If you are using an application like PHP-IPNMonitor to sell digital files you need to make sure that your files are secure.
The best way to protect digital files (those files that you are going to sell) is to place them outside the root of your web site.
The root of the web site is normally the [...]
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How do I protect my digital files ?
September 4th, 2008 · No Comments
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Creating a database user with myPHPAdmin
August 19th, 2008 · No Comments
PHP-IPNMonitor, PHP-SecureArea and PHP-KeyCodes all require a mySQL database and hence require a database username and password. Normally you will interact with the mySQL database using a control panel which will incorporate tools to easily create database and users. These facilities are provided by your web host and will be the best way [...]
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Templates caching with PHP-IPNMonitor
August 9th, 2008 · No Comments
PHP-IPNMonitor can display ‘buy now’ buttons and ‘add to cart’ buttons in a number of different ways. Buttons can be created by hand and then added to existing web pages or they can be displayed dynamically through a template system.
PHP-IPNMonitor uses the pat template system which includes a caching method to improve the speed of [...]
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Modifying fckeditor for use in PHP-IPNMonitor
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments
Fckeditor is used in PHP-IPNMonitor as an HTML text editor and provides a powerful easy to use web editor. It is fully described on the web site http://www.fckeditor.net/
The main area of customisation that you may want to implement is defining the toolbar that appears above the text box which is used to enter product [...]
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Number of product items per page
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
How to change the number of items displayed in PHP-IPNMonitor and in the admin area of PHP-SecureArea.
With PHP-IPNMonitor, if you are using a template driven display and wish to change the number of product items displayed per page then it can be done very easily. If you open up the file /functionscart/content.php in a text [...]
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PayPal and eChecks
July 1st, 2008 · No Comments
An eCheck is when the customer only has a bank account, and not a credit card or additional form of payment to back up their account should their account be overdrawn when PayPal tries to debit it, so PayPal doesn’t pay you for 3-5 days while they wait for the money to transfer.
All withinweb applications [...]
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Finding the full path name (absolute path) of a folder
June 29th, 2008 · No Comments
With many applications it is neccessary to find the full path name of a folder and then enter it into the admin area of the application. This is required in PHP-IPNMonitor to identify the location of the digital files, and it is required in PHP-SecureArea to define the secure folders.
Download, unzip, and ftp to the [...]
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How do I reset the admin password in my application?
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
I have had a few users forget their password that they use to login to the admin area of either PHP-IPNMonitor, PHP-SecureArea or PHP-KeyCodes.
The best way to reset the admin password is by using the myPHPAdmin facility in your server control panel. If you log in to your server control panel and find myPHPAdmin, then [...]
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Further desciption of search system in PHP-IPNMonitor templates
June 25th, 2008 · No Comments
If you use PHP-IPNMonitor and use the template system, the following describes the search function in a bit more detail.
The search system in the templates use the mySQL FULLTEXT search using the MATCH keyword.
The fields that are searched are in tblitems and are item_name, item_title, item_description, item_description_full and keywords
First, all MySQL stop words are ignored [...]
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