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Working With The Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM), Part 1: Overview

I’m going to spend several posts discussing authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager, a Web service for storing and retrieving personally identifiable information about the people who place credit card orders on your Web site.
Today, I’m focusing solely on an overview of CIM: What it is, how it works, why it works that way, and approaches to [...]

Retaining Values In A Form Following PHP Postback And Clearing Form Values After Successful PHP Form Processing

Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers:
Re-post data to PHP form when invalid?
I was just wondering, if I have PHP validation on a field of a large form, say for example the e-mail isn’t an e-mail (I know how to check that) and it sets header location to ?error=1 it does all that fine, but the form [...]

Meet The New Host, Same As The Old Host

Well, I gave DreamHost PS a try. And let me tell you, it works great.
So why is this blog back on my DreamHost shared account? A few reasons; mostly, there’s no payoff between the cost and the performance difference, at least for this blog.
I got in on DreamHost PS as part of a promotion that [...]

Ensuring JavaScript Is Enabled Before Displaying Content On A Web Page

I’ve previously noted that password-protection schemes that depend on JavaScript alone are entirely pointless. No matter how hard you try to obfuscate, mask or hide efforts to protect JavaScript code, anyone with a bit of knowledge and a bit of time on his hands can retrieve and view all your code, including all your username [...]

Ludicrous But Intriguing: A JavaScript Login System That Hides Content And Prevents Login Flooding

Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers:

Password control in javascript?
i have to design a program to allow access to a website to people who have the correct pin/ The pin is a 4-digit number (1000-4000).The program should have 2 options. 1. Enter the Pinand if is correct(between 1000 and 4000) the website will be accessed. 2. set [...]

Using Cookies To Require Users To Visit An Introduction Page On Your Web Site

Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers:

If somebody clicks a link to my site, is there a way to redirect them to an intro page?
And then redirect them back to the page they were trying to view once they click something. What code would that require? thanks
I meant, like if somebody finds a link to my site [...]