Date: 01/18/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a project that is a video archive, and my comrades would like the main archive page to feature a "top ten viewed" list that is dynamically up-to-date at any point in time. What I can't figure out is how to obtain the statistics that would deem the top downloaded video as the top one, 2nd as 2nd, etc. Is there a way I can parse our web stats via php to figure out which ones belong in the top ten? I view my stats using WebTrends, and it doesn't seem like there's any interface for that kind of activity (which I can't say I would expect, either).

People do this stuff all the time - how do they do it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/398210.html

Date: 01/18/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web

Hello all,

Does anyone know of any definitive guides/tutorials on the Web about password hashing using PHP? I'd read one some months back, but it was incomplete.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/397562.html

Date: 01/18/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: web

I've just begun researching how to write a text file to the user's desktop.

For reason's I can't understand, I have to be able to take the info contained in a web form and save it as a text file to the users desk (create an array, write a tab delinated file).

Later, I will have to allow the user to locate thsi file and re-populate the form with the data.

I'd appreciate any help and tips you have.

more: the user will click to save and select the location. And then find the file later. It's not automatic.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/396847.html

Date: 01/17/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, css, html, database, web

I have a website, just a little personal project where I archive my writing. Over the years I have streamlined the code of this page as my knowledge of web design grows, so that it has gone from ugly frames to a smooth CSS-based design. However, this site has many identical pages (as far as layout is concerned, not content), and every time I significantly update the site layout, I always end up having to update each and every page manually. This is a pain.

So here is what I would like to do about this:

1) Create a database of some sort, or maybe just a collection of .txt files, and when a user clicks on a link (say, to one of my poems), have PHP generate the page based on information parsed in the link. I have no idea if this is even possible.

or

2) Create one file containing all of the layout's HTML information, and have each page access it instead of having to hardcode such into each file. This file could also contain the CSS information if possible.

The trick to all this is that while I am a master of HTML/CSS design, I know next to nothing about PHP, beyond how to write the simplest of scripts and how to upload it to my domain. Is what I'm proposing even feasible, and if so, does anyone have any suggestions/advice/code/places to go for more information to help me make it work?

Thanks so much if you can help me, and apologies for being such a newbie pain!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/395976.html

Date: 01/14/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, html, web

Alright so in light of the responses with my previous post, I've decided to code this myself (I could really use the challenge and I've been meaning to get back into PHP for a while now anyways)

I've already got the code to add information to the datebase, now I'm working on displaying it. I have a question.

How can i have the HTML table add more rows to accomodate the added entry's in the "shows" section whenever the band chooses to add another show to their website? (so all the current shows are being displayed).

Thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/395014.html

Date: 01/13/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, database, sql, web

Hey Guys

I'm new to this community. I am starting a web design company, and although I used to be decent at PHP, that was a couple of years ago and my knowledge is now pretty much non-existent. I need a script coded for a band website and I was wondering if some of you would give me a price estimate on it.

The script is for bands that want to add shows to their website. The script needs to do the following

- Allow a user to add / edit / delete shows to their website. The shows will be in 2 categories (which will be 2 HTML tables) which are Upcoming shows, and past shows.
- The user puts in information in a form and it's stored in a MySQL database. The most important information is displayed in an HTML table, and in the last cell of the table will have a link for more information. When a user clicks on this link it opens up a popup window and displays ALL the information of the show (eg. Date, time, venue, cost, directions, other notes yada yada yada) in another HTML table (within the pop-up window)

I realise that this is a pretty simple script (in comparison to what you guys have probably coded in the past, so I hope someone out there can code it for me at a reasonable price

Thanks in advance

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/394319.html

Date: 01/09/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: cms, php, html, database, security, web

Hey all,

I know there's been a couple posts about this recently, so if I'm asking redundant questions, sorry.

A friend of mine has come up with a pretty novel idea for a MySpace-ish site, but for a specific niche market (kind of like those CatSpace and DogSpaces that exist) - users will have profiles, photos, a blog, message boards, send friend requests, yadda yadda yadda, you've seen it all before. I'm going to be developing the initial setup myself (since we have no money), and this is a somewhat long term project that I'll be picking at casually for a little while.

Right now I'm trying to figure out if I should give this a go coding from scratch, or use an existing CMS type solution (like Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, etc). I'd really like to code it myself, as I think it could be a fun project to work on. I'm a pretty solid PHP programmer, but as I have a feeling that this idea could jump in popularity pretty quick, I really want to make sure I keep this thing as efficient as possible for a large user base. For instance, I don't want to go making another MySpace which I think runs horribly as a web app compared to even LiveJournal.

Currently I use PEAR's DB_DataObject or my database interactions and I've just gotten into Smarty for templating, though I'm sure I'm not using either to their fullest potential. I saw mention of a couple of development environments and frameworks in someone's recent post looking for a visual studio-esque PHP environment - http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/388602.html but I've never used any of these.

I'm not really concerned here with using a "rapid development" framework - I don't mind coding, I like it - but what I'm really concerned with is stability, efficiency and security - I know of course that these also rely heavily on how well I code, and using a good coding environment or framework won't do the coding for me, but there have to be some tools/frameworks/etc out there that pros are using that I just haven't moved onto yet, and I wanted to see what you guys (and gals) are using on some of your bigger projects.


- I know this comes up a bunch, but does anyone else think would it be handy at all for us as a community to maybe organize some of the more useful threads and frequently asked (and answered) questions in the php community at a separate location? Doing just a search on the community doesn't necessarily give you anything about the quality of the responses, and it may even be nice to be able to 'browse' solutions/posts by categories or something; maybe we could have some sort of quality ranking on posts, or some way to identify posts that contain questions that get asked all the time. I don't think this would be too tricky to put together, and I'd be willing to work on it, but I don't know if anyone would even use it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/392457.html

Date: 12/17/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: web

well, here's the thing.. i have been dealing with this issue for about a week now..
maybe someone here knows something of anything that can help...

the irrelevent part? my little brother was on the family's computer running photoshop and internet explorer at the same time, and the computer crashed.

the important part? when we restarted it, there was an error message:
a problem with explorer & something about KERNEL32.DLL
many searches later..
and many attempts later,
we still haven't fixed that computer.

we have tried EVERYTHING. and even tried messing with it in safe mode, as some tutorial website said to do so.

so now.. not only is the KERNEL error continually popping up...
but now the computer is stuck in safe mode.
and yes..i have tried everything there too.

so why not system restore? because my parents are artists, and photos of their stuff is on the hard drive, stupidy not backed up... and we are too afraid certain things would be lost.

when it comes to computers, i usually lick a problem super fast...
but this is kicking my butt...

any suggestions?
anything?
please...help!!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ms_windows/54016.html

Date: 11/08/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: web

hi guys. i need help with windows media player :( 2 weeks ago i put some songs from there on a cd - r.. it worked. now i tried again and it says : "use another cd - r mark.. check if the cd isnt already full, check if the cd is clean" but i am using same cd - r as 2 weeks ago + cd is empty and clean. what to do?? :(

please comment or talk to me on msn : protect_me@web.de
thx in advance

alison

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/ms_windows/50857.html

Date: 01/11/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: java, security, web

After switching to FF 1.5, iam facing these annoying problems.

1) Most times when i load web pages, most placeholders like image links, thumbs, even smaller icons etc simply dont load. All are blank. Reloading doesnt really help much, still many places are blank. Its a big annoyance seeing blank even after successive reloads.
when only the image resource is loaded, that single thing loads perfectly.
bloody flash objects, adds all load, images,thumbnails dont.

2) Not a big annoyance, still some pages fail giving the error message,
'unable load could not connect'.. when i reload it problem is solved. Its annoyance at times to keep reloading.

Regard to first problem, I use a laptop, in it all pages load perfectly with IE. Also both IE,FF work perfect in a desktop(same connection). So it should not be a problem with the connection.

Also i tried in another user, another profile, a completely new profile all these with no extensions, the same problem persists there also. So its not because of extensions either.

info : options->contents-> all image settings are correct with no filters. javascript, java enabled.

I run windows XP (with all latest security).

Can anybody help.. its big big nuisance.

Thanks in advance

cross posted to firefoxusers

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/347293.html

Date: 12/30/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web

As of three days ago, my firefox browser froze and crashed on me during some downloading of images from the web. Now whenever I try to save anything (of any file type) or select any of the options from the tools menu, etc, firefox crashes on me. I have tried uninstalling, restarted, reinstalling, checking for updates, etc. Nothing is fixing this issue and it is extremely frustrating.

Has anyone experienced such issues before or has heard of such problems and has any suggestions on how to rectify this problem?

Thanks,
A very frustratingly dependent firefox user.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/344867.html

Date: 12/28/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

*This is the first time I actually use Performancing, so apologies for any glitches. BTW: Pretty kewl how it manages to post to LJ, nae?!!*

Here's what I posted this morning. Point is that (ok, I could have dragged and dropped ... which, really, is aweful kewl, but still ...) I couldn't just click to have the item appear the way I can with my blogger bookmarklet. K, here's my post:

bentrem's blog | Performancing.com

bentrem's picture [NB: true drag/drop would have included the source for the img ... and it didn't ... meh]
Submitted by bentrem on Wed, 2005-12-28 12:17. :: Performancing Firefox Blog

Right off the bat I have to say I'm impressed with P/FF's design ... very elegant ... makes me want to get back into XUL.

But, also right off the bat I have to quibble with usability. F8 is handy, clicking the "pencil icon" is handy ... and neither blog the page title and URL. To do that I have to rightclick / select / click ... either on the page or on the icon.

1st, since F8 is there to call up the editor starkly, and since a rightclick menu item could be added to call it up in stark mode, I suggest that clicking the icon should blog the present page.

2nd, in the spirit of Web2.0, I think that sort of functionality should be configurable; since I care, I'm willing to go through to maybe a 3rd or even 4th level of menu ... once ... to have the default behaviour match (for example) the del.icio.us button and blogger.com bookmarklet I click to tag and blog.

[... salutation deleted]

What do y'all think?
[NB: this /should/ have gone here directly, ifmozilla had appeared on the blog list, which it didn't. *sigh*]

Haaaaaaaa ... the list of LJ communities I can post to is truncated [i.e. this one didn't appear] as well as being in very broken alpha-numeric order.

meh

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/344558.html

Date: 12/21/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

I'm unable to use the Rich Text version of Journal Update on the LJ website.
I'm using Firefox v. 1.0.7, running Windows XP Pro v. 2002.

Any suggestions? (I have the Deepest Sender extension, but sometimes I want to post from the website. Just wondering why it doesn't work.)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/343524.html

Date: 12/11/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: web

Does thunderbird have a sent mail folder? I can't find it for the life of me and I would love to see some of the stuff I wrote in late night stupors.

Thanks a ton!

edit: Ok I should explain somthing. I know nothing about Thunderbird, it just beats the web based program my college offers and I can't stand outlook. If you could help me figure out where the sent mail folder would be that would be great. The FAQ is just confusing me and I have no idea what the global inbox or whatever is. I just want a sent mail folder I can easily access.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/342332.html

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/33093.html

Date: 01/10/06 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: browser, web

Not sure how many people use Firefox or the Web Developer Extension, but it seems there is a conflict with it somewhere. I noticed that Firefox was not loading when I tried to launch a new instance, however the process was listed in the Task Manager [and using about 53,000 K of memory]. Clicking links in pages resulted in no response from Firefox as well. I asked a friend who also uses FF and we compared our extensions, the two that we both have in common are:

-Tabbrowser Prefrences 1.2.8.8
-Forecastfox 0.8.2.5

Not sure if it is a conflict with one of these extensions, or just a bug with the Web Developer extension. I disabled the Web Developer extension, and everything is back to normal. but I thought I'd let people know incase they are having similar issues :D

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/32921.html

Date: 12/13/05 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: web, hosting

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/32416.html

Date: 10/15/05 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: sql, web

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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/31628.html

Date: 10/12/05 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: web

Can anyone recommend me any good free messageboard/bbs/forum services? It would be nice if they don't have banners. Or is there maybe a webhost that could host a messageboard (as I might be able to get a code myself in making my own board)?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/31085.html

Date: 09/23/05 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: web, hosting

I've been maintaining a single personal website for a number of years now, but now the rest of my family wants to get in on the act, and have their own websites, too. We signed up for a shared hosting account that advertised multiple domains, but after we got it set up realized that this was not what we wanted at all. Rather than several independent domains, we had one domain and several others that were aliased to the main one. I reasoned that surely there was a way for the host to set it up on the server the way we wanted it, but apparently not.

So I have two questions: First, is this the behavior I should expect from a shared hosting account, or did we just end up with a bad host? In other words, are there shared hosts out there that will support multiple, independent domains on a single account, or is this not even possible? And second, if not, what kind of account do I need to do what I want to do?

From the little I've been able to figure out, it looks like a reseller account might be my ticket. But I honestly don't know what I'm doing at all. If a reseller account is what I need, do any of you have hosting suggestions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/30483.html