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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

how are the boxes set
is each separate or is one a child of another <div></div><div></div><div></div> or <div><div><div></div></div></div></div> it appears there is a border added to each successive box, makes me think it is something like the second (notsogood) sample

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14 Years Ago

Re: PHP question

look at wordpress,
blog,
forum,
software
many of the premade scripts have this feature, admin/registered areas that modify the page within preset limits by a web interface, adjustable to user levels

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14 Years Ago

Re: One HTML Form, Two Submit Buttons, one to a pop up with POST data ... how?

given that the data is in the fields and the format is known, why submit
preview could be a layer in the current page with the correct css to display the information as it appears in the database
something like

<input type='button' value='Preview' onclick="document.getElementbyID('preview').style='display:block;'">
<!-- and -->
<div id='preview' style='/*out in the css this is just a sample*/ z-index:100; bckground:grey; width:100%; height=100%; top:0; left:0;'>some html to layout the page and populate some data spaces with the value of the input fields<br>
and a button onclick=display:none; </div>

popup windows dont work, too many have them blocked by default, layers in the current window operate without being blocked,

like the kudos window above right on this post

Boy is that obvious :P

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to Change border on image when link is hovered

"next to it" and "adjacent" suggest IMHO that the img is not a child of the anchor, also because TS went "through many posts on multiple websites and it seems pretty complicated". Anyway, let's see.

You might be right, but when somebody also says they arent sure, fuzzy logic & try to convince them to make their layout the easy way :)

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to Change border on image when link is hovered

twiss: next to does not exclude the image being a child of the anchor

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to Change border on image when link is hovered

when declaring a pseudo state,
declare the default state or the state may not reset, on poorly compliant browsers
(~75% use the poorly compliant browser, it came preinstalled)
assuming the image is a child of the link, the simplest way to work it <a href='something'>link text <image src='something' alt='something else' width='lots' height='somewhat'></a>

a img {border:2px black;}
a:hover img {border-top:2px red;border-bottom:2px blue;}

gdonya zero

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Php form

post the code you have created, nobody will help unless you show evidence of attempt
& its a lot easier to change old code than write new code

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to de indexed the URLâ€™s from Google search?

google webmaster tools

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to make awesome software?

1 find a problem
2 develop a solution
3 make sure solution WORKS
awesome

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14 Years Ago

Re: Creating fluid layout of website

I dont indent, I use a code highlight editor the whitespace added to the files that may double it is unnecessary,
Move the elements that you want to position outside of other positioned elements
else all dimensions are relative to the outer element, not to the window as you expect
css shoved in the header, just to single file it on my laptop, being lazy

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xlmns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Dark Empire Forum</title>
<style type='text/css'>
body{ /*float:left;*/ width:100%; height:100%; padding:0; margin:0; background:black; /*overflow-x: hidden;*/ }
#header{ position:fixed; /*float:left;*/ color:yellow; text-align:center; width:100%; background:transparent; z-index:10; }
#footer{ position:relative; float:right; bottom:0; padding:1pt 0; color:yellow; text-align:center; width:100%; background:transparent; }
.main{ margin-top:3em; margin-right:0; background:black; padding:0; z-index:-3; }
#content{ position:relative; float:left; width:80%; height:100%; background:red; padding-left:2em; padding-top:2em; padding-bottom:2em; margin-bottom:.1px; /*padding-right:2em;*/ border-top-left-radius:25px; moz-border-radius-topleft:25px; border-bottom-left-radius:25px; moz-border-radius-bottomleft:25px;} 
#info{ position:fixed; right:0; width:12%; height:100%; color:white; margin-top:2em; padding:3em 2em; background:black; border-top-left-radius:25px; moz-border-radius-topleft:25px; border-bottom-left-radius:25px; moz-border-radius-bottomleft:25px; }
#navigation{ position:relative; float:left; width:13%; padding:15px; height:100%; color:white; background:transparent; }
</style></head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<p>Will contain random features like the log in/out link, etc</p></div>

<div id="info">
<p>Useful information will hopefully go here</p>
<p>Things like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Total user count</li>
<li># of users on currently</li>
<li>Total number of threads</li>
<li><SCRIPT>document.write(Date()+".")</SCRIPT></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div class="main">
<div id="navigation">
<img src="./imgs/forum-icon.png" width="120" height="90" alt="Basic logo" />
<h1>Dark Empire</h1>
<ul>
<li>Signup link</li>
<li>Homepage linkydink</li>
<li>Search linkydink</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
<img src="./imgs/squirrel-sith-lightning.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Random opening picture" />
<img src="./imgs/squirrel-sith-lightning.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Random opening picture" />
<img src="./imgs/squirrel-sith-lightning.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="Random …

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: want to reboot my dsl

already exists in your router firmware
view source on your router admin page

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Creating fluid layout of website

post the code, all of it, properly, dont waste the time of people you want to help you

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: HTML forms

both the first scripts, wordpress, and coppermine allow the user to upload images to their profile, and to the general site, they both allow supervisory functions to remove offensive/copyright/etc images, have comments sections

I think they answer all possible combinations of your question, subsequent questions & questions not thought of yet, dont require anybody else to do the work for you, they are quite simple to install and configure

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14 Years Ago

Re: $_GET Referer

the change is cool,
strange though, text and variables inside DQuotes are suppose to parse,
if it continues to work glad to help,
tag the thread solved makes my stats look good :P

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: CSS Auto Height with Maximum Height

what if they chose a signature that is more than 100px, do you clip

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: $_GET Referer

http_referer is not a dependable resource, its is not sent by all browsers
$_GET is an array not a command, it is populated from the referring page

before any other code redirects MUST be before any output

<?php if(!isset($_GET['url'])) {
   if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) {
     header("Location: $_SERVER['php_self']?url=$_GET['url']");} }

checks that 'url' is not set, checks if the referere is set, then redirects to the appropriate url form $_server['php_self'] can be the filename, eg index.php, I dont know what the filename is, this a a very generic redirect

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14 Years Ago

Re: Can spelling mistakes undermine company credibility? Yes / No?

of course
grammar syntax are enormously important, the site is the public image of the organisation, if the site is in error, the organisation behind the site is considered to be in error

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14 Years Ago

Re: want to reboot dsl

Your router already hsa this function built in, RTFM

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: 404

.htaccess error message

ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.htm

a single line of text in the .htaccess file
directing to a html/php/asp/whatever page

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head>
<meta name="Language" content="en-US">
<meta http-equiv="content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<title>Oops File Not Found</title></head>
<body style='margin:70px;'><p>MYSITE</p>
<a href='http://www.mysite.com'>©Mysite</a>
<p>Oops:<br>
File not found<br>
The requested resource or page is not available<br>
or<br>
Direct linking to this page is not available.<br><br>
<p><ahref="http://www.mysite.com/">Click here</a> to open MYSITE menu pages</p>
</body></html>

ErrorDocument 404 "<body bgcolor=#ffffff><h1>That page dont acutally <b>Exist</b>, Colonel!"

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Slopes?

from the css, the hidden text is placed inside a <p> inside a <div> or <p> with the id='*slope*'

(using DOS convention * represents any string of characters eg threeslope slope2 as per the css file
example

<div id='threeslope'>this text should always display<p> this text should display when you click the original text and the div expand to display it </p>this text should display always also</div>

google 'stu nicholls' from memory he is the author of the slopes menu and slopes flyout

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Debate Table based or CSS based Layouts

Remember, dinosaurs may have another brain in their tails, so when the table-saurs in the office bit__ about the changes, you may have to kick em in the pants as well as slap them up the side of the head

finally changed table layout to a css layout year back, was doodling with it for a year prior

originally
6200 static table-layout pages months to update, the typical 'frontpage' site

now
1 css template
1 sql db ~30 tables couple100K items
3 folders full of images and video, referenced by the scripts (I have NO idea what they are, I just stick the SD card in the slot and tell the script the property address)
3 includes for differing scripts
4 php files to process the db
2 php files for updates
=600000+ dynamic pages

layout changes, piece of cake
language changes, piece of cake,
data changes, piece of cake

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: pass javascript var to php

php works on the server, javascript on the client,
javascript cannot communicate with a php script without submitting something to the server, (perth to NewYork without a phone call??) its not possible
to accomplish the appearance of not submitting or getting something follow Zero's direction and examine ajax

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to print text vertically in IE6

the style property is writing-mode:tb-rl fliterv filterh

no it isnt

<div style='writing-mode:tb-rl; filter:fliph flipv;'>1 this is a line<br>2 this is a line<br>3 this is a line</div>

inline styles for examp[le only, get em out into a .css file

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: WYSIWYG JS Editors and Web attacks

set your editors NOT to produce html, but some other, of the many kinds of enhanced text
like bbcode that is used to add [b]bold[/b] code highlighting and text effects in these forums, daniweb,
thats why alternate forms exist
the script handles the code and produces html, there is no chance of html injection

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: How to get top rank in search engines?

Does anyone have any advise on improving rankings for a Flash site. I've dont the obvious like Alt Text Tags to all images describing the image and links to external sites which has helped, but I wondering if there are any Flash specific tricks I can use?

Flash, allows there to be text embedded in the file, see "text reader extensions", a disabliility aide, this allows bots to index the flash file
ensure the site html is valid and includes searchable words,
If the site works with flash disabled, bots will be able to index it

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Inserting & Formatting Text Date Field into Date/Time

datetime.createfromformat
should cover the neccesary formatting, produces a datetime that you can dump straight into the db

<?php // part of the php script sanitizing the data for input to db where the form date field is inputdate
$DBdate = date_create_from_format('n/d/Y|', $inputdate); // trailing | sets time to 0 
?>

the sql to update the database is pretty ordinary, ignore inputdate and Insert into table $name $details $DBdate etc

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Interactive Map of UK

google maps api

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Help with sound on mouseover

am having a little trouble with sound on mouseover in my website, if anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it.
The link to my site is www.trecall.com.
There are two menus, and each menu has a different sound that supposed to be heard on mouseover.

dont do it, sounds are annoying, but if you must ...

Firstly, sometimes when I open the site, the sound is not heard at all, and sometimes it is. Why is that?

the sound has likely not downloaded at that time, whatever sound it is has to download to the user before it plays, there is latency in that, which may be longer than the time the user has onmousover
a possible fix is to force download of the file either by a script or <img src='filename.wav' style='display:none;' width='0' height='0'> any of a dozen forcefiledownload tricks near </body></html> the endo of the file

Also, there are two different sounds, one on the top menu and one on the main menu. When I put my mouse on one button from one menu, and hear that sound, the same sound will be heard the next time a mouseover on a button, regardless if that's the right sound for that button or not!

dunno sorry

And one more thing: The sound on the main animated menu is not heard correctly. It's supposes to be one clear sound, but it usually comes out choppy. How come?

bandwidth issues, or proceesor use %age issues, either …

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: I need to modify a change password code

Then you have some work to do
this is a help forum, not a do it for you forum,
gets very tiresome

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Debate Table based or CSS based Layouts

imagine the table without all the html to define the table,

<table bla bla bla>
<tr bla bla bla>
<td bla bla bla>
CONTENT
</td>
<td bla bla bla>
CONTENT
</td>
<td bla bla bla>
CONTENT
</td>
<td bla bla bla>
CONTENT
</td>
<td bla bla bla>
CONTENT
</td>
<td bla bla bla>
CONTENT
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<div class='tableclass'>content content content content content content</div>

with a few lines of css in an external file referenced by every file in the site and dl once, defining the layout of 'tableclass'
there isnot any comparison
there is a lot of effort to fix the code, but it must be bloody difficult to maintain now

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ko ko commented: Genius! Feel like the same to you. But, tables are still significant in some cases. +5

almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

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Re: Creating Universal Header & Footer Files

or if using multiple directory structures

<?php define('_path','../../');//example only it would be different for each folder
include(_path.'menu.php');?>

and each item in the menu file also references the path <a href='<?php echo _path; ?>/downto/thisfolder.htm'>thisfolder</a>

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Debate Table based or CSS based Layouts

there is no debate, tables take too much code to display the same information, small is beautiful

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: URGENT!!!!!! Need forgot password code!!!!!!

do NOT send the password via email,
defeats the whole purpose of security,
send a link via email, to the email address of registration ONLY,
to a page that logs them in, and requires they reset the password

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Why is there so much assembly?

nope
they all produce pretty much the output of the DOS debugger,
the simplest byte level opcodes
the statements from a higherlevel source are lost, thats why assembler is so efficient
the Hello world in C or Pascal is very much larger, contains much of the source

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Why is there so much assembly?

the dis-assembler does not produce the same highlevel source code you had before you ran the assembly language compiler
it produces an intermediate opcode equal to each byte sequence within the exe
the traditional hello world program, is

;"hello, world" in assembly language for BeOS
;
;nasm -f elf hello.asm
;ld -s -o hello hello.o

section	.text
    global _start			;must be declared for linker (ld)

_syscall:			;system call
	int	0x25
	ret

_start:				;tell linker entry point
	push	dword len	;message length
	push	dword msg	;message to write
	push	dword 1		;file descriptor (stdout)
	mov	eax,0x3		;system call number (sys_write)
	call	_syscall	;call kernel
	add	esp,12		;clean stack (3 * 4)

	push	dword 0		;exit code
	mov	eax,0x3f	;system call number (sys_exit)
	call	_syscall	;call kernel
				;no need to clean stack

section	.data

msg	db	"Hello, world!",0xa	;our dear string
len	equ	$ - msg			;length of our dear string

compiles to 16 bytes, and decompiles to ~1K, without comments, every byte in a dword gets a separate push mov call sequence, every letter in the text

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sergent commented: Helpful :) +0

almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Ajax working in IE but not in firefox

Old versions of firefox had a proprietary dom, new versions have a simliar dom to IE safari, just a way better implementation than IE

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: useful links

these standard test beds may assist you http://analyze.websiteoptimization.com/authenticate.php?url=http://www.yoursite.com&/ Speed tweaks

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 html check

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yoursite.com&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en CSS check

http://demo.opera-mini.net/demo.html?www.yoursite.com handheld

http://www.browsershots.org other browsers

many problems (if present) will show
serious code errors in the w3c validator sites will produce blankscreens in browsershots

Valid code does not ensure the site will work ...
Invalid code ensures the site will not work ...
.. in all browser OS combinations

not all layouts work in handheld devices
strictly code based, you understand your content more than I would

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: needing to format telephone number before putting into database

if you dont tell them the code, only show them the output.....
will they notice

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: is frameset better than using tables for designing webpage layout..........

In a less a_hole answer than my first, css is easier to learn, and more, much more, versatile

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: needing to format telephone number before putting into database

its easier to store unmanipulated unformatted data,
if the small local american site becomes a large global site there is less recoding of rigid code
the database is smaller by 2bytes, not a big thing for 10 records a big thing for many fields of millions of records
a datetime stamp takes 4bytes(?), a text date time takes
monday Feb 16 2011, 11:05:45pm (much more than 4) etc

<?php echo subst($_request['telephone'],0,3).'-'.subst($_request['telephone'],3,3).'-'.subst($_request['telephone'],6,4); ?>

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: is frameset better than using tables for designing webpage layout..........

both are excellent in 1985

css is the current best practice for layout

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Web design - Web developin efficieny trade off

http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/ the standard, resorts element order, so the menu buttons should adjust, home will become first on right, in rtl languages, and first on left in ltr languages

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: total visitors in html or php

because google analytics depends on javascript and an external server, it is blocked by much ant-spyware, particularly the MSMVP Hosts file, and does not record accurately
there are several php sqsl/flatfile trackers that act solely on your server so are not blockd
I like bbclone for limited hosts, or use the logs built in to your server, if your host package gives access, there are many programs to interpret the server logs,

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almostbob 866 Retired: passive income ROCKS

14 Years Ago

Re: Slopes?

slopes works on my pc, no javascript so
it is a css menu, triggered on the :active psuedo state instead of the :hover pseudo state
the html is just text, the smarts is in the css
something that operates on focus, on an element id inside a containing element
re-examine the css that is bundled with the script, or post it here