Here, I will show you how you can install sample data after you have installed Magento.

1) Download Sample Data zip file from Magento Website

2) Extract the zip file

3) Drop all the tables from your magento database. It would be easy to drop the magento database and then recreate it instead of dropping individual tables. This can be done either through Database Manager or PhpMyAdmin.

4) Import sample data sql file into your magento database.

# Remember that, you have to drop all tables from your magento database before importing the sample sql file. You will get error afterward if you import the sample data without dropping tables from your magento database. Therefore, step 3 is important.

5) Go to your magento installation folder and delete local.xml file present inside app/etc folder.

6) Reinstall magento (i.e. if you have uploaded magento inside http://yourdomain.com/magento then type the address in your browser’s address bar :))

# After your installation is complete, you may get error something like this:
Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ’1′ for key 1

Check if app/etc, var, and media folders are writable. They should be writable. Change their CHMOD to 777.

Clear your browser cache or open your website in another browser and you are done :)

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Get the server name/site name of your website:

echo $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];

or,

echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

This will print: localhost

Get the path of the page you are working on:

echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];

This will print: /test/admin/index.php

Get only the directory name of the page you are working on, i.e. if you don’t want the file name to be displayed:

echo dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

This will print: /test/admin

If you want to omit the ‘admin’ directory as well then you can use dirname() function two times:

echo dirname(dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']));

This will print: /test

Finally:

echo “http://”.dirname($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].”".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

This will print: http://localhost/test/admin

Enjoy PHPing :)

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To solve this problem, I used stylesheet property called ‘margin’. The example below is from single.php file of my wordpress theme. The adsense code is kept in between the paragraph tag.
It is kept after

<em><div class="entry-content"></em>

and before

<em><?php the_content(); ?></em>

<div class="entry-content">

<p class="alignleft" style="text-align: left; margin: 8px; float: left;">

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8802303964745491";
/* 336x280, created 5/16/08 */
google_ad_slot = "7152897181";
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

</p>

<?php the_content(''.__('Read More <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'sandbox').''); ?>

Similarly, I created an about me page. I wanted to show my pic in the top-left position and to show the text by the side of the pic. For this I added style to my uploaded image while editing the page. I went to the HTML (not View) section in the edit/add page.

The style I added goes like this:

style="margin: 8px; float: left;"

More HTML source from my about page:

<p style="text-align: left;">
<img class="alignleft" alt="Mukesh Image" src="http://blog.chapagain.com.np/wp-content/uploads/close-up-small.jpg" style="margin: 8px; float: left;"/>
</p>
<p> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Hi, I am Mukesh Chapagain. My rest of the introduction goes here...
</p>

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You can show the list of pages and sub pages in the sidebar of your wordpress theme with the addition of in-built sidebar widget called ‘Pages’. This will show all your pages and sub pages nested inside parent pages.

I will be showing, how you can show the list of the sub pages in the parent page body (not in the sidebar but in the main body of the page).

Suppose, you have created a page called ‘Sports’. Under ‘Sports’, you have two sub pages called ‘Cricket’ and ‘Football’.

The process of creating a sub page/child page is as under:

1) First you create a page called Sports. You choose page parent as ‘Main Page’.

2) Then you create another page called ‘Cricket’. You choose page parent as ‘Sports’. Now, page cricket becomes the sub page of the page Sports.

Below is the code to show the list of sub pages in the parent page body. You have to put this code inside the the_post() section of the page.php template of your WordPress theme after the_content().

For WordPress 2.0.1 or older:

<ul>
<?php
global $id;
wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=$id&show_date=modified
&date_format=$date_format"); ?>
</ul>

For WordPress 2.0.1 or newer:

<?php
$children = wp_list_pages('title_li=&child_of='.$post->ID.'&echo=0');
if ($children) { ?>
<ul>
<?php echo $children; ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>

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5. WordPress Plugin: Quick Adsense 1.0

Follow the steps below and start earning money with Google AdSense.

1) Log in to http://adsense.google.com with your gmail account.

2) Click the “AdSense Setup” tab.

3) Choose adsense type that you want to set up. There are two types of adsense. One is “AdSense for Content” and the other is “AdSense for Search”. You can find “Referrals” ad for now. But Referrals ads will be retired during the last week of August 2008.

4) I will be illustrating on “AdSense for Content”. So, click “AdSense for Content” link.

5) Now, you have the option either to choose Wizard setup or Single page setup. By clicking the “Single page” link, you will get the form fields in a single page so that you can fill at once and setup your adsense. But it would be easy to explain and understand by going through the “Wizard” way, i.e. page by page or step by step.

6) Don’t click the “Single page” link. Let’s go step by step through “Wizard”.

7) Ok, now you have to choose your Ad Type. If you just want to display google ads as links then choose “Link unit”. If you want to display ads containing text, links, and images then choose “Ad unit”. Let’s choose “Ad unit”. It is chosen by default. So, let’s proceed further. Click the “Continue” button.

8 ) Now, you have to choose Ad Format and Colors. There are different Ad Formats. You can view them at https://www.google.com/adsense/adformats . Select any one of your choice.

9) Now the coloring part. You can either choose from one of the pre-designed color palettes, or you can create your own. It would be easy to create our own. Just choose the border color, title color, background color, etc. according to your preferences. You can view the sample present at left as soon as you make any change in the border or title or background color.

10) Choose your AdSense corner style. Then click the “Continue” button.

11) Now you have to Choose Ad Channels for your AdSense. Channels enable you to view detailed reporting about the performance of specific pages and ad units. By assigning a channel to a combination of pages or ad units, you could track the performance of a leaderboard versus a banner, or compare your motorcycle pages to your automobile pages. View more about channels at

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9868&ctx=sibling

12) Click “Add new channel”. A popup box appears. Add your channel name. Then click the “Continue” button.

13) Now, give your AdSense unit a name and click “Submit and Get Code”.

14) You will get the AdSense code something like this :

15) Copy the code in your webpage. The AdSense unit may take up to 10 minutes to display after the time of creation.

Thank You.

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I created an html form for submitting the website url. After the url is submitted, the PHP code does all the magic to display full html source code of that particular website. The source code is displayed in a textarea.

$domain = $_POST['domain'];

$handle = fopen(“http://$domain”,”r”);

//$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);

$contents = ”;

while (!feof($handle)) {

$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);

}

fclose($handle);

At first the website url submitted through the html form is opened with fopen(). Then, using while loop, the $contents string variable is populated (concatenated) until the end of file is reached. Finally, the file/url pointer is closed with fclose().

You can also get all the contents without using loop. You can get it with the stream_get_contents() function. But this function is only supported by PHP 5+. stream_get_contents() operates on an already open stream resource and returns the remaining contents in a string. stream_get_contents() will not work in PHP versions lower than PHP 5. If you are using PHP versions lower than PHP 5, then better not use it.

Description of functions used:

fopen() opens the url. The mode used here (i.e. ‘r’) is read mode.

feof() tests for end-of-file on a file pointer. It returns true if the file pointer is at EOF; otherwise it returns false.

fread() reads up to length bytes from the file pointer referenced by handle. Reading stops when up to length bytes have been read, EOF (end of file) is reached, (for network streams) when a packet becomes available, or (after opening userspace stream) when 8192 bytes have been read whichever comes first.

fclose() closes an open file pointer.

View it live

Full source code:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$domain = $_POST['domain'];
$handle = fopen("http://$domain","r");
//$contents = stream_get_contents($handle);
$contents = '';
while (!feof($handle)) {
$contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
}
//var_dump($contents);
}</p>
?></p>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Source Code Viewer</title>
</head>
<body></p>
<h2>
HTML Source Code Viewer
</h2></p>
<form method="post" name="pageform" action="" onsubmit="return validate(this);"></p>
<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="">
<tr>
<td width="" height="91" valign="top">
<table style="border-collapse: collapse" width="" class="tooltop" height="76"></p>
<tr>
<td>
<table border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" width="" cellspacing="5">
<tr>
<td height="28" width="100"><font size="2"><b>View source of</b></font><b><font size="2">:
</font></b></td>
<td height="28" width="">
<font size="1">http://</font><input type="text" name="domain" size="26" value="<?=$_POST['domain']?>"></td>
<td height="28" width="">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="View!" style="float: left"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="" height="21">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="" colspan="2" height="21" valign="top"><font size="1">(eg. chapagain.com.np)</font></td></p>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
?>
<tr>
<td>
<textarea rows="10" cols="60" name="code"><?=$contents?></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
function validate(theform) {
if (theform.domain.value == "") { alert("No Domain"); return false; }
return true;
}
</script>

</body>
</html>

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