This, That & Everything

So John key decide to begin his third term as a PM by changing the National flag of New Zealand.Well he has a good point,rather good one.Weather Kiwi people are up for this change or not is different kind of debate.So I leave it on hands of New Zealand public to decide that.But I like to tell you, as a outsider what I think most suitable Four Designs out of final forty designs.  

It seems like Silver fern, Koru and to some extend Southern Star is the most popular symbols among the final forty.

so lets have look at my picks.Your thoughts on this is highly appreciate.  

Image Source : New Zealand Government-Flag Design Gallery

Silver Fern (Black & White)

Image Source : New Zealand Government-Flag Design Gallery

Image source : New Zealand Government - Flag Design Gallery

Well what do you think guys ? Agree ? Disagree ? Or you just don't need your flag to change. Seems like all are possible at the movement.We'll just wait and see what will be the Panels final four designs out of long list.

Cheers.. Have a nice day. 

New Zealand, soon after you heard the name, you'll most probably remember mysteries Hobbits, Misty dark valley of Mordor or the surprising similarity of Peter Jackson and a Hobbit. But once you travel through the timeline of unknown history of man kind, Man landing on moon ,Steve Jobs announcing the first I phone to the time frame that we are currently living upon, a time that almost all our task depend on the technology one way or another, You will  realized New Zealand is the best in business when it comes to the accommodating to Tech startup Companies.

Why am I saying this?? Well to prove my opinion I am certainly not going to give you a bunch of statistic or numbers.Yes New Zealand is first in that list,second in another, etc...Well good for them.
But just because bunch of numbers suggest it's good, does not guarantee you are in a complete safe hand.Instead I give you social impact on a business, target customer market, how hard it is you to reach them and the loyalty of customer which in my opinion most important one of all above. 

I really can't give you an exact reason for this, but kiwi people are so loyal to the local products. I give you an one good example on this. Silver Stripe. A CMS software  just like wordpress. early as 2003 they won a New Zealand software award and since then they never look back. Currently all the government websites use this as there choice of CMS and almost all the nz private sector companies that use a CMS software tend to use silver stripe. If you are a software developer in New Zealand you must have silver stripe skill in your disposal but not so much wordpress. This is not because Silver Stripe is better than wordpress or other way around. It is just Island have a Good product of there own and they are more than happy to work with it rather than going for a foreign product.

This will give you an idea about how New Zealand market works. They back their own. Government to ordinary farmer back in old village, they back their own. May be it is because their isolated location on world map or it is just their behavior. What ever the reason it works well for local startups. Because they need solid and loyal customer base to grow up. Yes it is only 4 million population but it will soon back up with Australian market and UK market. So all you need to do is make kiwis fall in love with your products and soon you'll have a heck of a loyal customer base and you are ready to grow further and touch the moon.
Isn't that the dream of every Start up entrepreneur ?

For me New Zealand have three main cities. Auckland the giant in the Kiwi land, Wellington the cool little capital, Christchurch the upcoming young lad who never give up.Well there is lot of talking and arguing about what is the best city in the New Zealand. Aucklander's will say It's the Auckland the great and wellingtonian will say It's them, Capital the awesome.Well I am certainly not going to argue with any one of them, Because for me each of all those three above have  lot of potential and give unique opportunity of their own.

Kiwi people have outgoing personality by nature but also same as every European country they are very tech heavy people and the country got money. People have money to spend on the products that are not essentially required for their daily routine. Believe me, these to have big say on the Tech startups.

you have a tech savvy loyal customers with money, what else you need, a business friendly government and infrastructure that support the industry. Well New Zealand government did the fine job in building those elements to attract the international attention. I have no personal experience regarding this but little research on  internet suggest that you can register a business within two working days. It's pretty damn good, Ay mate ??

At last but not least the life style of the Island is amazing.If you want to become next multi million company you need pretty niffy employers in your disposal. specially if you are you make good first impression on those nerdy Programmers, who like free life style and plat culture, will definitely impress by the working distance beaches from anywhere in the country, friendly and outgoing nature of the natives and the delicious foods and tasty coffee shops around the every street corner.   

So If you are an entrepreneur looking for a place to setup your next Tech startup, I would like to suggest you to take a good look at beautiful little island at bottom of your world map.

Chaos Guys..  

What Is Model ? 

Well not so much crux there ay? Just a simple configuration setting that any developer can understand.

What it does is create a new model by extending CI_Model and load the database library.So that you have the database class available via $this->$db object.

Then we'll create a method to get list of all the customer detail or one specific customer detail.

Here we use CodeIgniter's  Query Builder.It make it possible to write your query once and make it use on all the available databases.To get good idea about Query Builder I recommend you to read this article.

$query = $this->db->get('customer'); line is same as select * from customer

and this

$query = $this->db->get_where('customer', array('username' => $username)); is same as
select  * from customer where username='$username';

Pretty simple, Isn't it. Ok Now we are going to create the controller.Go to application/controller and create Customer.php file.

Here we create a Controller call 'Customer' and extend CI_Controller class.This controller is what become the center of your every request to your app.

Then the  __construct() method: It calls the constructor of its parent class (CI_Controller) and loads the model, so it can be used in all other methods in this controller.

index method, First it invoke the get_customer method then assign a title to the page and finally load the view.

The view method,Unlike index method it pass $username as a argument and same as index method it calls the get_customer method,assign a value to the $title and load the view page.

Now lets create two view pages for these two  method.Go to application/view folder and create a folder name customer inside that create a index.php file for index method.

Then create a view.php file for view method.

Since we are in view section we'll create another two pages for create and edit purpose.create a create.php file.

Then create edit.php file.

form_open function is use to render the form element and it's provide by form helper.form_validation is use to report errors related to form validation.

Go back to Customer.php and create a new method  name create and add below code.

First we load the form helper which is use by form_open and then we load the form validation library.After loading those two we use set_rules method to add form validation rules.

First argument is for name of the input field, second one is for the name that should use in error message and last  one is the rule.

after form validation and if it's according to the rules we set method will invoke the set_customer method.

Now lets create edit method.

It's almost same as create method.only difference is,It take $username as argument and call get_customer method to show the initial values of the customer that you select and it invoke the update_customer method.

Since we are done with model methods we'll create set_customer method and update_customer methods.Open the Customer_model.php and create set_customer method.

Here we first take POST values and store it in $data  array and we insert it to the customer table.

Then go to application/config and open config.php file.change

$config['index_page'] = 'index.php';
to
$config['index_page'] = "";

Ok.Now we set the rules for routes.
open routes.php file inside application/config folder change the $route arrays values as below

$route['customer/index'] = 'customer/index';
$route['customer/create'] = 'customer/create';
$route['customer/view'] = 'customer/view';
$route['customer'] = 'customer';
$route['(:any)'] = 'customer/index';
$route['default_controller'] = 'customer/index';

1. I have add two more view files in source code project. header.php and footer.php. As name suggest those two will serve as header and footer for the each page. 
2. I created another view file success.php to show a success message when ever operation is finished without errors.
3. I used bootstrap CSS and update font end html tags accordingly, to have a finished product.  

May it be an email sent to the customer, a confirmation email sent to your agent, or any requirement as such, systems which are being developed now a days incorporate extensive emailing facilities. Almost all the systems developed lately contain email functions and obviously the demand for this feature will increase drastically day by day.

The challenge we, PHP developers, have got in hand is to find an answer to the question “How do we tackle this requirement effectively?”. One might immediately say “Simple! Why not try out the PHP’s inbuilt email function?”. Well, let’s be honest, that’s a good answer, but not the BEST.The smartest answer is “PHPMailer Library”.

mailer() function; php inbuilt function for sending E-mail, hide a lot of underlying mechanism of it from developer while PHPMailer function gives the developer a vast play ground with all the fancy and cool (+geeky) stuff to play around with.

Let’s see how to deal with PHPMailer library.

First of all, you have to install and load the PHPMailer library. We can do this via Composer. All you have to do is,  open your command prompt, go to your project folder and type

composer require phpmailer/phpmailer:~5.2

• class.phpmailer.php -Includes all the PHPMailer methods
• class.pop3.php - Handles the POP functions
• class.smtp.php - Handles the SMTP functions
• PHPMailerAutoload.php -Handles the loading of the library. This is a SPL-compatible auto loader and using of this file is the preferred way of loading the library.

              $mail->AddCC(“CC_EMAIL”, “CC_NAME”);
       $mail->AddBCC(“BCC_EMAIL”, “BCC_NAME”);