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It's only through using dreamweaver that I was able to understand what code was doing. With help from the folks here at daniweb, I was then able to alter it to suit my needs and do the odd bit of hand-coding.

Have a look at the democracy sections of [url]www.myverdict.net[/url]. Is this the sort of thing you're looking to build. Having built the site from scratch, I can tell you exactly how I went about it. Best Regards Taffd

I post this solution to a form validation and redirect as an addition to a comment page written with dreamweaver. Unfortunately Dreamweaver does not provide server-side validation for php. You're expected to purchase an extension. [B]My problem[/B] I have a comments page with a comment form. I wanted the comment …

I intend to launch a site that displays, among other things, user supplied articles. At present I have validation on all input that rejects links. After perusing other sites that host articles, it is obvious that many users post articles with the intention of inserting a link. I was thinking …

Hi, I have a table with 10,000 names. I'd like to group them into groups of 3 and also display the remaining 1. Can anybody help with a suitable query please. Taffd

Hi All, I have a table 'names' with a column 'name'. Using a SELECT statement I've got 10,000 randomized names. I'd like to put them into groups of 3 and have the 1 remaining name available to do something with later. Can anybody help with the code for sorting these …

Hi All, I run a political site that contains a voting element. It's fine as it stands but would be unacceptable as an 'official' site. I am engaged in a project with a friend, to design a constitution for an imagined Direct Democracy of 10,000 and a way of implementing …

I've noticed that the page rank for << url snipped >> varies considerably when using the search query 'direct democracy'. One of my users believes the number of times he visits the site may have an effect. Does anybody know if this is the case.

I've created my own forum and would like to display username - from users table title - form topics table and a count of comments - from replies table I 've got the first bit sorted ok SELECT username, title FROM users, topics WHERE users.userid = topics.userid ORDER BY RAND() …

I think the problem using Nav33n's query is because of the join. You could try this alternative. SELECT members.username, high_schools.high_school FROM members, high_schools WHERE members.high_school_attended = high_schools.id I'm assuming (members.high_school_attended) is the school id in the members table.

Happy New Year everyone. Does anybody know how I can restrict access to a page to those users coming from a specific url. Thanks in advance Taffd

I'd like to add my wish for everybody here to have a Happy and Prosperous New Year and to thank you all for your help so far. Best Regards Taffd

Is SESSION info maintained when a user is diverted to paypal?

I've just been reading a solved thread with this same title. The solution was nl2br. I was unaware of this function and have been using str_replace instead. A problem arises however, when converting preformatted text, specifically a table. Either solution leaves a mass of space between text and a table …

Hi all, A site allows users to post text. I'd like to know how to go about charging a small fee to post additional stuff, say for example an image(I don't actually want to charge for an image, I merely use this as an example). I have a vague idea …

Good day all, My [URL="http://www.myverdict.net"]site[/URL], is going through a redesign, an example of which can be found [URL="http://www.myverdict.net/HTML/myverdict_home.php"]here[/URL]. The redesign splits up the site into about 250 seperate sites, although they are in fact all one. Anybody viewing the redesign example, will note that the bottom of the page shows …

Hi all, I have a text area, in a form, that only allows basic text and punctuation. I'd like to be able, in certain circumstances, to allow links to be added, in a similar way to the text editors here on daniweb. Can this be done with php, or do …

Hello again, Can anyone give me any pointers on how to make a 'teaser' or 'preview' of an article. Thanks Taffd

Greetings all, I'm in the process of writing my own forums. I'd like to insert a 'teaser', showing a few lines of a post, displayed when a user rolls over a thread link. Much the same as happens here on daniweb. Can somebody please explain how this is done. Thanks, …

Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me the security issues when passing url parameters for a forum. I'm building my own forums using dreamweaver and as I understand it, using url parameters make the site susceptible to sql injection. Regards Taffd

Is it possible to include the character < in a regular expression? I don't seem to be able to find a reference to it anywhere and am unable to build a regex with just this one character.

Hello everbody, Despite some serious googling, viewing previous posts here and consulting the php manual, I am still unable to validate my user input. If I can get one simple form to validate, I will be able to adapt the script accordingly to any other, so any help you can …

I'm beginning to believe that nobody actually knows how to validate simple forms and insert that validation code into a dreamweaver page. I there anybody out there who believes they can accomplish this. If so, are you prepared to help me accomplish this, at which time we could post here …

Oddly enough, I've been pondering on how to add blogging type software to my site. I've realised that I have unwittingly built a forum from scratch, although it is not called a forum and does not use the usual terms, posts, topics, threads etc. It also has around 25,000 categories, …

I am in the process of splitting my site into around 240 sub-domains. The main homepage will have links to each. Does a search engine recognise links in a dynamically generated dropdown menu or will they have to be text based. Thanks in advance.

Does anybody have any ideas on how it would be possible to validate someone as a real person while maintaining their anonymity. I had the idea of them validating themselves using a debit/credit card(without a sale). Two problems there. People often have more than one card. People might think I'm …

I used tables for for the design of my site which includes a lot of tabular data aswell. If you are going to insist on tables for layout, then nested tables will do what you want. It is however, considered by some, to be very bad form to use tables …

I have read a couple of articles recently regarding the success of daniweb and I'd like to add my congrats on the popularity of this site. I have a general question regarding traffic and would be interested in comparing stats for relatively new websites. It may give some encouragement to …

Having recently launched [url]http://www.myverdict.net[/url], I've been advised that I should have built it as a blog, to make use of pingbacks and increased rankings. I installed a Wordpress blog as part of the main site and on comparing the two, I find I have inadvertantly created a sort of blog …

It's difficult to know how to put this, without appearing to advertise. I'm not even sure if I'm posting in the correct part of the site. I am not after a review. I have built a site which could be considered a political forum. It seemed obvious at the outset, …