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One of the first parts of the checkout process of any ecommerce site is to provide the customer with a dropdown box with shipping options. In this tutorial we are going to shop for various UPS rates and display them in a convenient drop down. If you are new to the UPS API first read (…)

If you have ever been in an irc channel or IM and needed to show another programmer your code you have probably used Pastebin before or a similar service. You simply go to the website copy and paste and hit submit and you have a link generated so you can hand it out to your (…)

Just recently I found a post that described using the ipseccmd in Windows. I honestly had no idea that this tool existed for Windows. I found this article while searching for a way to block outgoing traffic on the local computer as apposed to making firewall policies. This was the perfect solution for network testing, (…)

So recently a friend of mine, had a client that had a very odd problem. His website was working fine when you go to it directly by typing in the domain name; however, if you searched for the site in Google and clicked the link for the site it would take you to a hijacked (…)

Random string generators are something we programmers end up using quite a bit. Sometimes you want to generate a random file name, a random email verification link, a random password, random token, etc.. Here is the one that I have been using lately. This password generator uses the Mersenne Twister algorithm to generate random digits. (…)

If you have been following the posts on USPS you should know how to calculate USPS shipping rates with PHP. Today we are going to use the same USPS API to print out a label. One of the advantages of this is that you get free tracking on all priority shipments when you create your (…)