Joomla 1.6 alpha released

joomla 1.6 alpha released.

It reduces the narrow advantage of Drupal over Joomla 1.5.

please check this

http://community.joomla.org/blogs/community/1061-joomla-16-alpha-2-released.html

Zencart

Zencart is a pretty easy tool for developing an ecommerce website. A medium level programming knowledge is enough to start because it does not have any complex OOP system to follow. Its not extendable but is highly customizable.

change or reset ples admin password

find this tool through remote desktop connection ,

C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\admin\bin\plesksrvclient.exe

click on that, and it will ask for a new password.

remove phocagallery logo

change this

echo $this->tmpl['phocagalleryic'];

but, commercial version is recommended.

for debugging joomla

rename the index.php to index_main.php

then , create new index.php and paste the code

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set("display_errors", 1);

include("index_main.php");

?>

Auto submit updated sitemap.xml to google webmasters with php code

Theory

To resubmit your Sitemap using an HTTP request:

Issue your request to the following URL:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=sitemap_url

For example, if your Sitemap is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz, your URL will become:
www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.gz

URL encode everything after the /ping?sitemap=:

www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com%2Fsitemap.gz

Issue the HTTP request using wget, curl, or another mechanism of your choosing.

A successful request will return an HTTP 200 response code; if you receive a different response, you should resubmit your request. The HTTP 200 response code only indicates that Google has received your Sitemap, not that the Sitemap itself or the URLs contained in it were valid. To obtain status information about your Sitemap, resubmit it using Webmaster Tools account. We recommend that you resubmit a Sitemap no more than once per hour. An easy way to do this is to set up an automated job to generate and submit Sitemaps on a regular basis.

Code

I got the code from here
http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/06/php_tip_how_get_web_page_using_curl#curlinit

The quick code

function get_web_page( $url )

{

$options = array(

CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page

CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers

CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects

CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings

CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i

CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect

CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect

CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response

CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects

);

$ch      = curl_init( $url );

curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );

$content = curl_exec( $ch );

$err     = curl_errno( $ch );

$errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );

$header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );

curl_close( $ch );

$header['errno']   = $err;

$header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;

$header['content'] = $content;

return $header;

}

$result = get_web_page('www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap='.urldecode('http://site.com/sitemap.xml'));
if ( $result['errno'] != 0 )
echo "error , bad url";
if ( $result['http_code'] != 200 )
echo "error , no servivice";
$page = $result['content'];
echo $page;
?>
output

"Sitemap Notification Received

Your Sitemap has been successfully added to our list of Sitemaps to crawl. If this is the first time you are notifying Google about this Sitemap, please add it via http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ so you can track its status. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear."
 

After this, put a cron tab to the link , Note that please dont go less than a hour request to google. otherwise they will be angry.

Hackers successfully stole passwords from some of Facebook's 200 million users.

Hackers successfully stole passwords from some of Facebook's 200 million users.
By Jim Finkle, Reuters, 15 May 2009 at 08:11

Facebook has been hit by another hacking attack, as a phishing campaign was used to steal passwords from users of the social networking site.

Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said that the site was in the process of cleaning up damage from the attack, and that that Facebook was blocking compromised accounts.

Schnitt declined to say how many accounts had been compromised.

The hackers got passwords through what is known as a phishing attack, breaking into accounts of some Facebook members, then sending e-mails to friends and urging them to click on links to fake websites.

Those sites were designed to look like the Facebook home page. The victims were directed to log back in to the site, but actually logged into the one controlled by the hackers, unwittingly giving away their passwords.

The fake domains include www.151.im, www.121.im and www.123.im. Facebook has deleted all references to those domains.

Schnitt said that Facebook's security team believes the hackers intended to collect a large number of credentials, then use those accounts at a later time to send spam hawking fake pharmaceuticals and other goods to Facebook members.

The site fought off a similar attack two weeks ago, he said.

Hackers used a phishing attack last year to spread a malicious virus known as Koobface, a reference to Facebook. It was downloaded onto Facebook members' PCs when they clicked on a link sent to them in an email that looked like it had been sent by a friend on Facebook.

originally posted in
http://www.itpro.co.uk/610861/massive-phishing-attack-hits-facebook?DCMP=KNC-1026&HBX_PK=face+book+password&HBX_OU=50&gclid=CK7Ts9zx1poCFYQH3wodJyBO1g