I. Malware Types

Some of the malware types are discusses below.

1. Viruses: This kind od malware is well known to every system user’s. This is one type of program that infects the computer by copying itself. Fortunately, virus gets into other computer very quickly in some form of executable codes, infecting files on a network. Some viruses put on view of the presence indications, whereas, many do not.

2.    Worms: Warms are the self-replication program that sends copies of itself to other lump through a network, and it might be done without the user’s knowledge. This happens because of the non-security on a computer. In general, worms always produce a few harms to the network and it cannot be halted at any cost.

3. Wabbits: Wabbit is the one that reproduce computer program repeatedly by itself. It does not contaminate the bulk programs or files. It also does not use any network resources of the system and hence avoids the spreading of infections. Additonally, wabbits can be programmed with a plan of having hateful side effects. A best example of wabbit is Fork bomb which attacks a computer by running a process that creates another running process.

4. Trojan: Trojan horse is deceiving program. This is a one which acts as a veiled program projected to relieve the viruses that affects the system, whereas, truly it infects the system with various aspects. Though Virus and Trojan horse are used often equally, they have a quite change in their behavior. In order to protect the system from Trojan horse, installation of firewall helps out in the case if it absence.

5. Spyware: Spyware is one of the malware types (a hidden type) which can be installed on any computers and acquires few amount of information of user’s without their knowledge. The acquired information can be of personal stuffs, surfing practices and visited sites of the users. Additional controls like installing softwares and website transmission activities are also possible. Detection of this type of malware is really a difficult task as it is hidden. Spywares can be installed by the shared owner, in order to secretly observe the users action on the system. This monitoring feature of spyware is simply easy and well extended through out the corporate.

6. Backdoors: Many backdoors can be installed so as to make the access easier for the future use. In a login system, a backdoor considers the combination of user and password that enables to access the system at any instance. A successful solution is reached by many programmers in installing huge amount of installation of such backdoor software’s.

7. Keyloggers: Keylogger is a program that monitors each and every hitting of keys and directs the acquired information to the corresponding spying person. This is a fair method for a third party to view those acquired information can be of username, private passphrases, financial records, emails, bank account numbers, secured &unsecured measures, credit card number, passwords, and so on.

Keyloggers are used for many justifiable intentions to troubleshoot networks, associates efficiency; etc.A keylogger can be of both software program/application or hardware device. The system keyboard port is the most common used hardware keylogger. The appearance of such port can be of small cylindrical or extended tail in shape, which cannot be perceived by any software. The cost of different models depends on the number of keystrokes. The models with highest capacity are being more expensive in the market.

8.    Adware: Adware, otherwise known as advertising-supported software, is a software package that participates automatically without any assistance, or downloads ads to the system. Those ads are displayed in the form of pop-up. Mostly, adwares are undisruptive, whereas, some are incorporated with keyloggers and other persistent software.

II. Identifying Malware

1. Malware can be injected through ads that are posted in the website. Make a note of those using some respective software. Proceed with a fine investigate Check with the ads that are displayed in the website.
2. Make a note of all user-posting area of the site
3. Look out for unusual display of many popup, system tray icon and unexpected applications without the user authorization.
4. Low speed of system
5. Change in browser configuration, desktop settings & preference without user’s knowledge.
6. Bring Task manager into play as it acts as one part in identifying the malware. An obvious malware issues can be easily detected through task manager. In Task Manager Window, examine the Image name that comes under Processes tab.
7. Use some applications which help to find out the malware such as,

• Windows Defender (Microsoft)
• Ad-Aware (Lavasoft)
• Spy Sweeper (Webroot)
• Spybot Search & Destroy (Safer Networking)

1. Hidden encodes or encrypts are the general way to hide the malware in the system. Hence, check out for the abnormal codes.

• Codes using hex or Unicode characters are the encoded codes
• Encrypted codes do not have any fixed patterns. Huge amount of codes look like an incoherent codes and such codes are to be verified.

1. Increase in the amount of spam
2. Unable to access antivirus program to get rid of malware

III. Methods to remove malware

Removal of malware depends on the type of malware on which our system is affected.

1. Run a scan with the existing anti-malware program. Be cautious with the malware program. Many of those would not remove the malware at times.

(Or)

1. Make use of Malwarebytes’ Anti-malware, an on-demand scanning tool in which there is no conflict with an existing Antivirus.

On a successful identification of the infection, the detected malware could be diffused manually by deleting the polluted .exes, cracking down the registry, eradicating the contaminated files and other scanned results.

Malwareremovalbot is a best known site, enabling to download a malware removal program. This serves as a fast and well-organized mode. One time installation of this software guards the system on searching and diffusing the malwares at any spot.

(Or)

1. In the Task Manager Window, click on Processes tab and it shows a list of running processes. Make a search of malware processes from the list and terminate malware processes. Also, end the non-malware files that are integrated and utilized by malware.

IV. Tools for finding the malware

1.    PhishTank: PhistTank is a site which allows the users to put on view of the issues so as to verify and share. OpenDNS organization operates this tool

2.    URL Scanner: URL scanner creates an obstacle for HTTP requests which is processed by Internet Information Services. This restriction leads UrlScan tool to prevent any harmful demands approaching the server.

Additional Features in UrlScan:

There are some new features introduced in UrlScan 2.5.

1. Log file directory modification
2. Logging long URLs
3. Restriction in request size

AVG Online Web Page Scanner: Safety and security of each and every web page can be examined using AVG Online Web Page Scanner. This acts as a part of LineScanner. When the user receives a mistrustful link through e-mail, it can be easily studied by LinkScanner.

3. Google Safe Browsing: This is a versatile tool. It helps the user to test a website and find out whether those websites are legitimate or a malware reflected. To do the same, type http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=<User Target Website Address in the browser address bar.

V. Result of malware affected website

The computer in unstable state is the obvious warning sign of a malware. The spontaneous rebooting, crashes within the system, decrease in system accessing speed are the symptoms of a malware infection.

The most terrible action of a malware is that some malware are designed and projected to trace out and creates the text log (i.e. any keys that is pressed on keyboard) and those are sent to hacker periodically. This kind of a performance enables the hacker to acquire the secured details like password and permits access for email, bank account and other protected information.

VI. Web hosting and Malware

In today’s world, website security is the most important factor to save the users and content from hacker and spammers. Many web hosting companies has the primary responsibility to safeguard the hosted website from malware. Addition to this, malware nature, type, effects, cause, removal & prevention procedures will also be provided by web hosting companies. There are many existing malware protecting guideline offered by web hosting companies, and still some more are expected for the future usage.

No one can assure that the sites used by them are 100% safe and unaffected by malware. Hence, some hosting companies have malware and trojan scanners and it helps out to scan for removing malware only upto a certain limit. Since most of the malware are iframes, these scanners fail to remove them. Though, many hosting companies are providing great support. Few web hosting are best and secured. Hence, recommended web hosting are HostGator and Inmotion. In this kind of a hosting service, a special page is allotted to post the users complaints on malware

Malware problems are solved by Hosting providers deal with this problem in diverse approaches; Malware is not regarded as crisis by some hosting providers, whereas, others are very cautious in solving the same.

On considering the saying of StopBadware, web hosting providers should be aware of the infection created by malware within one working day. On the other hand, make a possibility of acquiring the control on spiteful URL so as to find out and the duration that helps to cut down the infection at the least of two working days’ time. Any hosting providers should be able to provide the notice and guidelines to the owner of the site to solve the problems and this is highly recommended. Continuous testing, imperative communication, blocking the polluted content, abolishing malware and correcting the basic weakness of shared website are the responsibilities of the entire hosting providers. More quick and effective communication of the providers ensures the fine result of malware demolishing.

VII. Malware hosted websites

1.    Redirected sites: On creating a well designed malware by cyber-criminal and hosting in few groups of websites, slowly some more websites get redirected to this malware hosted site. Hence, a junction of malware is met with the gathered sites

2.    Proxy websites: Proxy websites hides the malware for a long duration of time

3.    Antivirus Sotware: Malware websites could be packed differently by cyber-criminal and it sneaks out the antivirus program installed on user’s computer

VIII. Common source of malware

Possibility of malware infection is very high and frequent for any computer connected to internet. Many viruses exist in various applications. The source of malware is various and some are listed below:

1.    Downloaded programs

Lots of programs are required for many applications and hence, users prefer to download those at any time from internet. Discounts or free cost boost up the users to use the programs that affected by malware

2.    Handy devices

Handy/portable devices like pen drives, compact discs and removable hard discs are used by many people. These devices enable to spread the malware from one computer to another. Any kind of malware could be injected to the devices while used in many systems and possibility of spreading virus gets increased.

3.    Internet Games

Installing games is one of the most important source that allows malware to enter into system. Many free wares are offered for the people and this leads to download virus affected games.

4.    Usage of PDF

36% of malicious code is circulated by the utilization of PDF. This acts as the leading source for virus contamination. When a PDF document is loaded, it begins to generate a Java code and it takes an advantage of widening malicious executables to other computers.

Most of the PC uses Adobe Reader that makes PDF to come into action and accounted for malware to the system.

5.    Facebook

One of the most admired social media is Facebook, pursued by Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. This is the top crisis which experienced a huge malware effect. Hence, to diminish the risk respective to social media, SMB (Server Message Block) has a governance policy of 57%.

IX. To prevent malware

1.    Make an awareness of the computer status at all instance. Check for abnormal activities that occur in the system.

2.    Assure with the browser settings which could let the user know about the entry of all the programs that attempts to get downloaded.

3.    To end the downloading and installation of malware to the system, install a highly regarded and trustworthy anti-virus program. Maintain the installed program updated everyday so as to clear the difficulties in the future.

4.    Some websites are well practiced in pasting the cookies into the computer which enabling the tracking task later. Hence, disable the cookies from the browser.

5.    Few innocent programs or software holds out malware with it and it could install the same to the system. So, avoid downloading software and programs from any anonymous websites for a safer side.

6.     A particular network instrument or analyzer should be decided on the user’s comfort so as to monitor the network traffic and the action of malware.

7.    An experienced based techniques which is known as Heuristic must be permitted in the existing antivirus software. It helps to make a notification initial malware behavior

8.    A policy setting such as local security or group security is required to be implemented and also disable or create a limitation on Window Script Host (WSH) and ActiveX.

9.    An efficient and strongest Antivirus like AVG helps to overcome with the difficulties of malware which also updates everyday

10. Change the password of Ftp/cPanel on a regular basis with a complicated combinations

11. Make use of Opera or Mozilla FireFox as it offers a safer browsing experience

12. Update the Operating System frequently. Give a high preference for Microsoft which always provide a best improvements to the system and the latest security patches

13. Utilize the newer solution like McAfee Site Advisor as it makes browsing safe

For the uninitiated, Honeycomb is the latest version of Android operating system, designed especially for Tablets. As Tablets have larger screens compared to mobile handsets, the earlier versions of Android could not do justice to the wide screen space available on Tablets. Honeycomb has holographic user interface, elegant notifications, refined multitasking and powerful upgrades to the web browser. Some of the inherent features of Android truly come alive on Honeycomb. With the introduction of Honeycomb, Google entered into a direct competition with Apple’s ipad.

Now that Honeycomb is poised for the latest update, there could never be more exciting days for the Tablet market. On top of it, to reinforce the Honeycomb capabilities, we now have the latest Flash Player 10.2. The deeper chemistry between the Flash player and Honeycomb enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices. The updated Flash player for Honeycomb provides a better embedded in- browser experience. This is possible through rendering of content as part of the web page along with components such as HTML, images and gif animations. This results in improved scrolling of web pages and allows the content to be displayed in exactly the manner in which the page designer has intended it.

On the performance side, the Flash update has been improvised to take full advantage of the multi-core GPU- enabled processors to provide enhanced experience with video, games and interactive web contents for smartphones and Tablets. It has also been able to reduce CPU usage and give upto 80% savings according to some estimates. The automatic soft keypad feature will enable Developers to optimise desktop applications for mobile devices that require keyboard inputs for interacting with rich content. The latest version has addressed the security issues that made the earlier versions of Flash players vulnerable.

All in all, the picture looks promising, though, with some bones of contention still hanging over it. The fact that the functionality feature has arrived ahead of the update to the operating system which, quite understandably, has the potential to frustrate users. The users of Motorola Xoom, which is a contender to the ipad, still have to wait for some more time to gain a superior experience on their Android Tablets. It is only a matter of time by when it will be clear which has gained better mileage in the Tablet space – the ipad or the Android supported Tablets that are doing their slow march into the market.

Here going to show you how to send mails with multiple attachments (It can be any type)

I was looking for a custom script which can bale to send multiple image/zip files but unfortunately

i couldnot find exactly what i was needed, so then i made this and here i made a tutor to show you a example.

I think many of you needed to send mails with attachments so you can utilize this script by just including the three files into your script and

changing the parameters. Check the demo and you can grab from download link.

By using this custom PHP script you can send multiple image/pdf/zip or what ever file formats you like you can send to the mail id’s by browse and upload or by specifying the image location on your server.

I made three faces of form to get input from user to send mail to admin with their attachments, So this is the first face which gets mail id,name

And here is the second step which gets your address to send to admin

And here is the final step where user can browse and send their files,

you can include any number of files, file types by adjusting the parameters in mail.php.

For to use this your server should be enabled “allowed upload”,

so depends on your allowed file,post size the upload script will work

As you can see you can add N number of file attachments here to get input from user, check the script,

also you can change it to use it with ajax, i also attached a ajax way mail sending.

Thanks to Ewen Elder <ewen@jainaewen.com>, Here i used his mailing class to send mail with attachments.

Here i have attached the copy of the working files so you can grab and use it in your projects.

Happy coding -:)

do post your comments please.

This is especially true with themes.

As payment module developers, we get a lot of people coming back saying that after upgrade or fresh installation of the latest version, the payment step on the one page checkout doesn’t work.

If, you have a custom theme installed and, after upgrade, you find that your checkout is not working – that is after entering your credit card information and click ‘Next’ nothing happens – follow these steps:

1. Ensure that this issue is only for CC payments.
Disable all credit card payment methods and enable some other method like PayPal or COD. If, they too do not work, then, you have some other installation issue. Try reinstalling.
2. Switch to the default theme and it should work.
Disable your custom module and enable the default Magento module. If, credit card payment method works you can confirm that the issue is with your theme.
3. Fix your theme.
The reason that checkout for credit card payment methods do not work is because Magento the lib/ccard.js javascript file to be included, which does the credit card validations and has the click action for the ‘Next’ button.

To fix this you need to edit only one file – your custom theme’s layout/page.xml file.

Open page.xml file and add this line in these sections,

(1) Section:

after this line:

<block type=”page/html” name=”root” output=”toHtml” template=”page/2columns-left.phtml”>

Place this

<action method=”addJs”><script>lib/ccard.js</script></action>

So it will look like this

<block type=”page/html_head” name=”head” as=”head”>
<action method=”addJs”><script>prototype/prototype.js</script></action>
<action method=”addJs” ifconfig=”dev/js/deprecation”><script>prototype/deprecation.js</script></action>
<action method=”addJs”><script>lib/ccard.js</script></action>

(2) Section:

after this line:

<block type=”page/html” name=”root” output=”toHtml” template=”page/print.phtml”>

Place this

<action method=”addJs”><script>lib/ccard.js</script></action>

So it will look like this

<block type=”page/html” name=”root” output=”toHtml” template=”page/print.phtml”>
<block type=”page/html_head” name=”head” as=”head”>
<action method=”addJs”><script>prototype/prototype.js</script></action>
<action method=”addJs”><script>mage/translate.js</script></action>
<action method=”addJs”><script>lib/ccard.js</script></action>

I was experiencing the same issue: Nothing happens when you enter the credit card information and hit continue. After investigating with Firebug, it seemed that the method verifyCreditCard was not defined in validation.js.

You can fix this by pasting the following javascript code into validation.js:

// Credit Card Validation Javascript
// copyright 12th May 2003, by Stephen Chapman, Felgall Pty Ltd

// You have permission to copy and use this javascript provided that
// the content of the script is not changed in any way.

function validateCreditCard(s) {
    // remove non-numerics
    var v = "0123456789";
    var w = "";
    for (i=0; i < s.length; i++) {
        x = s.charAt(i);
        if (v.indexOf(x,0) != -1)
        w += x;
    }
    // validate number
    j = w.length / 2;
    k = Math.floor(j);
    m = Math.ceil(j) - k;
    c = 0;
    for (i=0; i 9 ? Math.floor(a/10 + a%10) : a;
    }
    for (i=0; i

Clear the cache and you should be able to checkout with the CC payment method.

How can we develop a  Showcase Banner – Portfolio using Jquery. Here is the sample script which creates a showcase of your images on the home page.

Steps to add a showcase images in your home page

• Make li(list) with images and descriptions
• Load jquery and jquery UI lib
• Write css for custom design
• Write custom javascript for slider effect

Take a look at Demo and you can also took the source from here

So here is the steps

• Make li(list) with images and descriptions

Put the images which are needed to be show as showcase into li tags and also put description text as div tags. And finally add a click handler which enables the user to move on over the showcase.

• Load jquery and jquery UI lib

Combine both jquery , jquery UI ,jquery cycle libs into one js file to reduce the request. And load it into your html template like this.

• Write css for custom design

Write custom css  to make it more attractive

Here is small CSS snippet

• Write custom javascript for slider effect

Now we can use all the above steps and have to write custom javascript which enables the slider effect.

if (showcase_area.length) {
    var widthButtonsBg,
    controlTabString = 'a.control_tab',
    controlTab = jQuery(controlTabString),
    slider_control = jQuery('div#controls'),
    slider_control_tab = jQuery('div#controls '+controlTabString),
    slider_arrows = jQuery('#showcase-area a#prevlink, #showcase-area a#nextlink');

     et_custom_featured();
}

Here is the final output which combines all the above steps

Take a look at Demo and you can also took the source from here

Comment me and share please if you like this.

AWS – Amazon Web Services

AWS (Amazon Web Services) – provides online business solutions by providing many services like EC2, S3 etc. With AWS we can have our own server to process our data, Storage and other services as per elastic IT infrastructure in a remote place. In simpler words you don’t have to buy any more physical device rather you can use this AWS services for your various purpose/Tasks.

Always we don’t have all the needed resources to run our project/service in our own server. Because we may need to run every server separately for excellent performance.
The Servers are like

• Application Server
• DB server
• Media streaming server
• Mail server
• Web server
• Storage Server

In this case we can go for Amazon web services, because they are providing all these services separately as per our need with considerable cost.
AWS can give us Computing power to process our data/task vastly, Storage space to store data secure/safe and access very easily with excellent speed.

Some of services from AWS are

• EC2
• S3
• Cloud Front
• Simple DB

Benefits:

• Cost-effective
• Scalable
• Flexible
• 24/7 Availability

Drawbacks:

• Must need Net connection to access your data any where

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud):
It is a commercial Web service, provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. You can load any software of your choice by means of creating, launching, and terminating server instances. At any time you can change/upgrade all your server packages by taking it as image from amazon another instances.

S3 (Simple Storage Service):
It is an online storage Web Service from AWS. It provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web.

Cloud Front:
Its Content delivery system from AWS, by which we can distribute contents with low latency, high speed to the end user. Amazon Cloud-front delivers your content using a global network of edge locations. Requests for your objects are automatically routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance.

Before AWS we need to know what is Web services

Webservices means a system which is for machine to machine communication/interaction over a network. These software systems working based on various protocols like HTTP, SOAP and to build these systems by using XML and WSDL(There are many protocols and languages, API’s there to build this Web Services System). The below figure shows what’s happening actually behind the web services.

or in other words: Web services are modular software components wrapped inside a specific set of Internet communications protocols and that can be run over the Internet. These components can communicate with other components automatically without human intervention. They can be used on an Intranet inside a firewall, or out across the greater Internet. A Web service itself is a software module delivered over the Internet or an intranet via XML (eXtensible Markup Language) messaging. The software module can be built in a variety of ways, most notably, but not exclusively, using Java like languages.

In order for a computer or program to use a Web service, it needs be able to find the service description and then bind to it.

To accomplish this, there are three key roles in Web services architecture:

A service provider,
A service registry,
A service requester.

Together, they perform these three operations on a Web service: publish, find and bind.

Now if you are planned to launch a web site means you have to look into many areas or else you can blindly launch by some Hosting Provider’s.

First of all you need to decide that whether you need static or dynamic web page. If you chose static page like it’s about you are some contents to access through net that never going to change means choose static and give the controls to Hosting Provider’s. Or else if you want to dynamic pages then you have to decide whether you want to maintain everything your own or with some Hosting Provider.

However if you need greater performance then have all the needed tools your own or from web service providers like Amazon.

Here is the detailed info about EC2, S3 from amazon

Amazon EC2 Functionality

Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to launch instances with a variety of operating systems, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network’s access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire.
To use Amazon EC2, you simply:
• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data and associated configuration settings. Or use pre-configured, template images to get up and running immediately.
• Upload the AMI into Amazon S3. Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the AMI simple. Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your images.
• Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.
• Choose which instance type(s) and operating system you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the variety of management tools provided.
• Determine whether you want to run in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, or attach persistent block storage to your instances.
• Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data transfer.

Amazon Simple Storage Service

Amazon S3 is intentionally built with a minimal feature set.
• Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.
• Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key.
• A bucket can be located in the United States or in Europe. All objects within the bucket will be stored in the bucket’s location, but the objects can be accessed from anywhere.
• Authentication mechanisms are provided to ensure that data is kept secure from unauthorized access. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be granted to specific users.
• Uses standards-based REST and SOAP interfaces designed to work with any Internet-development toolkit.

Now we are going to see how to use the AWS.

1. Create a account with amazon – https://www.amazon.com/ap/signin
2. Now you will be able to see the set of services listed there and now you have to choose which one you want. Like EC2, S3 or Cloud front it depends on your requirement
3. You can choose S3 with cloud front support to make your servers delivery performance much faster.
4. After created S3 account you can create any No. of buckets(storage pools) and you can name it as you want like images.yourdomain.com
5. Upload your images or files into S3 and now you will be able to access it anywhere easily and you are going to pay for only what server size you are using
6. And now you can integrate S3 with cloud front so that your performance will be much increasing than using just s3 service

And now here I will show you a example how to use amazon S3(Simple Storage Service)

Here is the example of how to copy/move all the files from your shared hosting server to amazon s3. Getting s3 access and how to use it tutors are so many there on net. Try to access those else it will be explained later.

Amazon S3 is really great service to store and retrieve large amount of data with less cost and great security. Shared hosting means most of us are using storage space of 2GB or 4 GB server and that too shared by so many people, so it’s not only for you. This is not applicable if you are using dedicated server only for you but still you can try out amazon s3 service.

Advantage of doing this task is really good. Here it is….

Eg:

You have 20000 images or some documents that you always giving access to the people to check out. In such case if you are using shared hosting server surely your site will be dead slow to the people who all are accessing. If all the files are coming from some other server then your server only need to present the design then it will be great experience to surfing people. That other server is going to be amazon s3 of-course there are so many services are there for this one but amazon as3 is good. So let’s try it.

This tutorial is based on the s3 php class from http://undesigned.org.za/2007/10/22/amazon-s3-php-class, which is very easy to connect to S3 Service and access files/edit/delete/upload files to and from the s3. Download the class and follow the instructions and also i have uploaded a copy of my work which will be helpful for you to do it.

Here you need to provide your S3 access key and password to connect with your S3 instance, and then you can create any number of buckets(Storage pools) to store your data based on its categories(images, videos)

Check with the attached source in that you can create your own bucket Name while uploading a file based on its type.

Download It here

More info and resources can be found here http://aws.amazon.com/

Here i want to share a really helpful code to integrate Affiliate Marketing programs into magento easily. Before getting to know the code lets learn why we should use Affiliate Marketing programs here.

A program or a inetrface which can able to spread your product over people and can able to track the about sales on your site very eaasily than how you are trying in other ways. In that Commission Junction is the top most one but of course you have to pay for their service. We need to have account with them and then we can able to spread our products easily. Here is the detailed info about  Commission_Junction and Commission_Junction detailed documentation to add CJ(Commission_Junction) with your magento or any ecommerce site. Basically this is what we have to do when ever we are trying to integrate any Affiliate Marketing program with our site.

1. Need to have account with Affiliate Marketing program sites.

2. Should call their api or api like codes on our pages track our site and should pass our account id and page Id

3. Should add your product details in their site and so their publishers will take it as add and they will publish in their site, when we are getting hit from them then we have to pay for it. Is it looking good?

Yes so lets get started.

Here am going to show the way to integrate magento with CJ(Commission_Junction), Basically CJ is working in two ways .

1. Basic setup in which you will be able to track or post data about one product to CJ.

2. Advanced setup to track multiple product info with CJ.

Detailed expansion can be found in pdf, please check that,

Here is the code for both with magento. You have to add this code in magento in the checkout success page so that you can know the user bought the product and you want to track them. So add these lines under checkout layout.

The exact path is here app/design/frontend/yourtheme/catalog/checkout/success.phtml

With in that add these lines , to track the page with CJ.

     getCustomerId();
    $lastOrderId = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getLastOrderId();
    $order = Mage::getSingleton('sales/order');
    $order->load($lastOrderId);
    $_totalData =$order->getData();
    $_sub = $_totalData['subtotal'];//USD ==> global_currency_code,base_currency_code order_currency_code
    // Incase if it is simple do this ==> https://www.emjcd.com/u?AMOUNT= $_sub;
    //print_r($order); print_r($_totalData);

    $_order   = $this->getOrder();
    $allitems = $order->getAllItems();
    $index    = 1;
    $cjData   = "";//Needed format ==> &ITEM1=3214sku&AMT1=13.49&QTY1=1&ITEM2=6577sku&AMT2=7.99&QTY2=2&
    foreach($allitems as $item)
    {
      $cjData.="&ITEM".$index."=".$item->getSku()."&AMT".$index."=".round($item->getPrice(),2)."&QTY".$index."=".$item->getQtyToShip();
      $index++;
    }
?>

And here is the code for to integrate your magento with google Affiliate Marketing program

getLastOrderId();
$order = Mage::getSingleton('sales/order');
$order->load($lastOrderId);

$order = Mage::getModel('sales/order')->load($lastOrderId);
foreach ($order->getAllItems() as $item) {

$categoryIds = $item->getCategoryIds();
$categoryName = "";

foreach($categoryIds as $categoryId){
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
$categoryName = $category->getName();
}

$productArray[] = array(
"product_sku" => $item->getSku(),
"product_magento_id" => $item->getProductId(),
"product_name" => $item->getName(),
"product_qty" => $item->getQtyOrdered(),
"product_price" => $item->getPrice(),
"product_category" => $categoryName!=""?$categoryName:"default",
"product_discount_amount" => $item->getDiscountAmount(),
"product_row_price" => $item->getPrice() - $item->getDiscountAmount(),
);
};

$_totalData = $order->getData();
$_subtotal = $_totalData['subtotal'];
$_orderID = $_totalData['increment_id'];
?>

<img src="http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_conversion?advid=K212193&event_type=action &oid=<?php echo $_orderID; ?> &amt=<?php echo sprintf('%.2f', $_subtotal); ?> &prdsku=<?php $array = array(); foreach($productArray as $key): $array[] = $key['product_sku']; endforeach; echo implode(" alt="" />
&prdqn=
&prdpr=
&prcatid="
width="1" height="1">

This is what you will see in the end. I hope this post is helpful for you guys, if you have any query post a comment here.
 

New Twitter interface with URL Expanding like Youtube Video Load/Image url load

Here going to show you how to do the new twitter interface with

New Twit­ter inter­face with URL Expand­ing like Youtube Video Load/Image url load

“URL Expanding like Youtube Video Load/Image url load”, using simplest jquery and ajax in PHP.

Hope you have the understanding on jquery with ajax.

Before going to proceed this just take a look at Demo and you can also took the source from here

So the steps are

• Do the html and css part first
• Load the tweets into array (This may have the url’s) and loop it in the left div tag
• On user click find the id of triggered div event
• Animate the moving panel from left to right to show the detailed tweet
• Send the request to server using ajax to check whether it have any youtube video Id’s on it
• If the tweet have youtube video it will return to client as embeded youtube  video player with requested video
• If it is not youtube URL then it will go for image url check and then normal Url check using preg_match

So this is the simplest way to expand the URL’s in the new twitter UI including youtube video content,image url expand.

Detailed steps

Here we need to have two different panels(Left and right) and one sliding panel were in which we are going to expand the each tweet into detail.

Here is small CSS snippet

#container{
    margin:0 auto;
    background:none repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(232, 138, 138, 0.8); min-height:500px;
    border:solid 1px #999999;
    _width:920px;min-width:920px;max-width:1000px;position:relative;z-index:1;
    -webkit-border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;border-radius:5px;
    overflow:hidden;text-align:left;
}
.twitter_row
{
    border-bottom: dashed 1px #999999;
    border-right:solid 1px #999999;
    float:left;
    padding:15px;
    width:94%;
}
.twitter_row:hover
{

    background-color:rgba(153, 0, 0, 0.1);
    border-color:rgba(153, 0, 0, 0.15);
    cursor:pointer;
}

.close{
    background:url("close.png") no-repeat;
    display:block;
    height:22px;
    width:22px;
    float:right;
}
.arrow{
    background:url("arrow.png") no-repeat;
    visibility:hidden;
    height:18px;
    width:18px;
    float:right;
}

All the div tags are loaded into parent div called container.   And with in left container we need to loop through the tweets and each tweet gonna expand into detail.

So here we are going to assign a unique ID for each tweet div. So from that we can easily expand the corresponding tweet div based on user mouse click, here we can find the url matches using preg_match.

 if (preg_match_all('~(http://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?v=[%&=#\w-]*)~', $_SESSION['data'][$i - 1], $m)) {
     echo ' ';
}
else if (preg_match_all('!http://[a-z0-9\-\.\/]+\.(?:jpe?g|png|gif)!Ui', $_SESSION['data'][$i - 1], $matches)) {
    echo ' ';
} else {
    $pattern = '`.*?((http|ftp)://[\w#$&+,\/:;=?@.-]+)[^\w#$&+,\/:;=?@.-]*?`i';
    if (preg_match_all($pattern, $_SESSION['data'][$i - 1], $matches)) {
        echo ' ';
    }
}

Add the tweet area to post the new tweets

While adding new tweets you can use preg_match to find the urls and from that we can load  favicon’s of those url’s

Code:

if (preg_match_all('~(http://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?v=[%&=#\w-]*)~', $_SESSION['data'][$i - 1], $m))
	echo "background:url(http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/favicons?domain=" . GetMainBaseFromURL($m[0][0]).")";

This will match the URL's and from that it will load the favicon's using google ==> http://www.google.com/s2/u/0/

Onclick event need to be added to each tweet and from that we can send the request to server and can expand the tweet in detail and can expand the  URL’s

   $('.twitter_row').live('click',function()
    {
        var id = $(this).attr('id');
        var data_id = $(this).find(".datahtml").val();
        var datas = $(this).find(".content").html();
        var panel= $('.panel');
        var panel_width=$('.panel').css('left');
        $("#panel-frame").css("display","block");
        if(data_id==id)
        {
            if(panel_width =='499px' && lastId!=data_id){

            }
            else
            {
                panel.animate({
                    left: parseInt(panel.css('left'),0) == 0 ? +panel.outerWidth() : 0
                });
            }
            lastId = data_id;
        }
        var dataType = $(this).find(".imagelogo").css('height');
        $.get("ajax.php?extractdata="+data_id,function(response)
        {
            if(dataType == undefined)
                response = "";
            else
                response =  "
 
";
            $('.data').html("datas+response);
        });
        return false;
    });

And finally you will see the output as follows

Take a look at Demo and you can also took the source from here

Comment me please if you like this.

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