Philip

Yup, I have been in that boat too. I've been programming for a good 8 or so years and while I don't consider myself a noobie, with the exception of specifics related to my industry, I wouldn't consider myself an expert either. This is a progression that you'll always be learning, and like thorpe said, one you definitely won't have mastered within a month.

So, it looks promising that people want to do this (or at least the staff does) 11 - yes, 1 - no, 10 days left of voting. If you haven't voted yet, do so now!

You can add a ;board=[bOARD NUMBER] to the end of the url. You can find the numbers by looking at the URLs when viewing them. Examples: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss;board=1 for PHP Help RSS http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss;board=11 for This board etc.

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As an update for those that just check "Show new replies to your posts". Official thread about contests has been started here

I compiled a list of ideas from the previous suggestion thread: [x][profile]jesirose[/profile]: Translator. It takes the text entered by the user and translates it to a funny version, such as Pirate, 1337sp34k, redneck, etc. [x][profile]fert[/profile]: Make a fully functional blog [x][profile]mattd8752[/profile]: Create an AI bot [x][profile]The Little Guy[/profile]: Online planner/address book [x][profile]steelmanronald06[/profile]: CMS (the idea of the "smallest code base for a CMS" came from this one) [x][profile]coolcoolm[/profile]: News System With Coments [x][profile]coolcoolm[/profile]: Arcade With High Scores [x][profile]coolcoolm[/profile]: Tutorial Site With Coments [x]Jaysonic: statistics program [x]Jaysonic: Media gallery [x]Jaysonic: Member system [x]Jaysonic: Topsite / Link exchange [x]Jaysonic: Calendar [x][profile]Streety[/profile]: RSS reader [x][profile]Streety[/profile]: Search Engine [x][profile]utexas_pjm[/profile]: Cipher based, where speed and accuracy wins [x][profile]play_[/profile]: A multi-language syntax hilighter (like GeShi) [x][profile]ToonMariner[/profile]: Fully featured web mail interface [x][profile]NArc0t1c[/profile]: Mini forum (similiar to the CMS) [x][profile]NArc0t1c[/profile]: Puzzle based (similiar to a cipher based one, where speed and accuracy wins) [x][profile]heckenschutze[/profile]: Weather forecaster (forecast the weather from RSS feeds & satellite data) [x][profile]TheFilmGod[/profile]: something like Digg. com [x][profile]Milbea[/profile]: Chess [x][profile]Milbea[/profile]: Blackjack [x][profile]phpSensei[/profile]: Online chat system with bbcodes, rooms - similar to IRC [x][profile]Rhysyngsun[/profile]: An application that generates suggestions everyone likes for the next contest (I'm a fan of this one) [x][profile]stuffradio[/profile]: A basic file tracker system to share(legal) files. [x][profile]chrisdburns[/profile]: A site similiar to http://www.hackthissite.org/ My ideas: [x]Create an analytics tool (similar to Google Analytics) [x]IRC bot

For reference these are the 2 previous contests we held:

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The only one I'm remotely excited about is the shortened array syntax. Coming from a lot of JS work, this is nice.

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My main beefs with them: They provide little to no flexibility with most of their services Their prices have always seemed high to me for the level of quality it is Their UI is absolutely horrendous and takes 10x longer to navigate through to do the smallest of tasks They supported SOPA They've tried on many attempts to call me to market more items (they also send a higher than required amount of emails, which can be tricky to opt-out of) Yes, for first-timers or those that have a lot of clients already on GoDaddy and don't want to move, sure I can understand that. But personally, I moved everything away from them as soon as I realized how much I hated it.

What isn't? ha!

Mmmm.. you know I didn't say this earlier but... ewwww GoDaddy.

You might need it without the trailing period. Some hosts require, some automatically add it, some are just stupid.

And to answer your question on why it doesn't work - it's because there is no entry for just your normal domain

Mmm I don't know if this will help at all because I'm definitely no expert on the subject... but most of the CNAMEs I've worked with are usually the full address followed by a period: my.domain.com.CNAME another.domain.com. In your case it should look something like this, no? cleep.us. 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com www.cleep.us. 3600 IN CNAME stats.weblyize.com

No reason for the advice if they are doing proper backups (onsite AND offsite)

I'd suggest just going the jQuery route and using a plugin that does this already - especially if you're wanting fancy animations and what not. Here is one but be warned, raphael.js doesn't work on mobile, but it is one of the few that works on IE7 & 8.

TBH I'd really like to see the contests come back. At first there might not be prizes, yeah... but as time goes along and the contests get more popular sponsors will likely be willing to donate some products or $$ and we can get some kicakss prizes. I do have a couple of ideas, I'll kick around with the staff. Maybe we can get these going again Which is still around

YEah, as joe92 said, this already happens. A captcha wouldn't make much of a difference because most of the people that post under the old threads have < 10 posts anyways - meaning they will see a captcha no matter waht. If we start getting a lot more of them, this might be an option, but as for now, I'd say nay. We already ignore you

Welcome! Hope you enjoy PHP more than ASP

This Google Article should help

Which is why it is blocked from my search results

<?php function timeToString($seconds) { if(!is_int($seconds) || $seconds < 0) $seconds = 0; $seconds = ceil($seconds); $time = array(); $string = array(); $secondsTranslations = array('day' => 60 * 60 * 24, 'hour' => 60 * 60, 'min' => 60, 'sec' => 1); foreach($secondsTranslations as $key => $trans) { $time[$key] = floor($seconds / $trans); $seconds = $seconds - ($time[$key] * $trans); } if($time['day']>0) $string[] = $time['day'].' Day(s)'; if($time['hour']>0) $string[] = $time['hour'].' Hour(s)'; if($time['min']>0) $string[] = $time['min'].' Minute(s)'; if($time['sec']>0) $string[] = $time['sec'].' Second(s)'; return (count($string)>0) ? trim(implode(', ',$string)) : 'n/a'; } $tests = array(-15, 12, 60, 121, 333, 9999, 9392042); foreach($tests as $test) { echo $test . ': ' . timeToString($test) . '<br />'; } Returns -15: n/a 12: 12 Second(s) 60: 1 Minute(s) 121: 2 Minute(s), 1 Second(s) 333: 5 Minute(s), 33 Second(s) 9999: 2 Hour(s), 46 Minute(s), 39 Second(s) 9392042: 108 Day(s), 16 Hour(s), 54 Minute(s), 2 Second(s)