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Here's another render... wow! 2 in 1 day! I'd hate to see this guy coming after me in the dark. Enjoy!

Thanks for the clarification truefusion, you are of course absolutley correct. The same .htaccess file idea can be used for any file type. But putting an alternate image for the file is pointless if the original file is not an image, as it will not display.

Here's my latest render, a female warrior about to strike with her sword. Enjoy!

Your bandwidth was clocked at35.90 Kbps And you think you've got problems! The misery of a dialup connection I guess. I just wish people would take dialup connections into account when making web sites, sometimes they take ages to load. Anyway, there is another way the term 'bandwidth' is used. This is when referring to the amount of bandwidth allowance you have for your Xisto account. In this instance it is referring to the amount data that is permitted to be downloaded from your site per month. This is affected by the number of visitors you have and what they download. For this purpose, an image displayed on your web page is also considered a download. Therefore, if you have a lot of large images on your web site, it will use more of your bandwidth for each visitor that views your site. Another reason not to have a lot of large images on your site.

Those of you that don't know what is meant by 'hotlinking', it is when someone directly links to an image on your site so it will display on their site. This is what is called 'bandwidth theft' and being as accounts here have a limit on bandwidth, your bandwidth limit could be exceeded by someone else hotlinking to your images. As most users of cPanel will know, there is an option to disable hotlinking of images in the "Site Management Tools" section. However, this disables hotlinking to all directories, what if you only want to disable hotlinking on some directories? Perhaps you want to people to link to some images, say an advertising banner for your site or something similar? Here's how to do it. Open a text editor like Notepad, copy the code below and paste it into the editor. RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mudmall.com/.*$ [NC]RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ mudmall.com/img/nolink.gif [R,NC]Change the domain name where is says, 'mudmall.com' to your domain name and change the 'RewriteRule' line so it has the file extensions you want to deny access to. What I have there will cover most image formats, but you may want to add extensions like 'avi', 'mp3', 'wmv' if you have those types of files. Then change the RewriteRule URL so it points to an image you want displayed when someone tries to hotlink to your file, or you can remove the URL if you don't want to display an image. If you do use an image, make sure it is in an unprotected directory and keep the file size small, mine is only 1.3Kb. Otherwise you will be defeating the purpose of disabling the hotlink. Finally, save the file with the name '.htaccess', (note the period * in front of the name). Now upload this file to the directory/s you want to protect. This is the end result. Here is an image hosted at Imageshack. Here is the result of trying to hotlink to that same image at my site. I hope you find this useful.

With all this talk about copyrights, has it dawned on people here that most of the 'sig' makers here (myself included) are probably breaching someone's copyright every time we make a sig. This is of course unless we make the renders ourselves or the original author has given consent for the image to be used. This is particularly relevant when we use a render of a game character or comic character. It doesn't matter how much you change the original image, it is still protected by copyright unless the author gives you consent to use it. And giving credit to the original author is technically not enough to get around the copyright. I think the main issue with copyrights revolves around the question, "Are you making a profit or stopping the original author from making a profit by using their work?" Personally I can't see authors being too concerned with the way images are used here, clearly there is no profit being made and I can't see how a sig would stop them from making a profit.Just something to think about.

It sounds like pingusurf is looking for WYSIWYG PHP editor, (something like Frontpage etc.) so he can see PHP output. I don't know if there is such a thing. I think Dreamweaver will allow you to see the layout, but it won't let you see any results of PHP functions/commands because you need to have PHP running on a Web Server for that.You can sort of do it if you run a Personal Web Server with PHP running and then 'browse' to the page with your web browser. This will allow you see PHP output but it is a little fiddly to setup. I used to do this but I now I find it easier to upload the page to a server to view the results.

Actually, I think he will need to give write for the images folder if he wants other people to be able to upload images via a web page interface. From what I understand of his original intention, this is what he wants to do.A word of caution with this idea, you should still use some sort of password/membership arrangement to allow uploads. Otherwise you might find your web space very quickly used up by people you don't know uploading things you don't want.If you are just wanting to upload images yourself without using an FTP program, why not use the file manager in cPanel?

Is it just me or do other people find it a little bizarre that the last 2 sigs submitted by snlildude87 feature an elf in a forest scene? If he's from Antarctica, where the heck does he get his inspiration form? Not too many forests in Antarctica as far as I know. Reminiscing perhaps? :)I must say though, I like his choice of renders.

Here's my latest effort, "The Fog of War"

I think what you wrote above tells us whether you did it deliberately or not, clearly you did, in an effort to fool the system. As you found out, the system is not easily fooled, especially when posts are checked by moderators, not just some script that counts words. Did you commit plagiarism? I don't really know, but I don't think it really matters. You knew what you were doing was wrong, otherwise you wouldn't have called it 'fooling the system'. We are all part of the 'system' because we 'are' the forum, therefore you did try to fool us. I think the moderators have been very lenient with you, I don't know that I would have been as lenient. I would have given you a second chance, but not right away. But then again, maybe I'm just a grumpy old man. P.S. Had you posted like this in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem now would there? As you can see, it's not hard to do. I look forward to more posts like this from you.

It sounds like you are using 'auto_increment' for the ID field, the only way to reset the count is to truncate the table as you have discovered. If its the number of messages you are trying to find out, instead of using the ID field, why not count the records?This is easily done using a statement similar to this:$msgcount = mysql_num_rows(mysql_query("select ID from table_name"));Just change 'table_name' to name of your table and the $msgcount variable will now tell you how many records you have in your table.

@brawler I think the problem was related to the recent forum upgrade, something didn't quite work the way it was supposed to. @romy This is why it is says on the main forum page: Always good to have a few hosting credits in the bank just in case. Notice from BuffaloHELP: Whenever you copy a phrase or a sentence, please use the QUOTE tag.

I'm giving my vote to Blue0016. Rather than concentrating on the technical aspects of the sig, I've gone for the composition of the sig and this one tells me a story with a simple image. I like the dramatic look, an elf on the hunt in a light dappled forest. The look on his face suggests he is very close to his prey and about to strike.

I have no idea if it will be an upgrade in IE7. I will be sticking with Firefox myself, I was an avid IE user until I recently discovered Firefox due to this forum. Firefox has some very nice features, it's small, fast, free and all your IE bookmarks can be imported into Firefox. I suggest you try Firefox for yourself and see what you think, I put a link for it in my previous post. Render-world doesn't have thousands of images, but I like it. I'm sure there are other sites that have more images. Search through these forums and you're bound to find links to quite a few of these sites.

I spend a lot of time surfing around fantasy graphic sites, mostly I do this to update my own site Mud Mall Fantasy Gallery. Unfortunately my site is not online at the moment because I need to rebuild the database so don't bother going there for now. The artistist ability of people really amazes me, especially people like Julie Bell and Boris Vallejo at Imaginistix. I just wish I had half as much talent.

The background is actually transparent, however, if you are using IE you will not see a transparent background as IE doesn't handle PNG files properly. To view the image with a transparent background you will need a browser like Firefox. The are many sites that have these renders, my favourite at the moment is Render-world.com. It is well sorted out with various categories and most of the renders are high quality.

Welkom to Xisto Armegeddon! (I hope I got that right) Your profile says you live in a German castle, is that true? Some of those old German castles are truly awesome, it's hard to understand how people must have lived when these castles were built. I see you also want to improve your graphical skills, you certainly come to the right place. The Xisto GFX crew here will give you all the help you need, just go through some of the posts in Xisto Graphics and you'll see what I mean. These people have a huge amount of talent and are more than willing to help people learn. I also have an interest in web design, and I too want to learn xhtml. I hardly even know what it is or does. I'm still learning how to use PHP effectively. Once again, welcome to Xisto and I look forward to seeing your future posts.

Yes you can cut pieces out of mp3 and midi files to use as ringtones if you have the required software. I use a program called CoolEdit2000 to modify mp3 files. This program has now been bought by Adobe and is called Adobe Audition. To modify midi files I use a program called Digital Orchestrator, now called Record Producer. These programs will allow you to edit the files any way you like, but as to getting these files to your phone, that will depend on your phone I guess. I have no idea about that sorry. Hope that helped.

Here's my latest render. It's a warlord of some sort, I think an Orc, but last time I called something an Orc several people told me I was wrong. This time you can make up your own mind as to what it is. By the way, I didn't cut off the spike on his left boot, it wasn't there on the original. Enjoy!

It's amazing to see how much you have improved in 6 months. Much prefer your newer creations to that one.

I thought this might be the case too, but I can see other people's email address in their hosting requests. So this means everyone can see them.

In my forum control panel I selected the option to hide my email address from other members. However, I have noticed that in all hosting requests, upgrades etc my email is there for everyone to see. This of course is the same for everyone requesting hosting. I understand it is necessary for the admins to see the email addresses to process the applications, but perhaps you could make it so only moderators and admins can see these posts? That way those of us that want to keep our email addresses hidden are not 'exposed' as such. I doesn't bother me that much that my email address is viewable, it's just a thought for those that are really bothered by it. Notice from cmatcmextra: Moving to Suggestions forum

This is exactly what I mean by respect, your gf is respecting your preference. If you're doing similar things, respecting her wishes, then you're well on the way to a long, meaningful relationship.

I am a recent convert to Firefox, thanks to this forum! I was a staunch IE user having tried a lot of other browsers just see what's out there but always kept going back to IE. Now I have Firefox I can't see myself using anything else now. It's faster, smaller and just love the tabs. I haven't fully explored the extensions yet but possibilities look awsome.Firefox all the way!