How to Install Magento on XAMPP in XP

(UPDATED-03.25.09) - I have started using WAMP. Magento has a nice install guide on their wiki. The guide covers both XAMPP and WAMP but I've been having problems getting v1.2 or newer of Magento to work with XAMPP. Thus the switch to WAMP. So far I am liking WAMP better.

XAMPP is an easy to install LAMP environment used for testing. Magento is an open source ecommerce package. You should already have XAMPP installed and a copy of Magento. Start Apache and MySql if not already running.

Enable curl in XAMPP
1) Locate the following files:
C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php.ini
C:\Program Files\xampp\php\php4\php.ini
2) Uncomment the following line on the php.ini files by removing the semicolon.
;extension=php_curl.dll
3) Restart your apache server

Create Magento database
1) Open a browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin/
2) Create a new data base named magento

Install Magento
1) Extract the Magento-1.0.19870.4. zip file
2) Copy the extracted files to the httpdoc folder of XAMPP (rename any exsisting index files for your XMAPP install)
3) Navigate your browser to http://127.0.0.1/index.php
4) Follow the Magento install wizard

KTM: HSEB publishes class XI results 2009

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HTML to PDF, generate PDF with HTML data,

To generate the HTML contents in PDF datatype or .pdf file format. Use the following steps:

1. Download the dompdf from
    http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/
or http://sourceforge.net/projects/dompdf/

2. Upzip(if necessary) and keep the dompdf/ folder at your's project root directory.

then, make a function to generate pdf file for download or write a file to the disk as;

/* function to generate the .pdf file for download. */

function get_generate_pdf ($htmlContent, $filename)
{
require_once ("../dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php");

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf -> load_html($htmlContent);
$dompdf -> render();

$dompdf -> stream($filename);
}

/* function to write the .pdf file with HTML Contents. */
function get_write_pdf_file ($htmlContent, $filename)
{
require_once ("../dompdf/dompdf_config.inc.php");

$dompdf = new DOMPDF();
$dompdf -> load_html($htmlContent);
$dompdf -> render();

$pdfContent = $dompdf -> output();
file_put_contents($filename, $pdfContent);
}

/* function to write the file Contents. */
function get_write_file ($content, $filename, $mode="w")
{
$fp = @fopen ($file, $mode);

if ( ! is_resource($fp)) { return false; }

fwrite ($fp, $content);
fclose ($fp);
}

$htmlContent = "< html >< head >< title >SamplePDF file< /title >< /head >
< body >< strong >You can include any kinda html content in this body format.< /strong >< /body >< /html >";

$filename = "sample_pdf_file.pdf";

/* Calling above function for html content in pdf attachment file format. */
get_generate_pdf ($htmlContent, $filename)

/* Calling above function for html content in pdf attachment file format. */
get_generate_pdf ($htmlContent, $filename);



PDF and PHP, Generate PDFs with PHP

There is a lot of PHP code available to generate PDF but most of it requires downloading and installing php extensions. In a shared hosting environment you don't always have access to php configuration, which is why ezPDF is nice. ezPDF is open source PDF generation PHP. See below for an example of 'on the fly' pdf generation, using ezPDF.

include_once ('class.ezpdf.php');
//ezpdf: from http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/?
//docs: http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/readme.pdf
//note: xy origin is at the bottom left

//data
$colw = array( 80 , 40, 220, 80, 40 );//column widths
$rows = array(
array('company','size','desc','cost','instock'),
array("WD", "80GB","WD800AAJS SATA2 7200rpm 8mb" ,"$36.90","Y"),
array("WD","160GB","WD1600AAJS SATA300 8mb 7200rpm" ,"$39.87","Y"),
array("WD", "80GB","800jd SATA2 7200rpm 8mb" ,"$41.90","Y"),
array("WD","250GB","WD2500AAKS SATA300 16mb 7200rpm" ,"$49.88","Y"),
array("WD","320GB","WD3200AAKS SATA300 16mb 7200rpm" ,"$49.90","Y"),
array("WD","160GB","1600YS SATA raid 16mb 7200rpm" ,"$59.90","Y"),
array("WD","500GB","500gb WD5000AAKS SATA2 16mb 7200rpm","$64.90","Y"),
array("WD","250GB","2500ys SATA raid 7200rpm 16mb" ,"$69.90","Y"),
);

//x is 0-600, y is 0-780 (origin is at bottom left corner)
$pdf =& new Cezpdf('LETTER');

$image = imagecreatefrompng("background.png");
$pdf->addImage($image,0,0,611);

$pdf->selectFont("fonts/Helvetica.afm");
$pdf->setColor(0/255,0/255,0/255);
$pdf->addText(80,620,10,"List of Hard Drives");

$pdf->setLineStyle(0.5);
$pdf->line(80,615,540,615);
$pdf->setStrokeColor(0,0,0);

$pdf->setColor(0/255,0/255,0/255);
$pdf->addText(30,16,8,"Created ".date("m/d/Y"));

$total=0;
$curr_x=80;
$curr_y=600;
foreach($rows as $r)
{
$xoffset = $curr_x;
foreach($r as $i=>$data)
{
$pdf->setColor(0/255,0/255,0/255);
$pdf->addText( $xoffset, $curr_y , 10, $data );
$xoffset+=$colw[$i];
}
$curr_y-=20;
}

$pdf->ezStream();
?>


Demo:
Download Demo PDF (dynamically generated with php)
Download all-in-one example.zip 349KB (includes ezPDF)

Notes:
* The above code generates a 1 page pdf, but a multi-page PDF is possible using the $pdf->ezNewPage() function. Any $pdf->addText() or $pdf->addImage() calls after that point are added to the new page.
* The size of a LETTER page in ezPDF is 612x792 (w by h in pixels)
* The (x,y) origin (0,0) is at the bottom left of a PDF page

Further Reading
* ezPDF and
* ezPDF API Docs[pdf]
* pdf-php at sourceforge

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Regular Expression (Validation) Examples in PHP

The Regular Expressions quickly covers the basics of regular-expression syntax, then delves into the mechanics of expression-processing, common pitfalls, performance issues, and implementation-specific differences. Written in an engaging style and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, MRE offers a wealth information that you use. I will start with some simple usage examples of the regular expressions and continue with a huge list of cases for various situations where we would normally need a regex to operate. We will use simple functions which return TRUE or FALSE. $regex will serve as our regular expression to match against and $text will be our text (pretty obvious):

function do_reg($text, $regex)
{
 if (preg_match($regex, $text)) {
  return TRUE;
 }
 else {
  return FALSE;
 }
}

The next function will get the part of a given string ($text) matched by the regex ($regex) using a group srorage ($regs). By changing the $regs[0] to $regs[1] we can use a capturing group (in this case griup 1) to match against. The capturing group can also have a name ($regs['groupname']):

function do_reg($text, $regex, $regs)
{
 if (preg_match($regex, $text, $regs)) {
  $result = $regs[0];
 }
 else {
  $result = "";
 }
 return $result;
}  

The following function will return an array of all regex matches in a given string ($text):

function do_reg($text, $regex)
{
 preg_match_all($regex, $text, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
 return $result = $result[0];
}

Next we can iterate (loop) over all matches in a string ($text) and output the results:

function do_reg($text, $regex, $regs)
{
 preg_match_all($regex, $text, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
  for ($i = 0; $i < count($result[0]); $i++) {
  $result[0][$i];
 }
}  

Extending the above one we can iterate over all matches ($text) and capture groups in a string ($text):

function do_reg($text, $regex)
{
 preg_match_all($regex, $text, $result, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 for ($matchi = 0; $matchi < count($result); $matchi++) {
  for ($backrefi = 0; $backrefi < count($result[$matchi]); $backrefi++) {
   $result[$matchi][$backrefi];
  }
 }
} 

EXAMPLES:
For Date

$date_regex = "/^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\-\/\.](0[1-9]|1[012])[\-\/\.](19|20)[\d][\d]$/";
$date_regex = "/^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\-\/.](0[1-9]|1[012])[\-\/.](19|20)[\d][\d]$/";


//Date d/m/yy and dd/mm/yyyy
//1/1/00 through 31/12/99 and 01/01/1900 through 31/12/2099
//Matches invalid dates such as February 31st
'\b(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0?[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20)?[0-9]{2}\b'

//Date dd/mm/yyyy
//01/01/1900 through 31/12/2099
//Matches invalid dates such as February 31st
'(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20)[0-9]{2}'

//Date m/d/y and mm/dd/yyyy
//1/1/99 through 12/31/99 and 01/01/1900 through 12/31/2099
//Matches invalid dates such as February 31st
//Accepts dashes, spaces, forward slashes and dots as date separators
'\b(0?[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](19|20)?[0-9]{2}\b'

//Date mm/dd/yyyy
//01/01/1900 through 12/31/2099
//Matches invalid dates such as February 31st
'(0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](19|20)[0-9]{2}'

//Date yy-m-d or yyyy-mm-dd
//00-1-1 through 99-12-31 and 1900-01-01 through 2099-12-31
//Matches invalid dates such as February 31st
'\b(19|20)?[0-9]{2}[- /.](0?[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])\b'

//Date yyyy-mm-dd
//1900-01-01 through 2099-12-31
//Matches invalid dates such as February 31st
'(19|20)[0-9]{2}[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])' 

/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ For Address /-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

//Address: State code (US)
'/\\b(?:A[KLRZ]|C[AOT]|D[CE]|FL|GA|HI|I[ADLN]|K[SY]|LA|M[ADEINOST]|N[CDEHJMVY]|O[HKR]|PA|RI|S[CD]|T[NX]|UT|V[AT]|W[AIVY])\\b/'

//Address: ZIP code (US)
'\b[0-9]{5}(?:-[0-9]{4})?\b' 

/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ For Email /-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

//Email address
//Use this version to seek out email addresses in random documents and texts.
//Does not match email addresses using an IP address instead of a domain name.
//Does not match email addresses on new-fangled top-level domains with more than 4 letters such as .museum.
//Including these increases the risk of false positives when applying the regex to random documents.
'\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b'

//Email address (anchored)
//Use this anchored version to check if a valid email address was entered.
//Does not match email addresses using an IP address instead of a domain name.
//Does not match email addresses on new-fangled top-level domains with more than 4 letters such as .museum.
//Requires the "case insensitive" option to be ON.
'^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$'

//Email address (anchored; no consecutive dots)
//Use this anchored version to check if a valid email address was entered.
//Improves on the original email address regex by excluding addresses with consecutive dots such as john@aol...com
//Does not match email addresses using an IP address instead of a domain name.
//Does not match email addresses on new-fangled top-level domains with more than 4 letters such as .museum.
//Including these increases the risk of false positives when applying the regex to random documents.
'^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}$'

//Email address (no consecutive dots)
//Use this version to seek out email addresses in random documents and texts.
//Improves on the original email address regex by excluding addresses with consecutive dots such as john@aol...com
//Does not match email addresses using an IP address instead of a domain name.
//Does not match email addresses on new-fangled top-level domains with more than 4 letters such as .museum.
//Including these increases the risk of false positives when applying the regex to random documents.
'\b[A-Z0-9._%-]+@(?:[A-Z0-9-]+\.)+[A-Z]{2,4}\b'

//Email address (specific TLDs)
//Does not match email addresses using an IP address instead of a domain name.
//Matches all country code top level domains, and specific common top level domains.
'^[A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|biz|info|name|aero|biz|info|jobs|museum|name)$'

//Email address: Replace with HTML link
'\b(?:mailto:)?([A-Z0-9._%-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4})\b' 

/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ For Credit Cards /-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

//Credit card: All major cards
'^(?:4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?|5[1-5][0-9]{14}|6011[0-9]{12}|3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}|3[47][0-9]{13})$'

//Credit card: American Express
'^3[47][0-9]{13}$'

//Credit card: Diners Club
'^3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}$'

//Credit card: Discover
'^6011[0-9]{12}$'

//Credit card: MasterCard
'^5[1-5][0-9]{14}$'

//Credit card: Visa
'^4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?$'

//Credit card: remove non-digits
'/[^0-9]+/'

//Delimiters: Replace commas with tabs
//Replaces commas with tabs, except for commas inside double-quoted strings
'((?:"[^",]*+")|[^,]++)*+,'

/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ For HTML /-------------------------------------------------------------------------------/

//HTML comment
''

//HTML file
//Matches a complete HTML file. Place round brackets around the .*? parts you want to extract from the file.
//Performance will be terrible on HTML files that miss some of the tags
//(and thus won't be matched by this regular expression). Use the atomic version instead when your search
//includes such files (the atomic version will also fail invalid files, but much faster).
'.*?.*?.*?.*?]*>.*?.*?'

//HTML file (atomic)
//Matches a complete HTML file. Place round brackets around the .*? parts you want to extract from the file.
//Atomic grouping maintains the regular expression's performance on invalid HTML files.
'(?>.*?)(?>.*?)(?>.*?)(?>.*?]*>)(?>.*?).*?'

//HTML tag
//Matches the opening and closing pair of whichever HTML tag comes next.
//The name of the tag is stored into the first capturing group.
//The text between the tags is stored into the second capturing group.
'<([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)[^>]*>(.*?)'

//HTML tag
//Matches the opening and closing pair of a specific HTML tag.
//Anything between the tags is stored into the first capturing group.
//Does NOT properly match tags nested inside themselves.
'<%TAG%[^>]*>(.*?)'

//HTML tag
//Matches any opening or closing HTML tag, without its contents.
']*>'