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I need a very light weight solution for paid membership. There will be 3 levels of membership. One free and the rest are paid.
I don't need all the bells and whistles of big frameworks.
All I need is registration and payment handling such as monthly payments and membership upgrades.
Paypal will be my last option for the payments so other payments options are welcome too.
Braintree provides braindead simple handling of subscriptions and memberships, and deals with all the payments, recurring charges, and handling. It's pretty simple to get set up, and has a very lightweight API for most languages to integrate it with your app, including PHP.
We use it for our company, and it's been reliable, with excellent support.
Use of the term "light weight" may be subjective here. You can implement an authorize.net standard subscription system with very little code. They provide an API that is not difficult to work with if, even for a novice. How you choose to use the API will determine how you handle "upgrades"
This is a link but it is not the documentation: http://www.authorize.net/solutions/merchantsolutions/merchantservices/automatedrecurringbilling/
It has been some time since I used the ARB package so I'm sure they've solved the problems with membership cancellation from some 6 years ago. You'd probably need to speak with them to get some docs on it.
Just one option.
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Where is a good place to start with cyber security, not necessarily directly related to programming?
I'm looking to cover a wide range of issues:
Fire walls
Networking setup
XSS
SQL Injection
An then other things I don't know I don't know.
My current experience is some programming, some networking. I know to clean my user input before sending to a database, etc.
Where should I start? I'd like some print books to read, but other resources are also welcome.
As you're new to the topic and don't yet have specialised in a specific area of computer security, I highly recommend http://www.securitytube.net/. It offers a huge amount of free video based tutorials and other video material you can learn from. Especially you should go for the "Megaprimers" :)
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I want to analyze the IIS logs for a website for things like hits, keywords, countries accessed from etc.
Has anyone used any (free) tools that were useful from this regard?
There's LogParser. Blog article about how to use it here. You need to be comfortable with SQL to use it, though. There's a GUI for it apparently, too. Don't have any experience with that, though.
Nihuo web log analyzer is very simple, easy to configure and very good in analyzing iis and apache access log files. The reports generated by this tool are also very good.
You can use it freely with full function for 30 days evaluation period.
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updated: The software is developed by myself.
There is a simple answer to this don't..
Log files are next to useless to look at your website traffic, there are massively inaccurate, log file analysis is useful for network engineers looking at traffic management.
If you want to view who has looked at your website from where and with which broswer and what keyword was used to get there, just install goggle analytic although it does have a few downsides its much better for the information you require its also free.
Take a look at http://www.googlelytics.net/awstats-log-file-analysis-vs-google-analytics/ for a view of each.
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I'm putting together a small start up company which will be set up with a subscription based billing model. The bill will go to customers on either a monthly or quarterly basis depending on the end user's preference. My question is two parted:
I'm new to online billing and I'm only really aware of Pay Pal when it comes to third party bill payment, but this seems more like a check out system. I'm sure there are better alternatives than PayPal for third party billing processors (I have tried Googling for them, but I'm having trouble finding exactly what I'm looking for). What options (companies) are available for third party payment processing and what types of experiences (good or bad) have you had with them?
We would like to give our customers the ability to set up recurring payments. I'd rather not store a customer's credit card number on our database as I imagine there are a plethora of compliance guidelines around this. Is there a third party solution for recurring payment processing?
On a side note, this is not necessarily a code related question and is more business focused. I wasn't sure if there was a better route for posting this question, and please commont or modify this if there is another route I should take.
You can also look into Amazon Flexible Payment System. I implemented this for a customer and the API, at least, was very easy to work with, and Amazon seems solid and trustworthy as near as I have been able to tell.
Take a look at http://chargify.com/
There are many business out there that will fit the bill. Be sure to look for a solution that believes in Credit Card Data Portability - which means that they'll transfer your credit card data to another vendor should you want to leave them in the future.
You have many, many options. Take a look at Recurly (where I work), Chargify, Stripe, CheddarGetter, Authorize.net's ARB, PayPal's recurring billing, Braintree, etc.
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Hi Ive been planning on doing a social network project and im wondering if there are readings on UX Design that I can read to base my site design on. Thanks.
Check out this question. My personal favorite is Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think.
You might be interested in reading specifically about how other social networking sites are reviewed.
Like when Facebook Redesigned:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/05/new-facebook-redesign-more-than-just-aesthetics/
Or a Twitter lead designer profile:
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/design-mind-behind-twitter-hes-21
How Ning works:
http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/18321/
Definitely use as many social networking sites as possible to get inspired.
I have found Seductive Interaction Design helpful. There is a section about profile completeness and how to incorporate positive goals that compels your user to take the steps necessary towards completeness.
http://www.amazon.com/Seductive-Interaction-Design-Effective-Experiences/dp/0321725522
Other helpful sections on how to build in fun distractions and more importantly coming on too strong (and how not to!).
Hope this helps!
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Where should one go to be kept updated on all of the security flaws/problems floating around? Specially in the era of open source where we tend to use libraries from everywhere.
Here's a quick list:
CVE
Security Focus
Secunia
CERT
FrSIRT
SecWatch
OWASP
Defense Information Systems Agency - Information Assurance Support Environment
Defense Information Systems Agency - Security Technical Implementation Guides
Defense Information Systems Agency - Security Readiness Review Evaluation Scripts
I find these links useful as a defense contractor, but they might have use for civilian applications as well. Look at the SRR scripts as a way to detect possible vulnerabilities on a system you are trying to secure.