Tyssen

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

<? ?>PHP include statement. The file name extension should be .php

<!-- #include virtual="/yourfile.htm" -->
SSI include statement. The file name extension should be .shtm or .shtml

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.

I want the user to go to a different page though, actually, back to the same form where they put in the information in the first place.

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?

Sorry to hijack this thread a little, but how do you protect against this problem? Through ignorance, I may have inadvertantly left myself open to this type of attack.

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.

I hope all the members of Xisto are all anti-warez.

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

Tool>Options>Content and from there you can enable or disable the ad blocking!

 

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

Visually it looks fine.

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.

I tried to convert my page to php, by I messed it up big time, and couldn't figure it out, so I'm trying again. Should I be getting the page to work in php first, and then try to add the database? Or do it all at once? What do you find works best?

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.

One thing my teacher does say is that it doesn't matter what means you take to get the job done with a client.  So long as it works in the end, the client isn't going to know/care depending on how much they know about programming.

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.

but if you're going to use "../index.php?bg=FF0000" in the above statement, anyone can change it, by just typing a different color in hex. that could mess up the entire design of the webpage. what if i don't want the users to change the page's colors directly from the  url. instead i want them to choose from different color schemes that is specified in my web page.

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.

(php coding based on a script supplied by Tyssen)(Thank you Tyssen)

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.

So I assumed that was the problem and warned against it.  It certainly isn't the fault of my graphics, if that is what you are implying.

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.

Anyone know the proper syntax for this, or do I just need to put the full URL in place?  It's a whole lot easier if I don't have to put the whole URL in place.

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.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

BUT when I use the validator it says

This page is not Valid HTML 4.0 Transitional!

I am validating http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

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:

 

If you are behind a "FIREWALL" and the graphics are not showing, you may have to adjust your settings or take it down to view this site.

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>

The only problem is that it costs too much money in my tastes, but otherwise it is perfect!

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.

2). Firefox seems to need its own plugins for flash, and other softwares which is a real problem... can they ever share those with IE?

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

but my system is already crowded with three browsers already - Internet explorer, netscape navigator and firefox

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

i know that http://www.mapleglobal.com/ is onlr IE only.

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.