Archive for March, 2008
bob on March 28th, 2008
The navigation of a website should be a major part of a website since your websites navigation should meet the expectations of people, here are few point you should consider while designing your website.
* Design your pages to load in less than 5 seconds on a 56K modem.
* Group your navigational options in relevant categories.
* Use common names for your menu options: Home, About Us, Contact Us, Help, Products. Avoid “clever” or “trendy” alternatives.
* If your site uses Flash, provide also an HTML version for users who prefer a less fancy, faster site.
* Provide simple text navigation links at the bottom of long pages, so users don’t need to scroll back up.
* Link your logo to your homepage, except in the homepage itself. Put a link to your homepage on all your internal pages.
* Display a “breadcrumb trail”; it is basically the path from the homepage to the page where you are. A breadcrumb trail looks like this: Home > Section > Sub-Section > Page, and it greatly facilitates navigation.
* If your site is too big, provide Search capabilities. Include a search box in the upper right corner of your homepage, and a link to a Search page from your interior pages.
* Set your search box to search your site, not to search the web.
* Create a custom error page that displays a simple site map with links to the main sections of your site. this is the way, you will not lose visitors that have followed a bad link to your site or who have misspelled your URL while typing.
bob on March 28th, 2008
Here are the list of shopping cart software both in open source and paid service;
ABC Estore
AbleCommerce
AbleCommerce
AbleCommerce (ASP.NET)
AbleCommerce (Cold Fusion)
A-CART Pro
Actinic Business
Actinic Catalog
Actinic Developer software
Actinic Order Manager
Advanced Cart
AFCommerce
Affiliate Guerrilla
Agora Cart
ampleShop
AShop Deluxe
AShop Deluxe 3-Domain License
ASPCart
AspDotNetStorefront ML
AspDotNetStorefront Pro
AspDotNetStorefront Standard
Avactis Shopping Cart
Avetti Commerce
BakeSale
Bizar Shop
BlueCart
BugMall
BusyBeeCart
BVC 2004 Enterprise
BVC 2004 Express
CactuShop
CandyPress Store Administration
CandyPress™ Store Administration
CandyPress™ Store Frontend
Captures
Cart Genie
Cart32 Enterprise Edition
Cart32 Free Edition
Cart32 Small Business Edition
CartIt Commerce System
Cartweaver 2
Cartweaver2 (Cold Fusion)
CATALooK.net Store Pro
cf_ezcart
CFWebstore
Charon Cart 3
Cigtek
ClearCart
ClickCart
ClickCartPro
clicshop
Clockwatchers Free
Clover Shop Lite
Clover Shop Pro
Clover Shop Ultralite
Clover Shop Ultrapro
Comersus Cart
CometMall e-Store
Commerce.cgi
CommerceV3
CRE Loaded
CS-Cart shopping cart software
CubeCart
CyberOffice (CyberShop)
CyberStrong eShop
Dansie
digiSHOP
EasyCart
eCart Professional
Ecommerce Templates (ASP)
Ecommerce Templates (PHP)
Ecommercemax Online Retail Store
Edit-X Ecommerce
EROL
EShoppingPro
Evolve eCart
Evolve Merchant
Ezimerchant Professional
fipsShop light
Fortune3 E-Commerce Wizard
Free PayPal Shopping Cart
FreeWebshop.org
GetPaid
GoECart
Hassan Consulting’s Shopping Cart
Hazel Enterprise
Heavy Metal
iisCART2000
Interchange
IntLink E-commerce
Kickasp Delux Shopping Cart
KonaKart
LetMeShop
Lite Commerce
LoadedAU
Magento
MagicWay Shopping Cart
Mal’s e-commerce Shopping Cart
Mcart 2005
MetaCart e-Shop V-8
MetaCart Free
MetaCart2
MetaCart2 for SQL Server
Midicart ASP Complete
Midicart ASP Designer
Midicart ASP Plus
Midicart PHP
Midicart PHP Complete
Midicart PHP Designer
MiniShop
MIVA Merchant 5
MMK Cart Affiliate e-commerce Suite
Mountain Commerce
MX Kart
NOP’s Free Shopping Cart
OpenCart
oscMall
osCommerce
PayPal Shopping Cart
PDG Commerce
PDG Shopping Cart
PDshop Asp.Net Edition
PDshopPro Advanced
PDshopPro Plus
PDshopPro Standard
PepperCart
PepperCart Basic
PHP Shop
PHP Simple Shop
PHPBasket
phpCart
Pinnacle Cart
ProductCart
ProductCart Build To Order
Q-Shop Pro
Quick.Cart
QuickEStore
QuikStore
RealCart
SalesCart PRO
SearchFit
SecureNetShop
Shop a la Cart
ShopDotNet
Shopping Cart
Shop-Script FREE
Shop-Script PREMIUM
Shop-Script PRO
ShopSite
ShopZone Professional
SiteDirector
Smilehouse Workspace Small Business
SoftSlate Commerce
Squirrelcart
StaticCart
StoreFront Advanced Edition (AE) Software
SunShop
SurfShopPRO
TopShopper Classic
Tradingeye
Trolleyed Lite
uShop
uStorekeeper
VevoCart
ViArt Shop
ViArt Shop Free
VIP Cart
Volusion Ecommerce Licensed Version
VP-ASP
Web+Shop
WebCart
WebGenie Shopping Cart Professional
WEBMASTERCART
WebStores 2000
X-Cart Gold
X-Cart Pro
XSE
Zen Cart
Feel free to add more shopping Cart..
bob on March 28th, 2008
Name Platform Supported databases Latest release Licenses
Apache Lenya Java, XML, Apache Cocoon 2.0 Apache License
b2evolution PHP MySQL 1.10.3 “Key West” GPL
BLOG:CMS PHP MySQL GPL
blosxom Perl Flat-file database 2.0 MIT
Bricolage Perl PostgreSQL 1.10.3 BSD
CivicSpace PHP MySQL 0.8.3 Open source, detail unknown
CMSimple PHP Flat-file database 3.0.1 Affero
Contrexx Open Source edition PHP MySQL 1.2 Free for non-commercial use
Cyclone3 Perl, XUL, JavaScript, C, Java MySQL and any Perl DBI 3.0 GPL
Daisy Java, XML, Apache Cocoon MySQL 2.1 Apache License
Dokuwiki PHP Flat-file database 2007-06-26 GPL
DotClear PHP MySQL Beta version 2.0 supports PostgreSQL 1.2.7.1 GPL
DotNetNuke ASP.NET Microsoft SQL Server 4.8.1 BSD
Drupal PHP MySQL or PostgreSQL 6.1 GPL
e107 PHP MySQL 0.7.11 GPL
Exponent PHP MySQL/PostgreSQL 0.96.6 GPL
eZ Publish PHP MySQL/PostgreSQL/Oracle/Microsoft SQL Server 4.0.0 GPL
Fedora Java MySQL or Oracle 2.2 Educational Community License
Habari PHP MySQL or SQLite 0.4.1 Apache License
ImpressCMS PHP MySQL 1.0 GPL
Jahia Java HyperSonic SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle 5.0.3 JCDDL & JSSL
Joomla! PHP MySQL 1.5.2 GPL
KnowledgeTree Document Management System PHP MySQL 3.5 GPL
Lyceum PHP MySQL 1.0.2 GPL
Magnolia Java JCR 3.5.4 GPL
Mambo PHP MySQL 4.6.3 GPL
MediaWiki PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL 1.12 GPL
Midgard CMS PHP (Midgard framework) MySQL 1.8.4 LGPL
MODx PHP MySQL 0.9.6.1 GPL
MoinMoin Python Flat-file database 1.6.2 GPL
Movable Type Perl, mod_perl, FastCGI MySQL or MS SQL server or Oracle or PostgreSQL or SQLite 4.1 GPL
Nucleus CMS PHP MySQL 3.32 GPL
Nuxeo CPS Python ZODB 3.4.3 GPL
Nuxeo EP Java PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Ingres 5.1.3 LGPL
OneCMS PHP MySQL 2.5 GPL
OpenACS TCL AOLserver PostgreSQL/Oracle 5.1.5 GPL
OpenCms Java MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DB2, HSQL 7.0.4 LGPL
phpCMS PHP Flat-file database 1.2.2 GPL
PHP-Fusion PHP MySQL 6.01.13 GPL
PHP-Nuke PHP MySQL 8.0 GPL
phpWCMS PHP MySQL 1.3.3 GPL
phpWebSite PHP MySQL or PostgreSQL 1.1.0 LGPL
PhpWiki PHP Flat-file database/MySQL/PostgreSQL etc. GPL
PmWiki PHP Flat-file database 2.1.27 GPL
PostNuke PHP MySQL .764 GPL
PyLucid Python MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 0.8.0 GPL
Radiant Ruby MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 0.6.4 MIT
Scoop Perl on mod_perl MySQL 1.1.8 GPL
Serendipity PHP + Smarty SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQLi 1.2 BSD
SilverStripe PHP MySQL 2.2.1 BSD
SiteFrame PHP + Smarty MySQL 5.0.2 Creative Commons
Slash Perl on mod_perl MySQL GPL
SPIP PHP MySQL 1.9.2 GPL
TangoCMS PHP MySQL 1.0.8-Osprey GNU/GPL 2
Textpattern PHP MySQL 4.0.6 GPL
TGS PHP MySQL 0.3.2 GPL
TikiWiki PHP MySQL and others using ADOdb 1.9.10.1 LGPL
TWiki Perl Perl DBI compatible 4.1.2 GPL
Typo Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite MIT
TYPO3 PHP MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 4.1.5 GPL
Quick.Cms.Lite PHP Flat-file database 2.0 GPL
WebGUI Perl on mod_perl MySQL GPL
whCMS PHP MySQL 0.102 GPL
WordPress PHP MySQL 2.3.3 GPL
Xaraya PHP with XHTML/XML/XSLT MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite using ADOdb and Microsoft SQL Server with Creole 1.1.3 GPL
XOOPS PHP MySQL 2.0.18 GPL
XOOPS Cube PHP MySQL 2.1.3 BSD
Zena Ruby MySQL alpha MIT
Freecms PHP MySQL .0.1 GPL
bob on March 28th, 2008
Since, MySQL tables have a way of corrupting themselves. However MySQL offers a quick and easy method of repairing those tables.
Check how you can repair the corrupt MySQL tables;
Login to your VDS via SSH and change directories to the database that is having problems.
cd /usr/local/mysql/var/[DBNAME]/
You will need to replace [DBNAME] with the actual name of your database.
Stop the MySQL server:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql stop
NOTE: Accounts created before July 7th, 2003 will want to use:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop
To check the tables:
myisamchk *.MYI
To repair tables:
myisamchk -r *.MYI
Restart MySQL:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql start
NOTE: Accounts created before July 7th, 2003 will want to use:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start
Alternatively, if you do not want to shut down MySQL, you can use mysqlcheck.
mysqlcheck [DBNAME]
To repair the database tables:
mysqlcheck -r [DBNAME]
You will need to replace [DBNAME] with the actual name of your database.
For additional help and documentation you can check here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Table_maintenance.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Using_mysqlcheck.html
bob on March 26th, 2008
Before you create your own server stat script in PHP, it is must to check your ports are responding. You should aware when one of your services are down, such as HTTP, MySQL, POP/SMTP, etc. Also, other information you should know the current server loads, and users which will be the chief indicator of a runaway script, or process.
So let’s start.
Make sure your php script ALWAYS must start with <?php this tells your server that it is in fact a php script
<?php
//You can replace the domain with an IP if you wish
$site = “mysite.com”; //this is the site you wish to check
// Let’s check our common ports 80, 21, and 110
$http = fsockopen($site, 80);
$ftp = fsockopen($site, 21);
$pop3 = fsockopen($site, 110);
if ($http) {
$status .= “<font face=\”Arial\”><font size=\”2\”><b>HTTP</b>: Working</font></font><br>”;
}
else {
$status .= “<font face=\”Arial\”><font size=\”2\”><b>HTTP</b>: Not Working</font></font><br>”;
}
if ($ftp) {
$status .= “<font face=\”Arial\”><font size=\”2\”><b>FTP</b>: Working</font></font><br>”;
}
else {
$status .= “<font face=\”Arial\”><font size=\”2\”><b>FTP</b>: Not Working</font></font><br>”;
}
if ($pop3) {
$status .= “<font face=\”Arial\”><font size=\”2\”><b>POP3/SMTP</b>: Working</font></font><br>”;
}
else {
$status .= “<font face=\”Arial\”><font size=\”2\”><b>POP3/SMTP</b>: Not Working</font></font><br>”;
}
echo(”$status”);
echo(”<hr>”);
// Users and load information
$reguptime = trim(exec(”uptime”));
if ($reguptime) {
if (preg_match(”/, *(\d) (users?), .*: (.*), (.*), (.*)/”, $reguptime, $uptime)) {
$users[0] = $uptime[1];
$users[1] = $uptime[2];
$loadnow = $uptime[3];
$load15 = $uptime[4];
$load30 = $uptime[5];
}
} else {
$users[0] = “Unavailable”;
$users[1] = “–”;
$loadnow = “Unavailable”;
$load15 = “–”;
$load30 = “–”;
}
echo(”<b>Current Users:</b> $users[0]<br>
<b>Current Load:</b> $loadnow<br><b>Load 15 mins ago:</b> $load15<br><b>Load 15 mins ago:</b> $load30<br><hr>”);
// Operating system
$fp = @fopen(”/proc/version”, “r”);
if ($fp) {
$temp = fgets($fp);
fclose($fp);
if (preg_match(”/version (.*?) /”, $temp, $osarray)) {
$kernel = $osarray[1];
preg_match(”/[0-9]{5,} (\((.* *)\)\))/”, $temp, $osarray);
$flavour = $osarray[2];
$operatingsystem = $flavour.” (”.PHP_OS.” “.$kernel.”)”;
if (preg_match(”/SMP/”, $buf)) {
$operatingsystem .= ” (SMP)”;
}
} else {
$result = “(N/A)”;
}
} else {
$result = “(N/A)”;
}
echo(”<b>Operating System:</b><br>$operatingsystem”);
?>
The above code when uploaded to your server, it will display the status of your services, your user and load averages.
Now you can work with this, and make it look however you want, add new ports, etc.
Remember, this is just a very basic stat script.
Key Issues
One of the key issues you should aware that your host will need to allow the exec() funtion, in order for this to work properly.
