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Tuesday, February 12
PayFoul
If you are a small business that relies on PayPal because you don't want to bother with setting up a secure web site (and no one would think of having a business that would try to transact business without security, would they*?), consider yourself duly warned. The clock may be ticking on that means of exchange. *Note that they "...are planning to secure this site as soon as practically possible." Apparently after two years, it's still impractical. Update Citibank, which unlike PayPal is a legal bank, offers a PayPal-like service called c2it. I thought I'd go kick the tires on it. After registering, I got an error page, and I can't log in with my account because of a "system error." Not exactly the kind of warm fuzzy feeling I want with a service that's going to move money around for me. The server must be swamped with people from Louisana... '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |