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This is a post to find the latitude, longitude, timezone, country, city and so on using the web services/api by ipinfodb. The ipinfodb provides api in both xml and json format. We can use either of them. I will show you how to use it for both formats. Using XML format: You can either register for api key from ipinfodb. I am using mine in this example.

SimpleXML is a very simple function introduced in PHP5 to parse a XML file. It is very simple to use and implement as compared to other bulky codes to parse a XML file. The steps are pretty simple. Let us use a simple XML file as below naming it as xmltest.xml.

Changing file permissions in Ubuntu is a very essential thing. If proper file permissions are not set to folders or files, it is not possible to execute any PHP or HTML files from the browser using localhost. The following command can be used to set file permission for any file or folder. sudo chmod 755 /var/www/myfolder In the above example

Sometimes after installing LAMP, when you try to open the phpmyadmin in your browser you might get the error like this: "Not Found The requested URL /phpMyAdmin was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) Server at localhost Port 80" This is likely to be caused by not checking apache2 during installation. To reinstall you can use the following command:

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python. Installing and configuring LAMP is not a very complicated thing in Ubuntu, its just a matter of few lines of commands via the command line. This post will show you how to install PHP5, Apache2, MySQL and phpMyAdmin in Ubuntu. Installing Apache 1. Open the terminal and type the following command.

Few days ago I wrote about adding facebook comment box to your website. To add similar comment box to your blogger a few more steps are required. Adding this box helps users to comment to your posts easily in one click without having the blogger account. Let us see how we can embed it.

Adding Facebook comment box to your website is not as difficult as it used to be about an year ago. When I first used Facebook comment in one of my website about an year ago, I first had to use facebook connect and then write a lot of complicated fbml codes. It was a hell full of complications. But now it has become very easy all because of the Facebook Social Plugins. It just copy paste of some html codes and you are done. The following steps will guide you through using it.