Date: 05/23/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, database, java

Oracle integrates PHP scripting engine (dubbed "Zend Core for Oracle") with its 10g database and application server for building apps based on the open source development language. What remains to be seen is whether Oracle is shifting focus away from Java or just encompassing additional languages. So would .NET be the next? Oracle is joining several [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/oracle-aligns-itself-more-closely-with-php-developers/

Date: 05/26/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, java

I've been doing a little studying into the javascrip HttpRequest object. In addition to not finding a good tutorial on the system, I haven't found anything about how to use it in combination with PHP.

The specific problem I have is that I need to send a large block of text to the server in order to get specialized list of data. Most of the examples I see either send the data via GET -- which wouldn't work for this size of data -- or through the use of a small bit of XML. Moreover, I'm not sure how to write the receiving script.

Can anyone enlighten me, or in the least, point me to a good tutorial?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/300747.html

Date: 05/26/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql

I've been asked to make a site capable of handling sales of digital material, downloadable immediately on payment. It has to be able to handle packages sold as one product that are more than one file. (I've also seen some advertising that they can integrate login systems with, say, phpBB, which would be a nice (though not necessary) addition.)

There are dozens (if not scores) of code bundles out there to do this - but most of them cost, and I have no idea which ones are most effective. Can anyone recommend one they've worked with that is particularly good (and preferably not too expensive)? (PHP/MySQL preferred.)

Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/889152.html

Date: 05/27/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web

I'm working away at this PHP + MySQL stuff...

Now I have two tables - links and linkcats. Links is a list of links that will be displayed on the Employee Resources page. Linkcats is a list of the categories under which these links will fall - Intranet Websites, Internet Websites, and Employee Resources. I would like to be able to dynamically display the link categories with the appropriate links from the links table under each category. I got it to work (kind of), but it loops through the SQL statement to display the actual links however many entries there are in the categories table.

You can see what I'm talking about here:
http://www.shifuimam.com/php_tutorials/database_trial/www/mclinks.php

This is my code, along with the descriptions of the two tables:
http://mypage.iu.edu/~cstrodtb/livejournal/mclinks.txt

Any help is appreciated.

x-posted to webdesign.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/204666.html

Date: 05/26/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, css

I've read in a few CSS guides and in a spattering of places online that using position: absolute in any kind of stylesheet is in general a no-no, much to my dismay as it's ease of use for position has always been my favorite. I've discovered that when used it presents problems on Macs, specifically in IE 5, but this could just have been because of my z-index ordering.

Two questions here:

1. Is it actually not a good idea to use position: absolute, or is there a "safe" way to use it?

2. If it isn't a good idea, what's an alternative that would enable me to place things absolutely at a location on a page?

X-posted to php community

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/204089.html

Date: 05/27/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web

I'm working away at this PHP + MySQL stuff...

Now I have two tables - links and linkcats. Links is a list of links that will be displayed on the Employee Resources page. Linkcats is a list of the categories under which these links will fall - Intranet Websites, Internet Websites, and Employee Resources. I would like to be able to dynamically display the link categories with the appropriate links from the links table under each category. I got it to work (kind of), but it loops through the SQL statement to display the actual links however many entries there are in the categories table.

You can see what I'm talking about here:
http://www.shifuimam.com/php_tutorials/database_trial/www/mclinks.php

This is my code, along with the descriptions of the two tables:
http://mypage.iu.edu/~cstrodtb/livejournal/mclinks.txt

Any help is appreciated.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/890460.html

Date: 05/27/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php

I want to open a new site and I wanted a simple php template and I have found one but I not the smartest on this stuff and I am trying to get this done before the month is over before going back to work.

Using my test server I have files under folders and links inside certain pages using basic linking but the menu needs to change sometimes so I think this what I need. Even though it explained somewhat I still don't get it and it is driving me mad because of time limit.

Can someone please explain how do I use these and more important where to use it. Like I'm a five year old.

Where it is...

http://www.maketemplate.com/menu/

Thanks in Advance.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/301322.html

Date: 05/27/05 (PHP Development)    Keywords: php

Do any of you have favorite links to resources on file/photo manipulation in PHP?  I'm looking to learn how to do photo uploading with automatic thumbnailing (and do not want to use a pre-made package).  I just need the basic building blocks to put something custom together.  Thanks!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php_dev/58068.html

Date: 05/31/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql

This script always comes out with a Parse error on line 40, and I dont know what to do

I don't see any syntax errors, and I'm completely new to PHP and MySQL.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/302360.html

Date: 05/31/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: php, rss, html, xml, web

I just started using Thunderbird as an RSS reader and I'm noticing strange behavior with my feed. If I load up http://www.perturb.org/rss.php in thunderbird the entries it displays are links to web pages. When I view one of those feeds it shows that entry as it is embeded on the webpage. If I look at one of the entries from http://www.lessig.org/blog/index.xml the entry shows the raw text that's in the RSS feed no HTML requests made.

Considering the first feed is from my blog, how do I make Thunderbird show the raw content, instead of the HTML. It's exported correctly. Bloglines sees the content just fine. Is there a Thunderbird setting I'm missing?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/287317.html

Date: 05/31/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, software, java, web, google

Hi folks, new to the community, and new to ColdFusion - however I have many years of experience in software development and web design using other languages and technologies.

I've checked out the excellent ColdFusion links in the community userinfo, and beyond those I was wondering - where's the best online forum out there for ColdFusion developer brainshare?

I saw the one at Macromedia's own site, it was okay but not very impressive. Coming from other development communities like PHP and Java I was wondering if the ColdFusion community is just much less talkative, and that's as good as it gets? Also I'm usually leary of forums run by software manufacturers, as sometimes they are questionably moderated when critcism gets posted.

Anyways thanks in advance for any reccomendations. Serious CF developers only please - I can Google for random sites all by myself. I'm wondering what the "pros" prefer.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/893287.html

Date: 05/31/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, html, web

Ok...what am I doing wrong? I decided to really try to conquer CSS. I created a site that looks fine in IE, but in Netscape and Firefox, it looks crappy. What am I missing??

http://www.activedigitalmedia.com/azzarello/index.php

How do I get the footer to actually go to the bottom of the page??

Anyone here adept at using html in custom LJ styles? I need help with my journal style, I want to add my userpic to each entry on the main page, and it's being difficult.
Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. :)

EDIT:

Fixed version is here:

http://www.activedigitalmedia.com/azzarello/index2.php

It took some rewrite of code after reviewing this page:

http://www.builderau.com.au/webdev/0,39024680,39130624-1,00.htm

Hope it helps someone.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/892943.html

Date: 06/01/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php

via del.icio.us: http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2005/05/10_bad_project_warning_signs/index.php

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/894432.html

Date: 06/03/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: php

Overview This Plugin provides automatic real-time machine translation of your WordPress Blog (written in English Language) in eight additional languages - Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified). The translated pages can be bookmarked. Requirements CURL should be installed in your system and available from PHP. Most systems have it enabled by default. The blog [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-automatic-machine-translation-for-your-blog-in-eight-languages-spanish-french-german-portuguese-italian-japanese-korean-and-chinese/

Date: 06/03/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, linux, tracker

Hi guys! I'm thinking of running a BitTorrent tracker on one of my sites so I can share my own compositions with friends.

As it stands now I'm posting the music I'm working on to one of my sites, but since each MP3 is ~6 megs, that's a lot of bandwidth I'd rather not see go down the drain.

Anyway, my question: What's a good BitTorrent tracker? I don't need anything fancy, just something that's easy to setup and use and works happily with a Linux server. And preferably PHP.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/303988.html

Date: 06/05/05 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql

I'm hoping someone here can help me out, as I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I'm trying to get mysql to store and retrieve various bits of text in various languages, however, it's not entirely co-operating. As an example, I've stored part of the Russian alphabet (А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П) and I'm trying to retrieve it via a perl CGI script. I'm using PHPMyAdmin to store the strings, and it seems to think everything is fine - if I do a select on that record, it displays it properly, however if I try and display it using Perl, I get "? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?". I thought initially that it was a perl encoding thing - I've made sure that the content-type is set to utf-8 in both the HTTP header and the meta tag, but it seems to make no difference. I've also tried running it through the terminal as well as using a utf8-decode function, but I get the same result regardless. I'm beginning to wonder if it is mysql behaving oddly, though, as if I log into mysql through the terminal and select this record, I get "? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?" there as well - though for all I know, this could just mean that my terminal can't display Russian / UTF-8 characters! Does anyone have any ideas about how I can fix this or even if it's likely to be MySQL that's causing these issues or Perl?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mysql/58443.html

Date: 06/06/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, java, web, google

*
Does anyone know how I can mirror
my journal entries onto my own website?

I do believe it can be done (in real time, not c+p),
but need to know what type of code must be used,
(php or what?), +where to start.
(I can google the rest + hopefully learn to do it.)

If it can be done in java script, I was able
to find (+use!) tons of free code offered online.

I'd also like to build in a "random generator"
but haven't yet found this code in either php or java..

Many thanks to anyone who can give me some suggestions!
*

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/206829.html

Date: 06/07/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, apache

Here's what I have
Apache 1.3.33
PHP 5.0.4
MySQL 4.1.12a
Operating System: Windows 98

The error that I got when I tried using mysql_connect() on a php page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()

Things that I have done so far:
Apache, mySQL, and PHP are in directories on the C drive, named accordingly

in php.ini, this is what I changed (change in italics)
doc_root = "C:\Apache\htdocs"
extension_dir "C:\php\ext"

Removed the ";" in front of extension = php_mysql.dll (Is there supposed to be quotation marks on this line?)

Saved a copy of php.ini (after these changes) in the C:\Windows directory
Saved copies of c:\php\libmysql.dll & c:\php\ext\php_mysql.dll to the C:\Windows directory


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What else am I missing?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdev/206980.html

Date: 06/07/05 (PHP Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, apache

Here's what I have
Apache 1.3.33
PHP 5.0.4
MySQL 4.1.12a
Operating System: Windows 98

The error that I got when I tried using mysql_connect() on a php page:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect()

Things that I have done so far:
Apache, mySQL, and PHP are in directories on the C drive, named accordingly

in php.ini, this is what I changed (change in italics)
doc_root = "C:\Apache\htdocs"
extension_dir "C:\php\ext"

Removed the ";" in front of extension = php_mysql.dll (Is there supposed to be quotation marks on this line?)

Saved a copy of php.ini (after these changes) in the C:\Windows directory
Saved copies of c:\php\libmysql.dll & c:\php\ext\php_mysql.dll to the C:\Windows directory


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What else am I missing?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php_dev/58220.html

Date: 06/08/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, html

If I'm including an HTML file using php, does the included file need all the header stuff? cause it's appearing in my code and I dont think my *.php file should have two tags

Look at the source here to see what i mean...

[EDIT]And thanks pyrophire for pointing out another problem...

In firefox, the background image for the "maincnt" div is positioned all wonky (the bottom right hand corning of the images appears in the top left corner of the div) why is this? and more importantly...how can i fix this?
[/EDIT]

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/webdesign/899060.html