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Paypal Checkout API with PHP and JavaScript
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Paypal Checkout API with PHP and JavaScript

This is an article on how to build a shopping cart and get your website to accept payments via PayPal. The below isn't a final or perfect option, it's an article to help me document and refine a process.

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Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Location
Zoho Deluge

Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Location

A quick article just as a note to get the users country information from a third-party API based on the given IP address. How? Well this is just a list of free 3rd-party APIs and the below code is dependent on these being online and working...

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URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQL
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URL Alias uniqueness with PHP & MySQL

So this is an article for me on how to copy Joomla's and Wordpress' feature where a Title/Name value is converted to a search-engine friendly URL alias and is unique in the database. Ok that's a long sentence; let me try this:When I save a record in JoomlaCMS or WordpressCMSIt creates a unique name to use in URLsI want...

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Zoho Deluge - Get Current User ID
Zoho Deluge

Zoho Deluge - Get Current User ID

This is a quick article on different ways to get the current user ID in Zoho through code. How? I'm not a fan of method #1 but I only started developing in Zoho recently when API v1 was already being deprecated (end of life at the end of this year). So I'm familiar with the methods in API v2 or just using newer functio...

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