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Hey everyone!Just got in from the cinema after watching Blades of Glory and despite my negative thoughts beforehand it is a very good film.The basic storyline is two very good male figure skaters end up in a brawl after they draw at the championships, they then loose their medals and are banned from male figure skating for life. But a rather obsessive fan finds a loophole allowing them to skate as a pair, and they soon end up as the first male pair to ever compete. Jimmy's camp-ness is the main source of the comedy in the film while his more Tom Jones like partner, Chazz, tries to impress the ladies while performing with his somewhat sexual performances Jimmy pulls a live dove from his overly tight outfit. Needless to say Jimmy soon assumes the more female role of the two and the battle of wills begins. The skating scenes of the film are very good, even though i would never sit and watch figure skating i found them entertaining and comical due to the contrasts between Jimmy and Chazz while they are still single skaters. I would say though that some of the effects during the more impressive moves in the skating look almost as if they were made in MS paint.. they really are quite bad, but their tackines lends itself well to the film which has many "different" sources of laughs that usually you might find ridiculous but they do work very well and made me chuckle! Their training to be a pair is also very funny as their dislike for each other manifests in several wince-worthy moments of crotch kicking..ouch! And there is something abut seeing two grown men, one of which is very camp, figure skating that is hugely funny! There are also two other skates in the competition, of curse another pair, brother and sister who also provide many laughs and some unexpected surprises that are very unnecessary but made me laugh a lot!Of curse there has to be a little romance..*sigh* it seems a staple in films these days but thankfully they keep that to a minimum of a kiss or two, of course they are funny too! Overall id give it a 8.5/1O and i dont like giving tens so thats high from me! I dont know the certificate rating but id say it'd be a good laugh for the family though there is a little bit of swearing and one scene of a woman in lingerie but nothing overly sexual there. Just enjoy the film! The end scene is also very comical in my opinion and most of the comedy is my type of comedy..so ridiculous its funny! And the tight outfits just crack me up with the camp-ness and the more butch-ness put together. I think its been out a while in America so this really is for the brits here! See it!

And i for one thank the mods for that, i may be a teenager and im on msn every day basically but i hate it when people say things like "i saw u yday u woz wiv dat girl" or something like that, its just irritating, so very irritating, if you cant talk properly then don't talk at all! I have been warned once for something about a title of a thread, and i must admit it seemed harsh.. though its only a warning, its not like its going to kill me, its there to almost prove a point so it wasn't that bad. The thing the mods here have to do is balance between a fun, helpful, interesting place to hang out, talk, inform, learn and discuss and a place where intelligent talk is encouraged such as not using IM speak. And also to remove spam and spammers which are a real pain on other forums and to keep the forums active, i know a lot of a forums where one-liners are the norm, needless to say i hardly ever post there but i post here every couple, if not every, day. And i don't mind them editing my posts now and then if i made a silly typo or a link didn't come out rights or something like that. its a helping hand in my eyes so why not?

Yes Xisto does have the MAIL function enabled, though of course if its used for spam etc.. that can easily be spotted and that person would be banned! So yes MAIL is enabled for all users but just make sure that what ever you use it for couldn't be considered spam etc... Mistakes can easily be sorted but if your account got suspended or anything because it was mistakenly seen as spamming it would be a pain in the backside!

Hey, nice bit of info there, i never knew you could add a timer to the redirect thingy, that could be very useful. Its worth mentioning that any HEADER function wont work if there is output before it. Eg if you used ECHO or PRINT before using the HEADER it will give an error, i think you can d ther things like form processing, database connections etc but nothing can be output to the browser before the HEADER, that caused me some headaches in the past.

It sounds a little like agoraphobia, which i just found out about by accident, it says its a fear of having a panic attack in a public or a new area which sounds very similar to what you are experiencing, heres a link http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ you might find more out by googling the name if you think this is what you experience. I dont think there would be any quick and easy ways to treat yourself as such but i would imagine that going into a public place where you feel a little scared, not petrified just uncomfortable and then read a book on a bench or have lunch outside, like outside a cafe, or do something you enjoy there. The idea is that the pleasure you get from what ever you do there out-weighs the fear or anxiety you get from being there and hopefully the fear will lessen. If you are willing to go to a professional then that would be a good idea, they wont lock you into a straight jacket, probably use a little hypnosis and take you out to these public places to find out exactly what the trigger is, and then work from there.

Hum.. i think there is a way of using Javascript for it, i know its not PHP but it works i think, only problem is i think when i tried it it popped up a box asking if it could send it, it was a long while back though so it might have been a redirect script that i thought was to send mail. Back in the days when i wouldn't have known what a redirect script was. Try Googling for it if you want.

Aye Aye captain! I did a little test as suggested and one using arrays too, just to check, i used this code: <?$name1 = "Easter";$name2 = "Bunny";$names['first'] = "Easter";$names['last'] = "Bunny";Echo "Hello my name is $name1 $name2. I'm going to kill you all! Muahahaha";//get a fresh line..echo "<BR><BR>";echo "Hello, my name is $name1" . " " . $name2 . ". I'm going to kill you all! Muahahaha";//lets test an array tooecho "<BR><BR>";echo "Hello, my name is $names[first] $names[last].";// and with dotsecho "<BR><BR>";echo "Hello, my name is $names[first]" . " " . $names[last] . ".";?> Which outputted: Hello my name is Easter Bunny. I'm going to kill you all! MuahahahaHello, my name is Easter Bunny. I'm going to kill you all! MuahahahaHello, my name is Easter Bunny.Hello, my name is Easter Bunny. So as you can see the dots dont have any effect, i was surprised that the arrays worked inside double quotes, and also that adding single quotes between the square brackets caused an error so i had to leave them out. I wonder if older versions of php need the dots in some situations and its just a good idea to use them just in case...

Id like to ask a question, is it necessary to use a dot to join variables? See if i was doing that same script i would just use ECHO and write something like: echo "$name $lname"; Though i realise that with an array the dot is very useful as arrays dont like being inside quotes so the above thing wouldnt work for that but is it simply good practice to use the dot or does it serve some more important function?

well I've never used dreamweaver but there might well be a property of the links, eg if you right click the link in design mode and go to properties, then check for a property like "target" and in there just type in the name of the iframe. I think teh name of the iframe can be found by right clicking the Iframe. If all else fails you can edit the code of the page, it shouldnt take much, just use the "find" feature and look for "<a href" and it should look like "<a href=page.htm>some text</a>" you simply need to edit it to read something like "<a href=page.htm target=IFRAME_NAME>some text</a>" someone with experience of dreamweave might be able to help more than i can!

I think i understand this, the problem most likely is inside the hyperlink code. to open a link inside a frame or Iframe the code needs to be exte nded to include target=frame_name So the finished tag would look like this: <a href=mylink.htm target=my_Iframe> Of course replace "mylink.htm" with the pag to be linked and "my_Iframe" to the name of the iframe you want it to open in.

I agree that you need to know HTML first, otherwise PHP has no use, PHP runs in the background, a user will never "see" php they will only see the HTML code on the website and the PHP runs in the background out of sight. But id disagree that PHP is hard to learn. I think its rather simple to learn, many of the functions are easy to recognise eg "strlen" is "String Length" and it counts the number f characters in a string. "echo" simple 'echos' text out to the browser etc... The hardest thing abut programming is learning program flow eg variables, events, logic gates etc.. but one you have understood them for one language you will easily adapt for another. And i think that if youre planning any sort of website thats above the "personal/picture" level, such as a commercial website or a gaming related one or anything that contains more then just a few pictures, then you will need to learn PHP. HTML is the backbone of the internet, but PHP and other web languages are like the muscles, they allow the backbone to move abut and add flexibility and support to it. Without PHP you would never be able to create a forum like this one, never have the shoutbox above, many on-line sites rely on php like those with the "page.php?content=something" web addresses. All in all its a fantastic thing for any web coder/web master to know as it allows interactivity on the web.

Hey Burke, there was a tutorial written not so long ago in the "Tutorials" forum that gives the absolute basics of PHP and where you can start, from there i wrote a tutorial too at my website, its also for beginners: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I rather like my own tutorial as it lists all the tools you need and where to get them etc... but them im supposed to like my own work The best way to learn is to do, so learn the basics and then make smething, and keep an eye on the Tutorials forum as there are often PHP tuts in there.

Nice tutorial there, I like the fact it really does build from the ground up to help people who have never even heard of PHP before. Did you ever write any follow-up tutorials? If you did then you should post them here, you get credits and we got something to read that can help us out! Win-Win situation! True words! Although PHP isn't that hard to understand, without HTML it truly is useless! Keep up the good work

Check the announcements!The gamma server's HDD was degrading and was on the path to self-destruction basically so its being replaced. You shouldnt loose any data as its all being copied over to the new HDD.

Thats the idea! This way less experienced scriptwriters can understand the code, and when i see a big block of code i usually only scan it and dont take it in so its useful for people like me too! If you get the chance do the same for the second code you posted Good work!

There looks like some good code there but what i would do it split it up for those who are new to PHP or at a medium level and explain each part of code, obviously not every command, you'd be here all day! But explain how and why you are getting the data from a database, and how you're formatting it etcetera and then write it up as a tutorial, take a look in the tutorial section so you can see the format you should use and that way you get lots of credits because stuff inside the CODE and QUOTE tags doesn't get credits. I wrote a basic guestbook style tutorial in there and someone else wrote one two and we compared, theres was better though It would be nice to have another comparison. Check it out.

Yeh they will pay all the usually business taxes but as its a bonus its like a gift and gifts cant be taxed, at least here in the UK, so if you want pass on our worldly goods do it before you die and you will avid the tax man!I agree that the inequality is bad but then the Google guys that started Google have earned an honest trade and haven't really hurt anyone in the process so i dont have anything against them, and their services are pretty good! Though like i said it would be nice of them to put some money into charities etc.. I wouldnt expect them to put any large amount in because as i said they did earn it but what is little to the Google guys will probably be a big thing to those people so i agree in that sense. Reminds me of the Secret Millionaire thing going on in the UK on TV, a millionaire goes into a poor area and doesn't tell them, then talks to people and acts like he just moved in and lives like them, then at the end of it, finds the most deserving people and gives them a million pounds, i think that's a good thing to do considering these people have almost too much to spend. But anyway, i digress again. I still have nothing against those guys, they did earn it honestly after all and have done well for themselves and i think they sort of set an example to everyone else that is possible, its not like some people who are born rich and then get richer, most of those guys and girls probably started off as "average" earners and have done well for themselves. Though it is bad to see those who might have got to a similar position but due to disability or the places they live and the facilities around didnt get the education or the chances they needed.

Well i like Google and the company etc so im glad they are getting a lot of money as opposed to other companies that really dont deserve it. Though it would be nice to see them put their money into charity or something, but anyway i diverge.. I told my mum this and she said you dont have to pay taxes on a bonus, thats the law in the UK at least so i wonder if its an intelligent way of avoiding ludicrously high taxes. In which case i salute them! would be nice to work for Google, though i think theyre based in the US so i guess i wouldn't have much a chance here in the UK, and thats ignoring the qualities they want in their workers.

I understand the script but i want to ask does it have a purpose as of yet or is it meant as an example of using LIMIT in a query?I think you should write a tutorial about the LIMIT function, tell people how its used correctly and then give an example of how it can be used, perhaps in a guestbook type situation, I think it would be interesting as ive never used LIMIT before so it would help me and you'd get some credits

Gotta love ad blockers! When i read your first post i thought the same as you, that ad revenue would be increased then i remembered the announcement a while back of no ads on here any more. Though you're right, there must be revenue coming from somewhere, otherwise T17 wouldn't be here, im sure there was a post discussing the revenues somewhere, Ill search and post my findings in an edit because i think you're right, it would increase forum activity and with the spam patrol, mods, and the help of all the members here spamming shouldn't be a problem.EDIT: The only thing i could find was in the announcement of the removal of the ads where opaque hinted that Xisto - Web Hosting was doing well enough to support T17, maybe he can enlighten us further?!

Now i do like the idea but i wonder, where will the money for buying the prizes come from? As the forums are now ad-free i dont see where the revenue would come from that would allow the buying of said prizes. If that could be over come it would be a fantastic idea, the only other problem is shipping etc if these prizes are in the form of physical objects. An alternative would be to offer "cyber" prizes along the lines of the web and such like, maybe a free domain name or something but then that raises the question of how many people would participate? I think the idea is fantastic but like i have said i think that getting prizes to give away might be a bit of a problem and then transport of those prizes.

Calm down.. write properly you will get a free website with FTP support and everything thats promised but first you need to get yourself some credits by posting decent things on the forums, read the Readme file and the FAQ's that way you get no ads what so ever! Or you can go to *edit* Qupis. *edit* for an instant free website with the same features, i think, but with a text link ad. You choose which is for you. As you can see i went for the forum posting one and i got my site within a week or so. Notice from jlhaslip: adjusted link

Well i would say to all members DO NOT POST YOUR EMAIL ADDRESSES HERE, my reasons: Now call me paranoid but if someone who has asked me three sentences then asks me for my home phone number i say no. Its a similar rule here, now i apologise if you honestly do want to just be friends but in this day and age spamming and spoofing emails is a big problem and harvesting said email addresses gives a reasonable income if you get enough i should imagine. If you want to be friends with the people here then post in the general talk forums to get to know people, and of course the shoutbox and lets not forget the PM function! I am sorry if i seem a little harsh or anything but if your address got harvested and abused then youd probably wish someone had said something like this to you too

Um.. let me put this as honestly and straight forward as i can. NO! Now if i understand right you want to be taught how to hack so you can hack any-ones computer. That wont happen, not even the forums i used to be on which were dedicated to hacking, you would have been flamed even there where everyone was learning how to hack. No-one will just teach you for any reason really, especially not to just hack anyones computer, that would be considered "skript Kiddie" attitude and skript kiddies dont desire access to the internet, let alone to be taught! And there is no trick to hacking, you just learn and learn and learn and you never stop learning, its not one single thing it will literally take you years and years and years before you are a skilful hacker. I didnt realise that when i started but when i did i gave up with most of it, just focussing on what i needed to know to be safe. If you are intent on learning to hack i am not saying do not, i would almost encourage a lot of people here to learn to hack for one reason, safety. Put it this way a burglar who knows how to pick a lock also knows which locks he cannot pick and these will be the locks he has fitted on his house. A hacker who knows hoe to inject data into a web database also knows how to stop this happening and so can write safer codes. Its also very interesting. But to learn hacking i feel you need to be mature and "wise enough" to know what you are doing and its consequences, its like a knife, in the right hands a knife can feed a whole family, provide shelters etc... however in the wrong hands that same knife can wipe out an entire village. If you did not mean what i assumed you meant than ignore all i have said. But if im right then pleasr think about the reasons why you want to learn to hack and then think abut learning how to.

Im back! Let me start here: I would disagree, we can see that many open source programs EG those that allow users to get into the code and modify it, are a lot safer, faster and generally better than many things that MS create so i feel that by allowing "hackers" to "hack" or modify Vista or any other of the products they would get better PR and more importantly they would have much much better software as with things like firefox a hacker who knows how to hack software by lets say a buffer overflow, would also know how to protect their own codes from this type of attack so if they look through the code of Vista and see the vulnerability, or if their system is attacked and they recognise the issue then they can edit the code to protect themselves and then submit the fix to MS who can then release a patch and make it much more secure. I know the opposite can happen where a hacker would see the issue and then exploit it but i think its more likely it would get fixed. Now @ techclave, So true, though i must admit i would love to have been on the hacker thing at school, i was mainly doing web then but some guys did get into the system badly and i must admit it would be quite a thing to be able to say "Ha i got into your system and your a university graduate and im a school student" Mainly because i hated the admins! But i wouldnt cause any damage. now i can see where youre coming from here as editing someone elses work, which they dont want edited, is wrong, but then i refer back to the open source thing, that manyof the most secure and effective programs out there are open source and i think honestly that if one of my friends was a software hacker and said "i can make your XP do this that and this without and bad stuff" then id get him round to show me how and to do it for me. Though you do have a valid point that it is sort of wrong to edit someone else code but i think as long as its not bad and you just did it on yours or your friends computers then i wouldnt see a problem with it. one more point: This is a difficult thing to talk about, because lets take animal testing as an example, say i am a master hacker and i hate animal testing, which i do, so i decide to deface an animal testing website and get rid of their content. Now i am wrong in that i have deleted their work and gain unauthorised access but then am i right in that i might be helping animals to be free by promoting anti-animal testing? And who knows, by taking down that website i might have helped in the closure of a small animal testing lab that otherwise would have discovered a cure for cancer next week but now it cant and that cure is lost for ever? Id like to say that i agree with ethical hacking becuase of the good things it can lead to, however like i just said there can be many bad things to come from it and there is always two sides of an argument. And my last point... humm i dont know i think we have all benefited from hacking in one way or another, hacking has led to many many security advancements, now you could argue that without hackers the security wouldn't even be needed, now thats true but it sure as hell makes us all feel much more safe. Also hacking by investigators of the law have undoubtedly led to many convictions of people like child paedophiles storing data on their computers, credit card cloners. Also it must have led to software developments from hacking, i cant name any but there must have been! I hope you dont feel ive "flamed" you or anything by posting so much on everything you posted! I just focussed on what you said as i feel you had the most debatable things to talk about where i could hope to show what i feel about them and hopefully someone else will do the same to what ive said so we can talk about hacking in depth one last thing i want to say/ask is how do you define a hacker V a cracker? My understanding is that a hacker is someone who finds an exploit and "engineers" it to get him/herself into the system and do as they please. A cracker, to me, is someone who goes through the password system such as brute forcing the Cpanel login to gain access, cracker could also refer to someone who "cracks" software to get it do what they want, such as those who cracked the windows genuine advantage tool. Well i think thats all i can add right now. This is a very interesting thread in my opinion!