Ahmer Zaidi

CakePHP is a rapidly evolving, MVC, framework for PHP.  Many websites these days are being developed using it and there is a demand amongst developers to learn and use it.  Although CakePHP is very easy to download, extract and start developing, there is a seldom used command called the CakePHP Console that can be used to speed up development time significantly.  CakePHP Console can do much of the code writing for you such as creating the CakePHP folder structure, creating models, controllers and views, database configuration, data validation and scaffolding, just to name a few.

Using the CakePHP Console can be … Continue Reading

What is Cron?
Cron is UNIX/Linux service or daemon to execute scheduled commands.

Generally, crontab uses a daemon, crond, which runs constantly in the background and checks once a minute to see if any of the scheduled jobs need to be executed. If so, it executes them. These jobs are generally referred to as cron jobs.
What is Crontab?
Crontab maintain crontab files for individual users.
Crontab Commands
crontab -e

Edit your crontab file, or create one if it doesn’t already exist.

crontab -l

Display your crontab entries.

crontab -r

Remove your current crontab entry.

crontab -u username -e

This option allows … Continue Reading

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Welcome everyone!

My name is Ahmer Zaidi and welcome to AhmerZaidi.com.

In this video tutorial, I will show you how to install a LAMP stack on Ubuntu Linux using APTITUDE, which is the Ubuntu default package management application. In order to install the LAMP stack your Linux machine must be connected to the Internet.

LAMP is an acronym which stands for Linux, Apache, mySQL and PHP.

In addition to the LAMP stack I will be installing a web based administration package for mySQL, called phpMyAdmin.

Let’s get started.

Here I have a … Continue Reading