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FSF-CiviCRM is a popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The first step in getting started is understanding the CiviCRM codebase. For better understanding, please download CiviCRM zip file from https://civicrm.org/download and install.

We had just completed switching our site from Windows IIS MySQL PHP to LAMP environment. As the deployment was via git, we downloaded project files with the ftp credentials and deployed the site via git. However, the 'sites/default/files' folder were of some GBs in size. We only had ftp credentials and was unable to get a compressed copy due to certain reasons. What we did to resolve the problem was use wget command to copy files recursively.

Zyxware Technologies has developed and contributed CiviWCI (CiviCRM Widget Creation Interface) to the Free Software Foundation to assist in the fund raising campaign that FSF is launching in Dec 2014. The extension is expected to help FSF create “Donate Now” and “Join Now” widgets (fund raising and newsletter subscription) that can be embedded on any site that wishes to support FSF. This extension will replace the earlier widget system used by FSF. Through this contribution, Zyxware once again reaffirms its commitment to Free Software and the community around Free Software.

One of the requirements of the client was to play video in the pop-up window instead of playing it in Iframe. We accomplished this by adding overlay div over Iframe, which would suppress the ability of Iframe to play video. Read on to know how we did it.

Nmap(Network-mapper) is an open source tool that is pretty useful for networking scanning. This tool provides various options that are useful for carrying out security audits. Nmap is a powerful tool used to check the network inventory, host uptime etc. If you are a GNU/LINUX administrator, you may find the following 10 Nmap commands extremely useful Some of the useful Nmap commands are as mentioned below:

If you are using GNU/Linux, you are likely to be familiar with the command line, usually Bash, which of course means that you would be working with tar archives (tape archives). The need to extract a single file from a tar archive/file is a common situation faced by bash users. Read on to know how to do it.

One of our Drupal projects required the value of a text field to be changed according to the country selected in a particular select field. This is a common situation encountered by web developers when working on HTML. This can be easily achieved using jQuery. Read on to know more

Suppose you are working in OpenOffice Calc. Your requirement is to copy the Column B value into Column A, if Column A is blank. If the columns have lots of cells, filling it manually is extremely tedious. So, read on to know how to do it.

I have a number of affiliate links in my page. The affiliate links are generated dynamically and so, I don't know the number of affiliate links generated in the current page. I had a requirement to open all affiliate links simultaneously upon clicking on a search all link in my page. Initially, I was not aware of the jQuery each function. So, I placed all the affiliate links in a particular div and used the size function to get the number of 'a' tags inside that div and used a 'for loop' to iterate through the 'a' tags and applied the behavior. However, after that I found there is an each function in jQuery, which can be used to itereate through all the elements with a particular identity.

Often, when you update styles or images on your website, the users of your web application might still get the old logo or style. This is because the browser caches the resources on your web application. Hence, when the user tries to access the application, it will be loaded from the local computer, not from the server. Here is a solution for this issue. Read on to know how to expire cached resources on your browser from your web application itself.

We have seen how to pass banner ad attributes to landing pages in our previous article, How to pass openx banner ad attributes to landing pages. We have passed the banner ad attributes supported by Openx using magic macros. Now, what if the variable that we want to pass is not available in the list of macros supported by OpenX? Read on to find out how to pass custom site variables in openx to landing pages.