Posts by almostbob

It was jerky for me, on jsfiddle
I was doing a lot of other stuff at the same time

Pritaeas suggests there is something else going on / running in the site that makes it jerky, some other active content or javascript
or are you doing something else while you are editing the site content

jerky,
till I paused the AV and MBAM scans running in the background
what else is running?

its usually css positioning of a background image
you can select in css how big a box, and whee it is placed, to display an image bcakground

not slang,
a dialect,
complete enough to be a distinct language.

Slaves werent taught, the local patois are phonetic representation of the owner's English, Many dropped terminating consonants, dropped dipthongs. Anglicised Creole, mixed with many words from West African languages

Same as everybody above
promised results, always less than truthful,
delisted from search engines is a result

google webmaster tools give current correct personalised answers on making your site compliant, google make SEO rules
w3c have code testers to ensure your site is code compliant, w3c make coding rules
bad code, really bad code, does not display in all OS/Browser combinations, and if the bots can't parse it, ranks badly in SER

+content, original correct semantic attributed

nothing else works

links to code testers google tools, handheld testers in the readme before you ask for review code compliant sites rank higher in SER thread

Irrelevant links from high ranked sites have negative value
Keep the posts and the links on relevant websites, to the business.
In this thread, the link to your site is relevant, the text says I have problems with my site
The same link in different circumstance is irrelevant, spam, downgraded.
Search bot programs are very AI

something like

<select name="username" id="username">
 <option value="">--</option>
 <?php
  $database_link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);
  $db = mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $database_link);
  $loop = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM registration");
  while($row = mysql_fetch_array($loop)) { 
   echo "<option value='$row['username']>$row['username']</option>"; 
  } ?>
</select>

Parker, you arent using that script

<option is inside the for loop in your second post
<option is outside the while loop in your first post

Pritaeas: 12000 posts,moderator,featured,sponsor,1915 solved, 1544 reputation, 172 skill;
10 on the 0-10 sliding scale of guru

is telling

Parker 1: 20 posts, nul, nul, nul, 0, 0, 0, 0;
the personification of the other end of the 0-10 scale

the answer

Did you at least try it

Most drag and drop software produces pixel layouts, loks great on your desktop, looks crap on any other screen size, device resolution, pushes out of partscreen windows,

Coffee cup html can produce html5 css3 compliant code, % em rem layouts, it has a very short learning curve, and doesnt have to be fixed later to make it display on a ipad or phone
preview on any device - built in
templateable
version control
Clean code, separated layout and presentation
code completion and hints, its hard to leave out closing an element

Pretty damn good actually
I write by hand, since the 80s, now using notepad++
If I were beginning again now, probably first choice for html,
as your skills increase, the editor adjusts, only pushes when you miss something

later when you build serverside, php asp sql, its still a good choice for the html part of it

allows, does not mean should, port numbers for ssl connections may be 25, but are ofter 465 585
The host should have the ports on its setup helpscreens

Just trying to confirm:
you do understand that

1. windows xampp wamp et al do not include mail servers

2. The resources linked to refer to linux and windows xp not windows 2012 systems.

3. That external mail servers require authentication not included in any of the scripts so far shown

The method for accessing an smtp host is very similar to accessing your sql DB server
Server, Port, Name, password, are all required
Borzoi is correct;
Usually the hosts are 'smtp.server.com'
the protocol is taken care of by other declarations,
what the instructions say you can and
what best practice says you should
are way different

You can jump off a 1000 foot cliff,
but you probably shouldn't, and you cant do it twice.

REQUIRED pop and smtp server connection details will likely be in the Host's helpscreens

I was an infantry soldier
retired :disposal munitions explosive ordinance: alive & with all four limbs, always a bonus
Uni courses were, so I could blow things up with less hassle, chem and phys

fireworks scare me half to death

the id and name of the select field are missing from the code sample, I have chosen 'fieldname'

<?php if($_POST['fieldname']){ 
echo "<option value='$_POST['fieldname'] selected='selected'> $_POST['fieldname'] </option>";}
else { 
$getData = $db->prepare("SELECT * FROM first_university_degree_list");
 if ($getData->execute()) {
  $res = $getData->get_result();
  while ($data = $res->fetch_array()) {
   echo "<option value='$data['univ_degree']'";   
   if($FirstUniversityDegree == $data['univ_degree']) {echo 'selected="selected"';} 
   echo "$data['univ_degree'] </option>";
  }
 }
} ?>

If the data is posted, use that, else run the select statement

syntax may be incorrect due to not seeing the entire code page, may be _GET etc, but should provide a base for dev

Escaped being bullied in High School, didnt go much,
and between end of yr 6 and beginning of 7, grew from 4ft 5 to 6ft 1
was the weird kid who'll kill you
a few violent outbursts mostly exerting the change of influence between the former 4'5" punching bag, and former bullies
Defence paid for uni, and a salary while I was there.
Even if you are the only student in uniform, being the only one with money helps a lot. $3 lunches at the 'Nott'
Of course I like to blow things up

1981
chem, physics, pure math, applied maths, biology, cartography, English, English lit,
I went to school on mondays, mondays were prac classes
didnt go other days, boring
external exams made 100% of the marking,
I do well in exams, usually finish hours before the end

There was a truant officer, she gave up coming around after a few months of the folks
"well test him on anything studied when you say he wasnt there"

damn, hippies

it can be as simple as propogation time, DNS servers take time to react to the construction of new sites, or the changing of site structure.
very likely the links may simply not have reached google yet

sitemap submission to the webmaster tools page will increase depth of googlebot access

This u tube is a linear along the time dimension, 12 years long,

time as a fourth dimension is simple to understand
a floor plan is a section across the z dimension, and the time dimension
an elevation is a section across the x dimension, and the time dimension
or elevation is a section across the y dimension, and the time dimension
your baby photo, teenage photo, wedding photo, retirement photo, are sections across the time dimension, and the x y z dimensions
the time dimension is enormously important.
It is simple to stand on the train tracks in front of a train, as long as the train's position on the time dimension is 'yesterday'
it just is bloody difficult to produce a linear drawing along the time dimension.

19 is wrong
20 is wrong
26 is wrong
39 is wrong

english, for the helpscreens
the translations of helpscreens can make one procedural error, and f-up your whole week

How about something on the submit button
onclick='window.onbeforeunload = null;'
or on

form.submit.

Yes, emphatically yes
many game lobbies run the game in C, the game backend in perl, the frontend website in php, from the same database,
perl and C give rapid non-sequential, simultaneous db access, to thousands of players
php gives a website, where the user can trade for, or buy, game stuff.
If you think, playstation dot com, yep
or
Xbox live, you'd only be wrong because that site uses asp

I dont have that book, I'll buy it tomorrow, and read it yesterday

After leaving school, 30+ years ago, Dataflex

Trial and error

Coffee

and most important of all

timtams

at 15-16, there was no web, to build sites on
I had a functioning darpanet address, but it was text only, and only useful for cable-like messages

I have a few now

My kids, "yeah our generation has all this stuff, Smartphones,the internet, impressive stuff".

Me, "What are you going to make to impress your kids, my generation made all the stuff"

they hate it, makes my day

when sending files to the server,
the folder has to have permissions set to allow php to write to the folder
the image folder has thosee permissions set, php writes images,
Cereal asked if the songs folder is writeable
if images and songs are sent to the same folder the question is moot,

not getting the point :: may be some research to do
the host control panel helpscreens may have instructions on permissions
your ftp program likewise

You have to leave at least 2 options, so people can always choose the wrong one

developed from binary coding,
representation of kilo anything,
2^10
2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2 = 1024
4 kilobyte 4*1024

slack definition of kilo, 1000,

1, marketers add 2.5% to the size of anything, and say they are bigger than the competition,

2, why so many terabyte drives, don't hold a terabyte; even before formatting

3, because the practitioner is stupid, lazy, or both.

The time dimension

4th dimension is "time" and we can not jump it.

Yet:

have to be careful we don't travel through occupied spaces

Websites attempting to override user settings is generally frowned upon, even if harmless it is still considered potentially malicious

it can be done in css with a @media print call, in which there is a div, full width full height containing the background image, not as background, just as an image, with a z-index=(minus something huge), visible as a background behind printed info

Is set in the printer dialogue by the user

I have all I need

8 letter word representing bovine excrement

bloody students
havent learned enough yet to know, what anybody who gave a damn enough to help, would need to do that help

not made any effort

the school finals next week, NOT our problem. If you had done any work all year, you would be done now.

example of how to ask

search yourself

not going to get much help with that question

nobody wants to do your homework
google it yourself

slide0 hgas different styling than applied to slide 2 3 4
Try <div id='slide0' with the styling attributes of the slides that do work

<div id="slide0" style="float:left; width:100%; height:500px; ">

compared to

<div id="slide1" style="float:left; width:100%; height:500px; background:#444444; padding:10px; border-top-left-radius:5px; border-top-right-radius:5px;5px; border-bottom-right-radius:5px;5px; border-bottom-left-radius:5px; box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #888888; position:relative; z-index:1;">

z-index default is 0 :: slide0 may be behind the other slides in IE8's opinion so the links unclickable.

cssmenu.com may have what you want

get rid of any mixed cases.
uri normally lower case,
B2Bpage is not equal to b2bpage on the server, but it is on localhost
ie is expecting the standard (lower case letters) and converting the uri to lowercase
firefox is smarter and handles uri as entered

IE is still >= 70% of users

Have to support it

a very famous programmer: JustinCase :always instructed.
Make sure you test everything and have the client sign off on everything.

An application for a bunch of litigious expletive deleteds, who, as a group, have a reputation for misconduct; suing the other parties to the contract: not paying their due; is not, generally, a good beginner's task ..

Hi people, i'm new to php and i have this problem:
I am developing an application for an insurance company in php is a farkin scary statement

the thoughts of those you send the link to:
Google this link is not google, but how do you tell (site IS a joke google)

anchor text does not match the uri of your site or the content of the message
= spam report,
more than a few spam reports, blacklist
url shorteners not such a good idea outside of twitter.
nobody should click obfuscated links

a possible solution : do the whiz-bang serverside, and only send innocuous html to the browser, php jsp perl instead of javascript.

in your code sample above, line 9 should be line 19.
<body> does not belong inside the <head>

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>HTML5</title>
<meta name="description" content="">
<style>
body {background: url(pics/paris.jpg) center top; background-size: 105% auto;}
</style>
</head>
<body oncontextmenu="return false">
<h3 align="center">Hello World</h3>
</body>
</html>

w3schools.com a tutorial site

As already replied above, html is a markup language to create a static web page directly.
php is a server scripting language used to create html pages at the server, interact with a database of (for example) HELP posts like this.
This web site is comprised of php scripts to create the millions of pages that make it.
There is not a horde of programmers retyping every altered page whenever somebody adds a post :P
Start with html, css, php, mysql,
with each there are good tutorial sites, heaps of code samples, prewritten scripts under gnu to base your own work on.

Ditto Diafol above
get the supervisor to explain why they want to break a funtional system

Thats why we all come here :)

IE6 IE7 IE8 support @media queries Joshua made a small mistake?
so it can be simply done in css
@media screen { }
@media print { }
so
@media screen {.dontshow {display:none;}}
@media print {.dontprint {display:none;}}
results in

<div> this text would display in both screen and printer</div>
<div class='dontprint'>this text displays only onscreen</div>
<div class='dontshow'>this text displays only on paper</div>

menus get a 'class="dontprint menu" '
it made my css file 1.5k bigger to produce the differences between the screen handheld and print styles
and it functions well
using IE8 firefox and opera, on a xp mini laptop

not reading the question, javascript was not the answer, edited out wrongness

as Forrest Gump didn't say
"stupid is as stupid answers"
"Life is a venereal disease, you never know what you're gonna get"

can you post the code to the attempt, so that we can see what is attempted, else we are shooting blind

possibly unrelated, possibly related
been playing with hardware
I get that error message and icons
when I plug in a card reader with no card.
or a microsd adaptor with no sdcard
the hardware seems unable to access its internal circuits
Its Dead I think

also there was a windows format driver for >4GB cards, for xp, I assumed vista & higher had exfat support built in
but http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=19364 may help

I dont know what you plan to be doing with the code, but it would make calculations simpler if the values of the select were strictly numeric, from +12.0 to -12.0, when you need to print out times relative to servers etc later, then the value will not need to be strtotime() saving processing
you can still human readable the data as simply
echo 'you are located in timezone '.$timezone;
is as easy as
echo ' you are located in timezone GMT '.$timezone.' hours';
and something like
the time in your location is'.time()+$timezone;
code scraps not examined for accuracy

the last item is 'selected':: the last item will be selected when the drop down list receives focus
put the selected option first and the first item will be selected when the list receives focus, & will start at the top,
put the selected item in the middle and the list will have both up and down options
I would use a more explanatory code at the top
<option value="" selected='selected'>currently <?php echo $timezone; ?>, click to alter</option>

if you want the selected value to display in the code at its proper position in the list of options
kill off the current line 33 and alter each of the other lines to something like
<option <?php if($timezone=="GMT +4:00 hours"){echo ' selected ';} ?> value="GMT +4:00 hours" >(GMT +4:00 hours) Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Baku, Tbilisi</option>