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Retired military member. Became a front-end developer for energy industry databases after retirement. Now learning some web development and assisting on development of open-source linux software.
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 | I want to set a max width for all pages on a web site but have no idea where to set it in the CSS file. I tried setting it in both the body section and the html section without success. I'd appreciate some help on this. Thanks in advance.  |
 | Let's see the code you're using. We can't provide any suggestions without seeing what you're trying.  |
| | The following code works without errors on my local server but when I put it up on my hosted website, I get a "Failed - Network Error" message immediately. The way this works is that a button is pressed on a download page to select what file to download. Here's …  |
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| | Iβd like to force my code to pause after completion and before displaying a completion message. Iβve tried sleep and wait commands but they affect the start of running the code. Iβve searched the web for how to do this for two days with no success. The reason for wanting … |
| | Iβm using a timer script that Iβd like to change the displayed text in the <p> ... </p> when the countdown ends but have no idea how to accomplish it. Iβd appreciate any help I can get. Hereβs the code Iβm using: <p> The Update will be done in <span … |
 | Sounds like you might need an autoincrementing id field that's a primary key. Then retrieve based on max value of the id field.  |
| | I know this has a simple answer that I should know, but for the life of me, can't remember. I have the following update statement in my code: $stmt = $pdo->prepare("UPDATE `files` SET `filename` = ?, `md5` = ?, `filesize` = ?,`logtime` = now() WHERE `id` = ?"); $stmt->execute (array($isoname, … |
| | I have two large files that I want to make available for users to download. When trying to download from my web host, the download never starts and I get a "504 Gateway Timeout". How would I revise my code to download from a file sharing site? I tried the … |
| | I don't understand why this update script isn't working. It is supposed to get the names of files in the download folder and update the files table in the database. It is running through the code without exiting when it fails to update but still displays "Update Successful". The downloads … |
| | On the mobile devices, do the entire web pages show or are things cut off? Without seeing your code, it's hard to make suggestions. Please press the </> button and put your code inside when you reply. |
| | I'm using the following code for users to download files from my website. It works fine for files under 50MB, but fails immediately for larger files. Can someone explain why this is happening and how to fix it? Some of the downloadable files are over 800MB, so I need this … |
| | How about attaching a screenshot of what you have so we don't have to try and visualiize what you have from your code. It appears that your css file needs improvement. |
| | Are you asking us to do your homework for you? Won't happen my friend. |
| | I'd like to improve security of my website. Currently, the download filename is passed to the download script. The filenames are stored in a database table with an index number (primary key). I'd like to pass that index number to the download script instead of the filename and do a … |
| | I have a php function which allows users to download files from our archive site in England. The main site is in the U.S. and that function is working correctly. The UK function results in the files having incorrect md5sums. I've gone through it multiple times and can't find any … |
| | When user tries to download .iso, tar.gz, or .deb from my website php is opening the file instead of downloading it. I'm having a problem with a download script. It runs fine on my local apache server, but when I put it on the my webhost's apache server, it goes … |
| | My website has a mirror of the download directory in the U.K.. On my download page I have 2 buttons, one for a U.S. download and one for a U.K. download. The current download page passes the filename to the download script. The download script (located in the download directory) … |
| | My main download page passes an id number for the file to be downloaded. In the mydloader.php (located in the download folder), I have a pdo sql query to set $l_filename to the filename in the database. I need to use $l_filename in <a href to download the file. My … |
| | I have the following query which has died after running over an hour on my local mysql 8 server: UPDATE download LEFT JOIN lookup ON download.ip_address between lookup.start_ip AND lookup.end_ip SET ref = ( SELECT lookup.id FROM lookup WHERE download.ip_address between lookup.start_ip AND lookup.end_ip); All ip fields are IPV4 and …  |
| | I'm trying to create a trigger that does two things, first take an ip that's in dot notation and run inet_aton on it and put the result in another field. Second, checks a lookup table to identify an ip range that the result of the first action falls into and … |
| | I'm creating a report page and can't figure out how to convert the array (row) to just get the ip_address. I'm a newbie to php and can't figure out how to accomplish this. Here's the code that I have so far: <?php $filename = NULL; session_start(); // start of script … |
| | I have some inline css that I'd like to add to an existing styles.css file but have no idea what the format needs to be. Here's what the inline css looks like: <style> .container { display: flex; max-width: 1350px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; padding-top: .3rem; padding-bottom: 1.5rem; } .divL { … |
| | I'm trying to pass a filename to a function but don't know how to call the function from a click on a link. The top of my index.php is: <?php $filename = NULL; session_start(); // start of script every time. // setup a path for all of your canned php … |
| | I have a download page that needs to run a function when clicking on a link. The function is supposed to enter a row in a mysql database table and download the file. I don't know if I've coded the function incorrectly or I coded the onclick incorrectly. Here's the … |
| | I have Apache2, php 7.2, and mysql installed. At the top of my index.php I have the following script: <?php session_start(); // start of script every time. // setup a path for all of your canned php scripts $php_scripts = '/home/larry/web/test/php/'; // a folder above the web accessible tree // …  |
| | I have a download section in my index.php that I'd like to add a download counter to but have no idea how to accomplish this. The existing code works perfectly but I'd like to know how many times the file is downloaded. Would prefer not to use a database. <!-- … |
| | My contact form starts with: <form id="form1" method="POST" action="mail.php"> I'd like to replace the last line in my contact form: <button type="submit" value="Send" style="margin-top:15px; margin-left: 500px; text-align: center;">Send Email</button> with one that contains <img src="images/button_send-email.png" alt="Email"> but have no idea what it should look like. I tried <a href="mail.php"><img src="images/button_read-the-file.png" … |
| | The validation section of my contact.php page is sending the user back to my index.php instead of staying on the contacts.php page so the user can correct the reported error. How can I fix this? My contact.php code follows: <?php if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { $name = $_POST['name']; $visitor_email = $_POST['email']; $message = … |
| | I'm creating a webpage where the user will be able to download an .iso file. The version of the iso will change. For example: xxxx.1.iso will become xxxx.2.iso when the iso is updated. How do I code the download button so that I don't need to re-code the button when … |
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