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Remove Filter  | Hi, I'm completely desperate for some help. I am getting a handful of reports that DaniWeb keeps crashing the web browser. Most of these reports are coming in from Firefox. Supposedly the problem is fairly consistent. I *cannot* duplicate the problem no matter how hard I've tried. I spend a …  |
| | I want to start running contests to increase participation in the forums. Anyone have a good idea?  |
| | Hi, Is it possible to tell how many AdWords impressions are doing placement-targeting (aka site-targeting) to a particular channel? I know that I can pull up an AdSense report which shows a cross section of a particular channel with placement targeting, but it's possible the advertiser is targeting the entire … |
| | New feature ... The bottom toolbar for logged in members has a button to Recently Viewed Articles. Track where you've been on the site. :) For example, suppose you were reading an article earlier in the day but then got sidetracked and can't find it again.  |
| | I autoload the Session library in CodeIgniter. However, sometimes there are controllers that output XML, JSON, an image, or other mime types, and I don't want these sending back cookies in the header. Is there a way to suppress this on a per-controller basis? |
| | We have permalinks for each individual post in the forum in the format `/posts/jump/123`. These URLs do a 301 redirect to the post in the full article, such as `/full-article-url#post123`. The landing pages have canonical URLs set to the full article URLs. I just recently started having the issue of … |
| | How can I convert a DOM node to a jQuery object? I am using a javascript library that is returning a DOM node. I don't know any of its properties. I want to convert it to a jQuery object so that I can work with it.  |
| | Slowly but surely, I'm making changes to our editor to get it up to speed with other editors out there. Firstly, I made the font size for the live preview larger at I forget who's recommendation (sorry!). You can click on it to hide the preview so it doesn't get …  |
| | Yay! Guests can post now! Super excited for this because it really accounted for a lot of our posts in the old system. Really hoping it will bring our numbers back up to where they used to be. |
| | CodeIgniter's highlight_phrase() function, in the Text Helper library, looks like this: /** * Phrase Highlighter * * Highlights a phrase within a text string * * @access public * @param string the text string * @param string the phrase you'd like to highlight * @param string the openging tag to … |
| | This has been frustrating me for about 20 minutes already and I don't want to spend much more time on it, so any help would be much appreciated. The editor that we use which syntax highlights Markdown text has has bug in which it highlights text as code when it … |
| | After receiving some complaints that the editor font size was too small, I went ahead and significantly increased it to mimic live posts. What do you think? Is it better now or too big? |
| | I have the following queries (as examples): ~~~ sql SELECT articles.* FROM articles WHERE articles.forumid IN (2,8,118,9,61,58,34,114,112,113,125,124,4,134,42,14,71,181) ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT 0, 30 ~~~ ~~~ sql SELECT articles.* FROM articles WHERE articles.forumid IN (2,8,118,9,61,58,34,114,112,113,125,124,4,134,42,14,71,181) AND NOT deleted ORDER BY lastpost DESC LIMIT 0, 30 ~~~ ~~~ sql SELECT articles.*, … |
| | I've been working on our editor a bit tonight, and there are some changes to its functionality. Now, when you click the buttons such as Bold, Italic, etc., the editor automatically gets focus and highlights the dummy text. Therefore, you can immediately start typing to replace it. Also, I went … |
| | Sooo ... I learned during my schema migration that our webpages use UTF-8 encoding but our MySQL database (all InnoDB tables) uses latin1. After finally running some utf8_decode() php magic, I was finally able to successfully get all posts to display correctly again. However, now that I realize there's an … |
| | Just as the title asks ... can selenium be used to automate forum spamming? If so, what are some techniques to combat that?  |
| | Is anyone else seeing this?! There's a little musical note icon next to my Google Analytics charts, and when I click on it, Analytics "plays" my graph with synthesized piano tunes! I think this is the most useless, ridiculous feature ever to come out of Google.  |
| | Soooo Initial Impressions .... Markdown vs BBCode ... ? :) |
| | What is a reasonable number of queries to Memcached per page? We do use getMulti to try to fetch what we know we'll need in advance all at once, but we mostly use getDelayed() (which is a two-part call with fetchAll(), and we do some other processing in between them. … |
| | There is currently a bug where Internet Explorer 8 users cannot reply to existing threads. I am aware of the problem and am still working on a resolution. IE 9 works fine, as do Firefox, Chrome, and Safari. If you are affected, it is highly recommended that you upgrade from … |
| | Soooo ... quick question :) I need to do some HTML parsing with regex :) I currently use `$output = preg_replace('/>\s+</', "> <", $output)` to strip whitespace between any two HTML tags. What can I do to strip whitespace only between paragraph tags. For example, only between `</p>` and `<p>` … |
| | Hi, We heavily use Memcache and I was wondering if there were any places where I could read up about good tips to improving its performance. Everytime that I try to google improving memcached performance, I just end up with pages upon pages of links to how to improve performance … |
| | OK, so, as many of you are aware, the new version of Daniweb is approaching. However, I need to warn you about something in advance, so that you have some time to prepare. I've decided to allow posting in ALL forums including top-level categories. I really was getting incredibly tired … |
| | Hi, I'm getting really frustrated with an issue that Ancient Dragon discovered is happening here. Anytime that the combination `% 02` (without the space) is submitted via a textbox, it's recieved by PHP $_POST[] array just as a space. It's like URL decoding is happening on the fly. This happens … |
| | Quick question ... What happens if you use array_slice() and specify a length that is longer than the length of the array? Sorry but I couldn't find the answer on PHP's doc pages or in a quick G search. |
| | Is there anyone who is supposed to be a moderator but currently doesn't have their moderator privileges? |
| | Sooo ... figured out why permissions are wrong. The dev server was 64-bit and the production web boxes are only 32-bit (even though blud assured me they would be duplicates of the dev environment -- grr). Scrambling to figure out what to do now ... |
| | I have a rather large Excel spreadsheet. What I would like to do is "fix" the leftmost or topmost columns on the screen as I scroll horizonally or vertically. So, in other words, if I have 10 rows of various accounts with 200 columns each, I want to be able … |
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| | I am using Mac OS X with the built in configuration of Apache. I am taking a web dev class where we're writing perl scripts ... so far I've been able to get my CGI scripts to run via mod_perl. Now, I'm trying to install CGI::Session via CPAN and it's … |
| | Hi, I just started using the Memcached php client instead of Memcache client. It's able to connect, but now when I run a get(), I get the following error: Memcached::get(): bad type specifier while parsing parameters It worked fine with Memcache? There's just one parameter ... the key to be … |
| | Hey everyone, I just wanted to invite everyone to my birthday party this upcoming November. This is actually going to be the second large event that DaniWeb is throwing, the first being last June during Internet Week NYC. There's a Facebook event set up for it here: [url]http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=279987105364597[/url] To be … |
| | I just got a message in my Google Webmaster Tools saying that "Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site". The last time that I got this message was right around the time that Google Panda hit the first time, so I'm a little worried. However, the … |
| | This is a very quick 'n' simple vBulletin SEO hack. It's easy to apply and it's the one I have been using here on DaniWeb for the past couple of months. I was going to wait until we went vB 3.5 to release it but I might as well do … |
| | DFP Small Business offers a feature where you can display a creative on a page of your site, for testing purposes. This feature always worked using the Google Ad Manager tag. However, it completely doesn't work using the asynchronous version of the Google Publisher Tag (with single request enabled). Has … |
| | Google's new algorithm update, which takes advantage of the Caffeine infrastructure, is being said to impact 35% of searches on the web (Compared to Panda's measly 12%). Rolling out today, it's said to target "freshness" of content. :) Uh oh! |
| | Hey everyone, As many of you might have heard, DaniWeb is currently working on opening up a new ecommerce store where we're going to be selling our swag ... tshirts, geek glasses, pens, silly putty, and soooo much more. For a first taste of what's in store, we've partnered with …  |
| | So sorry the site has been down for a few hours this early morning. It happened when it was time to switch the clocks back (the servers didn't like that), and James was on a flight to New York to come visit me. The site appears to be working for …  |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Working with Files[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2][color=#0000ff]To rename several files at once: [/color][/size][/font] [list] [*][font=Arial][size=2]Select all of them in any folder view, or in the Windows Explorer, rename the FIRST one in the list, and the rest will … |
| | Numerous SEO publications are reporting that Google has decided to hide keywords from referral information for everyone logged into their Google account when they perform a search. What this means is that sites will no longer know what keywords were typed in to land at the resulting page. It's really … |
| | Since switching to this design, the number of new threads posted daily has decreased by 75%. New posts, new registrations, and traffic has remained consistant. Is the "new thread" button really hard to locate? Confusing? What is wrong? |
| | As many of you may be aware, DaniWeb was originally hit by the Google Panda algorithm back in February. We finally made a full recovery (and then some!) during the Panda update at the end of July. We were just hit by Panda yet again this past week, which was … |
| | We currently use Salesforce.com, but I find the interface very clunky. It often takes quite a few clicks to get anything accomplished. There are no plans to switch to different CRM software. I know that Salesforce has a strong API. is there any standalone Windows software that can be used … |
| | I want to encourage more people to do sitewide searches because our analytics show that people who use our search feature spend 5-10X longer on the site. Additionally, being a Q&A forum, it's just a great practice to search before you post, so the same question doesn't end up being …  |
| | Sooo ... some bad news. As many of you know, we made a full 120% recovery from our battle with Google Panda a couple months ago. Unfortunately, *something* has struck again. Whether another iteration of Panda or something else, we once again lost more than half of our traffic overnight. … |
| | I've just started using [b]Folding@Home[/b], and I thought we might create a DaniWeb Folders team. For those of you who would like to be a part of our fight to cure diseases, by using your unused CPU time, please check out [url="http://folding.stanford.edu/"]http://folding.stanford.edu[/url] When setting up your client, enter [b]Team # … |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]How to Change Column Settings in Windows Explorer[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]This article describes how to change the column settings in Windows Explorer. To change which columns are displayed, or change the width or order of the windows … |
| | Hi, How can I use preg_replace to determine if a string contains a word beginning with a pattern, and if it does, remove it? Basically I want to capture query strings from a search, but throw away search modifiers. For example, the search query string: site:daniweb.com query would just become … |
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| | A thread was started ([url]http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/363816[/url]) inquiring about creating an objective-C forum. I am open to this as long as it is indeed a unique language with unique characteristics (and not a subset of C or C++, for example). However, my main hesitation is that creating a forum is, often times, … |
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