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• PHP form to capture variables and then email

Does anyone have any recommendations for a cheap and cheerful php form that will retrieve variables from a URL and send them in an email. Nothing...

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• Works in Firefox but not IE Why

Hi guys, I downloaded a template from a free template site and have begun to make a site out of it Dreamline: About This Template...

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• Fix this lightbox script

Howdo, I found a very simple lightbox script which is working fine. However on one particular page, I have a lot of images. This means the screen is...

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• By-pass html conditional re-direct

I have a small html re-direct set-up on the homepage of one of my sites. The redirect catches IE6 uses and sends them to a page where I tell them how bad IE6 is :D. However, I have a button which lets them go back and browse the site anyway. Needless to say they just end up gping in circles because once they go back to the homepage it sends them back to the IE6 bashing page. My question is, what's the easiest way to by-pass the IE6 conditional html if they are coming from the IE6 page?

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• Xml & Xslt

How do search engines treat XML. I've done a bit of research on the web and I'm getting contradictory answers. I have a project to develop where 80% area is admin and 20% frontend. I'm concerned how Google would treat the frontend, and whether it would be penalised. Thanks

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• how to connect a database with pure html codes

I am doing a simple webpage with pure html codes and I want it to connect with database(MySQL)... I have no any idea if it is possible to connect a database with html code only... so..my question is: Can i work with database with just html codes? if so..how can I connect a database? or if not.. what should I do so that I can work with database? what are the codes? somebody...thanks...

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• Accounting for rounding errors

I posted this as an accountancy question on another forum. Perhaps it is more of a coding issue. I'm writing an invoicing system in PHP/mySQL at the moment, for my own use, to suit my own business rules. A major premise is that when a quote is accepted, the invoices are generated from that quote, as stage-payment percentages of the overall cost. There can be as many stages as required, each with an abitrary percentage specified (not exceeding 100, obviously). If I quote somebody for €1075.50 and invoice them in 3 stages for 17%, 50% and 33% of the total, these values work out at 182.83500000 537.75000000 and 354.91500000 On an invoice, I believe nobody issues invoices for a fraction of a penny, so these would be rounded to the penny, giving 182.83 537.75 and 354.91 if I round down giving a total invoiced of 1075.49, and 182.84 537.75 and 354.92 if I round up giving a total invoiced of 1075.51 Both these values differ from the quote value of 1075.50 How can I reconcile the error? I could calculate when the last invoice had reached 100 percent and make it's value = totalcost - amount already invoiced. But this adds an unwieldy special case with lots of extra programming. Can anybody suggest a more elegant solution?

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• PHPBB3 Forum Help Wanted

Hi folks, I had a link to someone recommended here who was handy at sticking up forums but cannot seem to get hold of him. Does anyone know any other contact who can work remotely and set up a forum for me? It is a very simple forum. Many thanks, wildSaffy

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• How to insert flash into a website

Hi guys, I recently downloaded this from a stock website: Royalty-free Stock Flash: Basic spectrum analizer animation | iStockphoto.com (http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/style_and_design/flash_files/animations/686138_basic_spectrum_analizer_animation.php?id=686138) Its a .fla file. How do I insert it into HTML code can anyone tell me? Sorry, I just barely know html code so I've never done anything like this before Thanks for any help you can give

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• CSS Frameworks - Can you recommend one

Hi Everyone, I could have swore I posted this today, but can't see it anywhere. So here goes again. I'm looking for a GOOD CSS framework. I've come across a few CSS Global Resets from Yahoo! and Eric Meyer but I find that they actually can slow you down more than help you out. There is also blue print blueprintcss - Google Code (http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/) which seems to be good, but seems to use a Ruby script to generate stuff for you. I've only looked at the Wiki, but it seems quite complex. I'm wondering what others use to achieve design consistency across many browsers / devices and also for print style sheets etc.. It would be good to have a frame work that sets good typography rules for readability, but also one that allows for flexibility in layout. Suggestions / tips / help / websites? Anyone? :)

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• Another (complete) newbie PHP Question

Ok so I have been assigned as webnanny at work for a site that is designed in .php - I haven't used this before and am trying to catch up asap. I would like to continue using *Dreamweaver* to manage the site. Is there anything I should know about this (as opposed to HTML which I am used to)? I also need help setting up a *testing server* within the Dreamweaver environment. Someone told me that DW presents security issues with webdesign but I have no option than to use it at this point and spend endless hours poring over a PHP manual I have just downloaded! :( Any help would be appreciated. wildsaffy

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• GeoIP Help

Hi all, Hoping you could help me out. I have been playing around with the GeoIP database and API (.NET C#) and need some help to see if it is accurate. Tried some Proxy site, but I can never be really sure where they are from... Could some of you go to my GeoIP Test (http://www.valt.nl/) and tell me which result you are getting and if it is accurate? Thanks very much in advance. BTW. If you want a copy of the code, give me a holler

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• What is this code used for...

I've picked up another site to maintain with code I've never seen before... %%SUBMENU%% What do the double-percentages mean?

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• Anything faster than PHP Curl library

I am working an a program that will make few get request (3-9) per page and it seems to be a bit on the slow side. Is there a faster option out there for PHP?

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• making a Flash Banner Clickable

I have a flash banner that I've downloaded, and I wondering if there is anyway I can insert some embedded code to make it clickable. The .swf file itself doesn't seem to be clickable. I'm trying to get it to work with OpenAds, so I uploaded the .swf and I put in the destination URL also. Any ideas as to what the stupid thing I am doing Thanks, P

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• Youtube API (gdata) + Zend framework on shared hosting

I'm trying to figure out how to implement the youtube API (http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_protocol.html) on a site of mine which is on (blacknight) shared Linux hosting. I'm finding it difficult to understand from the google documentation if this is possible, or if it's something that my host would have to provide or do for me. Has anybody got any experience with this or any of the other google api on shared hosting? I've done a fairly thorough search and all i can find is that it comes as standard in the Zend framework, but I can't find out how/if one can install this on a shared hosting plan. Any pointers? Thanks

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• Link to an iFrame

OK, I have been wondering how I can get this to work. I am creating a splash page, with links to certain areas of content on my site. So this HTML splash page appears on its own separate. Now, the site is run from one page page with an iFrame in it, from which all the site's content is accessed. Now, on the splash page, if I create a link to a page within the site, how do I get the iFrame page to load with the content inside on the iFrame? Many thanks for anyone who can help. Ronan.

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• Lightbox2 CSS help

I'm tring to figure out Lightbox2 - I understand it's a commonly used bit of software and wondered if anyone here might be able to help me... homepage Lightbox 2 (http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/#how) I don't have a lot of CSS experience, is this the correct place for the script code? * Untitled Document image #1 TEST   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 _uacct = "UA-31716-19"; urchinTracker(); * I've downloaded the lightbox2 files - dumped the contents of the folders into the root directory of the site (css/images/js) By the by the css file is appearing as a .txt file - ?! Anyway I've also added the line of code for the image - see above "image #1" The preview in firefox simply shows a hotlink "image #1" which loads the larger image at the bottom of the page - not as it should... Am I missing anything with the css files that come with the appliation? do I just dump them into the root directory? Any ideas? - I'd love the get this figured!

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• need to pick a dotnet brain

Im developing a .net CMS, the main problem with my current system is that someone setting up a site needs to know asp.net / have access to the code to implement the design. I want to seperate the design html from the master page - so i will create a dynamic master page loading in the html layout, finding content areas from keywords in the html and allow the user drop user controls into these areas. ( ie replicate what is done on graffitti cms ) i dont know if i should create a physical master page ( ie when they put in their UC's as save the template - save a page.master on the server or should i serialise the object and its settings and dynamically add the necessary user controls when a page is requested. As you can see im still at an earlly stage - but basically i want to seperate the design from the .net code and allow the user controls to be configured fro the backend -any properties that they expose can be set in the admin area. Any recomendations / info would be great.

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• Chat Rooms

Can anyone tell me what coding language/s I would have to learn to build a chat room, or even, a chat client that could be downloaded to everyones computer but is the same universal room when people are connected? Im talking about a chat room with oporator privileges (admin), and maybe other features like "squads" and stuff like that, and have the chat room connected to a database on a website...? Thanking you, Eye PS. Just thought of another question that's bugging me...What coding languages would I need to learn to build a forum?

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