About Tarique Sani

Dr. Tarique Sani is a pediatrician and forensic expert by education. He is a PHP programmer of 'wrote the book' caliber and has to his credit several very popular open source as well as commercial PHP projects. He leads a team of dynamic programmers at SANIsoft who have in-depth understanding of Web development tools and usability practices with strong developmental skills in PHP, MySQL/PostgreSQL, HTML, DHTML, Javascript, and Linux/Apache
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Use Flickr desktop authentication in your web applications

TweetWhen I first came across the question "How to use Flickr desktop authentication in web applications?" my reaction was "Why would you want to do that!!" A brief investigation revealed that there is a usability advantage with doing that. If you have used Flickr authentication for web applications you would know that you have to [...]

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[WordPress plugin] Flickr foto info

TweetIf you embed Flickr photos on your site you can always link them to the original page where visitors to your site can get all the details but that is not really a good user experience as it sends the visitor away from your blog. I don't really like how Flickr almost hides away the [...]

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Bardcodes using PHP Pear Image_Barcode

TweetManagement of delegate registration at open source conferences has been an issue for quite some time - the main problem is that usually there are no online payment options and the queue gets very long specially on the first day. Late last year I had an opportunity to deploy something which made me feel "we [...]

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[WordPress] The get_avatar hook

TweetThe problem was how to change the avatars in WordPress comments for certain comments! I wanted to show avatars from Flickr for comments which my Flickr comment importer plugin gets into a post. Searching the WordPress codex hinted at a hook called get_avatar but it was not very well documented. This post is the result [...]

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