• is robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. In the back end, you will use a full featured back end to manage your inventory, orders, shipping, and customers in real time. Your customer’s payments are sent directly to your commercial bank account using the latest security technology. You can even add your own modules to the shopping cart.
• is an open source PHP based online shopping cart system. OpenCart is easy to use and is SEO optimized with a very nice interface. A great feature of OpenCart is that customers can write their own reviews of the products.
• is a professional open-source e-Commerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. Magento is awesome, I would never believe it is an open-source project. It features clean urls and SEO from the start. Everything is designed in a clean and simple way. Magento also features: Unlimited flexibility, Completely Scalable Architecture, Professional and Community Support, and Smooth Integration with 3rd party apps.
• is very popular shopping cart. CubeCart V3 is free, with the exception that you leave their copyright notice in your footer. CubeCart has a large amount of payment gateways and shipping gateways. Their support forums are lively and many people contribute plugins to the cart. To use CubeCart V4 you must pay but it has many features that V3 doesn’t have.
• is another very popular online shopping cart, written in Perl/MySQL. It features a css manager so you can edit the look of your cart online. AgoraCart also features unlimited product options, up to 4 different tax zones at the same time, tons of shipping and payment gateways/options. The setup options range from a simple template based store to the integration of a complex visual design and support for program modification.
• is a free, user friendly, open source shopping cart. Zen Cart focuses on the merchants and shoppers instead of the developers. Zen Cart also supports multiple payment and shipping options, quantity discounts and coupons. Also Zen Cart is very easy to install.
• is an online shopping cart that offers a wide range of features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly. osCommerce is backed by a great and active community. It also supports multiple currencies, allows customers to print invoices from the order screen, and has an easy database backup system.
• is a powerful, free PHP/MySQL shopping cart system that is easy to install and customize. The Cart is free but it does have copyright notices that you can pay to get rid of. StoreSprite has many features including automatic tax calculation, automatic delivery cost calculations, customer ratings and reviews and featured products.

Since 1999, iDevAffiliate is the original in self managed affiliate software! iDevAffiliate was hand coded from scratch by the same team that provides your technical support! iDevAffiliate is not a product we’re reselling for someone else and it isn’t something we’ve pieced together from several other lesser quality products.

• No Monthly Fees!
• 1 Year of Free Upgrades! Your License Never Expires!
• Your License Never Expires! One Year of Free Upgrades!
• You Own It! You own it, you host it, you manage it!

Key Features iDevAffiliate literally has thousands of features, functions and configuration combinations. We’ve listed the most prominent features below.

Extensive Payout Options:

• Pay-Per-Sale (Percentage).
• Pay-Per-Sale (Flat Rate Payout).
• Pay-Per-Click (Unique Visitors Only).
• Pay-Per-Lead
• Create up to 100 payout levels for each payout style.
• Payout styles and levels adjustable per affiliate.
• Affiliates can choose their payout style – optional.
• Change individual accounts – payout styles, levels, etc.
• Block payout styles from individual affiliates.

Built-In Affiliate Marketing iDevAffiliate TextAds:

• All linking codes are automatically generated.
• Unlimited text ads (just like Google AdWords).
• Unlimited banners (including flash banners).
• Unlimited text links.
• Unlimited full page HTML ads.
• Email links are automatically created. Marketing Groups
• Custom keyword link creation by affiliates. Marketing Groups Set alternate incoming URL locations.
• Email friends & directly in the affiliate account. Marketing Groups Upload unique content to each marketing group.
• Offline marketing module included in all versions. Marketing Groups Run multiple websites from one installation.

Integration Made Easy		Cart Integration Wizard
iDevAffiliate works with nearly all merchant accounts, shopping carts, billing systems and membership management systems. The logos to the left are just samples. iDevAffiliate integrates with thousands of today’s most popular products.		Using the cart integration wizard, you can have your checkout system integrated within minutes. If your checkout system isn’t listed in the dropdown menu, we have an “alternate cart integration” method that using a tracking pixel on your sale confirmation page.
Admin Center Reports & Statistics		Affiliate Control Panel Reports & Statistics
	Graph: 30 days activity.		View incoming traffic logs & statistics.
	Pie Chart: Overall affiliate activity.		View tier accounts.
	Neatly formatted report printouts.		View payment history.
	Marketing statistics for each marketing tool.		View individual commission records.
	Incoming traffic logs with referring URL.		View conversion ratios.
	Data export wizards: CSV comma, CSV tab, Excel.		View recurring commission details.
Customize iDevAffiliate		Advanced Security Features
	HTML Smarty templates for easy customization.		Triple redundancy tracking – IP, cookies, sessions.
	Adjustable language packs in the admin center.		Adjustable tracking expiration.
	Adjustable color scheme in the admin center.		Built-in commission fraud controls.
	Adjustable email templates in the admin center.		PHP sha1 password encryption.
	Adjustable signup fields plus add your own.		Compliant for register globals OFF (or on).
	Install into any directory name or sub-domain.		Built-in API for external code integration.
Standard Features		Optional PayPal Payments
	Manually or automatic approval of accounts.		Pay your affiliates with PayPal.
	Manually or automatic approval of commissions.		PayPal mass pay feature.
	Optional signup bonus.
	Optional balance requirement before payout.	Integrated Rewards System
	Currency & currency symbol settings.		Advance payout levels based on performance.
	Email your affiliates from the admin center.		Criteria: # of sales or amount of commission generated.
	Create affiliate notes visible in the affiliate control panel.
	Edit, suspend, remove accounts.	Recurring Commissions
	Manage tier accounts.		Recur commission on an individual basis.
	Search affiliates or commissions.		Recur any amount of the original commission.

iDevAffiliate consists of two control panels.

The administrative center where you manage your affiliate program and the affiliate control panel where affiliates signup and manage their accounts.

Both demo links should log you directly into the control panel. Get it for your business now

So, how to check proxies with PHP? Let’s start with the proxy basics. What is an anonymous proxy? An anonymous proxy hides your IP address. Sometimes it informs a client that a proxy is being used. Sometimes it looks like a real host/user.

What should I look for when checking proxy anonymity? Make sure the real IP address is hidden. Check all variables that can expose your identity.

Warning! I’m not a security expert. Please let me know if any variable is missing from the list.

REMOTE_ADDR

REMOTE_HOST

HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR

HTTP_VIA

HTTP_CLIENT_IP

HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION

FORWARDED_FOR

X_FORWARDED_FOR

X_HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR

HTTP_FORWARDED

HTTP_REFERER

Printing “bad” variables

Here is the first script (badvars.php) you need. It prints out required variables. Upload the file to a server and check if it’s working.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″>
<title>I know you</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><?php echo(“REMOTE_ADDR ” . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“REMOTE_HOST ” . $_SERVER['REMOTE_HOST'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_VIA ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_VIA'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_CLIENT_IP ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_CLIENT_IP'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_PROXY_CONNECTION'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“FORWARDED_FOR ” . $_SERVER['FORWARDED_FOR'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“X_FORWARDED_FOR ” . $_SERVER['X_FORWARDED_FOR'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“X_HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR ” . $_SERVER['X_HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_FORWARDED ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_FORWARDED'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<br>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_REFERER ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] . “\n”); ?></p>
<p><?php echo(“HTTP_USER_AGENT ” . $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] . “\n”); ?></p>
</body>
</html>

The High Definition FLV Player is priced at $97. Although it’s a good product, we feel it’s overpriced. The default design of the player is fairly impressive, but it could do with a more professional look, and offer more designs to choose from.

Installing the player isn’t too much trouble, and the support is more than willing to help with any problems you might have. It is compatible with almost every kind of file. It even allows you to play the videos recoded on your phone, directly on a website. It throws up a list of clips, after one’s done playing, so that saves one the trouble of refreshing or having to navigate to various pages. The feature that impressed us most is the playing of subtitles at any point. So when you’re watching a video in a language you don’t understand, that’s not a problem anymore.

The quality of the videos, as the product claims, is definitely very clear and it’s a pleasure to watch videos in high definition. The company has teamed up with Longtail Ad Solutions, so you end up making a whole load of money owning this player. The payments can be made in installments, but the after sales support needs to be worked on a little more.

We felt the default design is not very impressive, and we have seen better designs in the market. Although, they do have a small range of templates to pick from, which can be customised to some extent as well. The players however, play videos without any troubles and are easy to work with. The admin section is nice to work with, but the script could definitely do with introducing more features and control options. The usual features where user can join in, upload videos, comment and rate them, network with each other, report inappropriate videos, multilingual support, ads etc are integrated within, but more features need to be added to make it a good enough script.

It is priced at $40 and an additional $10 is charged to remove copyright signs. The makers seem confident of their work and come out with regular updates on their product. This script would work especially if you needed to start a small website focusing on a particular genre with a limited number of members. With some work with their support, a few more features, better design and fixed bugs, the script could do a lot better.

Agriya Infoway has come up with yet another clone script called Volume, which is a purevolume clone, using which you can start your very own social networking site, dedicated purely to music. Priced at $350, it is a little overpriced, and it would be great if the company could cut down on that. However, the features are pretty impressive.

We all know that you never get exactly what you want, and Volume is no exception. But the script is customizable, and their support can help you make your site look just like you want it to. You can use Joomla themes to change the look of your site. Apart from the basic features of tracks, videos, groups etc, this script also has some social networking features that allow users to make friends and carry out conversations.

The default design is fairly good, and appears uncluttered, but doesn’t really match purevolume. Plus, if you are looking at building a site for a particular genre, say metal, you might want to change the feel of the site. They do offer customization, but it could be worked on further and expanded to provide a wider range to choose from. You will also need to shell out more money to give your site the look you want.

You are bound to encounter problems while installing and using the script. But since the script is based on Joomla, the open source CMS, the bugs you encounter are few. Usually, the support is able to help out quickly, but again, you might have to end up waiting a while till they’re able to get back to you and tell you how to set it right. Barring the price, the support, and the occasional hitch in running the script, we’d say you would definitely want to work with Volume.

This script lets you start Web TV Portals and video committees of your own. It comes in four different versions – the community edition, the professional edition,the professional plus edition and the enterprise edition. All of these are suited to varying needs of webmaster. The first basic one of them is free. While all versions are integrated with most required features, the ones that cost more have more features, that include things like ad integration, free support etc.

Features like multilingual support, videos, blogs, photos, basic social networking are contained in all the versions. But the ones that need to be paid for, will allow users to integrate ads, and basically monetize the site.

We did not encounter any great problems while installing and running the script as such, although we feel the support could do with some improvement. The makers are obvious professionals and seem to be bringing out frequent updates. The default design of the basic version will has three templates to choose from. It would make it so much better if that could be worked on and made to look more professional in terms of layout and themes as such. The paid versions give room for custom work, which is an added advantage.

It’s a very admin friendly script, and there is almost nothing that they cannot help you out with. Although a bit on the expensive side, we’d definitely recommend OS Tube.

MIRO has been built by the Participatory Culture Foundation, an American non profit organisation. This HD Player has been built with the aim of eliminating gatekeepers. It’s a free player, and anyone can download it from their website. The website itself gives a very good first impression, and we can tell you, this is a good choice for all those internet TV videos you want to watch.

It is compatible with almost any kind of file (MPEG, WMI, AVI etc) and downloads them onto your computer, which you can watch anytime, and take anywhere with you. It plays videos in fullscreen high definition and beats all its competitors there. A few hitches along the way, but it’s for no cost, we say it’s definitely worth it.

It’s an extremely friendly player and it’s easy to figure out everything that the player has to offer. Users can watch videos from anywhere including youtube and blip. It’s 100% open source; the default design looks good enough by itself.

The company is a well established stable company, and the website gives all kinds of details, going to support credibility. They bring out regular updates, and the website is up to date, unlike other websites offering similar products. If you haven’t got one already, we recommend you do.