Trending boxes can be seen is social networks. Facebook, Twitter, Google + have it. Why not create one of your own. You can create your own using HTML and add styling by CSS. We will use PHP for updating most searched queries in MySQL database.

How the trending box looks like :

We need a table for storing the search queries. For this we are going to create a table named "trends". Execute this SQL code to create the table

Please read this before continuing :

Looks like Facebook is making restrictions into this. Note that, this tutorial is not officially supported by Facebook. You can say this is a trick or a hack.

So, no guarantee whether this will work now or in the future. This worked before, but it has been noted that Facebook is restricting this "hack".

There is an Invite feature for Facebook apps. Inviting feature helps your site’s users to invite their friends to your site. This increases the traffic and will make your site popular. All you should need is a Facebook App to implement this on your site.

The function that moves the cursor of an input element to the end in jQuery is .focus(). But sometimes, this won’t work even if you replace it with [0].click(). It’ll maybe work on input fields properly, but won’t properly at all in text areas. Mostly it won’t work, if you are calling the .focus() function inside an event listener function.

To solve this you can use 2 other methods if the first one don’t work. It’s pretty simple and I don’t know why it works. I found this solution on a Stack Overflow question and the one who answered doesn’t know why it works. Here is a list of the events that happens when an element is clicked :

Today, January 30 marks the 3rd anniversary of this blog. Thanks to everyone who have supported me and this blog. With out your help, I couldn’t have run this blog for 3 years. Here are the 5 popular posts of the last 3 years :

HOW TO ADD A HEADER IMAGE TO BLOGGER DYNAMIC VIEWS

HOW TO REPAIR/RESTORE/REINSTALL GRUB 2 USING A UBUNTU LIVE CD

HOW TO ADD A FIXED HEADER TO BLOGGER BLOG

Email Service providers have POP and SMTP servers for incoming and outgoing E-Mails. SMTP is for Outgoing (Sending) emails and POP is for Incoming (Receiving) emails. If you have an account in email services, it means that you can send or receive emails using these servers. This service is free, fast and secure. You can change the "From" address and the "From" name if you send emails using SMTP server. In this post I will tell you how to send emails using SMTP servers of GMail & Outlook in PHP.

A custom email account on your own domain is useful for various purposes. By getting an own domain email name makes you not to disclose your personal mail and use the work email for disclosing. Email account on a custom domain is costly these days. Google Apps increased the price of their plan, which makes it impossible for custom email addresses.

But, Microsoft Outlook is giving it away for free ! They will host the Email address for you free of cost. Only you have to do is, create a account on Microsoft Live. You will find the step by step instructions for setting up a custom email address on your domain.

Pagination makes the results tidy and simple. When there are many results, pagination helps sorting them out and adding each results to specific pages. In PHP, it’s real simple. You can use this tutorial to add a pagination to your database results in PHP.

We will be using PDO for database connection and queries. The Database table named "users" is like this :

<td>
  First_Name
</td>

<td>
  Last_Name
</td>

<td>
  Subin
</td>

<td>
  Siby
</td>

<td>
  Peter
</td>

<td>
  Charles
</td>

<td>
  Thomas
</td>

<td>
  Chacko
</td>

It contains more and more data. It’s just a sample. Let’s move on.

My birthday is here. So long to the age 13. I will turn 14 in 3 hours from the published time of this post. My blog has been changed as like my age. This blog will turn 3 years on January 30. A lot of changes happened to this blog since the launch. I still have the memory of the moment when I created this blog with my brother and the help of my neighbor Simraj. I will always be thankful to Simraj bro for giving his time to help me create this blog. Let’s get to the point. I have made some huge changes to this blog (At Server).

If you run a WordPress blog on OpenShift, you might not be able to run the Minify plugins. These plugins won’t work if your OpenShift app is directly installed from the WordPress catridge they provide. This happens because the plugins, themes and other directories of wp-content are linked directories which means they’re fake. The folders are just shortcuts of the original folder situated in app-root/data. This makes the minify plugin hard to find the source of the file. Hence it won’t work.

Google provides text to speech feature on their translator product which is an awesome feature. If you are creating a web app of your own and need a human speaking voice for your app, you will get lost. Google have a URL for creating these audio files when given a text. I will tell you how to implement this text to speech feature on your PHP site without directly compromising the Google URL.