JOEL LIPMAN

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Paypal Checkout API with PHP and JavaScript
PayPal

Paypal Checkout API with PHP and JavaScript

This is an article on how to build a shopping cart and get your website to accept payments via PayPal. The below isn't a final or perfect option, it's an article to help me document and refine a process.

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Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Location
Zoho Deluge

Zoho Deluge - Get User Timezone, Country and Location

A quick article just as a note to get the users country information from a third-party API based on the given IP address. How? Well this is just a list of free 3rd-party APIs and the below code is dependent on these being online and working...

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CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transition
Cascading Stylesheets

CSS Add Text to Breadcrumb Link with a Transition

This is an article I hope to refine one day where given a set of breadcrumb hyperlinks, when I hover the mouse over the links, the text changes and the transition between the two is controlled smoothly.

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Convert Past Date to Time Ago in PHP
Personal Home Page

Convert Past Date to Time Ago in PHP

Just a quick note to refine a function that will take a date in the past and return the number of years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds.

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