Joomla installation on Ubuntu

Today’s we are going to see how to use google map mashup in a famous CMS – Content Management System which is Joomla.  Though the documentation is self explanatory I’ll just list te common mistakes that fly-over testers make while installing Joomla but let me tell you experience developers (like Mr. Nabeel Mushtaq) always prefer to read the documentation evertime you you have to install some package or framework because it’s like the movie “The Matrix” every time you find something to grab!

Move the downloaded zip file of the Joomla package to webserver’s root directory;-

# mv /home/user-name/Downloads/Joomla***.zip /var/www/joomla

Unzip it here

# unzip Joomla***.zip

Delete the existing configuration.php-dist file

# rm -rf configuration.php-dist

Most users don’t perform the above step and just rename the filename

# mv configuration.php-dist configuration.php

Due to whish while running the web wizard or installation it causes problems as the script feels dizzy while updated the already populated configuration.php file

Create a new unwritten file

# toucj configuration.php

Give’em writes to apache users to writeable

# chmod 755 configuration.php

Some users while rename the configuration.php-dist file to configurtion.php while fall at the end of the web installation wizard with a fatal error.

If you got permission errors I would suggest you should give apache user the rights to read write the joomla folder

#chown www-data /var/www/joomla -R

That’s it!

Zend Erroronicles

Today we are going to list the couple of buys a noob has to face while getting started with the Zend framework;- The story while traveling to the Hello world

Errors:

Warning: require_once(Zend/Loader.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/landmark_collector/public/index.php on line 11

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘Zend/Loader.php’ (include_path=’/var/www/landmark_collector/application/../library:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /var/www/landmark_collector/public/index.php on line 11

Problem:

Set the zend library path in the inlude_path for php

Solution:

+ the following lines at the top of the file /var/www/website-name/application/bootstrap.php

define(“SITE_ROOT”, dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']));
set_include_path(get_include_path().PATH_SEPARATOR
.’/var/www/zend/library’);

Error:

Notice: Zend_Loader::Zend_Loader::registerAutoload is deprecated as of 1.8.0 and will be removed with 2.0.0; use Zend_Loader_Autoloader instead in /var/www/landmark_collector/library/Zend/Loader.php on line 258

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Exception’ with message ‘Invalid controller specified (error)’ in /var/www/landmark_collector/library/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php:242 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/landmark_collector/library/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http)) #1 /var/www/landmark_collector/public/index.php(25): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch() #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/landmark_collector/library/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php on line 242

Problem:

First App for GAE

The work has been started…

Brainstorming is there___

GAE: Google App Engine

An other application framework has been launched by google few weeks back. After successful launch of google Android platform which was basically for the development of mobile application completely open source as the underlying operatig system was linux and the app programming language was java. Todays’s the last date for the submission of the Android Application challenge.

Application Hosting:

It’s kind of web hosting service, google app engine is providing there server to host/run the application and getting use of the google customer base. the underlying app development language is python.
Requirements:

1- Google App Engine SDK

2- Python 2.5 or >

Why python because python is one of the three languages that has been used by the google developer at the house of google (C++, Java and python).

Break’n or Create’n Monopoly

On one side of the picture it seems that google is breaking the hype of monopoly created by facebook [the ones who put forward the concept of user generated data, application development framework and mashups] the approach then followed by other social netwoking sites like Orkut, hi5 and other wesites. And on the other side google is struggling to compete in the web space by launching such service and pusing developers inside it’s box. Developers hunt

Forcing to get hands dirty again
Now google is again forcing the developer to get their hands dirty with a new API; like me who has expertise in PHP but not in python…

Addiction:
Working on these platforms is addictive; at least for those guys who love to discover and achive new stuff through their programming skills.

Virtual Economy:
In the next 2 to 3 year what i see is that the virtual economy would break the reocrds with the introduction of such service which gives people an opportunity to earn money while sticking to their laptops.