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Hehe.. Funny that people started responding to this thread again. Anyway the problem has been resolved long back. Don't think we need to carry on with this anymore. Topic closed.

What are ya waiting for .. get outta here and get working.. shooo shooo I can't start a contest like this on trap coz I don't have admin access - this would require serious re-skinning of the board. But BuffaloHelp can take up on this idea and start one of his own Why don't you direct him to this post thread ?

Hehe - so do I wholeheartedly agree with twitch. Spelling and Grammar are not only two important aspects of any good writeup, but they essentially reflect how far you're willing to go to make yourself be understood. Leaving others to do a guesswork between what you wrote and what you meant - is NOT a good thing to do. Moreover, the use of punctuations - as twitch pointed out - isn't restricted to writing. The "breathing" and "voice-modulation" that one does during talking are the auditory counterparts of punctuations. While we easily grasp a lot from these pitch modulations during a conversation - don't forget we've the advantage of SEEING that person face-to-face on most occasions. We are at a big advantage here as we get to observe gestures and facial expressions - and subliminallu these contribute a lot towards our final understanding of the conversation. Same goes for Classroom teaching and Presentations.BUT - when we hand in inert articles to be reviewed, or in our case here, make posts, we've only got punctuations to back them up. Our posts cannot be heard, neither are they accompanied by the aforesaid expressions and gestures. Punctuations are our essential means of rendering those same expressions to an inert piece of text. Why do you think we've got the Exclamation !!! and Question ??? marks ? Do you think you'd really be able to tell the difference in most cases if our sentences weren't delimited with these ?Imagine a board-room presentation or a class teacher going on in a dull monotone for hours - without any pitch flunctuations or kinesthesis (body movements/gestures). How long will you remain interested in such a class/presentation and how much of the subject will you actually retain ? The same goes for articles without puncutations and proper formatting - they just turn into a dull, boring and most unintelligible piece - however well they might be written.

Guys - you gotta read this article. It's just too funny. According to a recent Reuters news, a bunch of bad drunken Santas - FORTY to be exact - stormed through the City Center in Auckland stealing and assaulting the guards in a violent protest against over-commercialization of Christmas. In another case - a speeding Santa (150kmph) was given a ticket. Apparently, he had a bunch of gifts to deliver and was running on a tight schedule. Still not enough ?? A furniture store in the German town of Ludwigshafen was held up and robbed by an Armed Santa .. rofl.. The creme of it all - a Flasher Santa - who never misses the slightest chance to expose himself to a passing-by woman. Read the whole article and more at: /home

Nope - your forum account will always be there, irrespective of whether you're hosted or not. And you don't need any credits to keep this alive either.

Good one Mayank - similar to what you've shown on Xisto, I'd like to point out some of our members who don't post much, but when they do, their posts make up for more than 2-3 months at a time. Check out the posts of the following members: mitchellmckain MajesticTreeFrog These are just two examples - you'll find plenty more as you browse through the forums. You don''t need to consistently make such long and informative posts each and every time/day - it's not humanly possible - BUT, it's definitely possible to do it a couple of times a week.

Wait a second - this error probably means, your $result doesn't contain a valid MySQL ResultSet - which means, you query might have never been executed. You need to check the database parameters. Where are you using this code ? Your local database or at Xisto ? Depending on that you might need to change your database name and database username. As for the bracket on same line or next, wouldn't really matter - but I think your semicolon is again misplaced. See, the structure of an if statement is as follows: if ( expression ) { code...... ...........}else{ code...... ............} OR if ( expression ) { code...... ...........} else { code...... ............} You can see that the placement of braces won't really matter - but what will matter is if you place the semicolon after the if statemnt. For example:if (expression); { .... } will give you grave errors - as semicolon is a command terminator. If you place the semicolon after the if statement - the expression if simply evaluated and left at that.. the following branched code, which is supposed to be executed depending on the evaluation of the if expression - will never get associated with it - as the statement has ended even before reaching that block. Anyway, all your errors are on the lines of: Warning: ..... supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in - which clearly indicates that the $resource variable doesn't contain the correct connection resource id - causing the following statement to execute incorrectly. As I mentioned aboved, you need to check the connection settings - and do let me know where your database is situated. I might be able to give you some hints if I know that.

Issue resolved. Topic closed

Here's the story - your account got suspended as Xisto received a mail from one of the paid web-site template sites that you were using an illegally ripped skin from their store. Surely you must know that this is in complete violation of our TOS and AUP. As I informed you earlier, the revival of your account is entirely upto OpaQue as he's got the final say in this. However, I can try and do a backup of your site. Will inform you once I get it done.

Welcome to Xisto Mayank And yeah indeed I've seen you around on Trap. You'll find the forums here a little stricter in regard of posting rules - but nevertheless equally enjoyable. Wev'e always strived to keep the forums as free of spam and junk as possible, and I believe we've done a fair job so far. However, the most of the posts here aren't of as serious a nature as they're usually portrayed to be - our members indulge themselves in a equal share of fun and banter all through.. and that's what keeps things lively Hope you have a great time with us here

See if someone wanted to crash you DB - one could easily do it with a massive DDoS attack. On the other hand, if you want people to be able to access your forums - you need the % hostmask. One way to stop such activities would be to have some sort of a good router with DDoS preventive mechanism - along with that use your OS Firewall rules to limit the number of connections on a per IP basis. None of these techniques are 100% foolproof when used alone - but a clever combination of all might just help you pull through

Yup that missing semicolon would surely give you the same error. So you need to check for them. Do you use an editor that supports syntax highlighting and brace (paranthesis) matching - I use one and that helps be cut down the errors by half - right when I'm doing the first pass.

I don't think the pages designed to be accessed through WAP devices can be read properly through HTML Browsers - coz they're written in a variant of XML known as WML. I don't know much about the tagging structure of WML - but the differences might explain the errors you were getting.

Reading MarkBla's post and moving it into the correct forum. Sheeesh- that took a bunch of mouse-clicks and timed out internet connections... WHAT A ROYAL WASTE (And some more time wasted slapping MarkBla around with a grossly stinking and long dead trout)

I don't have any problems with operating IPB - I've been handling IPB based boards for so long that you could blindfold me and I'd use it with the same ease. But for newcomers, the Admin CP can present you with an overwhelming amount of features - and unless you're the bold experimenting kind, you might get scared and shy away.

YES YES YES I mean YES you can .. All you gotta do is from cPanel MySQL DB Setup, add the hostmask which will be allowed to connect to your DB. If you want all users to be able to connect to this DB, your hostmask should be %.%.%.% and if it is only a certain segment from IP range say, 213.214.x.x - you do 213.214.%.% That'll enable you to connect - for hostname, set your subdomain's name and port should be 3306. To test your configuration and remote manipulation of your databases, I recommend this tool called SQLYog - a real power-packed MySQL Administrator Tool, the lite version of which is freely downloadable at https://www.webyog.com/

awesome that can even double up as Medusa's hair

Those books will take care of all your problems - whatever you want to design are given in those books.. that's why I recommend them so strongly.Now this error is usually produced if there's some missing single or double quotes or some parathesis () {} or [] aren't matched up properly - causing strings to end prematurely. Can you paste a little more of the code - lines above this and below this - otherwise hard to tell what the problem is.

Here you are - when you pass two parameters like that (tutorial and id) along with the URL, you can check for them in PHP using $_GET. But first you need to check whether the variables contain any value or not - or in other words, whether they've been SET. First we check for tutorial - whether it has been set and the value contained is view - so we know which action to take. if ( isset ( $_GET [ 'tutorial' ] ) && $_GET [ 'tutorial' ] == 'view' ) {.................// Rest of code} The above code checks whether tutorial contains a value and whether that value is equal to 'view' - if so, next step will be to see whether the id variable has been set, and if so, we use the value to find the right article from the database. if ( isset ( $_GET [ 'tutorial' ] ) && $_GET [ 'tutorial' ] == 'view' ) { if ( isset ( $_GET [ 'id' ] ) ) { // Fetch the id of the tutorial and store in a var $tutorial_id = $_GET [ 'id' ]; // Setup the mysql query string $query = 'SELECT title, content FROM tablename WHERE `id` = ' . " '$tutorial_id' "; // Connect to mysql db and store connection ID in a variable $resid = mysql_connect ( 'localhost', 'username', 'password' ); // Open the required database using the connection ID fetched above mysql_select_db ( 'database_name', $resid ) // Now query the database using the $tutorialid variable to fetch the correct content // Use the same connection resource id that was set above $result = mysql_query ( $query, $resid ); // Now check first whether a tutorial with that ID has been actually returned // '1' as a result implies that the tutorial exists and has been returned if ( mysql_num_rows ( $result ) == 1 ) { // Fetch title - which in the field 0 of returned result $title = mysql_result ( $result, 0 ); // Fetch content - which in the field 1 of returned result $content = mysql_result ( $result, 1 ); // ============================================================================== // // Now add code here to print out the title // and content on the page formatted as you wish // // ============================================================================== } // end if } // end if} // end if Follow the comments I've put in along with the code - they should explain each step. If any part is unclear, post back and I'll try to explain further

Hi marisol, A very very merry christmas to you too - and welcome to Xisto. This sure is a fun community and will make you feel at home rightaway. Just pick a topic of your interest and join in the ongoing discussions. Have fun :huh:Regards,m^e

Dude you need two books - these two have been my indispensible companions in respect of MySQL and PHP. PHP CookBook by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg (O'Reilly Pub.) MySQL CookBook by Paul DuBois (O'Reilly Pub.) You get these two books - you nip your coding nightmares right in the bud They've got every little thing you'd ever want to know about coding your pages using these tools. I'm going for a bath - will come back and post some code that might help you sort out your problem

You bet - template editing has become a mere breeze now The overall organization and layout of the skin editor too - sooo much improved. Am still experimenting with it day in and day out and never ceasing to get surpirsed

Same question again - anybody has an idea how to create your own RSS Feed from scratch ? I searched far and wide and all I found was loads of rss readers, free rss hosting sites and tickers - but not ONE GOOD site that describes the whole process from a DIY angle.Any of you has done it ?? Can you direct me to some good site for beginners ?Thanks,m^e

Form working again. Issue resolved. Topic Closed.

I've got a Perpetual Licensed copy of IPB 2.1.3 which we're using for the Antilost Developers Community (https://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=antilost&e=com) - dude, it's not just the Admin CP.. Have you noticed the INLINE EDITING feature ??1. When you edit your post - instead of reloading the whole page - just your post ALONE gets updated on-the-fly2. Topic title editing was never easier than this - similar to editing posts, if you want to edit a topic title, you just left-click on it and keep the button held for 2-3 secs. The title becomes editable right there - similar to how you edit filenames in Windows (using F2 key or just a single-click on the filename) There are hundreds of new hidden goodies like this. More updates later I simply love this release. True as you said - NOTHING NOTHING EVER WILL COME EVEN CLOSE TO IT