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Trap spambots from submitting forms with honeypot and PHP

Jan 16, 2015 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Programming | 0 Comments

One of the duties of a webmaster is to prevent spam bots from submitting web forms. If spammers are not blocked, the data collected from the visitors will contaminated with spam and it's a real nuisance to clean out this data every...]

How to retrieve Client IP address in PHP?

Jan 16, 2015 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Programming | 0 Comments

There are a number of array name/value pairs provided in the PHP's "predefined" $_SERVER variable, which you can use to extract client's IP address. Some of the IP-related $_SERVER parameters retrieved from the web server are passe...]

[Part 1] How to build a successful ecommerce business?

Jan 15, 2015 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Ecommerce | 0 Comments

Building and running an e-commerce website is not a trivial task. This two-part article will discuss how to build a feature-rich e-commerce website and also cover strategies for promoting your website efficiently.

Zend Framework 1 Overview

Jan 10, 2015 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Framework | 0 Comments

Developing a PHP application requires domain knowledge, software engineering, discipline, and time. We rarely write applications from scratch as there are freely available application frameworks that we can take advantage of. For t...]

How do you XML encode your data?

Nov 30, 2014 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Development , Framework , Peripherals | 0 Comments

I was using jqgrid to display some "filtered" data on the grid, but some filters won't display any data. My immediate suspect was special characters that may interfere with XML markup.

How do you setup dual NIC, multi-homed host?

Nov 18, 2014 | By Webtraffic Exchange | World Wide Web , Networks | 0 Comments

A multi-homed host is known as a computer that has multiple network connections, of which the connections may or may not be the same network. Web hosts and application service providers set up a multihomed router (or system) to con...]

How to make backups with Linux and Rsync?

Nov 18, 2014 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Search Engine Optimization , Social Media , Business , Linux | 0 Comments

As a web host, we needed an automated mechanism for generating snapshots of server filesystems on the Linux-based systems. There are a number of ways to achieve backups on Linux systems including Remote backup using Linux tar/ssh/c...]

PC Charge Payment Server Client Installation

Oct 29, 2014 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Development | 0 Comments

Ok, you already have at least 1 PC Charge (Server + Client) installed and trying to add additional licenses to your setup. To begin accepting credit cards with the PC Charge, you'll need a PC Charge server.

Salesforce REST API example

Oct 27, 2014 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Salesforce | 0 Comments

Salesforce REST API call into Force.com platform requires OAuth 2.0 authentication. OAuth is an industry-standard authentication mechanism using "tokens" instead of typical "username" and "password" credentials. OAuth access tokens...]

Salesforce: Retrieve related list with SOQL and Apex

Oct 21, 2014 | By Webtraffic Exchange | Salesforce | 0 Comments

You are working with a Salesforce custom object, and you need to iterate through the related list. How do you retrieve the listed list with SOQL, and iterate through them with Apex? For illustration purposes, I'm going to use the ...]