CDfuse.com

I needed this to access our Streamcast server as well. All I had to do was open a help ticket, tell them what I was doing, and it was up in minutes!

No shopping cart system was customizable enough for our site (cdfuse.com) so I designed one from scratch. It works with our account at Authorize flawlessly and I can modify, create, and delete anything and everything about it. Sure, it takes more time, but I think its worth it for a truly custom feel. Oh yeah, make sure you get SSL as well for securing those transactions.

http://www.cdfuse.com Helping independent artists get their music to the masses.

Our site has hundreds of members and continues to grow each day. Originally, I had written a newsletter script to allow us to send monthly emails to our members. Unfortunately, as we have grown, the script is having some severe efficiency problems. In fact, many times, after about halfway through the list, the script will die and stop sending. I'm using the built in mail() function but I think there's a better way. I know the mail() function opens and closes the connection to the mail server for each call but I believe there is another way to open the connection once, push all the mail through, and then close once it has all been sent. Oh, and I would just append each email address together but that looks bad upon the business in my eyes. I want everyone to get a single, individual email with only their address. Any ideas?

I tried that but my error-checking picks up empty data in required fields and puts me right back to the form. I think I might have found the problem, though. Apparently, when using the header() function, there some issues with session data transferring correctly. Using session_write_close() before initiating a header change will write all current session information to disk first. It should do this automatically as the header changes, but sometimes it doesn't. I'll try this and see if it makes a difference.

I've been having a problem on our site off and on and I think I've pinpointed it to something with cookies, but I wanted to get a second opinion. I've got a custom cart designed on our site and every now and then, an order will come through just fine, but some information will be missing. Or, other times, the entry will get put into the database, but every field will be null. Same thing occurs for member signups as well. To attempt to find out why this was occuring, I'm now checking browser versions and logging anything put into database with that information. So far, there has been no relation as different browsers have the same problem. The odd thing is that I can't recreate this at all. I've tried time and time again to recreate the problem and I can't make it happen. Everytime I do anything as far as signup or buy, it works perfectly. My theory is that since sessions still require cookies to be enabled, some people don't have them enabled, and its causing problems. Either that, or there are momentary hiccups when the code tries to enter things into the database.

Help desk notified, port opened, works like a charm. Thanks again!

Yeah, I know about the closure on there. I think I've found the root of the problem though. I can use fsockopen() all day if I'm just accessing port 80 on a server, but the minute I change that, it won't connect. I'll put in a helpdesk ticket as it seems like the server is blocking requests made to a non-standard port.

We had a shoutcast query script on our server that died whenever server 38 crashed. I'm beginning to think its not working because something wasn't setup correctly upon reinstallation but I wanted to run the script through you guys to see if something else may be wrong. ><?php $fp = fsockopen("ct2.fast-serv.com", 8782, &$errno, &$errstr, 30); fputs($fp,"GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: XML Getter (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n"); while(!feof($fp)) { $page .= fgets($fp, 1000); } echo $page; ?> On my local machine, this works fine. It goes to the server, grabs the page, and then spits it back out. Obviously, the data is manipulated after that but for now, I just want to get this part working.

I like serverside for one the main reason you listed: you know that as long as they're coded correctly, they will work for everyone. Java can be turned off in browsers and therefore you really shouldn't depend on it. We do everything serverside with pHp. Its an easy language to learn and every bit as powerful as any other serverside solution (ASP, ColdFusion, etc.)

I know its possible to use .htaccess to setup redirects for subdomains. Meaning, instead of using the Cpanel, I want to setup a something like http://board.cdfuse.com to http://www.cdfuse.com/forums in .htaccess. Also, I wanted to know if it was possible to create subdomains without using Cpanel as well. Some features in our site require dynamic creation of subdomains on the fly.