borfast
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Justin, I don't know any such PHP script but why don't you port the JavaScript code to PHP? I've done that with a few scripts myself and it's not hard to do. As for the user-dependant URL, you could try using the user's IP address as a random number seed, or something like that.
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Hi Mel. Sorry, you can't run Java applications on TCH servers. If it's an applet, it's a different thing. When you visit a web page that contains an applet, it runs on your own computer, not on the server, so you don't need any special server support for it. But since you say the program updates MySQL tables, I'd say it's a server-side application indeed, which won't run on TCH servers. Sorry
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Sorry, I thought I had replied to this earlier. Go to opencube.com and check out their QuickMenu (hey, they just revamped their web site! Nice! ) Edit: Seems they have a new tool to create menus. Haven't tried it but it seems nice. Unfortunately they still only know Windows, so if your OS is something else, you're out of luck.
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Being a vegetarian, I'm not that worried about it
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Seems cool but what about people who don't use Windows?
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You can't chmod files uploaded via FTP because their owner is the user which uploaded them and the user PHP acts like is another one, so it can't change other users' files. If you create a file with a PHP script, it's owner will be the user PHP runs as, so when you try to chmod it, there's nothing wrong with it.
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Good luck, Mitch! We will all miss you. Take care.
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What hapens then? Are they re-scheduled to be updated in, say, an hour? Or are they only updated the next morning?
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Welcome, Augie. You'll like it here, I can guarantee!
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I could be wrong but I don't think you can make it go directly into AWstats because that would mean giving public access to a part of cPanel. I suppose the only sollution for this is to install AWStats directly on your account and provide a public link for it.
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manu, how "FREE" is that tool? I mean, I understand it's free of charge but is it really free or will it bind you to use only M$ products (in this case, their browser)? I ask this because that would be an interesting tool to use for web sites but if it restricts the visitors to the M$ browser, then to me it's like I never even heard of it
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Thomas, basically, the only safe way is to specify multiple similar (or as similar as possible) fonts, otherwise you never know how your site will look on your visitors' browsers. I don't know if the menus you're using allow to do that but I'm sure it does. If the fonts are specified somewhere, be it via CSS or the <font> tag, you can change it into a font list - you just have to look in the right place
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I sure looks nice!! Thanks, evanginc!
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Thomas, there's usually no such thing as "web safe fonts" because each operating system comes with its own set of fonts. Of course you can install more but when designing a web site, you can't count on your visitors to have installed that really nice font that came in that "100001 TrueType Fonts" CD and you love so much. So the trick is to specify alternatives. You specify a list of fonts the browser should look for and when someone visits your website, the visitor's browser will look for the first font in the list. If it finds it, it'll use it. Otherwise it will look for the second font in the list and so on. In CSS, to specify a font for the <body> tag, for example, you'd do it like this: body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } This means the browser will look for Arial (usually found on Windows) first, then Helvetica (common on *nix systems) and if it doesn't find any of them, it will select the generic sans-serif font family configured on your machine. I found a couple of websites that look interesting (don't have time to read them all now, though). The first one tells you about the commonly foun fonts in various systems (ignore the <font> tag used there ): prestwood.com/community/webmaster/info/browser_safe_fonts.html The other one is this: www.724leads.com/web-safe-fonts.htm Hope this helps
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Jack's idea is good, too. I did forgot to mention one problem about the code-in-image idea: you will prevent visually impaired visitors from contacting you. The random alphanumeric string idea Jack suggested does not suffer from this problem. There are lots of things you could imagine to improve your form. It's just a matter of imagining stuff you'd require your visitors to do in order to prove they are not 'simple' scripts. Jack, perhaps you want to improve your Ultimate Form Mail PHP script with such a feature
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Someone refresh my memory but isn't it allowed to have a different domain "pointing" to an existing account by means of a redirection? Perhaps this could be the way out for Don from his current host.
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I used to think that HTML forms were a relatively easy way to prevent spammers from arrasing me but recently I found out that I was wrong. Somehow I got some messages in my inbox that went there through one of the contact forms I have in one of my websites. I suppose it's not that hard to create a script to look into websites, search for contact forms and fill them out. From the top of my head, the only way I see to prevent this is using some kind of image authentication, like the one used by IPB when you register a new user. The page presents you with an image containing some sort of code that you must type in a text box and the e-mail only gets sent if the code you submit matches the one on the image. That code can't be read by a simple script because it's in an image, making the form secure from spammers - at least until someone finds a way for scripts to read the codes, that is...
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I suppose so. I never tried it but I think it's possible and some other people have done that when moving to TCH. At the very least, you should be able to backup all the files and databases manually and then upload them to/set them up in your account here at TCH.
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Hi Don. It shouldn't be too complicated even without Fantastico. I believe that since you use CPanel, you can transfer your whole website automatically (just need to ask one of our admins to do it for you). If I recall correctly, Fantastico only installs the software automatically for you. After it's installed, you can move it arround (along with the propper databases, of course) without needing Fantastico for the website to work.
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You know, that's one smiley that we *really* should have! I have needed it several times!
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Don, SubSilver is a style for phpBB, not Invision Power Board Sh0cknock, getting other styles in your board is simple. Go to http://phpbb.com/styles/ and chose You can also read about how to manage styles here: http://phpbb.com/support/guide/#section3_4
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Mike, you could have tried to simply copy and pasted a column of 1px from the forum title bar background image and use it as a background for the TCH logo. But I can see you already got it right.
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It's quite visible so I suppose you have seen it by now but the TCH logo background on the top-left corner is not the same as the background for the rest of the top bar.
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Merry Christmas, everyone. But above all, I wish that you can appreciate the rest of the year with equal joy and happiness instead of just during these days. Try to live each day as if it's Christmas day! Be generous! Be happy! Make others happy! Try to get the family together more than once a year! Make 2004 a better year for you and the ones you love! PS - I know I'm a bit late for this but you know what they say: it's the intention that counts...
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Steve, you should try Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl). It doesn't have an explicit FTP feature but you can open and save files directly over network connections (FTP, NFS, SMB, etc) thanks to Gnome's VFS. Some other nice editors for Linux: Screem: http://www.screem.org/ Quanta Plus: http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Peacock: http://peacock.sourceforge.net/