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Just wanted to let you know, we have released a new version. The features: * Easy Installation (approximately 10 minutes to install and set up) * Dynamic thumbnailing * Ability for admin to supress images that should not appear in user view * Supports PNG, JPG, and GIF images (depending on your version of the GDlib) * Error checking to prevent admin from being able to delete categories with images or subcategories within them * Uploadable image frames and included drop-shadows * Bulk import using .zip upload or local (FTP) file import * Configurable maximum upload width for uploading large files * Formatting using CSS file * Silent or public keyword assignment in admin * Image search - by title, description, photographer, location, and keyword * Automatically resize uploaded images to a max width * PHP headers and footers, for total site branding * Image text watermarking (nice for adding copyright text) * Cross-browser cropping tool, allowing you to crop and thumbnail images on the fly * Ability to import IPTC image meta data * RSS Newsfeed tie-in allowing RSS for all galleries or specific galleries This is our best release ever, and we're pretty excited about it! Its still free (of course), and if you're interested in downloading it and giving it a shot, visit http://www.snipegallery.com/ We have also added a section that describes what each of the variables in config.php do: http://www.snipegallery.com/component/opti...sary/Itemid,43/ Enjoy!

Hi runninghorse - *generally* speaking, the biggest difference you will see between lin and win will come up if you are manipulating files or images. Image manipulation with PHP is usually done using gdlib and/or imagemagick, which are considered fairly standard for webservers, but are not standard to a windows installtion. Additionally, you may run into some glitches with file paths - so if you are creating applications, try to set the file paths in a variable that can be changed in a config file, so you don't have to change 300 pages of your script. You *might* run into a few other quirks, but most of those will be addressed (and usually resolved) on the php.net homepage in the manual page comments. Also, if you're looking for a windows executable DB manager and you don't want to use phpMyAdmin, you might try DB Designer: http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/ Its a pretty snazzy program.

Hi jrd - gosh, you know this is a quest I have been on for ages as well. The ONLY program I have found that isn't awful (assuming you want a web-based dealio, with web-based signup, etc) is Subscribe Me. They have several different versions, one free and at least two commercial. I have the enterprise version for my non-profit organization - and while I wouldn't say its worth what I paid for it, I do think its the best I have managed to find. For some reason, most free (or reasonably) priced systems like this are always pretty awful - you don't start getting really good functionality until you start dealiing with the big (expensive) boys. Anyways, Subscribe Me is a CGI script - you can find it here, if you'd like to check it out: http://www.siteinteractive.com/subscribe/

I use Zen Cart on one of my sites. I gave up on OSCommerce a while ago because its so frustrating to change layout. I do like Zen Cart, but it suffers from one of the common problems of open source software: it was designed, developed and executed by programmers. While this doesn't sound like a bad thing, it can make for a very steep learning curve to people who aren't used to figuring out what programmers *meant*. Other than the interface needing some finhe-tuning, we have been happy with it tho.

Well.. yes and no.... But getting into the specific details might be a little rough on you at this stage of your learning process. 90% of what you will learn about PHP4 will work for PHP5 - but that 10% could be a real pain. There is more info available here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.migration5.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.php

Heh, I'd plug the Wrox books I co-authored, but Wrox went under.

Bulletproof FTP for me

Mindless and fun! http://www.smalltime.com/dictator.html

Have you tried removing the mod_rewrite code? While I wouldn't *think* it shoud cause a problem, its worth a shot, especially since its happening without www, but its working fine *with* www.

To clarify - its the dodginess of the subdomains that is complained about often. Cpanel lets everything go through sometimes, but people (including myself) run into the problem of the subdomains created that way being flaky, showing up sometimes and not others, or not showing up at all.

Tina, For what its worth, this is a fairly well-known CPANEL problem. People have posted about it hundreds of times on the CPANEL forums, but as of yet (at leasty to my knowledge) there has been no definitive fix. Just wanted to let you know that, so you didn't think it was something you had done wrong.

Have you tried using the Adobe Type Manager for Windows? It can be a little confoozling to use, but it can help on systems where you need a bunch of fonts installed, but you don't necessarily need them all active at once. I am a certifable font addict (but as a graphic designer, thats not a bad thing!) and it seems to have helped quite a lot.

Just a quick note - The G. Gordon Liddy show has asked me back, so I'll be talking about holiday pet hazards and that manner of ilk on Tuesday morning (today really) at 11:20AM EST. If you're not sure who G. Gordon Liddy is, you *have* to check out his bio: http://www.liddyshow.us/biography.php (Unfortunately, they seem to be having some mySQL problems on their station listing page... so I can't tell you where to tune in. )

http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html <-- for all your robots.txt needs But you may want to consider using mod_rewrite to help search engines understand that pages have been moved.

They are generally harvesting email addresses - usually to either 1) compile and sell "targeted" email lists to spammers or 2) spam you themselves One solution mentioned is to ONLY use forms as a source of contact - although I admit I am not fond of this method. I for one hate filling in "contact forms", for a few reasons: 1) If the form is coded poorly, I may never know if my email bounced for some reason and they never actually got my email. It tends to give the website user the feeling that their message may or may not be received, and may or may not be addressed. Setting up an autoreponder once they submit the form makes this a little better. 2) No spellchecker. This is a big one for me, since my mind works faster than my fingers, and I often fatfinger when typing. If I am trying to contact someone professionally, its a pain for me to type the message in something else and then copy+paste, just so I can have my message spellchecked. 3) I have run into enough forms that are poorly written, so that if I accidentally don't have a required field filled out, it yells as me when I submit the form, and when I use the back button, my entire message is *gone*, and I have to start from scratch. While I realize that this doesn't ALWAYS happen, its happened enough times to make me dread forms on websites. The only other trick that I have found that works to fool some spiders is to use javascript to create your links. (Naturally, there is a disadvantage there if you are concerned about browsers visiting your site that do not have javascript enabled), but here's a sample script: <script language=javascript> var linktext = "Send email"; var email1 = "name"; var email2 = "domain.com"; document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + email1 + "@" + email2 + ">" + linktext + "</a>") //--> </script> This script builds the link using javascript - which makes it invisible to spiders, since spiders can't grok javascript code.

Hi Glenn - thanks for replying! I am using several emulators right now, but unfortunately they don't always reflect a realistic picture of the users experience. I'm trying to gather as may WAPpers as I can, to try and get a "big picture" view.

I am currently writing a WAP application, but unfortunately, my 'net enabled phone has not arrived yet. I'm using emulators, but they are not perfect - so anyone who uses a WAP device who has some time to help me - it would be hugely appreciated. (I'm also looking for information about *how* you use your WAP, so I can plan this app with the best possible usability.) Let me know! Thanks in advance!

http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/ FUN!

Please - does anyone have any ideas? I can remove the split-log script, but then I will still be running into the stats overload. This is kind of important.

FYI - in case anyone didn't know, htdig is free and no ads)

ROFL Bruce - aww, thanks (I just caught this post... )

I have used htdig for many years now, on many sites. It can be confusing to set up the first time you do it, but its absolutely 0 maintenance once its set up, and you can customize the templates fairly easily. You can see a customized version of it in use here: http://www.vactf.org

In addition to the strangeness with the pie charts mentioned here: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...showtopic=14014 I have been getting a lot of stats overload messages. When I mentioned this to one of my linux geek friends, he suggested using apache's split-log program. While this was easy enough to set up, it also changes the format of the log files, causing problems in awstats. Anyone dealt with this before? (I have a dedicated server)

Interesting - I have the same problem with pie charts, but I haven't been messing with the temp directory.

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