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Lets loose from the Code Zoo elePHPants have been spotted all over world, roaming and looking for an Apache pasture to graze on. They were seen in November in Munich, Barcelona in October, in Rio de Janeiro in July and is supposedly due to be seen at the Business Design Centre in London on Friday 26th February 2010. If you spot an elePHPant near you then take a snap and post up on the net at the elePHPant Flickr group . Brazil: Belgium: Germany: USA: Psychedelic elePHPant: They're breeding! Now they are marching! Posted via web from Madhav Joshi

Google's toolbar PageRank has not been updated for nearly six months now. This in itself is not unique and we know that this year is to see significant changes to Google search (Caffeine update) which gives an explanation to the delay. However, there are now quotes circulating from Google employees stating that the public PageRank metric is dead. Susan Moskwa on Google’s webmaster forums said: We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on Pagerank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. I have opinionated on discussion forums in the past that Google would never close down their PageRank to webmasters and the SEO community as all that would happen is that another company would create their own metric system to replace it wi

Learn how to create a dynamic ajax based shoutbox with jQuery from scratch. It will be very interesting to know how to use the ajax function of jQuery and how it can be used to insert and recover data from a MySQL database via PHP in a way asynchronous. Check out the demo Posted via web from Madhav Joshi

Charts and graphs provide the visual representation of your data and help you facilitate the understanding of whatever it is you are trying to deliver. Whether you are publishing a survey report, an election result or a financial analysis, charts play a major role in data presentation. Due to their interactivity, Flash-charts are particularly popular among designers and developers. These charts give users a way to interact with the chart, move charts among data values and see the data instead of reading, analyzing and visualizing it. In fact, many free and commercial chart plugins are available to download — you can implement them on your website right away.   Free Charts   Astra Charts Astra Charts is an open-source product of Yahoo! that enables you to present your tabular data in various graphical formats. Astra Charts empowers you to deliver animated flash charts on your websites and helps you customize and manipulate charts as per your needs. Astra Charts support

What is a PHP Framework?   PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help.   PHP frameworks streamline the the development of web applications written in PHP by providing a basic structure for which to build the web applications. In other words, PHP frameworks help to promote rapid application development (RAD), which saves you time, helps build more stable applications, and reduces the amount of repetitive coding for developers. Frameworks can also help beginners to build more stable apps by ensuring proper database interaction and coding on the presentation layer. This allows you to spend more time creating the actual web application, instead of spending time writing repetitive code. The general idea behind the workings of a PHP framework is referred to as