How to Protect your SWF (AS2 or AS3). Prevent SWF Decompile using SWF Protector

Being a flash programmer, I have always had this concern. The way a flash application works differs from a php application. We don’t really need to worry about protecting the PHP code because the code is interpreted in the server and only the html codes are sent to the client browser. But a Flash engine basically lies in the user browser and the AS2 or AS3 codes are rendered in the user Browser. Though a Flash application is compiled in to a compact SWF file which is served to the user, this file contains all the codes we have written, thus making it easy for hackers or other developers to steal codes from our SWF application. And the Actionscript code is the most important part of any Flash/Flex application.

PHP – Search in an Array for Values Matching a Pattern – Regex, Wildcard

I have an array with many values and I need to do a search to find all the values that match a pattern. We have functions like in_array & array_search in PHP, but these functions basically try to match the exact needle value in the array. I need to use my Regular Expression Pattern and [...]

PHP – How to Get Browser Properties and Capabilities – get_browser()

In this tutorial, learn about the get_browser() PHP function and its configuration. We’ll learn how to use Gary Keith’s browser information database (browscap.ini) with the PHP browscap directive.

I wanted one of my web applications to have a different appearance on mobile phones and devices. I didn’t really want to set up an entirely different domain or use a sub domain particularly for mobile devices (like http://mobile.facebook.com). Instead I want to tackle the device inside my application logic so that all users access the same URL.

CakePHP – Search for records between two dates inclusively

Often we search for records in a database table for fetching records that were created or modified on a particular date or between two dates. We match against a date field and add multiple conditions to find records with a date field value ranging between two dates.
It would look something like this:
Select * from tables [...]

Notebook/Laptop hangs frequently/random (on Low Battery when AC power is connected)

Dell Vostro 1520 Laptop Freezes – Problem with Dell Laptop.
I am using a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop and recently I came across this problem. My laptop hangs randomly and every time it does (it freezes stops responding completely), I have to restart my laptop by pressing the Power button for a few seconds. If some [...]

Swap Values Without Temp or A Third Variable in PHP

When we need to swap the values of two variables, we use a third variable temporarily to hold the data between swapping.  Something like this:

<?php
$tmp = $a;
$a = $b;
$b = $tmp;
?>

Here is another way without using a temp or a third variable.

<?php
list($b, $a) = array($a, $b);
?>

And if you want to make it a function:

<?php
function swapValues(&$a, [...]

CakePHP – Auth Login Redirect Problem with Plugins

The Auth Component in CakePHP redirects the user to the log-in page when a user tries to access any protected pages in the application. The default log-in page is set by defining the loginAction variable in the beforeFilter function in your UsersController or AppController.
But if you have used plug-ins in your application, and if a [...]

Convert PHP array to Javascript array

A very basic tutorial. For the beginners who want to pass array values from PHP to Javascript for them to be accessible in the client side JS as an array. It’s really easy to pass PHP array to Javascript.
The below code passes a string array in PHP to Javascript.

<?php
$arr = array("a","b","c");
?>
<script>
var jsArray = ["<?php echo [...]

CakePHP – Accessing a model in AppController or in any Controllers

Sometimes, or very rarely we might need to access a model in AppController (Application Controller). This could be for fetching values from a table and make it available for all the controllers in the application (AppController is inherited by all the other controllers). Also, often we need to access models that are not associated with [...]

Save Images from Flash – Actionscript 3, Filereference.save, JPGEncoder

Saving an image from a flash movie to user’s local machine hard-disk was a hectic task sometime back. To save Dynamic movie clips (which could be images or any bitmapData) on the stage as Images we had to send the whole pixel data to the server and process it to create an image, then download [...]