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Definition of Real Project Tutorial

I've been learning PHP and web design for a while, I met my bottleneck and can't get through it. I tried to read some open source codes, like WordPress, but I can't understand all the codes. I think that's because I have no real project experience. I tried to look for some open source project which I can join to help developing the project, and improve my programming skill as well. But I can't find a suitable project and whether the project members are willing to help is also a...

How Can Bloggers Help Open Source Community

Open source community changed the way I use my computer and save a lot of money for me. I am using Open Office instead of Microsoft Office. Photoshop is too powerful and expensive, Paint.Net is good enough for me. I blog with WordPress, the browser I am using now is Chromium which is the open source software behind Google Chome. Most softwares in my computer are open source softwares, so I am always want to do something for the open source community. But I am neither a programmer nor...

Open Source Google Chrome Browser: Chromium

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. They are almost the same thing, the main difference I can see between Chromium and Google Chrome is that there is no Google logo on Chromium. And the icon of Chromium is blue rather than colorful as Google Chrome icon . Chromium offers a green version, which means you don't need to install to use Chromium. So that, you may put it in your USB flash disk, and run on any computer. You can download Chromium from Google Code, the...

Hello World Tutorial for Kohana

It seems unnecessary to write a Hello World tuorial for a PHP framework, because when someone comes to framework, he is no longer a beginner, can figure out his own Hello World. But this idea comes up in my brain, and I guess it might be helpful for someone who is the first time to work with MVC or OOP. It's quite simple, let's get started. You should have installed Kohana correctly, now we create a hello.php in /application/controllers/, here is the content of the...

Install Kohana on Windows

I'm new to Kohana, making this tutorial just want to do something for the community. Please let me know, if you found any mistakes. Ok, let's cut to the chase. I suppose you have your server installed, if not I recommand AppServ. It's better to use the latest version of Kohana from SVN, so you might need TortoiseSVN. I create a folder called Kohana in my webroot, check out the truck folder from SVN, it's quite easy to do it, right click, select SVN Check... Type http://svn.kohanaphp.com/trunk...