Tyssen

So this thread is more about attention-seekers than those acting depressed? How do you know for certain these people aren't depressed?

No, that's incorrect actually - you can include any sort of file, even .txt files. The file calling the include must have the correct file extension, but it doesn't matter for the include itself.

You want to look up self-referencing forms.

Form elements are very hard to style across browsers. In fact, this article suggests you can't achieve cross-browser compatability. But aside from that, are you applying your background image to the select or option element?

I'm by no means a programming expert, so in cases like this I resort to using others' scripts that have been tried and tested and proven to be secure.

Well they certainly won't be hosting any on Xisto servers cos they'd get shut down.

That's only for pop-ups, not all ads.

How have you managed to see it? Everything I've tried just results in a page of code.

You'll be happy to know that your images are working for me now.

Get the page working in PHP first and then when that's right, you can replace actual values with those that come from the database. That's not strictly true. To say it doesn't matter what means you use is, quite frankly, irresponsible. For instance, you could set up a contact form on a site and through lax programming, leave it open to email header injection attacks so that your client's mail server gets used to transfer loads of spam. The client may never find about it but could gain a bad reputation as a spammer because the mail all appears to be coming from his/her email address. Or the client's web host may suspend or terminate the account due to the abuse. So, if you are doing paid work for a client, it is in your best interests to know as much as you can about what you're doing if you want to avoid having to pay to fix ealier errors, or worse still, be sued due to lost business caused by your oversights.

In that case you should test your $_GET against an array of permissible values and only execute the script if the value passed from the querystring is in the array.

Well, I got the bulk of it from someone else on another forum, so I can't really take credit for it.

It depends - do you feel like your site could do with a spruce up design-wise? If so, start from scratch.

Well, no, actually it is. I can't see your graphics and I've looked on two different PCs with different firewall configurations. And when I paste the URL of one of your graphics into my browser I get a 404 - which means it doesn't exist on your server at that location. I'm sorry if you think I'm 'raining on your parade' but you've got errors on your site that need addressing.

Sorry for double posting but didn't read all of the original post properly the first time. To go with what I posted above about absolute paths, you don't have to type the full URL, just do this: /stuff/file.html.

I hardly ever use relative links. I find absolute paths much easier to work with.

Well, if having your page validate is important to you, you're gonna have to address the errors.By the way, just a comment about this: Who do you think is going to go to the trouble of turning their firewall off just to see graphics on your site? Why can't you get your graphics to view properly despite firewall settings? No-one else seems to have any trouble.

If you're designing in XTHML with a strict doctype, you can't have any background information in your HTML. You have to assign a class or ID to the table or cell instead and then put the background info in your CSS. It's not that scary really. Instead of <table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=1 width="100%" bgcolor="#D3C177" background="gardenia/gardenia_goldstrip.jpg" border=0>you'd do this: <table id="whatever">/* CSS */table#whatever {width: 100%;background: #D3C177" url(gardenia/gardenia_goldstrip.jpg) no-repeat;border: none;border-collapse: collapse;}table#whatever td { padding: 1px; }

Are you talking about " or " ? Are the quote marks in your actual content (e.g. "he said blah") or are they used in your tags (e.g. <input type="text" ... )?

<td><input type="checkbox" name="?" value="<% =(rs.fields("primaryKey")) %>"></td>If you want the checkbox to be selected based on a certain parameter, it'd be: <td><input type="checkbox" name="?" value="<% =(rs.fields("primaryKey")) %>" <% if (rs.fields("primaryKey") = something then response.write "checked" end if %>></td>

DW is far from perfect. With it, people new to CSS build sites based solely on absolute positioning which look fine on their monitors, at their screen res and their font size, but as soon as any of those variables change, their layouts invariably break.

It's always been that way though - think back to the earlier versions of Netscape.

Ditch Netscape then. It's based on the same Gecko rendering engine as Firefox anyway.

That's just silly.

The guy who posted his own patch in the first link I gave has had so much traffic to his site that his ISP shut his site down.