With a large sector of websites being developed using Content Management Systems, it is of utmost importance for website owners and developers to choose the right CMS for their needs. The wide range of Content Management Systems available today, however, make it a daunting prospect to choose the right CMS.

Some factors to take into account while choosing a CMS are :

• Simple Installation
• User friendly and comprehensive admin panel
• Availability of plugins and modules for extended functionality
• Simple template manipulation
• Helpful user community

Why Joomla? Joomla is designed in such a way that it can be set up easily even by a novice user. All credits to its  simple and quick  installation process, Joomla is the best recommended CMS for anyone who wants to build a site in just a few minutes. This CMS offers a large number of extensions that are available to users from the Joomla Extension Directory, considered to be the true power of Joomla. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

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How to achieve safe updates with MySQL and PHP

In this post, we are going to discuss about safety updates with MySQL and using that with PHP.

For beginners, a useful startup option is ’safe updates’ (or –i-am-a-dummy, which has the same effect).

This option was introduced in MySQL 3.23.11. It is helpful during situations wherein you might have issued a “DELETE FROM tbl_name” statement but forgotten the WHERE clause. Normally, such a statement deletes all rows from the table. With ’safe updates’, you can delete rows only by specifying the key values that identify them. Hence, this helps prevent accidental deletions. READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>

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This post is a continuation of our previous post
Whitelist Form for SPAM Protection: Part I

Here, we have explained the session part mentioned in the code.

Please refer to code samples before moving to the explanation.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) allows code injection of harmful web users in the web pages used by other users. Attackers can do it by using client-side scripts which help them to exploit browser details.

Attackers mainly use this method to hack a site when users browse/enter sensitive data like username, password, bank account number etc. Everything seems fine to the end-user while entering crucial data, but they maybe subject to unauthorized access i.e. they might become a victim of hacking, whereby all their important data are given away to the hackers. This leads to financial and critical data loss.

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Developing a highly secure SPAM protection shield in your site is not an easy, hands down job. Here is an Whitelist which can check if the details posted by a user in your forms are valid and authentic.

Why this Whitelist?

• This is for security purposes and prevents site hacking and intrusion.
• This is used instead of Captcha where the user sometimes feels difficult to enter the Captcha code.
• Hidden fields are given in the form along with the required details fields.
• If any extra request comes from the form (user), there is an error saying that the site is being hacked.
• This way a site can be protected from SPAM and hacking. The security key, session key etc used here also helps against site hacking.

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