Posts by Dani

I think that hapiscrap is talking about entering HTML code into a text file, saving it with an .html extension, and uploading it to a web server.

They work fine for me.

It's actually code=cplusplus you guys!

You would use the same language names as in our code snippets section.

You only have a total of 5 active points. Anything older than that carries zero weight and always will.

That being said, there is a little page navigation link in your member profile to view your older infractions.

Hi there and welcome to DaniWeb!

There's nothing out there that actually works. The only way to increase your rankings is by hard work and going out there and manually asking bloggers and other sites to link to you because you have a great website with great content that people want to link to.

Not right now. In the meantime, just PM myself or Davey.

Why do you have to disable cookies?

Yes, it's intended.

What you're looking at is a blog tag cloud. DaniWeb blog entries are always tagged with relevant keywords.

DaniWeb automagically generates a list of blog tags that it believes are relevent to the thread, and it displays them in the form of a tag cloud.

Clicking on a tag brings you to a list of blog entries that have been tagged with that word.

The idea is that you'll be able to quickly find DaniWeb blog entries that are related to the thread you're currently reading about.

You're still having that problem?

Should be fixed.

Unforseen side effect to actually getting the color and smiley drop down menus to work yesterday.

Working on it ...

The tutorials section is script oriented because those are the types of tutorials we currently have.

If you want to write other types of tutorials, work out the details of the tutorial with Davey, and then, if it's accepted, I'll go ahead and create a relevant category for it.

I still feel like it would just be recreating an inferior version of the wikipedia. There are already so many free, online encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. out there where it doesn't take longer than 10 seconds to look up the definition of something. If you want to know what DHCP means, you can already very easily find out in 5 minutes.

I don't see the point in recreating the wheel unless there is a specific disadvantage / problem with what's already out there that a new version could rectify.

I'm not quite sure I understand. It seems to me like it would just be an inferior version of the wikipedia.

The mark is only grey because it means that you don't have enough rep power yourself to influence his reputation. Your rep power is currently 0. Your rep power is based on how long you've been a DaniWeb member, how many posts you have, and what your own reputation is.

This prevents the situation of abusing reputation by registering lots of different new users just to give yourself positive reputation. Only after you've reached an activity threshhold does the rep you give start really affecting the person's reputation.

Until then, your rep comments can still be seen within the posts and in member profiles.

If a thread has been answered already, it can be marked as solved, and a note gets added encouraging people to start new threads instead of hijacking the thread.

If a thread hasn't been solved, I don't see any reason why future people couldn't have something valuable to contribute. Even if the OP no longer is interested in the question, others out there might be.

Self-promotion is permitted in signatures because I feel that it is our way of thanking you for contributing to the community by havng one or two lines where you can link to your resume, your freelance company, etc.

Additionally, not allowing any self-promotion links in a signature would be ridiculous to manage. Not only would the moderation team need to keep up with all posts ON DaniWeb, but we'd need to constantly monitor all sites that are linked to FROM DaniWeb as well. Suppose someone links to their personal homepage or blog ... where would it cross the line as "self-promotion" if they throw an AdSense ad up on the page to offset hosting fees, or if they put up their resume, which they could directly financially profit from.

Instead, we choose to set a cap to the number of words and number of lines a signature can be.

The bad words filter now works on the reputation system.

The reputation system is meant to be a subjective scale of what other people in the community think of you. If other people think less of you because you help people who don't use code tags and they think that people doing that is a bad thing, then they reserve the right to that opinion. That is something that contributes to the way the rest of the community perceives you and therefore your reputation amongst your peers in the community ... the entire definition of the word "reputation". Members reserve the right to give positive or negative reputation to any member for any reason. Reputation is meant to be a subjective scale of what other people think of you and we all form our own opinions of other people for lots of different reasons.

That aside, the actual reputation comments ARE upheld to the exact same standards as forum posts. If something would violate the Keep It Pleasant rule if it were posted in the forums then it violates the same rule if posted as a reputation comment, and is equally subject to infractions and infraction warnings. Additionally, the same bad words filter in place within forum posts will be put in place for reputation comments as well (feature coming VERY soon).

What you need to do is when you first log in, tick the checkbox "Remember Me". Also make sure that you have cookies enabled by your web browser. This should prevent this situation from happening again.

If you don't tick "Remember Me" then you will automatically be logged out after 20 minutes of inactivity.

What I need to do is get around to adding the bad words censor to the reputation comments.

Val, if you want to type out bbcode without adding spaces, you can wrap it in the tag. :)[noparse] tag. :)

Glad you got it working. :)

Set up :)

I think it's a good idea. Some people consider the entire thing one forum. i.e. in the context "I run a forum." Aside from that, sometimes people make typos, so it can't hurt. In fact, we redirect ww.daniweb.com to www.daniweb.com for those people who make typos.

> I in no way was trying to promote the site, I just linked it to give a reference for what I was trying to do. If this is a violation, could one of the mods please remove the link from my post?

I cannot speak for the other mods, but I am more lax about this rule in the web development forums. What really pisses me off is when people post in the Internet marketing forums questions like, "Please give me suggestions on how I can promote my website www.mysite.com". It's also very hard to have candid discussions related to Internet marketing with the constant fear that everyone knows who you are and your competitors are there to see what you're doing and how you're doing it ... a general rule of not mentioning your site allows much more unbiased conversations because people are free to share their experiences about what worked and what didn't with regards to making money, advertising, etc,.

You can go into your member profile and under the options section turn off the IntelliTXT ads (the green underlined links within posts and articles).

Additionally, you can donate for a few dollars a month to see no banner advertising as well as some additional benefits.

PHP or .NET? Well, they are vastly different languages. The biggest difference that comes to mind is that PHP is typically Linux-oriented while .NET is a Windows language. .NET is also very object oriented while PHP allows you to define classes but doesn't require it (think C++).

Personally I favor PHP but it is very much so a personal choice.

> there are some good ones to check out

If you're interested in an ad, by all means, please check it out! However, it does absolutely no good to click on an ad you're not interested in, so don't click on an ad just because you think you might be helping us out.

Some of the campaigns I get paid when you click on them, some of them are a flat rate to be seen by a certain number of visitors, and some of them depend upon how many of the users who click through actually purchase what they're offering.

I think I'm missing something ... The statement "set x = x + 20" *is* pseudocode?

Traditionally, it was unique visitors and the all important pageviews. However, with the increased use of AJAX, where people can interact with webpages without actually loading multiple pages, pageviews is becoming more and more an inaccurate representation. For example, by using the Quick Reply editor, I am able to post this without ever loading a separate webpage from the page I visited to view this forum thread. A new statistic that is replacing pageviews is the amount of time spent on a website.

There are some webmaster forums, for which most, if not all, of the users already have Google AdSense publisher accounts, which participate in what's known as a revenue share program.

Basically what this would mean is if you're the thread starter, your Google AdSense publisher ID (for which you earn money) gets used in the ad code (usually) 50% of the time, and if you reply to the thread, your publisher ID gets used X% of the time, each time the thread is shown. It's obviously meant to encourage participation.

It's actually a rather common program among webmaster forums, which has been publically condoned by Google themselves. I've contemplated the idea of a revenue share program on DaniWeb with some of the Google AdSense spots but eventually decided it wouldn't work out.

Firstly, the user would already need a Google AdSense account, which means they would need an existing website already in the AdSense program. Because not very many of our users have this, it would really make it rather unfair.

Secondly, the main reason webmaster forums use these programs is because most Internet marketers (ok, not all, but most) only post in forums to better themselves, and not for the benefit of any sort of community. Therefore, monetary enticement is the only way to get them to regularly contribute. I don't really want to go down that route, preferring to encourage and grow a strong community and not just have people posting random things to …

Unique visitors = Unique users visiting your website. If I visit your website every day for a month, I count as one monthly unique.

Visits = Individual sessions to your website, in which I may access multiple pages in a specific time frame. If I visit your website once in the morning, and surf around a couple of pages on your site, that's one visit. If I return to your website eight hours later, that's a second visit.

Pageviews = The loading of an individual page. If I visit your website and click around to five different pages, that is five pageviews.

Hits = The loading of any file off of your web server. If I visit a webpage that has five images on it, then that counts as 6 hits ... one to load the HTML file, and five to load each individual image. This is the least accurate when trying to track your site's traffic but is useful to gauge your server resources as it's directly related to your bandwidth.

Crazily enough, the Mark Forums Read link in addition to a couple of other things on the site got broken because of my fix to have the Color and Smilie dropdown appear correctly in the editor.

Because more things got broken than got fixed, I've reverted the JavaScript file so the editor popups are broken again.

HOWEVER, the new version of vBulletin is coming out later this week, and I plan on upgrading over the weekend, so hopefully a lot of these little quirks will be fixed.

Got it :)

I didn't get any PMs?

Wikipedia trolls?

We've been having database issues lately but nothing within the last couple of days. I'm wondering if the problem you experienced yesterday was on your end.

I'll snoop around. :)

My understanding is that if you don't explicitly log off, the system will auto log you off after 20 minutes of inactivity.

I've been following this thread, but the reason I haven't really had much to comment is simply that the whole marking as read and new posts since last visit features are standard vBulletin, which haven't been touched by myself at all. I'm not sure how much investigation I can do.

Also, there's a setting in your profile to use a 24-hour clock instead of a 12-hour clock (am/pm).

Huh? 23:00 == 11 pm ??

Scroll down to the very bottom of the site and, right above the copyright, it should say "The time now is XXX". Make sure the time it says is the same as your current local time. Otherwise, change your settings accordingly.

> I am new to this board and C++, so I do not even know what encase code in [] means

It means to wrap your code in [code] and [/code] tags so they are easily readable. For example:

UGLY =

if (type == 'P' && dayMin <= 75) { due = basePriceP; } else if (type == 'P' && dayMin > 75) { due = overagePD; } else if (type == 'P' && nightMin <= 100) { due = basePriceP; } else if (type == 'P' && nightMin > 100) { due = overagePN; }

PRETTY =

if (type == 'P' && dayMin <= 75) {
        due = basePriceP;
    } else if (type == 'P' && dayMin > 75) {
        due = overagePD;
    } else if (type == 'P' && nightMin <= 100) {
        due = basePriceP;
    } else if (type == 'P' && nightMin > 100) {
        due = overagePN;
    }

That's really hard to integrate into our existing highlighter.

Addendum: You should also note that someone wouldn't necessarily be intentionally typing bbcode and therefore think of using the noparse tag. Anything in the format [x=y] would be parsed.

> It seems like a pretty weak argument, in any case.
It's just as weak as the argument as to why code snippets should start behaving differently than they ever have before by starting to strip characters. :)

Because this way people have a method for when they NEED to use such things in their code. If both code methods stripped them, they'd be SOL to display any code in bbcode format.