[Approach to searching, insertion and deletion using text files]

I would have thought you'd have to dump it all into an array and sort through it.
[code]<?php
//Display usernames
$content = file("test.txt");
foreach($content as $line) {
    $fields = explode(":",$line);
    echo $fields[1]."<br/>";
}
?>[/code]

[Move text in signature generator.]

To do this with PHP, I think would be tedious for the user. I'd personally suggest doing it with JavaScript, there's a cool script [url=http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm]HERE[/url] that you could use to drag a layer around on top of an image, and on creation of the image, grab the coords of the text so you know where to generate it.

[Need help with php random string please.]

[quote author=Rianna link=topic=106716.msg427550#msg427550 date=1157348033]
Not sure what you mean, can you show me a string for this please, to use instead of mine. Thank you very much!
[/quote]
Sure, your file would contain:
0-Sundays text
1-Mondays text
2-Tuesdays text
3-Wednesdays text
4-Thursdays text
5-Fridays text
6-Saturdays text

And to get todays text, you'd do something like this:
$banner_no = date("w");

[Search query finds all results instead of categories]

You have no 'WHERE' clause in your SQL queries...

[Change file name upon upload?]

I would assume you're using the move_uploaded_file() function, just change the 'destination' parameter to whatever you want to rename the file to.

[How to retrieve windows logged on user information?]

Surely that would only display the user logged onto the server though wouldn't it?

[Need help with php random string please.]

If you number them 0 - 6, zero being Sundays text and 6 being Saturdays text, you can grab todays text with date("w").

[Parse Error]

[quote author=steelmanronald06 link=topic=106691.msg426954#msg426954 date=1157251653]
I get the same with that, but this url:

http://localhost/lampgeekz/members/%3C?%20echo%20$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];%20?%3E
[/quote]
Did you check if short tags are enabled? The above still translates as:
http://localhost/lampgeekz/members/<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>

Try (as in AndyB's post):
[code]action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">[/code]

Apologies if you did try that. It wasn't obvious if you had or not.

[Developing on Linux systems]

I have thought many times about switching my delelopment machine over from Windows to a Linux distro, but there are two things holding me back.

- Photoshop. I just can't get into 'The GIMP', people keep telling me that it has all of the features of Photoshop, but I just can't agree with that. I don't find it very easy to use either.

- Target users. You have to admit, Windows with IE is probably the most popular combo. You need to be able to test your projects on a machine that is similar to your target users. I have multiple machines I could test on, but it's a pain in the arse switching machines just to test minor alterations. FireFox on Linux and FireFox on Windows do NOT render websites the same either - I have noticed that is the case with Firefox on OSX too. I think it's something to do with the way Linux and OSX render type, as it's antialiased...

They're the two things holding me back from the switch.

[Using array_map for incoming form data?]

I don't see a problem with your second script, but if you are looping through the post array anyway, why not just escape it there? Less typing involved...
[code]<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    array_pop($_POST); //remove the submit variable
    foreach($_POST as $variable=>$value) {
        $$variable = mysql_real_escape_string($value);
    }
}
?>[/code]

[Is this done with php]

You'll need PHP - Dreamweaver is just a WYSIWYG HTML editor as far as I'm aware, it offers no advanced automatic script creation.

[making a directory in php is it possible]

You can create directories with the mkdir() function.

[Is it "wrong" to piggyback off someone's wireless network?]

I would if it was intentionally left open.

[Which would you choose and why?]

I found it odd that someone who goes to great lengths to clean the inside of their mouth enjoys sucking toes. And prefers sweaty, smelly ones at that!

[Which would you choose and why?]

I'd personally go with Norbert Jr.

Why? Well, I think Kayla would actually read all of the pages, line by line, examining each word to ensure that she has a match or not. 'Hercules', I would imagine, has some form of knowledge with computers maybe? Maybe he knows a little programming? He'd just scan the pages, use some OCR software to convert the scans to text files, and write a script thats less than 5 lines long to do the work for him. Although, that is assuming he hhas some knowledge with computers and programming, if he hasn't, he probably wouldn't get around to even reading the first page.

[selling programs(advice on pricing)]

It's a hard one really, it's all about experience and market research. It's only going to be worth what someone is willing to pay for it. You can also ask yourself questions like, how long did it take to build? Are there any systems out there that do it better than mine, that are free? Et cetera.

[Copying an Apache installation to another machine?]

[quote author=steelmanronald06 link=topic=105306.msg420609#msg420609 date=1156336394]
I thought that Apache now came with a setup wizard?
[/quote]It does (and always has, as far as I'm aware) but I don't want to leave the install up to the end user, and I want a specific configuration. I just downloaded a package called WAMP5 from some French site, which installs AMP all at once in one install so I think this is looking promising, the status on the install showed all of the files being copied and it just looked like the structure of a normal install of Apache, no dll files going anywhere.

I'll just give it a go when I get half an hour and see what happens, I'd just need to work out how to create a service in Windows if I can get this bit working...

[php scripts into exes]

You can create installer applications with software such as InstallShield, although this is commercial software they do have an evaluation version to download and play with. There are free, open source solutions available - There's one from Nullsoft (I think they make WinAmp too)...

[Pagination Problem? [solved]]

Could you run your URL (or just the parameters) through the url_encode() function?

[IE7 vs. Firefox 2 (and all others)]

[quote author=SharkBait link=topic=105014.msg420714#msg420714 date=1156344881]
Who here has used or still uses things like Gopher? IRC? Archie? Usenet etc?  I miss the days of the net where you had to know how to use a computer to do anything with it.[/quote]
I still use IRC and Usenet on a regular basis...

[Ever heard of TinyMCE?]

I've used it on a number of projects, no problems with it so far.

[Copying an Apache installation to another machine?]

I'm guessing this isn't possible, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

Bit of background info: I have developed an intranet application that will be distributed on CD with end users that are not up to scratch on installing software such as Apache. (Target OS's are x86 Windows)

So, what I am wanting to do is create an installation file (either exe or msi). I have got software to do this, namely InstallShield Express. I believe it is possible to trigger an external msi install file from within my installer but I'd prefer it if I didn't have to do this. Idealy I'd like to 'manualy' install Apache with my installer - Would it just be a case of copying the directory structure from a succesful install into my installer? Or is this likely not to work?

Once I get over the Apache install issue, installing PHP with my installer shouldn't be an issue as it's possible to just copy over the directory structure. Has anyone else need to do this, and did you do it another way? Any tips?

Thanks guys.

[Reading a large text file]

Have you tried just dumping the contents of the file into a variable with file_get_contents() ?
I can't see why it should fail on files over 100k - How long is it taking to execute?

[need some help]

Could you provide a before and after image of what it is you are wanting to do? I don't fully understand from your post.

[Converting An Array]

You'd have to run an SQL query to fetch the name while looping through your array.