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How to create star Rating with raty

2015-01-19T09:02:00.001+05:30

5 star rating System using PHP and JQuery is used to rate different products or services on any web page in best user interactive way. User can rate content on scale of 1-5 star without reloading page. We just take an example of scan 1-5 otherwise by configuring JQuery scale can be change.

In this Example we have used Raty.JS plugin for interactive stars.

STEP-1

Create simple html file as shown below

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

// Initialise Plugin

$(document).ready(function(){

$('.stars').raty({

score: function() {

return $(this).attr('data-score');

}

});

</script>

</head>

<body>

<b>Star Rating Demo</b>

</body>

</html>

That’s it. Our stars will look something like

First of all we have created a simple HTML Document and have included Jquery and Raty JS.

Below code used to initialize Raty for star rating functionality.

$(document).ready(function(){

$('.stars').raty({

score: function() {

return $(this).attr('data-score');

}

});

Here is more default options customize star rating which you can use during initialization.

Star rating with read only value

$('.stars').raty({
readOnly: true
});

- Number of Stars for rating

$('.stars').raty({

start: 2
});

- Onclick functionality

$('.stars').raty({

onClick: function(score) { alert('Your Score: ' + score); }

});

- Default cancel button

$('.stars').raty({

showCancel: true

});

- Displaying Half Stars

$('.stars').raty({

showHalf: true

});

User can also get value of selected stars and maintain value in database by using onclick event. Saty Stars are user friendly and supported by almost all browsers (Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Ipad, Iphone, Android Phone etc.).

Visit http://wbotelhos.com/raty to download plugins, get more options and latest updates.

Dropbox disables old shared document links to prevent unauthorized access

2014-05-15T15:17:00.000+05:30

On 5^th May 2014, Dropbox disabled old shared documents link to prevent unauthorized access to files. Before this change anyone can access shared file point to point using link. It may be possible that this link can have by only known users but when it went in unknown hands then it became serious security question.

“The company said in a blog post Monday. Contacted for this article, the company declined to say how it had resolved the issue. They also implied that this problem affects another online storage box.net. How those links of documents came to be used as search terms will be no rules to anyone who has ever pasted a URL into the search box of their browser instead of the address box. Alongside the search results for that URL, the search engine also returns ads.”

User can also re-enable these links but please keep in mind that re-enabling these links will reintroduce the vulnerability. Here is some instructions to re-enable these links.

Steps to remove an existing links

1. Sign in to drop box website.

2. Browse or search for the file or folder you'd like to share.

3. Right-click on the file or folder in the list and select Share link from the pop-up menu.

4. Fill out information as needed to send the link to your recipients.

Steps to create new links

1. Sign in to drop box website.

2. Browse or search for the file or folder you'd like to share.

3. Right-click on the file or folder in the list and select Share link from the pop-up menu.

4. Fill out information as needed to send the link to your recipients.

To send out a shared link to more people later, simply right-click on the file or folder again and select Share link from the pop-up menu.

Working with .htaccess

2014-05-05T17:45:00.002+05:30

we can all agree that pretty URLs make things easier for our users and adds a level of professionalism and polish to any web application. We must accept that twitter is widely popular web application and a part for reason for that is most certainly how its formats URL.

.htaccess file is directory-Level configuration that allows decentralized management of web server configuration. It Simply means hypertext access. The purpose of it is to allow pre-directory access control. For example, to set password to access content of web server or to deny user to access certain files.

.htaccess files are stored inside web tree. Some of the work of .htaccess file is as below.

* Rewriting URLS.

To replace or remove specific content of URL.

* Blocking

Block users, domains, IP addresses by using deny / allow.

* Directory listing & Customized Error response

Controls how server react when specific web page not available Ex. Pages like 404 & 500

Here we will learn some tricks to create user friendly URL.

1) Remove extension of PHP/HTML file and make readable URL that contain queries.

URL

www.website.com/index.php?id=12345

.htaccess

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^/index/([0-9]+)\.html /index.php?index_id=$1

Result

www.mywebsite.com/index/12345.html

2) Remove particular content from URL using .htaccess

URL

Mysite.com/folder/test.php

We will use two .htaccess file to remove content `folder` from URL

-> Goto `root/folder/.htaccess`

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{request}^[A-Z]{3,}\s/+folder([^\s]*) [NC]

RewriteRule ^%1 [R=301,L]

-> Goto `root/.htaccess`

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule !^/?folder folder%{REQUEST_URI} [L,NC]

3) Block particular domain

RewriteEngine on

# Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} domainname\.com [NC]

RewriteRule .* - [F]

4) allow/block particular IP address

-> Block all

deny all

-> allow/Block Specific IP address

order allow,deny

allow from all

deny from 120.177.166.165

-> block IP address Range

deny from 123.123.123

5) Limit the Number of Concurrent Visitors to your Website

MaxClients <Number of max clients>

6) Deny access to folder during particular time

RewriteEngine On

# Then deny all access

RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L]

# If the hour is 16 (4 PM)

RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} ^16$

# Multiple hour blocks

# If the hour is 4 PM or 5 PM or 8 AM

RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR} ^16|17|08$

7) Redirect specific URL to another URL

Redirect /path/folder/1/2/3 http://www.musite.com/newpath/1/2/3

Viber's Poor Security Practices Backhole in User's Privacy

2014-05-02T16:45:00.000+05:30

Viber

Last week, Cyber Experts Reported vulnerability in one of the most popular messaging application of world Viber. They claimed that Viber's poor data security practices threaten privacy of its more than 150 million active users.

Cross Platform Viber application is one of the most popular messaging application. It allows registered users to send images, videos, doodles, GPS Locations etc. along with each other and its most popular feature Voice Calling which is available for Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone.

Viber stress user’s Data in Amazon server in Encrypted form. But, It does not store images and videos in Encrypted form that can be easily accessed without any authentication and provide large security hole.

The main issue is that the above-mentioned data is unencrypted, leaving it open for interception through either a Rogue AP, or any man-in-the middle attacks. The researcher wrote in the blog post.

Critical data can easily accessed by and firewall or Network testing tool like Netwitness, Wireshark etc. to capture traffic on network as shown in video.

“ It is important to let the people know of these vulnerabilities, therefore, we chose to publish these results and the video in this post.“

How to pass parameter in bootstrap Modal

2014-04-26T10:25:00.000+05:30

Bootstrap is one of the best CSS Framework widely used by developers who don’t like spend days of week for CSS coding (Most boring and difficult to maintain redundant code). Its is quite simple and flexible framework. Now developers can design light weight websites in couple of days instead of spending weeks to design website. It also provides plugins Ex, Dropdowns, Button Groups, Alerts, Process Bars and Modals.

Here Mostly developers face problem with Extensive components. Sometimes developer faces problem to pass variables in Model and save modal element values to mysql table.

Create MYSQL table as below which will be used to save modal element’s value.

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `inward` (

`ent_no` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

`inw_no` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,

`item_code` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,

`item_name` varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL,

`item_rate` double DEFAULT NULL,

`item_qty` double DEFAULT NULL,

`item_unit` varchar(5) DEFAULT NULL,

`item_vat` double DEFAULT NULL,

`item_addvat` double DEFAULT NULL,

`total` double DEFAULT NULL,

`created_by` varchar(15) DEFAULT NULL,

`created_date` date DEFAULT NULL,

`edit_count` int(4) DEFAULT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`ent_no`)

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=11 ;

STEP - 1

Create webpage named index.php and import bootstrap css & JS files in header. Download Bootstrap from here.

Create Button to call modal on `onclick` event. It is formatted by bootstrap style.

Launch Modal

</button>

Output

`$var` is variable that we will pass to modal. `edititem` id added to button.

Step-2

Create Modal with form and form fields item_code,rate,unit,vat,additional vat..

<h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel">Inward Items</h4>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

<label class="form-label">Additional Vat</label>

</div>

</fieldset>

</form>

<button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button>

<button type="button" id="submit-detail" class="btn btn-primary">Save changes</button>

</div>

</div>

</div>

Now modal will look as

STEP-3

Insert JS code at bottom of page. It will set parameter value of variable and pass it to modal. At last it will call modal .

$(function() {

//twitter bootstrap script

$("button#submit-detail").click(function(){

$.ajax({

type: "POST",

url: "process.php",

data: $('form.inwarditem').serialize(),

success: function(msg){

$("#thanks").html(msg)

error: function(){

alert("failure");

}

});

</script>

Above Code will call on `onclick` event of button and run code of `process.php`.

`data: $('form.inwarditem').serialize(), ` pass form element’s value to page with `POST` request.

STEP-4

Now, Create webpage `process.php` and past below code in it.

<?php

$con = mysql_connect('localhost','root','');

mysql_select_db('account',$con) or die(mysql_error());

if($_POST['inw_no']){

$item_code = strip_tags($_POST['item_code']);

$item_rate = strip_tags($_POST['item_rate']);

$item_unit = strip_tags($_POST['item_unit']);

$item_qty = strip_tags($_POST['item_qty']);

$item_vat = strip_tags($_POST['item_vat']);

$item_addvat = strip_tags($_POST['item_addvat']);

$q = "update inward set item_code=$item_code, item_rate=$item_rate, item_unit=$item_unit, item_qty=$item_qty, item_vat=$item_vat, item_addvat=$item_addvat where ent_no = $ent_no";

mysql_query($q,$con);

}

Finally it save data to mysql table.

That’s it you data is successfully save to mysql table.

For source code with Example or any queries / doubts contact me at click here

Benefits of Twitter Bootstrap

2014-04-15T11:20:00.000+05:30

For those who want to developing website and application without managing heavy duty code and get world spin in result. The popularity of twitter helped it cross over from the realm of user managed light weight website where the most boring & difficult is to maintain redundant coding.

Creating CSS framework that is flexible with latest standard and tested coding takes days of month which become project itself and as you know most of us haven’t time for it.

So, Let’s see why we should use Twitter bootstrap.

Easy to get started

Now a days there are no more designers creating their own css files same old days. But, bootstrap offers set of files can easily download and just unzip it and include all in head of HTML document. That’s now you have setoff code that save valuable time for login.

Save time

Bootstrap libraries offers ready pieces of code that fills life in website in very less time. Now designer have not to spend valuable time wasting to CSS coding.

Customizable

Bootstrap is that offers free and customizable set of code you can down you site and redesign site easily.

Redundant Code

A best aspect of bootstrap is that its code can easily update at any time in any environment no other requirement have to fulfill.

JavaScript

Bootstrap comes equipped with JavaScript libraries that go above and beyond basic structural and styling. JavaScript often becomes an integral part of a web design and developers have to pull in all elements together to see the final form flourish. With Bootstrap, a developer can easily manipulate modal windows alerts, tooltips, Scroll spy, Popover, Button, Type head, etc. The best part, however, is that Bootstrap enables you to skip writing the script altogether.

Consistency

One of the main reasons this toolset was developed was because Twitter was seeing big inconsistencies between developers working on their projects.

Updates

Bootstrap releases their update twice in year and on other hand minor version coming out on constant basis. As soon as developer find problem, bootstrap team starts to fix it.

Integration

If you’re working on a site which is already live, but still trying to iron out the creases then Bootstrap can help. For instance, if you use table styling, all you need to do is take the styles you need and copy them to the CSS file you’re working with.

Great Grid System

It built on responsive 12 columns, layout and components. When you need to change layout or grid, its only matter of few minutes.

Styling HTML Elements

Provides set of controls and elements with different styles which can change or manage in future.

The HTML elements for which styles are provided are:

· Typography

· Code

· Tables

· Forms

· Buttons

· Images

· Icons

JavaScript Plugins

The components such as drop down menu are made interactive with the numerousJavaScript plugins bundled in the bootstrap package.

Extensive list of components

It covers extensive components like

· Dropdowns

· Button Groups

· Navigation Menu

· Alerts

· Labels

· Process bar

· Charts

· And so many others.

Learnable.com is best place to learn fresh skills and guidance from masters solving problem with great team with unlimited access.

How to upgrade Joomla from 1.5.* to 2.5.*

2014-04-11T17:18:00.000+05:30

If you have Joomla 1.5 or older powered website and you need to upgrade it to newer version then you will need to do migration. Then good news is that now this will probably do in single click. You have not do exercise of backup/restoration of database, media, Articles, Categories, even 3^rd party plugins and Custom Templates.

It is so important to note that there are two side to do upgrade

* Joomla Upgrade

* Template Upgrade

This tutorial is only for Joomla upgrade and you must make sure that your template can either converted to newer version or you have newer template for new Joomla version. We will going to use JUpgrade to migrate website. JUpgrade is free migrating joomla plugin and required free registration to download.

Step 1

The very first thing you need to do is update your Joomla 1.5 website to the latest security update (1.5.25 at the time of writing). Click here for the tutorial on how to update your site.

Step 2

create a backup of your website.

Step 3

We are going to use jUpgrade to migrate our website. You can download jUpgrade from above link.

Step 4

Once you have downloaded jUpgrade, install it in existing joomla using the extension manager (Extensions -> Install / Uninstall).

Make sure that you have loggedin with Super Administrator. ( It required super administrator rights to migrate database and media.)

Step 5

You need to enable the System - Mootools Upgrade plugin before you can use jUpgrade so navigate to extensions then plugin manager, do a search for the plugin and enable it. (Extensions -> Plugin Manager)

Step 6

Click on Start Upgrade, It will now upgrading automatically as below till completion Popup.

New click on administrator, you will see Joomla newer version Login page and make sure that all content transferred successfully ( It will transfer only contents that will supported in new Joomla version)

JUpgrade will create new directory. Download & install Joomla newer version to new directory and transfer media and contents in newer one.

Akeeba backup is also one of the best way for backup/restore operations.

How to convert number to Indian Money format

2014-04-08T10:14:00.001+05:30

This Example illustrates how number can be converted to money format. Sometimes we must display number as currency and for this purpose PHP provides `money_format` function and it works in indian format fine till ten thousand ( five digit numbers )but in more than 5 digits, it fails for Indian Currency.

So, Here we will use user define function look like below.

index.php

<?php

function custom_format($n, $d = 0) {

$n = number_format($n, $d, '.', '');

$n = strrev($n);

if ($d) $d++;

$d += 3;

if (strlen($n) > $d)

$n = substr($n, 0, $d) . ','

. implode(',', str_split(substr($n, $d), 2));

return strrev($n);

}

// Call Function with number agrument

echo custom_format(1234567890); // 1,23,45,67,890

echo custom_format(1234567890, 2); // 1,23,45,67,890.00

echo custom_format(1234567890.11); // 1,23,45,67,890

echo custom_format(1234567890.11, 2); // 1,23,45,67,890.11

Here we create function `custom_format` with numeric argument. That’s it we got number in Currency format.

How to create Form Control validation in PHP

2014-04-07T15:09:00.000+05:30

In this Post we will learn to validate form controls using Jquery and PHP.

Sometime, during online form submission user must fulfil some condition to successfully submit form for example some fields must require (Eg. Username), minimum or maximum characters (Eg. Password), some fields must be Email Id, some fields must be Numbers, two fields Match (Eg. Confirmation emailed) , Callback, Regex etc. Bootstrap provides Bootstrap validation plugin for validation jqBootstrapValidation.

Here is simple Example illustrates how to use it in our existing form.

Index.php

<!—Import Rxternal Resources-- >

<!—Form -- >

<form>

</div>

<label class="control-label" for="lastname">Email:</label>

</div>

</form>

Here we have created simple form with fields Name and email with css classes.

For Validation we will use custom js code as below

Setup.js

$('form').validate({

rules: {

firstname: {

minlength: 3,

maxlength: 15,

required: true

lastname: {

minlength: 3,

maxlength: 15,

required: true

}

highlight: function(element) {

$(element).closest('.form-group').addClass('has-error');

unhighlight: function(element) {

$(element).closest('.form-group').removeClass('has-error');

errorElement: 'span',

errorClass: 'help-block',

errorPlacement: function(error, element) {

if(element.parent('.input-group').length) {

error.insertAfter(element.parent());

} else {

error.insertAfter(element);

}

});

That’s it now form is ready with walidation. You can directly get support from Github click here provides code for each type of validation.

Download Bootstrap Validation V1.3.6

To read more follow me on g+

Symfony vs. Zend framework

2014-03-18T13:04:00.001+05:30

Framework provides better security, code redundancy, MVC, better Templating to our web applications. Here is difference between the most powerful and popular frameworks Symfony and Zend released on www.symfonydriven.com .

In fact Zend and Symfony frameworks are amazingly different. Nevertheless they both are called “framework”.

In Zend there are a wide range of functions providing improved interfaces to the challenging tasks web developers face with daily. The main feature of Zend is that you should pick out libraries on your own. There is no sole specific approach to do things.

There are also common features between these two frameworks. They are both PHP5-native, heavily object-oriented and both apply the front controller model.

As opposed to Symfony Zend framework does not use much code generation and its configuration is situated in the front controller. Symfony’s directory structure is required and created along with modules while in Zend it is not required to create command-line modules.

· Getting Started

Symfony is more suitable for beginners. There are tons of guides provided by both the communities and the authors. Zend does not actually have the same support and its documentation is aimed at proficient users.

· Unit Testing

As for unit testing Symfony has an integrated support for it, whereas Zend does not though every component of the framework requires unit testing.

· Templating

In Zend templating cannot be called mature compared to Symfony’s one which is immensely mature using caching for quick delivery of the content. Using layout scripts one has the ability to customize the templates in Symfony as much as he wants.

· Plugins

In the wiki community extension community and extensive plugin belong to Symfony framework while Zend does not have none of them. Remember that one can always pull in the functionality of Zend framework with Symfony with the help of Zend plugin for Symfony.

· Database Modules

If users of Zend can use the only database manager that is ActiveRecord model, Symfony users are allowed to plug in any database manager.

· Conclusion

Symfony is definitely more mature and feature complete than Zend is. A developer can evaluate the use of Symfony while working in a group of developers when he can always get advice, where to find this or that thing.

Zend framework increasingly coincides with initial goal of PHP which is creation of a loose structure which one can easily get into and develop in and should not learn a huge number of structures and commands unless setting them up. The Zend framework is more suitable for professional training

ChangeLog for Symfony 2.3.x

2014-03-18T12:50:00.000+05:30

Today symfony gained a huge popularity in market and one of the best framework used by Developers.

Symfony 2.3.11 is recently Released and it fixed so many bugs. Here is some change logs of Symfony2.3.x where `x` specifies child version on Symfony 2.3 released by to Mr.jabpot at github .

Today symfony gained a huge popularity in market and one of the best framework used by Developers.

Symfony 2.3.11 is recently Released and it fixed so many bugs. Here is some change logs of Symfony2.3.x where `x` specifies child version on Symfony 2.3 released by to Mr.jabpot at github .

Today symfony gained a huge popularity in market and one of the best framework used by Developers.

Symfony 2.3.11 is recently Released and it fixed so many bugs. Here is some change logs of Symfony2.3.x where `x` specifies child version on Symfony 2.3 released by to Mr.jabpot at github .

Today symfony gained a huge popularity in market and one of the best framework used by Developers.

Symfony 2.3.11 is recently Released and it fixed so many bugs. Here is some change logs of Symfony2.3.x where `x` specifies child version on Symfony 2.3 released by to Mr.jabpot at github .

2.3.11 (2014-02-27)

Ø bug #10146 [WebProfilerBundle] fixed parsing Mongo DSN and added Test for it (malarzm)

Ø bug #10299 Finder is also a valid delimiter (WouterJ)

Ø bug #10255 [FrameworkBundle] Fixed wrong redirect url if path contains some query parameters (pulzarraider)

Ø bug #10285 Bypass sigchild detection if phpinfo is not available (Seldaek)

Ø bug #10269 [Form] Revert "Fix "Array was modified outside object" in ResizeFormListener." (norzechowicz)

2.3.10 (2014-02-12)

Ø bug #10231 [Console] removed problematic regex (fabpot)

Ø bug #10245 [DomCrawler] Added support for tags to be treated as links (shamess)

Ø bug #10232 [Form] Fix "Array was modified outside object" in ResizeFormListener. (Chekote)

Ø bug #10215 [Routing] reduced recursion in dumper (arnaud-lb)

Ø bug #10207 [DomCrawler] Fixed filterXPath() chaining (robbertkl)

Ø bug #10205 [DomCrawler] Fixed incorrect handling of image inputs (robbertkl)

Ø bug #10191 [HttpKernel] fixed wrong reference in TraceableEventDispatcher (fabpot)

Ø bug #10195 [Debug] Fixed recursion level incrementing in FlattenException::flattenArgs(). (sun)

Ø bug #10151 [Form] Update DateTime objects only if the actual value has changed (peterrehm)

Ø bug #10140 allow the TextAreaFormField to be used with valid/invalid HTML (dawehner)

Ø bug #10131 added lines to exceptions for the trans and transchoice tags (fabpot)

Ø bug #10119 [Validator] Minor fix in XmlFileLoader (florianv)

Ø bug #10078 [BrowserKit] add non-standard port to HTTP_HOST server param (kbond)

Ø bug #10091 [Translation] Update PluralizationRules.php (guilhermeblanco)

Ø bug #10053 [Form] fixed allow render 0 numeric input value (dczech)

Ø bug #10033 [HttpKernel] Bugfix - Logger Deprecation Notice (Rican7)

Ø bug #10023 [FrameworkBundle] Thrown an HttpException instead returning a Response in RedirectController::redirectAction() (jakzal)

Ø bug #9985 Prevent WDT from creating a session (mvrhov)

Ø bug #10000 [Console] Fixed the compatibility with HHVM (stof)

Ø bug #9979 [Doctrine Bridge][Validator] Fix for null values in assosiated properties when using UniqueEntityValidator (vpetrovych)

Ø bug #9983 [TwigBridge] Update min. version of Twig (stloyd)

Ø bug #9970 [CssSelector] fixed numeric attribute issue (jfsimon)

Ø bug #9747 [DoctrineBridge] Fix: Add type detection. Needed by pdo_dblib (iamluc)

Ø bug #9962 [Process] Fix #9861 : Revert TTY mode (romainneutron)

Ø bug #9960 [Form] Update minimal requirement in composer.json (stloyd)

Ø bug #9952 [Translator] Fix Empty translations with Qt files (vlefort)

Ø bug #9948 [WebProfilerBundle] Fixed profiler toolbar icons for XHTML. (rafalwrzeszcz)

Ø bug #9933 Propel1 exception message (jaugustin)

Ø bug #9949 [BrowserKit] Throw exception on invalid cookie expiration timestamp (anlutro)

2.3.9 (2014-01-05)

 bug #9938 [Process] Add support SAPI cli-server (peter-gribanov)

 bug #9940 [EventDispatcher] Fix hardcoded listenerTag name in error message (lemoinem)

 bug #9908 [HttpFoundation] Throw proper exception when invalid data is passed to JsonResponse class (stloyd)

 bug #9902 [Security] fixed pre/post authentication checks (fabpot)

 bug #9899 [Filesystem | WCM] 9339 fix stat on url for filesystem copy (cordoval)

 bug #9589 [DependencyInjection] Fixed #9020 - Added support for collections in service#parameters (lavoiesl)

 bug #9889 [Console] fixed column width when using the Table helper with some decoration in cells (fabpot)

 bug #9323 [DomCrawler]fix #9321 Crawler::addHtmlContent add gbk encoding support (bronze1man)

 bug #8997 [Security] Fixed problem with losing ROLE_PREVIOUS_ADMIN role. (pawaclawczyk)

 bug #9557 [DoctrineBridge] Fix for cache-key conflict when having a \Traversable as choices (DRvanR)

 bug #9879 [Security] Fix ExceptionListener to catch correctly AccessDeniedException if is not first exception (fabpot)

 bug #9885 [Dependencyinjection] Fixed handling of inlined references in the AnalyzeServiceReferencesPass (fabpot)

 bug #9884 [DomCrawler] Fixed creating form objects from named form nodes (jakzal)

 bug #9882 Add support for HHVM in the getting of the PHP executable (fabpot)

 bug #9850 [Validator] Fixed IBAN validator with 0750447346 value (stewe)

 bug #9865 [Validator] Fixes message value for objects (jongotlin)

 bug #9441 [Form][DateTimeToArrayTransformer] Check for hour, minute & second validity (egeloen)

 bug #9867 #9866 [Filesystem] Fixed mirror for symlinks (COil)

 bug #9806 [Security] Fix parent serialization of user object (ddeboer)

 bug #9834 [DependencyInjection] Fixed support for backslashes in service ids. (jakzal)

 bug #9826 fix #9356 [Security] Logger should manipulate the user reloaded from provider (matthieuauger)

 bug #9769 [BrowserKit] fixes #8311 CookieJar is totally ignorant of RFC 6265 edge cases (jzawadzki)

 bug #9697 [Config] fix 5528 let ArrayNode::normalizeValue respect order of value array provided (cordoval)

 bug #9701 [Config] fix #7243 allow 0 as arraynode name (cordoval)

 bug #9795 [Form] Fixed issue in BaseDateTimeTransformer when invalid timezone cause Trans... (tyomo4ka)

 bug #9714 [HttpFoundation] BinaryFileResponse should also return 416 or 200 on some range-requets (SimonSimCity)

 bug #9601 [Routing] Remove usage of deprecated _scheme requirement (Danez)

 bug #9489 [DependencyInjection] Add normalization to tag options (WouterJ)

 bug #9135 [Form] [Validator] fix maxLength guesser (franek)

 bug #9790 [Filesystem] Changed the mode for a target file in copy() to be write only (jakzal)

2.3.8 (2013-12-16)

 bug #9758 [Console] fixed TableHelper when cell value has new line (k-przybyszewski)

 bug #9760 [Routing] Fix router matching pattern against multiple hosts (karolsojko)

 bug #9674 [Form] rename validators.ua.xlf to validators.uk.xlf (craue)

 bug #9722 [Validator]Fixed getting wrong msg when value is an object in Exception (aitboudad)

 bug #9750 allow TraceableEventDispatcher to reuse event instance in nested events (evillemez)

 bug #9718 [validator] throw an exception if isn't an instance of ConstraintValidatorInterface. (aitboudad)

 bug #9716 Reset the box model to content-box in the web debug toolbar (stof)

 bug #9711 [FrameworkBundle] Allowed "0" as a checkbox value in php templates (jakzal)

 bug #9665 [Bridge/Doctrine] ORMQueryBuilderLoader - handled the scenario when no entity manager is passed with closure query builder (jakzal)

 bug #9656 [DoctrineBridge] normalized class names in the ORM type guesser (fabpot)

 bug #9647 use the correct class name to retrieve mapped class' metadata and reposi... (xabbuh)

 bug #9648 [Debug] ensured that a fatal PHP error is actually fatal after being handled by our error handler (fabpot)

 bug #9643 [WebProfilerBundle] Fixed js escaping in time.html.twig (hason)

 bug #9641 [Debug] Avoid notice from being "eaten" by fatal error. (fabpot)

 bug #9639 Modified guessDefaultEscapingStrategy to not escape txt templates (fabpot)

 bug #9314 [Form] Fix DateType for 32bits computers. (WedgeSama)

 bug #9443 [FrameworkBundle] Fixed the registration of validation.xml file when the form is disabled (hason)

 bug #9625 [HttpFoundation] Do not return an empty session id if the session was closed (Taluu)

 bug #9637 [Validator] Replaced inexistent interface (jakzal)

 bug #9605 Adjusting CacheClear Warmup method to namespaced kernels (rdohms)

 bug #9610 Container::camelize also takes backslashes into consideration (ondrejmirtes)

 bug #9447 [BrowserKit] fixed protocol-relative url redirection (jong99)

 bug #9535 No Entity Manager defined exception (armetiz)

 bug #9485 [Acl] Fix for issue #9433 (guilro)

 bug #9516 [AclProvider] Fix incorrect behavior when partial results returned from cache (superdav42)

 bug #9352 [Intl] make currency bundle merge fallback locales when accessing data, ... (shieldo)

 bug #9537 [FrameworkBundle] Fix mistake in translation's service definition. (phpmike)

 bug #9367 [Process] Check if the pipe array is empty before calling stream_select() (jfposton)

 bug #9211 [Form] Fixed memory leak in FormValidator (bschussek)

 bug #9469 [Propel1] re-factor Propel1 ModelChoiceList (havvg)

2.3.7 (2013-11-14)

 bug #9499 Request::overrideGlobals() may call invalid ini value (denkiryokuhatsuden)

 bug #9420 [Console][ProgressHelper] Fix ProgressHelper redraw when redrawFreq is greater than 1 (giosh94mhz)

 bug #9212 [Validator] Force Luhn Validator to only work with strings (Richtermeister)

 bug #9476 Fixed bug with lazy services (peterrehm)

 bug #9431 [DependencyInjection] fixed YamlDumper did not make services private. (realityking)

 bug #9416 fixed issue with clone now the children of the original form are preserved and the clone form is given new children (yjv)

 bug #9412 [HttpFoundation] added content length header to BinaryFileResponse (kbond)

 bug #9395 [HttpKernel] fixed memory limit display in MemoryDataCollector (hhamon)

 bug #9388 [Form] Fixed: The "data" option is taken into account even if it is NULL (bschussek)

 bug #9391 [Serializer] Fixed the error handling when decoding invalid XML to avoid a Warning (stof)

 bug #9378 [DomCrawler] [HttpFoundation] Make Content-Type attributes identification case-insensitive (matthieuprat)

 bug #9354 [Process] Fix #9343 : revert file handle usage on Windows platform (romainneutron)

 bug #9334 [Form] Improved FormTypeCsrfExtension to use the type class as default intention if the form name is empty (bschussek)

 bug #9333 [Form] Improved FormTypeCsrfExtension to use the type class as default intention if the form name is empty (bschussek)

 bug #9338 [DoctrineBridge] Added type check to prevent calling clear() on arrays (bschussek)

 bug #9328 [Form] Changed FormTypeCsrfExtension to use the form's name as default intention (bschussek)

 bug #9327 [Form] Changed FormTypeCsrfExtension to use the form's name as default intention (bschussek)

 bug #9308 [DoctrineBridge] Loosened CollectionToArrayTransformer::transform() to accept arrays (bschussek)

 bug #9274 [Yaml] Fixed the escaping of strings starting with a dash when dumping (stof)

 bug #9270 [Templating] Fix in ChainLoader.php (janschoenherr)

 bug #9246 [Session] fixed wrong started state (tecbot)

2.3.6 (2013-10-10)

 [Security] limited the password length passed to encoders

 bug #9259 [Process] Fix latest merge from 2.2 in 2.3 (romainneutron)

 bug #9237 [FrameworkBundle] assets:install command should mirror .dotfiles (.htaccess) (FineWolf)

 bug #9223 [Translator] PoFileDumper - PO headers (Padam87)

 bug #9257 [Process] Fix 9182 : random failure on pipes tests (romainneutron)

 bug #9222 [Bridge] [Propel1] Fixed guessed relations (ClementGautier)

 bug #9214 [FramworkBundle] Check event listener services are not abstract (lyrixx)

 bug #9207 [HttpKernel] Check for lock existence before unlinking (ollietb)

 bug #9184 Fixed cache warmup of paths which contain back-slashes (fabpot)

 bug #9192 [Form] remove MinCount and MaxCount constraints in ValidatorTypeGuesser (franek)

 bug #9190 Fix: duplicate usage of Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response (realsim)

 bug #9188 [Form] add support for Length and Range constraint in ValidatorTypeGuesser (franek)

 bug #8809 [Form] enforce correct timezone (Burgov)

 bug #9169 Fixed client insulation when using the terminable event (fabpot)

 bug #9154 Fix problem with Windows file links (backslash in JavaScript string) (fabpot)

 bug #9153 [DependencyInjection] Prevented inlining of lazy loaded private service definitions (jakzal)

 bug #9103 [HttpFoundation] Header HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO can contain various values (stloyd)

2.3.5 (2013-09-27)

 8980954: bugix: CookieJar returns cookies with domain "domain.com" for domain "foodomain.com"

 bb59ac2: fixed HTML5 form attribute handling XPath query

 3108c71: [Locale] added support for the position argument to NumberFormatter::parse()

 0774c79: [Locale] added some more stubs for the number formatter

 e5282e8: [DomCrawler]Crawler guess charset from html

 0e80d88: fixes RequestDataCollector bug, visible when used on Drupal8

 c8d0342: [Console] fixed exception rendering when nested styles

 a47d663: [Console] fixed the formatter for single-char tags

 c6c35b3: [Console] Escape exception message during the rendering of an exception

 04e730e: [DomCrawler] fixed HTML5 form attribute handling

 0e437c5: [BrowserKit] Fixed the handling of parameters when redirecting

 d84df4c: [Process] Properly close pipes after a Process::stop call

 b3ae29d: fixed bytes conversion when used on 32-bits systems

 a273e79: [Form] Fixed: "required" attribute is not added to tag if no empty value

 958ec09: NativeSessionStorage regenerate

 0d6af5c: Use setTimeZone if this method exists.

 42019f6: [Console] Fixed argument parsing when a single dash is passed.

 097b376: [WebProfilerBundle] fixed toolbar for IE8 (refs #8380)

 4f5b8f0: [HttpFoundation] tried to keep the original Request URI as much as possible to avoid different behavior between ::createFromGlobals() and ::create()

 4c1dbc7: [TwigBridge] fixed form rendering when used in a template with dynamic inheritance

 8444339: [HttpKernel] added a check for private event listeners/subscribers

 427ee19: [FrameworkBundle] fixed registration of the register listener pass

 ce7de37: [DependencyInjection] fixed a non-detected circular reference in PhpDumper (closes #8425)

 37102dc: [Process] Close unix pipes before calling proc_close to avoid a deadlock

 8c2a733: [HttpFoundation] fixed format duplication in Request

 1e75cf9: [Process] Fix #8970 : read output once the process is finished, enable pipe tests on Windows

 9542d72: [Form] Fixed expanded choice field to be marked invalid when unknown choices are submitted

 72b8807: [Form] Fixed ChoiceList::get*By*() methods to preserve order and array keys

 b65a515: [Form] Fixed FormValidator::findClickedButton() not to be called exponentially

 49f5027: [HttpKernel] fixer HInclude src (closes #8951)

 c567262: Fixed escaping of service identifiers in configuration

 4a76c76: [Process][2.2] Fix Process component on windows

 65814ba: Request->getPort() should prefer HTTP_HOST over SERVER_PORT

 e75d284: Fixing broken http auth digest in some circumstances (php-fpm + apache).

 970405f: fixed some circular references

 899f176: [Security] fixed a leak in ExceptionListener

 2fd8a7a: [Security] fixed a leak in the ContextListener

 6362fa4: Button missing getErrorsAsString() fixes #8084 Debug: Not calling undefined method anymore. If the form contained a submit button the call would fail and the debug of the form wasn't possible. Now it will work in all cases. This fixes #8084

 e4b3039: Use isset() instead of array_key_exists() in DIC

 2d34e78: [BrowserKit] fixed method/files/content when redirecting a request

 64e1655: [BrowserKit] removed some headers when redirecting a request

 96a4b00: [BrowserKit] fixed headers when redirecting if history is set to false (refs #8697)

 c931eb7: [HttpKernel] fixed route parameters storage in the Request data collector (closes #8867)

 96bb731: optimized circular reference checker

 39b610d: Clear lazy loading initializer after the service is successfully initialized

 91234cd: [HttpKernel] changed fragment URLs to be relative by default (closes #8458)

 4922a80: [FrameworkBundle] added support for double-quoted strings in the extractor (closes #8797)

 52d8676: [Intl] made RegionBundle and LanguageBundle merge fallback data when using a country-specific locale

 0d07af8: [BrowserKit] Pass headers when followRedirect() is called

 d400b5a: Return BC compatibility for @Route parameters and default values

2.3.4 (2013-08-27)

 f936b41: clearToken exception is thrown at wrong place.

 ea480bd: [Form] Fixed Form::all() signature for PHP 5.3.3

 e1f40f2: [Locale] Fixed: Locale::setDefault() throws no exception when "en" is passed

 d0faf55: [Locale] Fixed: StubLocale::setDefault() throws no exception when "en" is passed

 566d79c: [Yaml] fixed embedded folded string parsing

 33b0a17: [Validator] fixed Boolean handling in XML constraint mappings (closes #5603)

 0951b8d: [Translation] Fixed regression: When only one rule is passed to transChoice(), this rule should be used

 4563f1b: [Yaml] Fix comment containing a colon on a scalar line being parsed as a hash.

 7e87eb1: fixed request format when forwarding a request

 07d14e5: [Form] Removed exception in Button::setData(): setData() is now always called for all elements in the form tree during the initialization of the tree

 ccaaedf: [Form] PropertyPathMapper::mapDataToForms() always calls setData() on every child to ensure that all *_DATA events were fired when the initialization phase is over (except for virtual forms)

 00bc270: [Form] Fixed: submit() reacts to dynamic modifications of the form children

 c4636e1: added a functional test for locale handling in sub-requests

 05fdb12: Fixed issue #6932 - Inconsistent locale handling in subrequests

 b3c3159: fixed locale of sub-requests when explicitely set by the developer (refs #8821)

 9bb7a3d: fixed request format of sub-requests when explicitely set by the developer (closes #8787)

 fa35597: Sets _format attribute only if it wasn't set previously by the user.

 f946108: fixed the format of the request used to render an exception

 51022c3: Fix typo in the check_path validator

 5f7219e: added a missing use statement (closes #8808)

 262879d: fix for Process:isSuccessful()

 0723c10: [Process] Use a consistent way to reset data of the process latest run

 85a9c9d: [HttpFoundation] Fixed removing a nonexisting namespaced attribute.

 191d320: [Validation] Fixed IdentityTranslator to pass correct Locale to MessageSelector

 c6ecd83: SwiftMailerHandler in Monolog bridge now able to react to kernel.terminate event

 99adcf1: {HttpFoundation] [Session] fixed session compatibility with memcached/redis session storage

 ab9a96b: Fixes for hasParameterOption and getParameterOption methods of ArgvInput

 dbd0855: Added sleep() workaround for windows php rename bug

 c342715: [Form] Fixed: Added "validation_groups" option to submit button

 fa01e6b: [Process] Fix for #8754 (Timed-out processes are successful)

 909fab6: [Process] Fix #8742 : Signal-terminated processes are not successful

 fa769a2: [Process] Add more precision to Process::stop timeout

 3ef517b: [Process] Fix #8739

 572ba68: [TwigBridge] removed superflous ; when rendering form_enctype() (closes #8660)

 18896d5a: [Validator] fixed the wrong isAbstract() check against the class (fixed #8589)

 e8e76ec: [TwigBridge] Prevent code extension to display warning

 96aec0f: Fix internal sub-request creation

 6ed0fdf: [Form] Moved auto_initialize option to the BaseType

 e47657d: Make sure ContextErrorException is loaded during compile time errors

 98f6969: Fix empty process argument escaping on Windows

 1a73b44: added missing support for the new output API in PHP 5.4+

 e0c7d3d: Fixed bug introduced in #8675

 0b965fb: made the filesystem loader compatible with Twig 2.0

 8fa0453: [Intl] Updated stubs to reflect ICU 51.2

 322f880: replaced deprecated Twig features

 48338fc: Ignore null value in comparison validators

2.3.3 (2013-08-07)

 c35cc5b: added trusted hosts check

 6d555bc: Fixed metadata serialization

 cd51d82: [Form] fixed wrong call to setTimeZone() (closes #8644)

 5c359a8: Fix issue with \DateTimeZone::UTC / 'UTC' for PHP 5.4

 85330a6: [Form] Fixed patched forms to be valid even if children are not submitted

 cb5e765: [Form] Fixed: If a form is not present in a request, it is not automatically submitted

 97cbb19: [Form] Removed the "disabled" attribute from the placeholder option in select fields due to problems with the BlackBerry 10 browser

 c138304: [routing] added ability for apache matcher to handle array values

 1bd45b3: [FrameworkBundle] fixed regression where the command might have the wrong container if the application is reused several times

 b41cf82: [Validator] fixed StaticMethodLoader trying to invoke methods of abstract classes (closes #8589)

 e5fba3c: [Form] fixes empty file-inputs get treated as extra field

 3553c71: return 0 if there is no valid data

 50d0727: [DependencyInjection] fixed regression where setting a service to null did not trigger a re-creation of the service when getting it

 dc1fff0: The ignoreAttributes itself should be ignored, too.

 ae7fa11: [Twig] fixed TwigEngine::exists() method when a template contains a syntax error (closes #8546)

 28e0709: [Validator] fixed ConstraintViolation:: incorrect when nested

 890934d: handle Optional and Required constraints from XML or YAML sources correctly

 a2eca45: Fixed #8455: PhpExecutableFinder::find() does not always return the correct binary

 485d53a: [DependencyInjection] Fix Container::camelize to convert beginning and ending chars

 2317443: [Security] fixed issue where authentication listeners clear unrelated tokens

 2ebb783: fix issue #8499 modelChoiceList call getPrimaryKey on a non object

 242b318: [DependencyInjection] Add exception for service name not dumpable in PHP

 d3eb9b7: [Validator] Fixed groups argument misplace for validateValue method from validator class

2.3.2 (2013-07-17)

 bb59f40: Reverts JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK

 9c5f8c6: [Yaml] removed wrong comment removal inside a string block

 2dc1ee0: [HtppKernel] fixed inline fragment renderer

 06b69b8: fixed inline fragment renderer

 91bb757: ProgressHelper shows percentage complete.

 9d1004b: fix handling of a default 'template' as a string

 82dbaee: [HttpKernel] fixed the inline renderer when passing objects as attributes (closes #7124)

 8bb4e4d: [DI] Fixed bug requesting non existing service from dumped frozen container

 6dbd1e1: [WebProfiler] fix content-type parameter

 a830001: Passed the config when building the Configuration in ConfigurableExtension

 c875d0a: [Form] fixed INF usage which does not work on Solaris (closes #8246)

 ab1439e: [Console] Fixed the table rendering with multi-byte strings.

 c0da3ae: [Process] Disable exception on stream_select timeout

 77f2aa8: [HttpFoundation] fixed issue with session_regenerate_id (closes #7380)

 bcbbb28: Throw exception if value is passed to VALUE_NONE input, long syntax

 6b71513: fixed date type format pattern regex

 b5ded81: [Security] fixed usage of the salt for the bcrypt encoder (refs #8210)

 842f3fa: do not re-register commands each time a Console\Application is run

 0991cd0: [Process] moved env check to the Process class (refs #8227)

 8764944: fix issue where $_ENV contains array vals

 4139936: [DomCrawler] Fix handling file:// without a host

 e65723c: fix-progressbar-start

 aa79393: also consider alias in Container::has()

 de289d2: [Form] corrected interface bind() method defined against in deprecation notice

 0c0a3e9: [Console] fixed regression when calling a command foo:bar if there is another one like foo:bar:baz (closes #8245)

 849f3ed: [Finder] Fix SplFileInfo::getContents isn't working with ssh2 protocol

 6d2135b: force the Content-Type to html in the web profiler controllers

2.3.1 (2013-06-11)

 25e3abd: fix many-to-many Propel1 ModelChoiceList

 bce6bd2: [DomCrawler] Fixed a fatal error when setting a value in a malformed field name.

 e3561ce: [FrameworkBundle] Fixed OutOfBoundException when session handler_id is null

 81b122d: [DependencyInjection] Add support for aliases of aliases + regression test

 445b2e3: [Console] fix status code when Exception::getCode returns something like 0.1

 bbfde62: Fixed exit code for exceptions with error code 0

 d8c0ef7: [DependencyInjection] Rename ContainerBuilder::$aliases to avoid conflicting with the parent class

 bb797ee: [DependencyInjection] Remove get*Alias*Service methods from compiled containers

 379f5e0: [DependencyInjection] Fix aliased access of shared services, fixes #8096

 afad9c7: instantiate valid commands only

2.3.0 (2013-06-03)

 e93fc7a: [FrameworkBundle] set the dispatcher in the console application

 2038329: [Form] [Validator] Fixed post_max_size = 0 bug (Issue #8065)

 554ab9f: [Console] renamed ConsoleForExceptionEvent into ConsoleExceptionEvent

 fd151fd: [Security] Fixed the check if an interface exists.

 c8e5503: [FrameworkBundle] removed HttpFoundation classes from HttpKernel cache

 169c0b9: [Finder] Fix iteration fails with non-rewindable streams

 45b68e0: [Finder] Fix unexpected duplicate sub path related AppendIterator issue

 13ba4ea: fix logger in regards to DebugLoggerInterface

 97b38ed: Added type of return value in VoterInterface.

 79a842a: [Console] Add namespace support back in to list command

 5321600: Fixed two bugs in HttpCache

 435012f: [Config] Adding the previous exception message into the FileLoaderLoadException so it's more easily seen

 5c317b7: [Console] fix and refactor exit code handling

 1469953: [CssSelector] Fix :nth-last-child() translation

 2d9027d: [CssSelector] Fix :nth-last-child() translation

 91b8490: Fix Crawler::children() to not trigger a notice for childless node

2.3.0-RC1 (2013-05-16)

 95f356b: remove check for PHP bug #50731

 8f54da7: [BrowserKit] should not follow redirects if status code is not 30x

 f41ac06: changed all version deps to accepts all upcoming Symfony versions

 a4e3ebf: [DomCrawler] Fixed the Crawler::html() method for PHP versions earlier than 5.3.6.

 3beaf52: [Security] Disabled the BCryptPasswordEncoder tests for PHP versions lower than 5.3.7.

2.3.0-BETA2 (2013-05-10)

 97bee20: Pass exceptions from the ExceptionListener to Monolog

 be42dbc: [HttpFoundation][File][UploadedFile] Fix guessClientExtension() method

 a5441b2: Fixed parsing of leading blank lines in folded scalars. Closes #7989.

 e8d5d16: Fixed Loader import

 bd0c48c: [Console] moved the IO configuration to its own method

 fdb4b1f: [Console] moved --help support to allow proper behavior with other passed options

 dd0e138: Eased translationNodeVisitor overriding in TranslationExtension

 853f681: fixed request scope issues (refs #7457)

 60edc58: Fixed fatal error in normalize/denormalizeObject.

 78e3710: ProxyManager Bridge

 41805c0: [Crawler] Add proper validation of node argument of method add

 7933971: [Form] Added radio button for empty value to expanded single-choice fields

 0586c7e: made some optimization when parsing YAML files

 1856df3: [Security] fixed wrong merge (refs #4776)

 5b7e1e6: added a missing check for the provider key

 f1c2ab7: [DependencyInjection] Add a method map to avoid computing method names from service names

 ea633f5: [HttpKernel] Avoid updating the context if the request did not change

 997d549: [HttpFoundation] Avoid a few unnecessary str_replace() calls

 f5e7f24: [HttpFoundation] Optimize ServerBag::getHeaders()

 59b78c7: [Validator] Fixed: $traverse and $deep is passed to the visitor from Validator::validate()

 bcb5400: [Form] Fixed transform()/reverseTransform() to always throw TransformationFailedExceptions

 7b2ebbf: [Form] Fixed: String validation groups are never interpreted as callbacks

 0610750: if the repository method returns an array ensure that it's internal poin...

 dcced01: [Form] Improved multi-byte handling of NumberToLocalizedStringTransformer

 90a20d7: [Translation] Made translation domain defaults in Translator consistent with TranslatorInterface

 549a308: [Form] Fixed CSRF error messages to be translated and added "csrf_message" option

This changelog references the relevant changes (bug and security fixes) done in 2.3 minor versions.

To get the diff for a specific change, go to https://github.com/symfony/symfony/commit/XXX where XXX is the

change hash To get the diff between two versions, go to https://github.com/symfony/symfony/compare/v2.3.0...v2.3.1

How to get Hard disc serial number in VB 6.0

2014-03-07T13:11:00.002+05:30

Every computer equipment has single and unique manufacture code by which we can identify computer.It is mostly used to prevent pirated sales of license of application. Here we will learn to get hard disc serial code using vb 6.0.

Here is Function which returns serial number of HDD.

Public Function GetDriveSerialNumber(Optional ByVal DriveLetter As String) As Long

Dim fso As Object, Drv As Object

'Create a FileSystemObject object

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

'Assign the current drive letter if not specified

If DriveLetter <> "" Then

Set Drv = fso.GetDrive(DriveLetter)

Else

Set Drv = fso.GetDrive(fso.GetDriveName(App.Path))

End If

With Drv

If .IsReady Then

DriveSerial = Abs(.SerialNumber)

Else '"Drive Not Ready!"

DriveSerial = -1

End If

End With

'Clean up

Set Drv = Nothing

Set fso = Nothing

GetDriveSerialNumber = DriveSerial

End Function

Private Sub Command1_Click()

MsgBox " Drive serial number for " & Left(App.Path, 1) & ": " & GetDriveSerialNumber

End Sub

New we can convert serial to hex value for more security and compare with value we have already saved in variable.

Dim serial as string

Serial = “0054DRF000”

If serial <> hex$(GetDriveSerialNumber then)

Msgbox(“Invalid License”)

End

Endif

We simply call function and compare it to startup of application if serial can not match vith stored variable value then exit program.

Database operation using Form in Symfony

2014-02-22T12:17:00.000+05:30

This post help to create form used in database operations like insertion,deletion,modification etc. in symfony. Symfony is one of the best framework used to develop web application provides great security and code redundancy. In this post we will learn how to create form in symphony. In PHP we simply create form using html and sent data to sql operation sung POST or GET. But in Symfony, we will use form element for this purpose.

STEP-1

First of all create symfony application and configure it with database etc. Then we will generate Bundle using below commend in which Bundle Name is `loginBundle`

cd [app. path]

Php app/console generate: bundle LoginBundle

STEP-2

Map MySQL database and create entity using below commends.

Php app/console doctrine:mapping:import LoginBundle

Php app/console doctrine:generate:entities LoginBundle

Our Login.php file at source/LoginBundle/Resources/Entity/Login.php will look like

namespace Sym\FormBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

/**

* TblCust

class TblCust

{

/**

* @var string

private $custName;

/**

* @var string

private $custCity;

/**

* @var string

private $custAddress;

/**

* @var integer

private $custPhno;

/**

* @var integer

private $id;

/**

* Set custName

* @param string $custName

* @return TblCust

public function setCustName($custName)

{

$this->custName = $custName;

return $this;

}

/**

* Get custName

* @return string

public function getCustName()

{

return $this->custName;

}

/**

* Set custCity

* @param string $custCity

* @return TblCust

public function setCustCity($custCity)

{

$this->custCity = $custCity;

return $this;

}

/**

* Get custCity

* @return string

public function getCustCity()

{

return $this->custCity;

}

/**

* Set custAddress

* @param string $custAddress

* @return TblCust

public function setCustAddress($custAddress)

{

$this->custAddress = $custAddress;

return $this;

}

/**

* Get custAddress

* @return string

public function getCustAddress()

{

return $this->custAddress;

}

/**

* Set custPhno

* @param integer $custPhno

* @return TblCust

public function setCustPhno($custPhno)

{

$this->custPhno = $custPhno;

return $this;

}

/**

* Get custPhno

* @return integer

public function getCustPhno()

{

return $this->custPhno;

}

/**

* Get id

* @return integer

public function getId()

{

return $this->id;

}

STEP-3

Generate Form named TblCustType using below commend

Php app/console doctrine:generate:form

STEP-4

Now, we have mysql database and ready to use then copy Yml file and past to `source/LoginBundle/Resources/config/routing.yml`

// Routing.yml

form_homepage:

pattern: /Form

defaults: { _controller: FormBundle:Default:index }

STEP-5

and Defaultcontroller.php to `source/LoginBundle/controller/DefaultController.php`

// DefaultController.php

namespace Sym\FormBundle\Controller;

use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;

use Sym\FormBundle\Entity\TblCust;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

use Sym\FormBundle\Form\TblCustType;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class DefaultController extends Controller

{

public function indexAction(Request $request)

{

$tbl = new TblCust();

$form = $this->createFormBuilder($tbl)

->add('custName','text',array('required'=>true))

->add('custCity','text',array('required'=>true))

->add('custAddress','text')

->add('custPhno','text')

->add('save','submit')

->getForm();

$form->handleRequest($request);

if($form->isValid()){

$Tbl = new TblCust();

$Tbl->setCustAddress($request->get('custName'));

$Tbl->setCustCity($request->get('custCity'));

$Tbl->setCustAddress($request->get('custAddress'));

$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

$em -> persist($tbl);

$em->flush();

return $this->render('FormBundle:Default:index.html.twig',array('message' => 'Record Inserted'));

}

$build['form']=$form->createView();

return $this->render('FormBundle:Default:index.html.twig',array( 'form' => $form->createView()));

}

STEP-6

Create html.twig file at sources/LoginBundle/Resources/view/Default/index.html.twig and past below code in it.

Dynamic Form Example

{% block gender_widget %}

{% spaceless %}

{% if form is defined%}

{% for child in form %}

· {{ form_label(child) }}

{% endfor %}

{% else %}

{# just let the choice widget render the select tag #}

{% endif %}

{% endspaceless %}

{% endblock %}

{% block container %}

{%if message is defined%}

Back

{%endif%}

{% endblock%}

That’s it our form is ready to use and look like below

OutPut

We can use bootstrap or CSS style to make it attractive.

For any help and issues contact me at blog.

How to ping Host using PHP

2014-01-20T11:07:00.001+05:30

In this Post we learn to ping host and check connectivity between hosts in network. Ping is usually used to check then connectivity between two host and got strangth of connection.Ordinary, its sysntex is PING [Host name or IPAddress] in command prompt.

Here we will not use any additional plugins.

Its simply define function `getconnection` with argument `$domain` in any class.

//Ping Host using php

function getconnection($domain){

$starttime = microtime(true);

$file = fsockopen ($domain, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);

$stoptime = microtime(true);

$status = 0;

if (!$file) $status = -1; // Site is down

else {

fclose($file);

$status = ($stoptime - $starttime) * 1000;

$status = floor($status);

}

return $status;

}

Index.php

<?php

$domain = 'www.google.com';

$ping = getconnection($domain);

echo $domain . ' - ' . $ping;

To Download Project Source click here

How To create bar chart using OPEN FLESH CHART in PHP

2014-01-09T15:59:00.000+05:30

Hello, friends here we will learn to create flesh chart using PHP. Gor this purpose we will use OPEN FLESH CHART to create chart. OPEN FLESH CHART is

opensource charting libraries and Provides more then 30 diffrent charts like Bar Chart, Line Chart, Spider Chart, Pie Chart, 3D Chart etc.

OPEN FLESH CHART use Flesh to display chart and import data and config parameters (chart width,Height,legend,values of X-Axis & Y-Axis,background etc.) and Juery

to attach chart with webpage.

We will use version OPEN FLESH CHART 2.

First of all we will create index.php page as below.

Index.php

"open-flash-chart.swf", "TOTAL",

"100%", "350", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf",

{"data-file":"total.txt"} );

</script><body> <div id="TOTAL"></div>

</body>

We have added total.txt inwhich our chart parameter is declared using JQuery with default hight, width, our flesh (.swf) file.

Our parametters in total.txt areas below

Total.txt

{

"bg_colour": "#ffffff",

"title":{

"text": "",

"style": "{font-size: 12px;}"

"x_legend":{

"text": "Year",

"style": "{color: #736AFF;}"

"y_legend":{

"text": "Amount (Millions)",

"style": "{color: #736AFF;}"

"elements":[

{

"type": "bar_3d",

"alpha": 0.99,

"colour": "#2D89EF",

"text": "Comapny 1",

"tip": "Comapny 1

Amount: #val#",

"font-size": 10,

"on-show": {"type": "grow-up", "cascade":5, "delay":0.5},

"values" : [1229.869024,934,1312,567.508,3234]

{

"type": "bar_3d",

"alpha": 0.99,

"tip": "Comapny 2

Amount: #val#",

"colour": "#CD950C",

"text": "Comapny 2",

"font-size": 10,

"on-show": {"type": "grow-up", "cascade":5, "delay":1},

"values" : [781,995,241,222,344]

{

"axis": "right",

"type": "line",

"colour": "#736AFF",

"text": "Ratio",

"font-size": 10,

"width": 1,

"dot-style": {

"type":"anchor", "sides":4,

"alpha":1, "hollow":true,

"background-colour":"#ffffff", "background-alpha": 0.4,

"width":1, "tip":"#val# %" },

"values" : [22.80,75.87,32.2,71,69]

}

"x_axis":{

"stroke": 0,

"tick_height": 9,

"colour": "#808080",

"grid-visible": false,

"steps": 5,

"labels":{

"steps":1,

"labels":[

"2007-08",

"2008-09",

"2009-10",

"2010-11",

"2011-12"

]

"3d": 15

"y_axis":{

"stroke": 0.2,

"tick_length": 100,

"colour": "#808080",

"grid-colour":"#ccddcc",

"offset": 0,

"steps": 500,

"max": 2500

"y_axis_right":{

"tick-length": 5,

"stroke": 0.9,

"colour": "#d0d0d0",

"min": 0,

"max": 100,

"steps": 20,

"grid-visible": false

}

Output

we have added three two Bar columns and single line with multiple Y-AXIS.

Our Flesh Chart will look as below

To Download Source click here

Powerful MYSQL Performance Tips

2014-01-04T09:45:00.000+05:30

Mysql is widly used SQL database Server. It is easy and secure to manage data using SQL server

with best GUI interface.There are many additional tools available that helps for maintainging server. sometimes, when working with millions of records and a huge amount of data then some importent tips must follow to improve SQL Operations which is ignored by Developer.Sometimes user face problem like slow SQL Operations when working with large amount of data.

So Here,we have some Importent Tips to improve Performance of SQL Operation.

It is client/server implementation that consist of a server daemon and many diffrent client programs/libraries. Here is very useful tips for all mysql DBA's,which is Suggested by mysql community experts.

1. Kaj (Most Excellent Obvious Facilitator) Index stuff.

2. Ronald Don't Index Everything

3. Use benchmarking

4. Minimize traffic by fetching only what you need.

5. Paging/chunked data retrieval to limit

6. Don't use SELECT *

7. Be wary of lots of small quick queries if a longer query can be more efficient

8. Use EXPLAIN to profile the query execution plan

9. Use Slow Query Log (always have it on!)

10. LIMIT m,n may not be as fast as it sounds

11. Don't use ORDER BY RAND() if you have > ~2K records

12. Use SQL_NO_CACHE when you are SELECTing frequently updated data or large sets of data

13. avoid wildcards at the start of LIKE queries

14. avoid correlated subqueries and in select and where clause (try to avoid in)

15. config params.

16. no calculated comparisons -- isolate indexed columns

17. innodb_flush_commit=0 can help slave lag

18. ORDER BY and LIMIT work best with equalities and covered indexes

19. isolate workloads don't let administrative work interfere with customer performance. (ie backups)

20. use optimistic locking, not pessimistic locking. try to use shared lock, not exclusive lock. share mode vs. FOR UPDATE

21. use row-level instead of table-level locking for OLTP workloads

22. Know your storage engines and what performs best for your needs, know that different ones exist.

23. Optimize for data types, use consistent data types. Use PROCEDURE ANALYSE() to help determine if you need less

24. separate text/blobs from metadata, don't put text/blobs in results if you don't need them

25. if you can, compress text/blobs

26. compress static data

27. don't back up static data as often

28. derived tables (subqueries in the FROM clause) can be useful for retrieving BLOBs w/out sorting them.

(self-join can speed up a query if 1st part finds the IDs and use it to fetch the rest)

29. enable and increase the query and buffer caches if appropriate

30. ALTER TABLE...ORDER BY can take chronological data and re-order it by a different field

31. InnoDB ALWAYS keeps the primary key as part of each index, so do not make the primary key very

large, be careful of redundant columns in an index, and this can make the query faster

32. Do not duplicate indexes

33. Utilize different storage engines on master/slave ie, if you need fulltext indexing on a table.

34. BLACKHOLE engine and replication is much faster than FEDERATED tables for things like logs.

35. Design sane query schemas. don't be afraid of table joins, often they are faster than denormalization

36. Don't use boolean flags

37. Use a clever key and ORDER BY instead of MAX

38. Keep the database host as clean as possible. Do you really need a windowing system on that server?

39. Utilize the strengths of the OS

40. Hire a MySQL (tm) Certified DBA

41. Know that there are many consulting companies out there that can help, as well as MySQL's

Professional Services.

42. Config variables & tips:

1. use one of the supplied config files

2. key_buffer, unix cache (leave some RAM free), per-connection variables, innodb memory

variables

3. be aware of global vs. per-connection variables

4. check SHOW STATUS and SHOW VARIABLES (GLOBAL|SESSION in 5.0 and up)

5. be aware of swapping esp. with Linux, "swappiness" (bypass OS filecache for innodb data files, innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT if possible (this is also OS specific))

6. defragment tables, rebuild indexes, do table maintenance

7. If you use innodb_flush_txn_commit=1, use a battery-backed hardware cache write controller

8. more RAM is good so faster disk speed

9. use 64-bit architectures

43. Know when to split a complex query and join smaller ones

44. Debugging sucks, testing rocks!

45. Delete small amounts at a time if you can

46. Archive old data -- don't be a pack-rat! 2 common engines for this are ARCHIVE tables and MERGE tables.

47. use INET_ATON and INET_NTOA for IP addresses, not char or varchar

48. make it a habit to REVERSE() email addresses, so you can easily search domains

49. Use LOAD DATA instead of INSERT.

50. increase myisam_sort_buffer_size to optimize large inserts (this is a per-connection variable)

51. look up memory tuning parameter for on-insert caching

52. increase temp table size in a data warehousing environment (default is 32Mb) so it doesn't write to disk (also constrained by max_heap_table_size, default 16Mb)

53. Normalize first, and denormalize where appropriate.

54. Databases are not spreadsheets, even though Access really really looks like one. Then again, Access isn't a real database.

55. In 5.1 BOOL/BIT NOT NULL type is 1 bit, in previous versions it's 1 byte.

56. A NULL data type can take more room to store than NOT NULL

57. Choose appropriate character sets & collations -- UTF16 will store each character in 2 bytes, whether it needs it or not, latin1 is faster than UTF8.

58. make similar queries consistent so cache is used

59. Have good SQL query standards

60. Don't use deprecated features

61. Use Triggers wisely

62. Run in SQL_MODE=STRICT to help identify warnings

63. Turning OR on multiple index fields (<5.0) into UNION may speed things up (with LIMIT), after 5.0 the index_merge should pick stuff up.

64. /tmp dir on battery-backed write cache

65. consider battery-backed RAM for innodb logfiles reference points can be calculated.

67. as your data grows, indexing may change (cardinality and selectivity change). Structuring may want to change. Make your schema as modular as your code. Make your code able to scale. Plan and embrace change, and get developers to do the same.

68. pare down cron scripts

69. create a test environment

70. try out a few schemas and storage engines in your test environment before picking one.

71. Use HASH indexing for indexing across columns with similar data prefixes

72. Use myisam_pack_keys for int data

73. Don't use COUNT * on Innodb tables for every search, do it a few times and/or summary tables, or if you need it for the total # of rows, use SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and SELECT FOUND_ROWS().

74. use --safe-updates for client

75. Redundant data is redundant

76. Use INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY update (INSERT IGNORE) to avoid having to SELECT

77. use groupwise maximum instead of subqueries

78. be able to change your schema without ruining functionality of your code

79. source control schema and config files

80. for LVM innodb backups, restore to a different instance of MySQL so Innodb can roll forward

81. use multi_query if appropriate to reduce round-trips

82. partition appropriately

83. partition your database when you have real data

84. Don't use DISTINCT when you have or could use GROUP BY

85. Use proper data partitions

86. For Cluster. Start thinking about Cluster *before* you need them

87. Insert performance

88. Batch INSERT and REPLACE

How to import data from mysql table with Highchart in PHP

2013-12-22T16:32:00.001+05:30

Hello Friends,

In this post we will learn to create PHP page which imports data from mysql table and generate chart.

We will use PHP, JQuery, highchart framework in this tutorial.

First of all create mysql table names 'sales' in database 'Account'

* Sql Syntex

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `sales` (

`id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

`month` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL,

`amount` varchar(11) DEFAULT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`id`)

) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=118 ;

* Insert Data in table 'sales'

INSERT INTO `sales` (`id`, `month`, `amount`) VALUES

(24, 'Apr', '15'),

(25, 'May', '40'),

(26, 'Jun', '26'),

(27, 'Jul', '31'),

(28, 'Aug', '39'),

(29, 'Sep', '25'),

(30, 'Oct', '27'),

(31, 'Nov', ' 32'),

(32, 'Dec', NULL);

Table with data will look like

`sales`

create php or HTML file with name index in root folder

* index.php

<head>

<title>Highchart with Mysql Database</title>

</head>

<body>

</body>

Download jquery file required for highchart Download

past required file to js folder in root of our site.

* setup.js

var chart;

$(document).ready(function() {

var cursan = {

chart: {

renderTo: 'sales',

defaultSeriesType: 'area',

marginRight: 10,

marginBottom: 20

title: {

text: 'Highchart With Mysql',

subtitle: {

text: 'www.spjoshis.blogspot.com',

xAxis: {

categories: ['Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec', 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar']

yAxis: {

title: {

text: 'Average'

plotLines: [{

value: 0,

width: 1,

color: '#808080'

}]

tooltip: {

crosshairs: true,

shared: true

legend: {

align: 'right',

verticalAlign: 'top',

x: -10,

y: 30,

borderWidth: 0

plotOptions: {

series: {

cursor: 'pointer',

marker: {

lineWidth: 1

}

series: [{

color: Highcharts.getOptions().colors[2],

marker: {

fillColor: '#FFFFFF',

lineWidth: 3,

lineColor: null // inherit from series

dataLabels: {

enabled: true,

rotation: 0,

color: '#666666',

align: 'top',

x: -10,

y: -10,

style: {

fontSize: '9px',

fontFamily: 'Verdana, sans-serif',

textShadow: '0 0 0px black'

}

}],

}

//Fetch MySql Records

jQuery.get('js/data.php', null, function(tsv) {

var lines = [];

traffic = [];

try {

// split the data return into lines and parse them

tsv = tsv.split(/\n/g);

jQuery.each(tsv, function(i, line) {

line = line.split(/\t/);

date = line[0] ;

amo=parseFloat(line[1].replace(',', ''));

if (isNaN(amo)) {

amo = null;

}

traffic.push([

date,

amo

]);

});

} catch (e) { }

cursan.series[0].data = traffic;

chart = new Highcharts.Chart(cursan);

});

it will get data from mysql using data.php file placed in js folder

* data.php

$con=mysql_connect('localhost','root','');

mysql_select_db("test", $con);

$result=mysql_query('select * from sales order by id');

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

echo $row['month'] . "\t" . $row['amount']. "\n";

}

that's it our chart is generated. Here is Output

Output

Highchart is free for non-commercial use.

Download Source from Click here

How to create simple Highchart using html and JQuery

2013-12-21T11:32:00.004+05:30

Here we will learn to create web chart using php, JQuery and chart framework Highchart. First of all we will create php page or html page on which we will place out basic line chart.We will use xampp for web server. Xampp is free and easy to maintain server.

index.php

</head>

<body>

</body>

and now here is our jquery code

setup.js

$(function () {

$('#container').highcharts({

title: {

text: 'Basic Line Chart',

x: -20 //center

subtitle: {

text: 'www.spjoshis.blogspot.com',

x: -20

xAxis: {

categories: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun',

'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']

yAxis: {

title: {

text: 'Temperature (°C)'

plotLines: [{

value: 0,

width: 1,

color: '#808080'

}]

tooltip: {

valueSuffix: '°C'

legend: {

align: 'right',

verticalAlign: 'middle',

borderWidth: 0

series: [{

data: [35.0, 42.9, 33.5, 14.5, 25.2, 41.5, 25.2, 26.5, 23.3, 18.3, 13.9, 9.6]

}, {

data: [-0.2, 0.8, 5.7, 11.3, 17.0, 22.0, 24.8, 24.1, 20.1, 14.1, 8.6, 2.5]

}, {

data: [15.9, 0.6, 3.5, 8.4, 13.5, 17.0, 18.6, 17.9, 14.3, 9.0, 3.9, 1.0]

}, {

data: [3.9, 4.2, 5.7, 8.5, 11.9, 15.2, 17.0, 16.6, 14.2, 10.3, 6.6, 4.8]

}]

});

Output

Chart

Highchart is free for non-commercial use.

Download Source from Click here

Introducing Latest Version of Android OS - Android KitKat

2013-09-08T11:39:00.003+05:30

Android Kitkat

Android Launch new Android Os "Android KitKat". As google always uses yummi chocolat's name.

Android have Chocolaty name like Android Gingerbrate, Android Icecream Sendwich, Android Jellybin and now Android KitKat.

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Gimme a break, Google. Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.

The tech giant, which is known for nick-naming its Android mobile operating systems for smartphones and tablets after desserts, has for the first time chosen a brand-name candy for version 4.4 that’s expected to launch this fall: KitKat, the chocolate candy bar with the well-known “Gimme a Break” jingle. Kit Kat packaging will show Android’s green robot mascot breaking a Kit Kat bar.

Facebook Opens Registration for 2013 Hacker Cup

2013-01-10T14:09:00.001+05:30

Hackers Cup

Hackers, take your keyboards: Facebook has officially opened registration for its third annual Hacker Cup, set to begin at the end of this month.

The worldwide programming competition kicks off with an online qualification round from Jan. 25-27, when hackers compete against each other "for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the title of world champion," the Hacker Cup Facebook page said.

Those who have registered for previous years' competitions are automatically added to the 2013 round but Facebook encourages users to make sure all personal information is up-to-date.

Registration is open until Jan. 27, when the third day of online qualifications is over. Beginning Feb. 2, round one of the online elimination begins, continuing on Feb. 9 and 16; March 22-23 marks the onsite finals at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif. headquarters.

"Hacking is core to how we build at Facebook. Whether we're building a prototype for a major product like Timeline at Hackathon, creating a smarter search algorithm, or tearing down walls at our new headquarters, we're always hacking to find better ways to solve problems," the Hacker Cup page said.

Those participating in the Hacker Cup will be judged on accuracy and speed while racing to solve algorithmic problems to advance through five rounds of programming challenges.

The event began in January 2011 with almost 12,000 competitors from around the globe. The top 25 finalists included hackers from Russia, Poland, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the U.S.

History Of Facebook

2013-01-07T16:06:00.001+05:30

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.^[5] As of September 2012, Facebook has over one billion active users,^[6] more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device.^[7] Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends".

Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore. According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person"

To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images. Harvard at that time did not have a student "facebook" (a directory with photos and basic information), though individual houses had been issuing their own paper facebooks since the mid-1980s. Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.^[18][20]

The site was quickly forwarded to several campus group list-servers, but was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration. Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion. Ultimately, the charges were dropped.^[21] Zuckerberg expanded on this initial project that semester by creating a social study tool ahead of an art history final, by uploading 500 Augustan images to a website, with one image per page along with a comment section.^[20] He opened the site up to his classmates, and people started sharing their notes.

The following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website in January 2004. He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident.^[22] On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.^[23]

Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.^[24] The three complained to the Harvard Crimson, and the newspaper began an investigation. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, subsequently settling.^[25]

Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.^[26] Eduardo Saverin (business aspects), Dustin Moskovitz (programmer), Andrew McCollum (graphic

artist), and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website. In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale.^[27] It soon opened to the other Ivy League schools, Boston University, New York University, MIT, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.^[28][29]

Facebook was incorporated in mid-2004, and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.^[30] In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California.^[27] It received its first investment later that month from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel.^[31] The company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.^[32]

RedHack Hackers on trail in Turkey's Court

2012-12-28T10:15:00.000+05:30

A group of Internet hackers appeared in an Ankara court on Monday on charges of terrorism, the first time alleged cyber criminals have been put on trial in Turkey. Those arrested in suspicion of the attacks are mostly students who deny having the technical skills required to carry out such a hack.

RedHack has denied the allegations, saying 10 people currently being tried have no ties with the group and that the allegations of terrorism are simply part of the government’s policy against all of its opponents in the country.

RedHack has attacked government websites and leaked information from them, and was previously listed as a terrorist group by the Turkish government. On July 3, RedHack revealed the identities of some foreign diplomatic personnel working in Turkey.

Trojens Stealing Data From US Bank

2012-12-25T13:28:00.001+05:30

Trojen Attacks

Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new Trojan that appears to be targeting financial institutions. Dubbed Trojan.Stabuniq, the malware has been collecting information from infected systems potentially for the preparation of a more damaging attack.

According to researchers, roughly 40 IP addresses infected with the Stabuniq Trojan, 40% per cent belong to financial institutions who are mostly based in Chicago and New York.

Malware Behind MS-EXCEL Sudoku Generator

2012-12-23T15:14:00.002+05:30

Sudoku

Sudoku is one such game that I believe will benefit your brain, but now not for your system. Peter Szabo from SophosLabs have identified a piece of malware that resides behind a Microsoft Excel-based Sudoku generator.

Microsoft disable macros by default , because in past macros were the weapon of choice for cyber criminals . But in order for the generator to work, the user must activate macros. Unfortunately, while the user is enjoying the Sudoku, the macro is installing malware in the targeted machine.

Keyboard and mouse macros allow sequences of keystrokes and mouse actions to be transformed into shorter commands and also it can easily gathers system information by using the ipconfig, systeminfo like commands.Once the bug has collected a machine's IP address, running processes, installed applications and a host of other details, it encodes and sends the information to an email address with an aol.com suffix.

Gandhi Jayanti

2012-10-02T12:14:00.000+05:30

Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869. Hence, Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated every year on 2 October. It is one of the three official declared National Holidays of India and is observed in all Indian states and union territories. The other two are Independence Day (15 August) and Republic Day (26 January).
The United Nations General Assembly announced on 15 June 2007 that it had adopted a resolution which declared that the 2nd of October will be celebrated as the International Day of Non-Violence.

^{Thanx Bapu to giving us a better Life with a Freedom ..}