$HTTP_SERVER_VARS contains the same initial information, but is not a superglobal. (Note that $HTTP_SERVER_VARS and $_SERVER are different variables and that PHP handles them as such)

$_SERVER ['PHP_SELF']

The filename of the currently executing script, relative to the document root.
For instance, $_SERVER ['PHP_SELF'] in a script at the address http://example.com/test.php/foo.bar would be /test.php/foo.bar.

$_SERVER ['argv']

Array of arguments passed to the script. When the script is run on the command line, this gives C-style access to the command line parameters. When called via the GET method, this will contain the query string.

$_SERVER ['argc']
Contains the number of command line parameters passed to the script (if run on the command line).

$_SERVER ['SERVER_ADDR']

The IP address of the server under which the current script is executing.

$_SERVER ['SERVER_NAME']

The name of the server host under which the current script is executing. If the script is running on a virtual host, this will be the value defined for that virtual host.

$_SERVER ['SERVER_SOFTWARE']

Server identification string, given in the headers when responding to requests.

$_SERVER ['SERVER_PROTOCOL']

Name and revision of the information protocol via which the page was requested;
i.e. ‘HTTP/1.0′;

$_SERVER ['REQUEST_METHOD']

Which request method was used to access the page?
i.e. ‘GET’, ‘HEAD’, ‘POST’, ‘PUT’.
Note: PHP script is terminated after sending headers (it means after producing any output without output buffering) if the request method was HEAD.

$_SERVER ['REQUEST_TIME']

The timestamp of the start of the request.

$_SERVER ['QUERY_STRING']

The query string, if any, via which the page was accessed.

$_SERVER ['DOCUMENT_ROOT']

The document root directory under which the current script is executing, as defined in the server’s configuration file.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_ACCEPT']

Contents of the Accept: header from the current request, if there is one.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET']

Contents of the Accept-Charset: header from the current request, if there is one.
Example: ‘iso-8859-1,*, utf-8′.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING']

Contents of the Accept-Encoding: header from the current request, if there is one.
Example: ‘gzip’.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']

Contents of the Accept-Language: header from the current request, if there is one.
Example: ‘en’.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_CONNECTION']

Contents of the Connection: header from the current request, if there is one.
Example: ‘Keep-Alive’.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_HOST']

Contents of the Host: header from the current request, if there is one.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_REFERER']

The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this, and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it cannot really be trusted.

$_SERVER ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

Contents of the User-Agent: header from the current request, if there is one. This is a string denoting the user agent being which is accessing the page. A typical example is: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.9 i586). Among other things, you can use this value with get_browser () to tailor your page’s output to the capabilities of the user agent.

$_SERVER ['HTTPS']

Set to a non-empty value if the script was queried through the HTTPS protocol.

Note: Note that when using ISAPI with IIS, the value will be off if the request was not made through the HTTPS protocol.

$_SERVER ['REMOTE_ADDR']

The IP address from which the user is viewing the current page.

$_SERVER ['REMOTE_HOST']

The Host name from which the user is viewing the current page. The reverse dns lookup is based off the REMOTE_ADDR of the user.

Note: Your web server must be configured to create this variable. For example in Apache you’ll need HostnameLookups On inside httpd.conf for it to exist. See also gethostbyaddr ().

$_SERVER ['REMOTE_PORT']

The port being used on the user’s machine to communicate with the web server.

$_SERVER ['SCRIPT_FILENAME']

The absolute pathname of the currently executing script.

$_SERVER ['SERVER_ADMIN']

The value given to the SERVER_ADMIN (for Apache) directive in the web server configuration file. If the script is running on a virtual host, this will be the value defined for that virtual host.

$_SERVER ['SERVER_PORT']

The port on the server machine being used by the web server for communication.
For default setups, this will be ‘80′. Using SSL, for instance, will change this to whatever your defined secure HTTP port is.

$_SERVER ['SERVER_SIGNATURE']

String containing the server version and virtual host name which are added to server-generated pages, if enabled.

$_SERVER ['PATH_TRANSLATED']

File system- (not document root-) based path to the current script, after the server has done any virtual-to-real mapping.

$_SERVER ['SCRIPT_NAME']

Contains the current script’s path. This is useful for pages which need to point to themselves. The __FILE__ constant contains the full path and filename of the current (i.e. included) file.

$_SERVER ['REQUEST_URI']

The URI which was given in order to access this page.
For instance, ‘/index.html’.

$_SERVER ['PHP_AUTH_DIGEST']

When running under Apache as module doing Digest HTTP authentication this variable is set to the ‘Authorization’ header sent by the client (which you should then use to make the appropriate validation).

$_SERVER ['PHP_AUTH_USER']

This variable is set to the username provided by the user.

$_SERVER ['PHP_AUTH_PW']

This variable is set to the password provided by the user.

$_SERVER ['AUTH_TYPE']

This variable is set to the authentication type.

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Below is the Geocoder PHP class it will return geographic coordinates (often expressed as latitude and longitude) from other geographic data, such as street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes), Country, City, State using Google map API.

PHP INI Setting
First check the setting XML DOM Setting on the php.ini files. Enable the xml in php.ini extensions
enable

;php_xsl
php_xsl ( for it to work )

Get Google Map API Key
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html

Geocoder Class

class Geocoder{

var $_GoogleMapsKey;

function Geocoder($apiky) // Construct define GOOGLE MAP API key
{
$this->_GoogleMapsKey=$apiky;
}
function getLatLong($address=”",$city=”",$state=”",$postcode=”",$country=”")
{
$query=urlencode($address.”,”.$city.”,”.$state.”,”.$postcode.”,”.$country); // Passed Query
$url=”http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=”.$query.”&output=xml&key=”.$this->_GoogleMapsKey; // URL
return $this->getCoordinates($url);
}
function getCoordinates($file) // This class return Coordinates Values
{

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load($file);
$coordinates = $doc->getElementsByTagName(“coordinates”);

foreach( $coordinates as $coordinate)
{

$coordinatesval = $coordinates->item(0)->nodeVa$coval=explode(“,”,$coordinatesval);
return $coval[0].”,”.$coval[1];

}
}

}

Define Geocoder Class

Example 1:

$g=new Geocoder(“”); // add your Google Map API Key
echo $g->getLatLong(“main bazar”,”dhrol”,”gujarat”,”india”);

Example 2:

$g=new Geocoder(“”); // add your Google Map API Key
echo $g->getLatLong(“address”,”city”,”postcode”,”country”);

Now you can view geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) using Google map Geocoder class.

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See below for how to import mysql dump using only one file.

Step 1: Download dump file. (e.g. demodb.sql).
Step 2: Change connection, username, password, database variable values.
Step 3: Change dump file name with proper path.
Step 4: Run this page.

Import mysql dump file code.

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<?php

$host =”Your Host”;              // Change host (e.g localhost)
$dbusername =”Database username”; // Change Database Username
$dbpassword =”Database password”; // Change Database Password
$database =”Your database”;        // Change Database
$dumpfile = “Your Dump file”;        // Set dump file path (e.g. demodb.sql)
mysql_connect($host,$dbusername,$dbpassword);
mysql_select_db($dumpfile);
$file = fopen($dumpfile, ‘r’);
print ‘<pre>’;
print mysql_error();
$temp = ”;
$count = 0;

while($line = fgets($file)) {
if ((substr($line, 0, 2) != ‘–’) && (substr($line, 0, 2) != ‘/*’) && strlen($line) > 1) {
$last = trim(substr($line, -2, 1));
$temp .= trim(substr($line, 0, -1));
if ($last == ‘;’) {
mysql_query($temp);
$count++;
$temp = ”;
}
}
}

echo mysql_error();
echo “Total {$count} queries fire(s).\n”;
echo “Enjoing this fastest mysql dump importer..\n”;
echo ‘</pre>’;

?>

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Enjoying this fastest mysql dump importer.

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Companies are investing millions of dollars in ERP solutions or have invested till date to improve the way they conduct their business. While ERP provides significant benefits organizations are finding that, in order to achieve critical decision making business goals, they often need to supplement it with additional external reporting capabilities for it end users. With the wealth of data entered and stored in ERP databases the ability to analyze and interpret the data is significant for management reporting. With Business Intelligence tool, it has greatly alleviated the backlog of report requests and has provided users with decision making information in a timely manner.

Business Intelligence is a method of storing and presenting key enterprise data so that anyone in your company can quickly and easily ask questions of accurate and timely data. Effective BI allows end users to use data to understand why your business got the particular results that it did, to decide on courses of action based on past data, and to accurately forecast future results.

BI data is displayed in a fashion that is appropriate to each type of user, i.e. analysts will be able to drill into detailed data, executives will see timely summaries, and middle managers will see data presented at the level of detail that they need to make good business decisions. Microsoft’s BI uses cubes, rather than tables, to store information and presents information via reports. The reports can be presented to end users in a variety of formats:Windows applications,Web Applications, and Microsoft BI client tools, such

as Excel or SQL Reporting Services.

Need for the BI application:

Check out following article where it is explain what is the important of BI application

http://www.cio.com/article/153500/Need_for_Business_Intelligence_Grows_Too_Much_Information_Not_Enough_Insight

Microsoft products involved in BI application development:

SQL Server 2005: This is the preferred staging and, possibly, source location for BI solutions. Data can actually be retrieved from a variety of data stores (Oracle, DB2, and so on), so a SQL Server installation is not strictly required to build a Microsoft BI solution. However, due to the integration of some key toolsets that are part of nearly all BI solutions—for example, SSIS or SQL Server Integration Services, which is usually used to perform the ETL of source data into the data warehouse—most BI solutions will include at least one SQL Server 2005 installation. Another key component in many BI solutions is SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). When working with SQL Server to perform OLAP administrative tasks, you will use the management interface, which is called SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

SQL Server Analysis Service: This is the core server in Microsoft’s BI solution. SSAS provides storage for the data used in cubes for your data warehouse.

SQL Server 2005 Integration Service: This toolset is a key component in most BI solutions that is used to import, cleanse, and validate data prior to making the data available to the analysis Services for reporting purposes. It is typical to use data from many disparate sources (relational, flat file, XML, and so on) as source data to a data warehouse. For this reason, a sophisticated toolset, such as SSIS is used to facilitate the complex data loads that are often common to BI solutions. As stated earlier, this functionality is often called ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) in a BI solution.

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Service: This is an optional component for your BI solution.

Excel 2003 and 2007: This is another optional component for your BI solution. Many companies already own Office 2003, so use of Excel as a BI client is often attractive for its low cost and (relatively) low training curve.

Apart from Microsoft BI solution, there are number of other solution provider are there in market.

Following are the list of BI solution & tools provider

Cognos: http://www.cognos.com/products/cognos8businessintelligence/index.html

SAP: http://www.sap.com/solutions/netweaver/components/bi/index.epx

Business Object: http://www.uk.businessobjects.com/products/platform/enterprise.asp

Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/index.html

SharePoint Portal Service/Server

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is a versatile technology that organizations and business units of all sizes can use to increase the efficiency of business processes and improve team productivity. With tools for collaboration that help people stay connected across organizational and geographic boundaries, Windows SharePoint Services gives people access to information they need.

Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services also provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that can flex and scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of your business. Robust administrative controls for managing storage and Web infrastructure give IT departments a cost-effective way to implement and manage a high-performance collaboration environment. With a familiar, Web-based interface and close integration with everyday tools including the Microsoft Office system, Windows SharePoint Services is easy to use and can be deployed rapidly

Need of SharePoint?

• As companies grow so does the amount of their files. It soon becomes difficult to keep track of the multiplying documents and their locations. SharePoint overcomes this by allowing you to store and share your files in a central site.

• Sharing work files through email is a cumbersome process. SharePoint eliminates this by allowing files to be stored in one location, allowing easy access to all team members.

• Business Intelligence has traditionally remained in the hands of a few key decision makers within organizations. For years, it has been the goal of BI providers to “democratize business intelligence” by making it available to all levels of workers throughout companies. With the addition of PerformancePoint to the SharePoint Enterprise version of SharePoint, this vision is realized, finally taking business intelligence out of the hands of the few and into the hands of many.

• Today’s work occurs over multiple locations, whether it is in different countries, office locations, separate departments or at your home office. SharePoint enables teams and individuals to connect and collaborate together regardless of where they are located.

• Surveys have shown that employees can spend up to 20 – 30 % of their day searching for data and information. SharePoint eliminates this drag on productivity by providing the robust search functionality needed to find the information and expertise buried in the thousands, or hundreds of thousands of files a company generates in the course of business.

• It’s difficult and time consuming to create and maintain sites. SharePoint allows anyone to create sites for use within their company’s Intranet, as they are needed, whether they are departmental sites, document libraries, meetings sites, survey sites, or discussion boards.

Ref: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX100492001033.aspx

iPhone Application Development

iPhone is Revolutionary device which is designed and marketed by Apple Inc. iPhone provides downgraded version of OS framework to Mac OS X framework. iPhone has Cocoa Touch Framework.

Development tools involved in IPhone application development:

XCode: Complete development environment provides project management, a powerful source editor, and a graphical debugger

iPhone Simulator: Run, test, and debug your application locally on your Mac using a simulated iPhone

Instruments: Collect, display, and compare performance data graphically in real-time to optimize your application.

Interface Builder: Interface Builder makes designing a user interface as easy as drag and drop.

The more detail on the iPhone application development, check out the official “iPhone Developer Program” website.

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

Development Related

ORM

Object-relational mapping is used to map object-oriented programming objects to relational databases managed by Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and other relational database managers (RDBMSs). This site provides facts about object-relational mapping products, architecture problem-solving, and direction in product comparison and selection.

Object-relational mapping products are designed to work well with object programming languages such as C#, C++, and Java. Database objects appear as programming language objects. Often, the interface for object-relational mapping products is the same as the interface for object-oriented databases.

ORM tools for .Net

ADO.NET Entity Framework is an object-relational mapping (ORM) framework for the .NET Framework. This framework is an ORM offering from Microsoft for the .NET Framework

ADO.NET Entity Framework is included with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, released on 11 Aug 2008. It also includes the capability of executing LINQ against ADO.NET Entity Framework entities.

ORM for PHP

There are several tools available right now for implementing ORM technique in PHP.

Following are the list of few ORM tools which can be used with PHP.

• CakePHP’s ORM layer
• Symfony
• Doctrine
• Propel

Check out following articles which demonstrate you in detail ORM implementation in PHP.

http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/php/getting-started-with-orm-in-php-331/
Microsoft .Net 3.5

There are several .NET language enhancements to be introduced with Visual Studio 2008 including implicitly typed variables, extension methods, anonymous types, object initializers, collection initializers and automatic properties. These language enhancements, along with features like generics, are critical to the use of some of the new features, such as LINQ with the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

These are the such enhancements in .net framework which really can bust development as well as productivity of developers.

Following are the few of articles which demonstrate the practical usage of new .net framework 3.5 enhancement.

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/.net-3.5-language-enhancements/

MVC framework

MVC is a framework methodology that divides an application’s implementation into three component roles: models, views, and controllers.

• “Models” in a MVC based application are the components of the application that are responsible for maintaining state. Often this state is persisted inside a database (for example: we might have a Product class that is used to represent order data from the Products table inside SQL).

• “Views” in a MVC based application are the components responsible for displaying the application’s user interface. Typically this UI is created off of the model data (for example: we might create an Product “Edit” view that surfaces textboxes, dropdowns and checkboxes based on the current state of a Product object).

• “Controllers” in a MVC based application are the components responsible for handling end user interaction, manipulating the model, and ultimately choosing a view to render to display UI. In a MVC application the view is only about displaying information – it is the controller that handles and responds to user input and interaction.

One of the benefits of using a MVC methodology is that it helps enforce a clean separation of concerns between the models, views and controllers within an application. Maintaining a clean separation of concerns makes the testing of applications much easier, since the contract between different application components are more clearly defined and articulated.

The MVC pattern can also help enable red/green test driven development (TDD) – where you implement automated unit tests, which define and verify the requirements of new code, first before you actually write the code itself.

MVC Framework for .NET

The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC-based Web applications

Check out following articles for the overview of ASP.NET MVC framework

http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc/tutorial-01-cs.aspx

MVC Framework for PHP

php.MVC implements the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern, and encourages application design based on the Model 2 paradigm. This design model allows the Web page or other contents (View) to be mostly separated from the internal application code (Controller/Model), making it easier for designers and programmers to focus on their respective areas of expertise.

Reference: http://www.phpmvc.net/
IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.

The components of IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit include the following features:

1. Site Analysis:

1.1. Fully featured site crawling engine – in order to perform detailed analysis of site’s structure and content, Site Analysis tool uses a built-in web crawler, called “iisbot”, to download and cache all the publicly available web site content. The web crawler is fully compliant with robots exclusion protocol.

1.2. Report summary dashboard – the results of site analysis are presented in an easy to use dashboard page that serves as a start page for various types of analysis. In addition this page includes a large set of pre-built queries for most common reports.

1.3. Query builder – Site Analysis tool includes a powerful and flexible query builder user interface that lets you create any custom queries that are run against the cached web site content.

1.4. Detailed URL information – you can obtain various detailed information about every URL in your web site, such as response headers and content, the pages that link to that URL as well as all the referenced URLs.

1.5. Detailed Violations descriptions – each content or SEO violation found on a web site has a detailed description as well as a recommended corrective action.

1.6. Word Analysis – any web page can be analyzed with regards to the most commonly used words and phrases within the content of that page. The results of that analysis can be used to select the keywords that most accurately describe the content of the page.

1.7. Route Analysis – unique routes to any page can be displayed in a separate report. This kind of information helps better understand how search engine and site visitors reach a particular page on your web site.

1. Robots Exclusion

2.1. User interface for editing robots.txt file – the content of the robots exclusion file – robots.txt – can be edited by using IIS Manager GUI

2.2. Selecting URL paths from physical view of web site – the paths that are specified for “Allow” and “Disallow” directives in robots.txt file can be selected from the physical file system layout of your web site.

2.3. Selecting URL paths from virtual view of web site – the paths that are specified for “Allow” and “Disallow” directives in robots.txt file can be selected from the logical view of your web site obtained from the results of site analysis.

1. Sitemaps and Sitemap Indexes

3.1. User interface for managing sitemap and sitemap indexes files – the content of the sitemap and indexes files can be edited by using IIS Manager GUI

3.2. Selecting URLs from physical view of web site – the URLs that are specified within a sitemap can be selected from the physical file system layout of your web site.

3.3. Selecting URLs from virtual view of web site – the URLs that are specified within a sitemap can be selected from the logical view of your web site obtained from the results of site analysis.

Rich Internet Application Tools

Adobe AIR

The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.

Adobe AIR is divided into 3 different categories as per the expertise of particular developer.

AJAX: http://www.adobe.com/products/air/develop/ajax/

AIR with Flex : http://www.adobe.com/products/air/develop/flex/

AIR with flash: http://www.adobe.com/products/air/develop/flash/

Google Web toolkit

Google Web Toolkit 1.6 is a unique and remarkable platform-independent Java to JavaScript cross-compiler. The whole application may be written using most of the Java 1.5 features for which there is much tooling and test support. Not only that, but it is also possible to follow the Model View Controller (MVC) approach separating user interface from business logic, reducing cost of maintenance and increasing development flexibility. DOJO, on the other hand, requires you to develop the client using only the JavaScript language. This can be much more time consuming and more difficult to work with

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

jQuery

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.

http://jquery.com/

Yahoo User Interface

The YUI Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

Apart from these library/toolkits, there are several other toolkits which can also be utilized.

Mootools: http://mootools.net/

Dojo: www.dojotoolkit.org/

List of other toolkits: http://www.javascriptlibraries.com/

Tools for Web Development & Testing

Following are few exiting tools for the web development testing.

1. XenoCode Browser SandboxBrowser testing is one of the most tedious and frustrating parts of web development. What designer or programmer hasn’t screamed bloody murder at broken alignments in Internet Explorer 6? One of the difficult parts of browser testing is that no developer can have every browser type on a single computer for proper testing.Enter XenoCode Browser Sandbox, a series of virtual applications that can run all popular browsers simultaneously. It does not even require the installation of software. However, XenoCode (Xenocode)’s Browser Sandbox can be heavy in some browsers and is still lacking in a Mac version.Use the following URL for further instruction on how to make use of such toolsRef: http://www.xenocode.com/browsers/
2. W3C Validation ServicesW3C is THE standard in all of web validation. The W3C Validator looks into the markup of any website and display errors based on industry standards. It comes in over a dozen languages and a dozen varieties. Here are some of the most important validators:Following are the popular validation services provided by W3CW3C Markup Validation
   W3C CSS Validation
   W3C Link Checker
   W3C mobileOK Checker
3. Javascript & CSS minifyHere is the site which allows you to minify javascript and perhaps the css alsohttp://www.vlead.in/resources/tools/minify-javascript/index.php

Following are the list of few articles which can also be referenced for different area of

Web development tools

There are many other tools available over the internet which can be utilized in daily web development.

Check out following link to improve your productivity

http://mashable.com/2008/11/01/web-development-tools/

Web 2.0 application & tools

http://www.go2web20.net

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Why Use Templates?

Template process is quite valid and useful, and most developers who uses this method, agree that the separation of business logic and layout logic makes the code a lot easier to understand and maintain. This is the reason behind templates, to separate business logic from layout.

Advantages of smarty

Smarty is a new development concept in the PHP, and it brings also several new and unique features. One of the mail advantages is that Smarty ‘compiles’ the parsed templates into PHP scripts, and then reuses the compiled template when required. This brings a huge performance improvement over other template solutions, as the main PHP script doesn’t need to parse and output the same template on every request.

Smarty also allows developers to create their own set of functions and have Smarty recognize them. And it also has built-in caching support and special constructs that can be used on templates to control the format of the layout.

And very importantly, Smarty provides developers’ tools that help them separate the business-logic code from the layout-formatting code. And Smarty goes one step further by allowing developers to put control-flow structures in the template source. This might sound a bad idea, since it would imply business-like logic in the template, but it is actually quite useful. You can tell Smarty to use a specific style for any html control on the template itself, instead of having PHP code do this work. After all, this is template-related information.

Installing Smarty

Smarty is quite simple to install. You can get various versions available for download Smarty.

After downloading and extracting the files, copy the resulting Smarty directory to some place inside your include path. A good option is to copy this directory in the PEAR library directory. In UNIX environments, it will usually be:

$ cp -R Smarty /usr/local/lib/php/

In Windows computers, you will need to copy the Smarty directory to ‘C:\php\pear’.

Give write rights to Apache user for template directory and sub directories. This is the directory that smarty uses to store compiled templates.

Using Smarty

Now you have write simple PHP script to manipulate and assign template variable to a value. Like..

<?php

 require 'Smarty.class.php';

 $smarty = new Smarty; 

$smarty->assign("variable_name","Variable Value");

$smarty->display('display.tpl');

?>

Above script includes the Smarty class, which is included in Smarty.class.php. After that object is created for smarty class and the template variable named $ variable_name  will hold the value " Variable Value".

At the time of creating templates, the placeholders will be placed as {$variable_name}, but the placeholder delimiter can also be changed. {$variable_name} will be replaced by its value and output to the browser. Smarty also compiles the template into a PHP script, so the next time this script is requested, the template will not be parsed again and the compiled PHP script will be used instead.

Summery

Also Control Flow statements, conditions can be used in smarty. Smarty works for designers and developers both and also can reduce development and maintenance time. One has to just go through syntax used for smarty and it will make your work easier.

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Online shopping, an important component of electronic commerce was invented by Michael Aldrich in the UK in 1979. The world’s first recorded B2B was Thomson Holidays in 1981

ü The first recorded B2C was Gateshead SIS/Tesco in 1984

ü The world’s first recorded online shopper was Mrs. Jane Snowball of Gateshead, England

ü During the 1980s, online shopping was also used extensively in the UK by auto manufacturers such as Ford, Peugeot-Talbot, General Motors and Nissan.

ü All these organizations and others used the Aldrich systems. The systems used the switched public telephone network in dial-up and leased line modes. There was no broadband capability.

There are 10 PHP Open source Ecommerce Framework.

Zen Cart

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently. Some solutions seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users’ needs, Zen Cart puts the merchant’s and shopper’s requirements first. Similarly, other programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic computer skills. Others are so expensive … not Zen Cart it’s FREE!

Zen Cart will deliver the ultimate online shopping experience to your customers. Navigating through your merchandise offerings is a breeze with Zen Cart, the program provides several “Spotlight” lists in addition to the traditional category to product links. Once a product is added to the shopping cart, secure checkout is a simple 3-step process. After providing the billing information, your customer chooses the shipping method. (Multiple shipping methods including real-time internet shipping quotes are built-in) Next, a payment type is chosen from one of the popular payment modules. (Pay Pal and AuthorizeNet are just 2 of the included modules) Last, the customer reviews the order, shipping and payment choices, and confirms the order. You are immediately notified of the order and your customer automatically receives an e-mail confirmation.

Zen Cart gives web designers a robust and customizable electronic storefront that’s easy to keep up-to-date with new features. It provides usable, intuitive and unobtrusive purchase flows right out of the box based on proven industry best-practices – there are no major revisions required to get things right for your clients!

One of the secrets behind its power lies in our robust template system that “abstracts” the look-and-feel from the code and logic behind Zen Cart. This enables you to give clients a truly custom solution that integrates quickly and perfectly with their existing marketing websites.

OsCommerce

OsCommerce is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations-involved.

The goal of the osCommerce project is to continually evolve by attracting a community that supports the ongoing development of the project at its core level and extensively through contributions to provide additional functionality to the already existing rich feature-set.

Everything you need to get started in selling physical and digital goods over the internet, from the Catalog front-end that is presented to your customers, to the Administration Tool back end that completely handles your products, customers, orders, and online store data.

CartStore Shopping Cart Software

CartStore is a sophisticated ecommerce platform that was built for actual real ecommerce websites. It has been in development since March of 2000. It was forked from the osCommerce project in 2006 where extensive development and modernization occurred.

Eclime – E-Commerce Jet Engine

CartStore is a sophisticated ecommerce platform that was built for actual real ecommerce websites. It has been in development since March of 2000. It was forked from the osCommerce project in 2006 where extensive development and modernization occurred.

Freeway
Freeway is the most advanced Open Source eCommerce platform and includes an array of features not found in extremely expensive commercial systems. Without having to purchase a commercial system and then paying a developer to build custom installation, Freeway does most of what you need out of the box. For example, instead of getting dragged into purchasing an overpriced products based system and having a developer struggle for weeks and eventually fail to force products sales into event sales, Freeway already support events AND services AND subscriptions.

Magento

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. Magento was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow

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OpenCart

OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust

E-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

OsCSS

OsCSS web standard compliant open source online shop. The design structure is based on a template system, easily customizable and build on CSS / XHTML

PrestaShop

Despite its technical sophistication and advanced functionality, the PrestaShop e-Commerce Solution is very light (around 2 MB not including translation files), so it’s easy to download, install, and update.

PrestaShop is so lightweight and speedy, even customers with slow connection speeds will enjoy buying from you!

OXID eShop

OXID eShop Community Edition is proven and flexible open source software. With its modular, state-of-the-art and standards-based architecture, customization is easy.

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