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Music worm

Iman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:48 +0000

I just couldn't stop listening to this song and thought of posting it in my blog :)

40 Most Needed Drupal Modules

Iman — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:13:57 +0000

Here are my top 40 Drupal modules that seem to happen more often I am using them in my Drupal projects.

   1. addtoany
   2. blocks404
   3. boost
   4. cacherouter
   5. canonical_url
   6. captcha
   7. cck
   8. custom_breadcrumbs
   9. date
10. diggthis
11. filefield
12. gravatar
13. htmlpurifier
14. image_caption
15. image_fupload
16. imageapi
17. imagecache
18. imagecache_profiles
19. imagefield
20. imagefield_crop
21. imagefield_tokens
22. imce
23. imce_wysiwyg
24. menu_breadcrumb
25. montharchive
26. nodewords
27. page_title
28. pathauto
29. seo_checklist
30. tagadelic
31. taxonomy_breadcrumb
32. taxonomy_manager

Neda Agha-Soltan the face of Iran's hero

Iman — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:28:43 +0000

Neda Agha-Soltan has lost her life for freedom of my country Iran and has become a face of resistance and hero of our generation. Neda was a victim’s of brutal regime and an example of the millions of other Iranians who are seeking for basic human right and nothing more.

Bruz ft. Tiatsh & Jaz' - I can't Breathe

Adding the www to .htaccess for multisites

Iman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:43:33 +0000

Adding the www to URL in .htaccess for Multisites and handle www issues for canonical URLs.

    ##Adding the www

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)$ [NC]

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.%1/$1" [L,R=301]

Opposite to this code you can removing the www from URL.

Removing www from Multi-sites or Subdomains in .htaccess

Iman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:29:03 +0000

If you are running a Multisites or Subdomains sites this .htaccess RewriteRule code might come in handy specially for purpose of SEO. You can clean up your URL from http://www.yourdomain.com to http://yourdomain.com and remove the “www” with 301 redirect to non-www.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [L,R=301]

If you want to add the www to URLs check this code out.

Charity Hack 2009

Iman — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:16:37 +0000

I have been extremely busy lately and I have totally neglected my blog over the last few months and I thought I would make a quick post.

A few weeks ago I participated on Charity Hack 2009 hosted by PayPal and sponsored by JustGiving and MissionFish with the aim to build an app in 24 hours over the weekend and overall after all hacks we won the second prize.

Convert Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format in PHP

Iman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:07:32 +0000

This functin will help to convert the Linux/Unix timestamp to human readable format:

<?php
function unix_timestamp_to_human ($timestamp = "", $format = 'D d M Y - H:i:s')
{
    if (empty($timestamp) || ! is_numeric($timestamp)) $timestamp = time();
    return ($timestamp) ? date($format, $timestamp) : date($format, $timestamp);
}

$unix_time = "1251208071";

echo unix_timestamp_to_human($unix_time); //Return: Tue 25 Aug 2009 - 14:47:51 
?>

Microsoft Word Document HTML Cleanup in PHP

Iman — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:40:11 +0000

I had to cleanup a HTML created out of MS Word Document manually. Honestly it is a pain to manually search and replace all the junks Word Document generating. So I have written a text conversion function in PHP to automatically cleanup the MS Word junks and output HTML entities.

How to install YUM, Zend Optimizer, eAccelerator and APC

Iman — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:54:45 +0000

Recently a friend had difficulty installing Alternative PHP Cache (APC) and upload progress for his Drupal CMS on Debian VPS. Therefore I tought of sharing this post about how to setup and run your virtual private server with most useful PHP packages.

I would assume you have a Debian VPS, CentOs or Ubuntu and you would like to install APC, Zend Optimizer and eAccelerator for the best PHP performances or if they are required by some third party applications.

I normally like to install everything on Debian, CentOs or Ubuntu using the yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) package manger to make sure that updates for all applications are uniform and its easy to do, easy to search for available packages and easier to type instead of apt-get.

Bread and cheese all to eat as a poor Iranian family speaking

Iman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:45:06 +0000

I bumped into this clip on Facebook and after a few minutes I couldn’t stopped my tears. In this clip a family from Tehran is speaking about their poor condition and children speaking about being hungry and not having much to eat. My images of poverty in Iran always have been clear and I knew that the Islamic Dinosaurs of Iran never did any good to help people in poverty. I believe many of the top position holders in government, party leaders and Ayatollahs have never been poor themselves so they don’t know the mean of being poor.

Ahmadinejad claims that he was voted by millions of poor people for first time as he has offered them justice shares in oil and privatised companies, cheap loans and programs to help the low income household and many more big lies! In fact poverty rates have been increased during his presidential period and I believe all he has done so far is create more poverty.