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EasyPHP is an application that you install on your Windows computer which you can use as a development system for PHP / Apache and mySQL databases.
It can be downloaded form http://www.easyphp.org/ and I find it a very good way to develop applications using PHP on my Windows computer.
EasyPHP contains a single exectuable which when run, [...]

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What currency should you sell your products in ? 
PayPal is able to handle quite a wide range of currencies and you have to descide which currency you should sell your products in. 
I guess the question really is “are you selling to the world or are you expecting payments from customers who are based in your [...]

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The fckeditor is described on the web site http://www.fckeditor.net and is a configurable html text editor with many add ons and plugins.
The configuration file in the fckconfig.js file is set to use the english language ‘en’ with a toolbar set called ‘pg_toolbar’. The FCKEditor web site provides full desciption on its options and configuration.
The [...]

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phpMyAdmin is a program used to manipulate databases remotely through a web interface. A good hosting package will have this included.

Login to phpMyAdmin.
Create a new blank database first.
Click databases, and select the database that you will be importing your data into.
Across the top of the screen will be a row of tabs. [...]

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This desciption is applicable to all the applications PHP-eSeller, PHP-SecureArea and PHP-KeyCodes.
You should backup your database at regular intervals. You will then be able to restore the database if something goes wrong.
phpMyAdmin is the name of the program that you can use to manipulate databases.  It is usually provided as part of you control panel [...]

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Version PHP 5.3 has a number of functions that are depreciated and earlier versions of PHPeSeller, PHPSecureArea and PHPKeyCodes will display warning messages identifying those depreciated functions when installed on PHP 5.3.  It will still work as the functions are still there although they will be removed in PHP 6
To overcome this for earlier versions of the applications, in the [...]

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Normally with PHP-SecureArea you use PayPal subscription facilities which control access to your secure area.  So when the subscription expires the access to the secure area ends.
One issue with this is that the customer has to have a PayPal account rather than purchasing through a credit / debit card.  This is because it is PayPal [...]

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This describes how to set up the SMTP email for use with PHP-eSeller, PHP-SecureArea, PHP-KeyCodes.
You may find that you web server is not sending out emails as well as you would like.  Shared web servers sometimes have issues with how quickly the email is sent out and the headers in the emails.
To use an external [...]

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Can I use the same PayPal account for different PayPal applications.
Yes you can. The way you do it is to pass the url of the IPN script in the purchase button using the notify_url field.  PHP-eSeller, PHP-SecureArea and PHP-KeyCodes are all able to operate on the same PayPal account because they all send the IPN confirm [...]

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