Go to ACP–> STYLES

Click on Themes -> Prosilver -> Edit

Add following at the end
float:right;
margin-top:4px;
width:14%;
for the class right-sidebar and
float:left;
margin-top:4px;
width:14%;

for the class left-sidebar
Change #page-body to
float:left;
margin:4px 0pt;
width:67%;

So the sidebars will be 14% each and the middle area will be 67 %.

Create 2 files, left_sidebar.html and right_sidebar.html and put corresponding code for sidebar there.

Now we have to call them.

To call left_sidebar.html, edit overall_header.html

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Some scripts are encoded with ioncube. So to run the script, you need ioncube installed at your server. To install ioncube at your server, use the following instructions:

1. Go to this page http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php and download the package suitable for your operating system
2. Unpack it and upload it to your server in the directory ioncube. The package contains the directory ioncube with loaders for different versions of operating system
3. Launch the Loader Wizard script in your browser. For example: http://yourdomain/ioncube/loader-wizard.php
4. Select for run time installation, if your server is Shared ( not dedicated ).
5. Follow the instructions there and the installation will be done successfully.
6. Contact the script provider if you do experience any problems running encoded files.
   
7. For security reasons it is strongly advised to remove the Wizard script ( loader-wizard.php )  from your server after the installation of the ionCube Loader

One of my clients had this issue – unable to update some of the wordpress users. When trying to update some of the user, he was getting this error
Catchable fatal error: Object of class __PHP_Incomplete_Class could not be converted to string in C:\web\wp28\wp\wp-includes\functions.php on line 1463

I went through many fixes, suggested in different threads, to edit the wordpress core file wp-includes\functions.php. None of them worked.

Since it only affects certain users I figured out that, the error may be because of the details of that particular user. I checked the database. I have seen some user meta keys related to a plugin which is uninstalled improperly. I deleted those meta keys and the error has gone away…

I could not find a guide to integrate cyberbit payment gateway to a website. So I thought to write one.

First you need a merchant account with cybernet . When you start an account you will receive a test account with user name and password. Also you will receive some documents. It explains almost everything – how to integrate it. They also give you hash key for you to use in the code.

On the programming side, you have to create a form, so that the customers can enter  card holder details and shipping details. Then POST the data to cyberbit payment gateway.

Following is an example of Form  (taken from the document provided by Cyberbit)

<form method=”POST” action=”https://test.xxxxx.xx/xxxx.php”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”1″ name=”transtype”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”sdf6a6yr3f3df33″ name=”secret”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”https://www.cyberbit.eu/bjarne_test/accept.php”
name=”accepturl”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”CyberTest” name=”merchantid”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”test3″ name=”InternalorderId”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”978″ name=”currencycode”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”100″ name=”amountcleared”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”28006f49d5ffc3a60adbe4898594e749ee34b055″
name=”hash”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”cardholder@email.com” name=”owneremail”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”some street” name=”owneraddress”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”123″ name=”owneraddressnumber”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”London” name=”ownercity”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”OO” name=”ownerstate”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”GB” name=”ownercountry”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”Larry” name=”ownerfirstname”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”Smith” name=”ownerlastname”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”123456″ name=”ownerzip”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”xxxx” name=”ownerphone”>
<input type=”hidden” value=’”Item Number”;”Item Description”;”Amount”;”Price”‘
name=”header”>
<input type=”hidden” value=’”1″;”Blue car”;”1″;”1.000,00″‘ name=”orderline1″>
<input type=”hidden” value=’”2″;”Red bike”;”2″;”250,00″‘ name=”orderline2″>
<input type=”hidden” value=’”Shipping”;”150,00″‘ name=”shipping”>
<input type=”hidden” value=’”Total”;”1.650,00″‘ name=”total”>
<input type=”submit” value=”Make Payment”>
</form>

All the variables are well defined in cyberbit document. In the above example all the values are defined. In real situation you have to take the input values.

Once the transaction is made cyberbit sends some data back to merchant’s server.  To receive that data we need to create a file. The URL of that file is called callback URL.

For safety ( I guess) in the test account, we don’t have the option to set callback URL. If we send the callback URL to cyberbit, they will update the callback URL info.

The server sends an xml file with all the relevant details of transaction  held. It also sends a fingerprint. we can calculate the fingerprint on our side and can match both fingerprints.

Some web servers, like Apache, will add slashes to all characters that could break communication. These are characters like “, ‘, `, etc. And since the XML sent in the xml post parameter does contain double-quotes it is possible that your web server added an escape character to the double-quote to  sanitize the string, so it would look like this \” instead of just “. This would result in a totally different SHA1 hash result as your XML string is slightly different than the one cyberbit used when they calculated the SHA1 code.

To avoid this, you can try stripping slashes form the XML string before you try an calculate the hash. In PHP this is very simply, simply do stripslashes($_POST['xml']);

If both matches, we can parse the xml and take the data we need and use it.

There are 2 other pages, called Accept URL and Decline URL.

Accept URL is the URL of the file we create to direct the customer upon successful completion of payment.

Decline URl is the URL of the file we create to direct the customer if the payment is declined.

We can set both Accept URL and Decline URL in cyberbet account.

An interesting thing is the shipping –> name, phone and email is not yet used for the payment form, so we can’t send those data. They said they have plans to add them to the payment form.

I will try to add some more notes, when I get time.

In thesis theme, when we use teasers, we have the link “Read Full article”.

But they have the nofollow tag.

Is this a bug in the theme?  nofollow means Google and other search engines won’t follow the link.

The home page won’t losss the page rank, but will the posts be indexed by Google?

The same issue is there with comments also. They also have nofollow tags.

We can remove them by editing the files, but I was just wondering why Thesis is forcing this nofollow tag to teasers and comments…

Administrator, Author and Editor have the option to notify people by email when publishing the posts.

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To change the layout of products page in zencart edit the following  file:

/includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php, and moving blocks of code to where you want them.

Each block is identified by and comments to make it easy to keep track of them.

I was trying to insert data into access database from an asp.net page.

I could not find any samples in tutorials. So I thought to put the code (that worked for me) here. If anyone is looking for a sample I hope it would be helpful.

<%@ Import Namespace=”System.Data.OleDb” %>
<script runat=”server”>
Sub submit(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

Dim conCoaxis As OleDbConnection
Dim strInsert As String
Dim cmdInsert As OleDbCommand
Dim dtmDate As DateTime
   
dtmDate = DateTime.Now()
 
conCoaxis=New OleDbConnection(“Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;data source=” & server.mappath(“email.mdb”))
strInsert = “INSERT INTO email (Email, Fname, CompanyName, [Date]) Values (@Email, @Fname, @CompanyName, @Date)”
 
cmdInsert = New OleDbCommand( strInsert, conCoaxis )
 
cmdInsert.Parameters.Add( “@Email”, txtEmail.Text )
cmdInsert.Parameters.Add( “@Fname”, txtName.Text )
 cmdInsert.Parameters.Add( “@CompanyName”, txtCompany.Text )
 cmdInsert.Parameters.Add( “@Date”, OleDbType.Date).Value = dtmDate.ToString(“g”)  
  Try
   conCoaxis.Open()
   cmdInsert.ExecuteNonQuery()
   conCoaxis.Close()
   Response.Write(“Updated Successfully!<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>”)
   Catch
   conCoaxis.Close()
  End Try
 End Sub
</script>
<%@ Page Language=”VB” ContentType=”text/html” ResponseEncoding=”iso-8859-1″ Debug=”true” %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml“>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
</head>
<body>
<form  runat=”server” id=”form1″ name=”form1″ method=”post” action=”">
  Name:     <asp:TextBox id=”txtName” runat=”server” /> 

Email:    <asp:TextBox id=”txtEmail” runat=”server” />
Company:    <asp:TextBox id=”txtCompany” runat=”server” />
 <asp:Button id=”id” text=”Submit” OnClick=”submit” runat=”server” />
</form> 
</body>
</html>

I had come through a situation to compare the category name and post title for a wordpress post. The following functions and code helped me to do this.

$category = get_the_category();
$cat = $category[0]->cat_name;
$post_no = get_post($post);
$title = $post_no->post_title;
$match=strcmp($cat,$title);
if($match==0){
echo “match”;
}
else
{
echo “no match”;
}

The problem here is $cat = $category[0]->cat_name; returns the first category name, so we are comparing only the first category with the title. If we want to compare the second category we have to use $cat = $category[1]->cat_name;

I hope someone will write a better solution so that we can compare the array, category with title. I would appreciate if someone can post that…

in_array came to my mind, but it is case sensitive…

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