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Do you really need multiple stylesheets? I've found that you just need one that works on all browsers. This sounds simple, but it's not. Here are some tricks:
1.) Validate with W3C
2.) Reset margin and borders to 0 at the beginning of the stylesheet. Then redefine if necessary.
3.) Don't place size styles like width and height and surrounding styles like border, margin, and padding in the same tag. Instead, use a container div for surrounding styles and put the size styles inside a child div.
4.) Hacks are a last resort.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Passing Javascript integer (id) to mysql_query

no, sorry, actually it's populated after the page is loaded - it comes from a mouse click

Then you'll have to look into using AJAX. PHP, by itself, cannot modify the page after it has been loaded. It's a common misconception. You see, once the page is loaded, php, by itself, can no longer communicate with the client without a page refresh.
Think of AJAX with php as a phone call between javascript and php.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Passing Javascript integer (id) to mysql_query

When is the variable populated? Before or after the page is loaded?

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: i have a problem with my php script ...i need to pass an id ($id) to a page

The server doesn't parse the $id variable because you don't have a php delimiter. It should be something like:

<a href='edit_news.php?id=<?php echo $id;?>'>edit</a>

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: fopen() failed to open stream: Undefined error: 0

Change the mode parameter on line 20 to r:

$fp = fopen($path, 'R');

should be:

$fp = fopen($path, 'r');

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Dukane commented: excellent, quick solution! thanks +2

buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: HTML colour table, generating in PHP

HTML color codes already has prebuilt tables for this.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Addin Columns in loops

No problem.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Addin Columns in loops

Initialize a variable. Then increment the variable by the value in the cell:

<?php
$price='';
for($i=0; $i<5; $i++){
$price +=$i;
}
echo "Price=$price";// will output Price=10
?>

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Delete duplicate records in MS ACCESS

You can use VBA to remove duplicates or export it to excel and click data->remove duplicates, then reimport.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: iframe - need help

Nevermind, looks like patryksharks321 answered it already.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: PHP Open source project

This sounds like project management software. Are you asking about an open source alternative to MS Project? If so, check out Open Workbench

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: How to get out malware from website

Sounds like XSS

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: having a weird problem on registration page

Sounds like a mess. Post your code

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: How to get out malware from website

Yeah, report this to your host. If they want your business, they'll get it fixed. Else, start shopping for another host. Meanwhile, backup your site and make sure that none of the mess gets carried over.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: insert checkbox values to database

You could either concatenate all of the values and store them in one field or you could create three fields to store each value separately.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: need help on my website

Well here's how to add a link to the gallery. Obviously, you'll have to make a gallery.html page, otherwise you'll get a page not found error. Change:

<td><img src="images/index_06.jpg" width="87" height="16" alt=""></td>

<td><a href="gallery.html"><img src="images/index_06.jpg" width="87" height="16" alt="gallery"></a></td>

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: client side php scripting vs javascript

JavaScript comes pre-installed on the browser. PHP does not.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Need help switching to the rollover image

Try changing:

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFF3E6" LEFTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/webrollovers_musicrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_aboutrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_giverollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_volunteerrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_linksrollover.jpg','images/webc_search.jpg','images/webc_searchspace.jpg','images/webrollovers_contactrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_homerollover.jpg')">

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFF3E6" LEFTMARGIN="0" TOPMARGIN="0" MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/webrollovers_musicrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_aboutus.jpg','images/webrollovers_giverollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_volunteerrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_linksrollover.jpg','images/webc_search.jpg','images/webc_searchspace.jpg','images/webrollovers_contactrollover.jpg','images/webrollovers_homerollover.jpg')">

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: html email

Something of a side note, while most clients will let you send them html email, most will replace attributes if they have quotes (single or double) surrounding them. So if you want to send

$body2.="<table width='850px' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' style='vertical-align:top;'>";

you'll have to get rid of those single quotes:

$body2.="<table width=850px border=0 align=center cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 style=vertical-align:top;>";

Otherwise, big boys like hotmail and gmail will replace everything inside your quotes with meaningless garbage. Also, most of them don't even use a doctype so you are probably better off using html. These are some things that I learned the hard way.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Help for class.smtp and class.phpmailer

The script should look something like (notice I substituted your variables in):

$mail = new PHPMailer();
//SMTP begin
$mail->IsSMTP();                                      // set mailer to use SMTP
$mail->Host = "mail.myhost.com";  // specify main and backup server
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;     // turn on SMTP authentication
$mail->Username = "myName";  // SMTP username
$mail->Password = "myPasw"; // SMTP password
//SMTP end
//mail begin
$mail->From = "myemail@myhost.com";
$mail->FromName = "veledrom";

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Silverlight or PHP

I believe Silverlight is Microsoft's attempt in gaining part of Adobe's Flash market. It's still in a very early stage and whether it will stand the test of time is unknown. What's for sure is that both Flash and PHP have stood that test.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: script not allowing the user to login again if already logged in

Use Sessions for authentication. They will log the user off when the browser is closed. You shouldn't need to store a value in the db unless you want to show users activity (last login at...)

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Using Access file

Also, see http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136175.html on how to set up the connection string for accdb.

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peter_budo commented: Nicely spotted... +10

buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Asp to php

There are a number of converters. I'm not sure how good any of them work but you can find them here.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: unable to send email to hotmail via php mail()

I'm terribly sorry. I actually use class.smtp.php. I downloaded them both at the same time, got this one to work first, and haven't messed with it in over a year. The script actually has a login and password where you authenticate yourself to your mail exchange and then the email gets sent authentically from your mail exchange with lots of good safe header information that hotmail requires. I've never had a problem getting into hotmail or any other client with this class. It can also send both html and plain text email.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: write to an Exel file

An easy way to create an xls file from php is to create a tab delimited file with an xls extension. Here's an easy example. Create a folder named files and save the following php file in the same directory as the folder.

<?php
$file="files/test.xls";
$f = fopen($file, "w+");
fwrite($f,"A1\tB1\t\nA2\tB2\tC2\t\n\t\tC3");
echo(fwrite ? "File was written":"File write failed");
?>

Now open the file from the browser. If the browser says File was written, then you should now have an xls file inside the files folder created earlier. Open it up.
Note that the "\t" creates a tab and "\n" create a new row. Also note that the text A1 will be in cell A1.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: pulling data by using first or last name...?

It should be something like:

$query = "SELECT * FROM runners WHERE first_name ='".$name."' OR last_name='".$lname."'";

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: unable to send email to hotmail via php mail()

Hello, I use class.phpmailer.php. It works for Yahoo, Hotmail, GMail, and I'm sure many others that I haven't tested. It also includes an example which is easy to follow.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: sending email

Have you looked into php's mail function? mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Load DLL ???

You should be able to use exec to run a shell command to register the DLL.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Multiple type of users

Use as many variables as necessary. Just write statements that restrict access based on user level. Example:

if($_SESSION['user']=="Super Admin"){
echo "Welcome Super Admin";
//allow Super Admin to do whatever
}
else{
header ('location:index.php?your_not_allowed_in_here');//do a redirect if access is not allowed
}

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Side Scrolling Photo Gallery?

Flash would be the easiest (in my opinion), because it is widely used and results in a very small file in comparison to animation supportive graphics like .gif. All of the ads you see on this page are Flash. You could also use Flash with PHP or PHP with JavaScript to dynamically pull and rotate images from the server. CSS is used to arrange how things appear in the browser. It seems like you need an understanding of what each of the above is used for before implementation.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Updating selected Checkbox problem

Just by breezing over the code, it looks like you are trying to update one row with two or more values. If so, you'll have to concatenate them before the update.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Single Dropdown for Multiple Fields

Are you trying to modify the second select element based on the first element choice? If so, php doesn't have this capability by itself. Remember, php runs and executes from the server. JavaScript runs and executes from the browser. Php, by itself, cannot modify the current loaded page. It needs some help from JavaScript (AJAX) to carry this out.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: [Urgent] Write excel cell values to SQL DB based on cell color?

Well, if you are on a windows machine, look into using COM extension.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: T_constant_encapsed_string?

Why are you echoing all of that html? If you don't have dynamic data, don't waste the server and users time parsing. After the form element, Add a php delimiter to let the server know not to parse anything else.

echo "<form action='$regScript' method='$formMethod' name='form'>";
?>

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: [Urgent] Write excel cell values to SQL DB based on cell color?

I believe PHP Excel Explorer can read the cell styles. I looked into it a while back and wound up not needing it.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Select click or change

Use an onchange event in the select element. The event should trigger a function which makes an AJAX request to the server side script performing the query. If the request returns an output, it will perform another function to populate the other select element using innerhtml. You can find many AJAX examples and tutorials at AjaxDaddy or on Google.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: broser problem

For your "broser problem"
Probably <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Autosuggest testbox with results from sql

Narrow down the problem and post the code. Most of us aren't going to download your code.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Newbie need advice

You can start off by learning that JavaScript is not Java. Java is an in-depth software language. JavaScript is a webdevelopment language that runs on the client.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: Server question

Use a decent database (not Access) and make sure that the server hard drive has enough space to support the pics.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: PHPList and Flash

Does anyone know how to integrate PHPlist with an already existing form on their website?
No I have never messed with a pre made mailing list, but I can explain how to use a flash movie to insert users into an existing mysql mailing list.

HOw do I make a person's photo 3D for placement in an SWF file for a website.

The site is just taking a picture with a decent camera and using the Photoshop extraction tool to extract the target(in this case the speaker) from the pic. Then they add a bit of a black outer glow to the layer. Most pictures are taken from an elevated or side vantage point. Both of which are known to increase the 3d effect. The pic is then imported into a layer in Flash higher than the rotating movie clip. Thats all.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: step by step of form

If you have more than 2 forms strung together, you should look into using a session array to store all the form information. The reason why I say this is that POST data is good from one page to another, but relies on hidden variables to pass it any further.

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: MySql XML

Yes mysqldump will do this. Read more at http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-1044663.html

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buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: MySql XML

I've done this for an RSS feed. It queries the db, populates variables, and outputs everything as xml. Here is the link.

Databases mysql xml

buddylee17 216 Practically a Master Poster

16 Years Ago

Re: MS Access to web without SQL

Yes, Access can communicate with asp, asp.net, php, jsp, and coldfusion. Figure out which one's your web server supports and move forward from there. Also, Access may not be enough for the job. It works great for small projects but if this is no small project you may want to look into MySql or MS Sql.

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