oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. Which means, if we have a video page’s URL, we can easily get the video thumbnail photo, video title, HTML code to embed it in our website and more. But of course, the video site must have oEmbed support in order for us to do that.

We do not often need this but sometimes when we need to retrieve the next auto increment value of a table (without incrementing the auto increment value of course), this solution below will help.

As a web developer, we often need to display dates in our website. As a web user myself, I don’t like to read full dates like “26 November 2011 11:30PM” because it takes me a little while to interpret the date. I prefer reading smart dates like “1 hour ago” or “6 months ago”. Therefore, here I wrote a quick and simple function in PHP that display the time difference/elapsed based on a given timestamp value.

I was developing a new website that uses Facebook Login as the membership system. I came across this situation where I needed to create a “fake” domain by editing the etc/hosts file. Somehow, after editing the etc/hosts file (following an online guide), I cannot seems to browse http://localhost in my browser anymore. However, I can still browse my local apache server using http://127.0.0.1

Few months ago, Facebook removed the page that allow us to generate codes for their official “Share” button. They replaced it with “Like” button instead. While “Like” button is fast and easy but we cannot add our comment along with the “Like” action. Therefore, in some cases, we still need the old Share button. Fortunately, the sharer.php still exists, so we can add the Share button using Facebook’s official script.

Web developers often need to do repetitive works such as taking screenshots, turning off javascript or images, check backlinks or ranking of websites and more. Fortunately, with these 4 totally free Google Chrome extensions, web developers can save a lot of time on these repetitive works, thus increasing productivity.

If you are using XAMPP for Mac OS like me, and was asked to enter FTP login information when you upgrade Wordpress core and download themes or plugins, then this guide is for you. After searching for solution online, I found that this is a permission problem due to your Mac’s username is different compared to the default user name in XAMPP for Mac, called nobody.

We were used to use RewriteRule to match a URL, and then rewrite it. However, RewriteRule will always ignore your query string (GET data) so we need to use RewriteCond in order to capture the values in the query string. This is the basic syntax: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} pattern

I started to notice this bug when I was playing with my new tool in my tools playground, the HTML Tags Counter. I loaded my site zenverse.net and viewed the HTML source using Google Chrome. Then, I copied and pasted the codes to run an analysis using my own tool. I was “amazed” by the result, I get different errors (different unclosed/unopened tags) almost everytime I reloaded the “view source” page.

Google recently introduced their own social button just like those we commonly see, such as Facebook Share, Tweet It, Digg It, etc. Just like Facebook and Twitter button that let you share content to your followers or friends, Google +1 button let people who love your content to recommend it on Google search.