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Should be done like this: $appendval++;$weightnum--; That will increment or decrement the variable. Also, I wrote a tutorial about this type of PHP scripting. It's on Xisto, the sister site to Xisto. Here is the tutorial link: Rapid HTML code generation using simple PHP It might interest you. vujsa

Actually, Alpha was released October 25, 2004. Beta 1 released around November 28, 2004. We are now looking at Beta 2. Beta 2. I said Beta 2. What is Beta 2? Anyhow a new release is supposed to be out soon. The author was asking for any final bug reports not too long ago. Anyhow, as microscopic^earthling can tell you, I really don't like the invisionize forums. They are too poorly organized. instead of having seperate topics for bugs, support, and requests/releases; it is all in the same topic. So since October they have written 39 pages of bugs, new releases, install questions, feature requests, and general discussion about the reputation mod. As a result I have had to try to read through the topics and get the 5% of the discussion that I actually care about. Really, do I care if they use stars or bars to show reputation level? I'll try to get more information abot the progress of the mod and get everyone updataed. Happy posting, vujsa

To answer your question, no. The free hosting account comes with no warranty of uptime, service, or data loss.Having said that, were talkiing about maybe a half of a credit. Even if the server is down for a full day and a whole credit is lost, one decent post will more than make up for it. If posts counted for credit in this forum, you would have made the difference up already.Fortunately for all of us, the server went down at the best posible time. Late Sunday night early Monday morning is the slowest time on the internet so there should be little worry about lost visitors. Additionally, being the slowest traffic time, it should expedite the transfer of data due to fewer page requests.If you really want to help out, don't try to load your page until word is given that the server is back up. Attempt to load your website before then only slow the data transfer. Of course OpaQue could have just reset the server and waited until all of our data was lost before addressing the problem.Long story short, not hosting credit adjustments. We are all affected and we'll just have to make the best of the situation.vujsa

I did some searching at invisionize.com and found metion of a couple of reputation systems. Invisionize.com Forum Search Results For "Reputation". I wasn't sure if any of these are the one you need. I assume that the mod is manually installed because m^e couldn't find any information in admin cp about it. I'm sure that something can be figured out. Even if the old system can't be replaced, I'm sure a new system will work fine. vujsa This might be the real answer: http://forums.invisionize.com/index.php?shdpost&p=1490885

The new install looks good. The page loads do seem to be quicker as well. Don't work about army system and the rest of the pass time mods. We'll either spend more time in the forums or swing over to ipbgaming.com from time to time. Too bad about the reputation system though. I was just getting to be respectable at Xisto. - Is the current IPB version incompatable with the old reputation system? - No updated reputation system availible for the current IPB version? - Simply can't find an updated reputation system? - Need to modify the reputation modification to work with the new IPB version? I'll try to help where I can but I'm not that familiar with IPB. D2 is looking into the shoutbox frame scrolling. I added 5 pixels in height to the shoutbox at ipbgaming.com to give a little more room before the scrollbar shows up. Helps a little. Keep up the good work. vujsa

You'll need to learn how to work with the $_POST and $_GET variables in order to use forms. Finding information on these items should get you started on your way. Afterwards, I'm sure you'll be able to get more specific help as you need it. It is just too hard to try to teach php in a forum. Many of us are very good at explaining how specific things are done but we are really bad when it comes to general things. patheticcockroach has a good point about running a test server at home. It is easier to learn with because you don't have to keep uploading files between changes. Hope this helps you get started. vujsa

Actually, that should read:$pid = $_GET['pid']; $cat = $_GET['cat']; The GET for method displays the varialenames and values in the url. The POST form method does not show the values in the url. So you would never use a password or other sensitive information with the GET form method. Here is a form that would create the url in the topic title: <form method="GET" action="index.php"><input type="text" name="pid" value="page"><br><input type="text" name="cat" value="category"><br><input type="submit"><br></form> Here is an example of an index.php script that would use the form: <?phpecho "The current page number is: " . $_GET['pid'] . "<br>\n";echo "The current category is: " . $_GET['cat'] . "<br>\n";?> Would print:The current page number is: page The current category is: category Hope this helps explain things. vujsa

Wow moonwitch, you won't get a better explaination than that. dungsport and overture explained the code you asked about very well. I like the way you learn scripting. You read the code and ask questions about things you don't understand. That is the same way I learn scripting. I bet you have a lot of trouble trying to figure out what the php manual is trying to explain too. I usually need to see the code and the output before I can really get the concept to sink in. That is probably why I have so much trouble with classes. Hard to see the output without a lot more code. I'm glad that there are so many php coders here. I'm sure I'll have maany more questions in the future. Happy coding. vujsa

At the moment being the key phrase. Any website offering free space will eventually need to limit how much everyone gets. The next point is why would you come here and talk about their hosting services. Not only will Xisto host images and SMF, it provides image gallery scripts, guestbook scripts, and content management scripts. Not to mention Xisto will host your domain free of charge and provide domain parking and unlimited subdomains. I know many new arrivals tend to be mislead by other websites when it comes to true web hosting. Most of our users only regret is that they didn't find Xisto sooner. The difference between what our peers are offering and what we offer is rather large. vujsa

Nice tutorial. I wanted to mention that you can use images for the menu item backgrounds as well. Create an image that is twice the height of the menu item. Design the top half of the image as the default background of the menu item. Design the bottom half of the image to be the background of the menu item during rollover. Now for you CSS link attribute, set the background image to the new image. In the CSS for the hover (rollover) set it to the new image but specify the position to show only the bottom half of the image. This is the technique used for the menus on the default Mambo template (SolarFlareII). Hope this helps. vujsa

It never occured to me to make a million dollors searching google via NetBux. The maximum searches for a sigle day is 40. even if they end up paying $0.03 per search, that only $1.20 a day. I use the service as my search box though. It isn't any different that going to google so if I could make a little change in the process, I might as well. Actually, I'm a horrible speller and I use the dictionary.com search option at NetBux a few times each day. I don't bother trying to max out each day or invent search terms to submit, if i need to search for something, I do it through their site. It doesn't cost me anything and there is an off chance that I could get enough money out of them to buy a softdrink at work each week.I suppose if you had referred some people that use the service, you might make some money if they are active but like I said, I only use it when I need it and I don't expect to make any money from it.I guess it would be nice to have a couple hundred users under you all searching a lot. vujsa

Hey I did some quick color schemes for my template. Please have a look and tell me what you think. Color Viewer Hopefully this will give a better picture of what would be possible with the current template. The final template will be based on the current template. The final template will be much more graphic based and less style sheet based. Page and section borders will be designed and new header backgrounds created. Thanks for your input. vujsa

The cPanel disk usage is not calculated in real time. It is updated every 24 to 48 hours. If the disk usage feature was shown in real time, the server would be too busy to serve web pages, images, scripts, etc. Keep in mind that you web site isn't the only account on your server. Hope this clears things up. vujsa

Simple Machines Forum announced on June 8th, 2005 that it was releasing SMF1.0.4. The new version will correct a few minor bugs. See below. I hope that everyone will enjoy the newest release of the fastest growing bulletin board application availible. vujsa

Of course offsite storage and other external storage systems are always a good idea. I don't think that USB pen driveds are really a good option for large scale data backup.. They are great for data sharing and transporting but the cost per megabyte for the storage is still too high not to netion the number of pen drives needed to backup most systems even if the data heavily compressed.I also don't think that floppy drives are a viable backup solution for any major backups. Your average harddrive is much more reliable than a floppy disk for various reasons.Again floppy drives are best used for small documant transportation or sharing.It looks as thought the best solution for data backup is on rewritable DVD. With data compression, it is possible to get nearly 10 GB on a single DVD or nearly 20 GB on a dual layer DVD depending on data type and native compression.As mentioned before, online storage accounts can be usefull for some data types. Irreplaceable data such as photos and emails would be good canidates for online storage. Keep in mind, the data you store on someone elses system is backed up but particularly secure. While the original privacy policy or service aggreement says that you data will not be shared or manipulated, if the ownership of the system changes, then the policies may change. Tape drives are a very good way to backup data but is pretty expensive in the cost per megabyte department. With multi-gigabyte tapes availible, many users can back up their entire system with a single tape. As far as the unreliability of hard drives, that would be the point of the topic. Three hard drive failures may seem like a lot but it isn't really. I've had that many but the difference is that after the first one I changed the way I store data. All of my data is stored in multiple places. As mentioned before, my first line of defence is how I partition my drives.Having a system partition and a data partition seperates OS failers from hardware failures. With an OS failure, all I need to replace is the system files, the data partition is protected.My second line of defence is having the RAID installed. This won't protect from OS failures as the same corrupt data is written to both drives but if one hard drive fails, I still have the data on the backup drive. I can just shut the system off until I replace the faulty drive and duplicate the good drive.It is unlikely that I'll have multiple hard drive failures or both a hardware and OS failure at the same time but in the unlikely event that the unlikely occurs, I backup my data regularly onto DVD. Just encrypt them, zip them up, and give to a friend or family member for offsite storage. A small bank saftey deposit box can hold a lot of DVD's. A good fire safe or fire box at home would be a good alternative to offsite storage but many can fully protect data storage media.While this sytem may not be for everyone, it does work. I haven't lost any irreplaceble data since I implemented this system on my computers. One further suggestion, select the leave message on server under you email client options panel. Also select delete on server when deleted locally. You'll need to keep a close eye on your email account to ensure that you don't exceed the maximum stoarge on you account. If you run out of room, you will not receive any new emails until your account is cleaned out.Hope this helps. :(vujsa

The IEEEXXX.X is a specification number for whatever hardware you are looking at. I'm sorry, I am not familiar with all of them so I can't help with that. What it mean is that it conforms to all of the requirements set in that specification. So if you have software or hardware that requires that the devices meet that srandard, it will work. I'll look into the specifications you have supplied and try to answer but probably not tonight. For more information about networking, see this post at Xisto, our sister site. It has a pretty good explaination of wireless and wired networking and a good resource link. Hope this helps, vujsa

Ethernet card would be 10Mbps (mega bauds per second) Fast Ethernet card would be 100Mbps and Giga Ethernet card of course is 1000Mbps or 1Gbps. Most ethernaet cards sold today are Fast Ethernet or better. Look for the 100Mbps or the 10/100Mbps specification. I would only suggest Fast Ethernet and faster cards. Most are backwards compatible so even if some of your existing hardware is slower, everything will work together. (1 baud is about 1 byte if I remember correctly) Additionally, make sure you only use Cat5 or better network cables. Cat5E is my reccomendation but Cat6 is the best way to go. If you will run network cable through your building like in the attic or inside of the walls, go for the best you can afford so it won't need to be replaced soon. Cheaper cables are fine for easily accessable areas because they can be upgradded easily. Hope this helps. vujsa

Very good explaination of how to do it. That is exactly how I would do it. Speaking of which, could I have the other half of my brain back now. :DThat would be the most straight forward way to do it. If you can't do it that way for some reason, let us know and we'll see what we can do.vujsa

You can't actually delete Windows Messenger but in the registry, you can disable it from popping up all of the time and from using up the system tray. I disabled it so long ago that I don't remember exactly how I did it. Hope this helps, vujsa ADDED INFO HERE [/hr] I remember that I got the directions from an article (Windows Tip) in Maximum PC. I probably still have the issue arround here. I'll see if I can't dig it up and post the instructions. vujsa

You'll need a USB video capture devise like winTV. It should come with all of the software you'll need to record video or TV.If you had a desktop computer, you would have many more options for video capture.Look into the latest winTV products and similar items. Some of them are TV tuner only which means you would need on of those channel 3/4 RF modulators for capturing from a video camera or vcr.Ideally, you want a USB2 video capture device.Hope this helps, :Dvujsa

I see your problem but I have no idea what you think we can do your you but tell you not to pass out your password anymore.The runescape password farming problem is well known. People offer scripts to help you with you runescape account and you type in your username and password then nothing happens. But, your username and password were saved by the script for later use.Please explain better what it is that you want to accomplish here and I'm sure someone will try to help you out.vujsa

Kind of small list here: P4 Desktop (yeah like it would fit on a desk) Compaq P4 Laptop Cable Modem TiVo DVR / DVD-R/RW Linksys WAP/ Router / Switch Cannon Printer via Desktop Soon to add: PS2 (old one just needs an adapter) Second Desktop Second Printer Out of ports, a second switch it looks like. vujsa

Well, it depands on how the border is created but usually, it is set by either border="1" which is 1 pixel or border="5" which is 5 pixels. Unless the border is create with css the it would be border-width: 1px; or border-width: 5px; There are also styles avalible for css borders. Check out webmonkey for basic css information. Hope this helps,

Did you try it with send mail instead of SMTP?Additioanally, are you sending plain text or html. I never did like AOL and all of its imperfections.I'm a firm believer that they should warn their users that they have decided to use the worst possible service provider avalible.vujsa

Hey thanks for the feedback. Forest green might do well. I plan on writting the new template this week or next and I'll give green a shot.I know what you mean about the log in module, I had it there in a previous attempt at a template and layout.I'm going to hang on to the ratings for a while longer until I'm sure that I don't want them. I wish I could specify which categories use the rating but that would be a real pain to code now.I'm going to dump about 750 VW related books into the directory under the book section which would do well with a rating system. Thanks again for your opinion, :Dvujsa