Posts by Dani

There is a team who is working on an iPhone app, although they have just begun, but as far as I am aware, no one is working on an Android app. Having one would be greatly appreciated I'm sure! :)

Absolute positioning is used when you need to position an element relative to another element. For example, in a dropdown menu you will want to position the dropdown relative to its parent.

Absolute positioning is essential for dropdowns, hover effects, scrolling effects, etc. It is also used when you want to position an element in a place different from where the HTML code for that item is. For example, you may wish to place all of the scripts that load advertising way down at the bottom of the page, so that they're the last thing to load, but have the ads appear near the top within the content.

EvolutionFallen, I think that you might be confusing absolute positioning with fixed positioning. Fixed positioning is used when you want to place an element at a certain location relative to the browser window. Absolute positioning is used when you want to place an element at a certain location relative to its parent or ancestor element.

GRR, apparently some webmail clients strip away the HTML head, and therefore don't respect the <base href> tag. :(

Welcome back :)

This is against the law and so we don't discuss illegal things like that on DaniWeb.

Then you should be able to just copy/paste the HTML on the badges website??

You used to be able to using FBML, but I'm not sure if you still can.

The only badges are:

Administrator
Moderator
Team Colleague
Featured Poster
Sponsor
Vendor

Problem is a lto of people had 3 of them :(

Not something on the current todo list but I'll think about it. Our system was purposefully designed against being able to accomidate multiple on/off email switches because I was turned off from Facebook's 100000 privacy settings.

Your email client must have done something funky to the links because they both work fine for me: www.daniweb.com/home/donate

There's .on(), and then there's also .one() when you only want it to execute once and then unbind itself after.

OK, email going out. xx crossing fingers xx

If nothing comes of sending out this mass email, then it's pretty much a done deal that this isn't going to be an avenue worth pursuing any further. On the other hand, if we get even a handful of bites, it means that it's worth building up our donation subscriptions feature, perhaps offering more features to subscribees, etc.

I'm sending out a mass email to all of the regulars right now.

Depending on how much traction (if any) I get from it, will determine whether or not this whole donations idea is even something that could wind up working successfully. If everyone who reads the email doesn't donate, then larger buttons on the website isn't going to do anything better. However, if we get a handful of bites, it would make sense to push the donations promotion.

Would a visible sponsor badge discourage newbies - does it need to be that obscure?

No, it doesn't need to be that obscure, but the way it was before was definitely causing vertical scrolling too excessive for my taste, especially for one or two line posts belonging to members with 2-3 badges.

It's a very delicate balance, because if people start noticing that we're requesting money sooner rather than later, it can be extremely offputting to becoming active within the community. The goal is to make the Donation button easily found by the regulars but very obscure to the newbies.

A web-based IRC client is actually on the todo list, but it keeps getting pushed back to take care of Google-related priorities.

Yeah, it was, but after a day and a half, I was getting irritated by having to scroll down twice as far on each page. I'm going to start sending out mass-emails to community members who have been around awhile.

That is illegal. We don't deal with stuff like that in this community. Sorry.

The Web Design forum?? The post you linked me to was in the PHP forum, and you didn't get any reputation points because the person who commented on your post (heydaniwebbers) had no reputation power to give you.

Many, many years ago reputation counted everywhere. However, we found that a lot of people were giving reputation for the posting games and so much off-topic stuff. The members on the site with the top reputation out of everyone were not even tech saavy people who were able to help others. This translated into reputation score not really being any type of measurement of helpfulness / usefulness, and it was decided that the Community Center should no longer count towards reputation.

Does IE 10 screw up all of our code snippets on the site??

I just tested it and it seems to work fine in IE 9 standards mode :(

You didn't get any reputation points from heydaniwebbers because they have 0 reputation themselves, with no reputation power to give you.

Link me to it please.

I switched it so they appear when you hover over a person's name/avatar instead of showing all the time, because they were taking up way too much vertical space and causing you to have to scroll past huge gaps between posts.

Does it bother you??

Maybe I'll come up with some nicer designed badges that take up less space (like being in the corner of the avatar).

I think I got this fixed but please let me know if you spot it again.

It was a silly little bug that when cross-referencing posts with votes, to generate the list of upvoted and downvoted posts, I forgot to filter out reversed votes. That bug has been fixed now.

Update: Voting functionality is available through the API, so this feature can be implemented should you so desire :) An iOS app is actually in the works and will have this functionality.

This had to be some weird anomaly because I really can't figure out why it was giving you this message. Let me know if it happens again I guess?

Sounds good. Looking forward to any improvements and suggestions you may have as you work with it.

Sounds great :)

On a related note, how has your experience beeen working with the API up until now?

Wasn't sure yet whether to post this publicly.

Why not? Feel free to share. Thanks for the improvement!!

Honestly, I don't have much experience with cURL, so providing alternate ways of doing things for people can only help. Thanks for the tip!

Do you have weird plugins or toolbars that might be hiding the buttons in FF?

Well it's important because lots of other people could be experiencing the issue :)

I cannot replicate this in Windows 7 / IE 9 and I won't have access to a Windows 8 box until later tonight. In the meantime, please make sure you're not in silly IE compatibility mode.

Congratulations!!!!!

Pritaeas, I use the object-oriented version of MySQLi. I also wrap my connection to MySQL within my own Database class. It gives me the freedom to do some things I need to do everytime a query is executed, such as determine which database server the query should be sent to.

I'll take another look at it tomorrow. Sorry, I just found out about this bug from this article.

Yeah, we're having a hard time getting to the bottom of the bug. Sorry for taking so long :(

Maybe on page 2?? I'm not sure how it got out of sync :(

A mobile app is actually in the works. While there are no plans to develop anything in-house, a friend of mine runs a private consulting firm that specializes in mobile apps, and they're excited about using our new API to develop something for us. However, I couldn't give you any sort of timeframe or feature list. It's their project, not ours :)

Oh that's really neat!! Played around with it and it still needs some tweaking, but really really neat! :)

Have you found our API relatively easy to work with in its current format?

This has been pushed to production (with a slight tweak to actually reduce server load because we no longer need to fetch forum titles of those subforums).

It was a bug. Fixing it now :)

It took me a little bit of frustrating time to figure this out yesterday, so I thought I'd post it in case other people ran into the same issue.

I set up PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and thoroughly tested it in the sandbox environment. Everything worked fine. However, when switching over to real PayPal, it stopped working and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with my code.

PayPal actually has IPN disabled by default while the Sandbox environment has IPN enabled by default. Be sure to change this setting in your profile.

Yeah, this bug is being a pain to track down because I can't duplicate it. :(

I believe files weren't being renamed for legacy reasons, but you shouldn't be seeing that error message either way. I'll look into it. Thanks!

Thanks so much!! :) Really appreciate it.

Just click the 'Watch this Article' button right below the reply box of a thread (next to where you can mark it solved).

You can then go to 'Watched Articles' at the top of any page of the site to see all of the articles you're currently watching, and follow when they've been updated.

No, we lock you in for life. And when you die, your children are required to donate. :-P

Of course you can cancel it at any time.

That's what I thought until diafol confused me :)

One feature I love about these forums is the way there is an alert if you are part way through a post and you choose to move away from the page - in the browser that is, I don't think it says anything when I get up out of my chair... yet... :-D

That feature is actually planned and will be coming within the next few months. We're just perfecting the webcam technology necessary right now. :)