to the server. Anyway, I put here a basic javascript function (may be more for my reference). For instance I have to send three parameters v1,v2,v3 to the checkdate.php server page and receive back a [...]