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  1. I don't know what a legal definition is but here is the more accepted definition of a business:

     

    A business is an organization involved in the sale of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant
    in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profits to increase the
    wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned.

     

    And this is what the universities teach. A business does not have to be for profit. Business 101 may not teach customer satisfaction,

    but marketing 101 certainly does.

     

    But I see no value in nit picking the definition of business. My original topic seemed to evolve to the fact that "business" was down

    on the site and what could be done to improve it. And I certainly don't see where a posting about "douchebags" is related, constructive or

    even appropriate language.

  2. One of the actual admins can correct me if I'm wrong but:

    PHP Freaks isn't a business. The goal is not to make money, and we don't have customers. This isn't a "company" that needs to be represented by PR monkeys.

     

    The purpose of PHP Freaks is to spread knowledge - and it's free to the users. The purpose of this forum is to help people solve their problems, and more importantly help them learn how to solve them.

     

    We donate our time. No one here makes a cent. You are not a customer. You are asking us to do something for you for free. Most of the people who come here and do that, do it without thinking about what those of us who do help have to do. There are plenty of help vampires, people who want it done for them, people who aren't willing to try on their own. They are more disrespectful to us than Christian asking why you'd complain about a free service is.

     

     

     

    I disagree that this site is not a business. I would content that all sites are a business. Every business has an objective or purpose which I believe she correctly stated for this site. The fact that it is free is immaterial. A church is a business but it is free. All business have an organizational structure, a service or product, bylaws, rules and regulations and customers. A church has all those as does this site.

     

    The managers here are the owner, Phailip, Kevin and others. I am a customer. cssfeakie was a customer when I first met him on here. But he had the knowledge and spent the time helping others to where he was "promoted" to a manager's position. I would like to have a manager's badge. I have the time to contribute but I will never have the knowledge required.

     

    The point I am getting to is business is all about customer service. It is about selling the customer on your product or service. That is the only way a business will grow.

     

    If I was the manager of a business that had taken a down turn the first thing I would do is review everything I could find when business was good. Then I would try to compare those findings to today to see if I could pinpoint a cause/effect relationship.

     

  3. So, what do you suggest we do to improve?

     

    At the top of the list for me would be timely responses. Back in the day  I would post a topic early in the evening and there would be 3 or 4 exchanges within a couple of hours. The last week or so I have posted 4 or so with almost no activity. I don't know if it is me, the topic, how I worded it or what the problem was. So I went to another site to see if I could get some help. I tend to think it was the loss of very good people that were here almost every night....like cssfreakie.

  4. It is an unfortunate (and fortunate, in some ways) reality of fora that people move on, either because they've lost interest, don't have time any more, or found some place they think better. Of course, always sad to see the really helpful and resourceful people go, but on the flip side of that is that there are always new members joining. Some of which might be even better resources than the old.

     

    StackOverflow is geared more towards just providing answers, and not building a community. That's where PHPfreaks, and other, similar fora, shine.

     

    I didn't realize it but you hit the nail on the head with the word "community." I seldom was the giver of help because I am more or less a novice at this. But even at that I was always treated as part of the "community" Patience was their virtue as long as you tried and were not just after someone to write code for you. There were 3 or 4 old time heavyweights....gurus, mods and admins...that I miss seeing here. But as you say I am sure there are new ones as competent, I just haven't been around enough to get to know them.

  5. I also see we seem to have lost several key members that were very active then, like cssfreakie. He was on here daily, is a css genius and a great guy. And a couple of mgt. people that helped me so much aren't as active as they were then.

     

    I just don't like the look and layout of Stackoverflow.

  6. I guess I will have to change my "if at first you don't succeed, QUIT." As mentioned before, the jQuery and javascript solutions were just way over my head. But I kept looking and found Eric Myer's Pure CSS Tooltips. Perfect! I ended up with this code to do what I want. So simple.

     

    <html 
    <head>
    
    <style type="text/css">
    a.info{
        position:relative; /*this is the key*/
        z-index:24; background-color:#ccc;
        color:#000;
        text-decoration:none}
    
    a.info:hover{z-index:25; background-color:#ff0}
    
    a.info span{display: none}
    
    a.info:hover span{                /*the span will display just on :hover state*/
        display:block;
        position:absolute;
        top:2em; left:2em; width:15em;
        border:1px solid #0cf;
        background-color:#cff; color:#000;
        text-align: center}
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <!-- Tooltip 1 -->
    <p>What is a tooltip? <a class=info href="#">This is a tooltip <span>A tootip is text or image that appears just when you roll on with the mouse</span></a>.
    <!-- Tooltip 2 -->
    <p>The basic idea comes from Eric Meyer's <a class=info href="#"><b>pure css popups</b><span>A very clever way to get dynamic effects on an
    html page without using javascript.</span></a></p>
    
    <br /><br /><br /><br />
    </body>
    </html>
    
    
  7. Thanks Tom. That is exactly what I was looking for. Only problem is it is way above my head. I know a tiny bit about javascript and nothing about jQuery. What I have is ugly but it works so I guess I will leave it for now.

     

    Checked out your web site and it looks like you are on your way to a great career. The best of luck to you. Just wondering why you have not updated it in 2 years?

  8. This is the best example I could come up with.

     

    When I hover on the link in the box, I don't want to link to the data, I want the additional data to appear in the expandable blue hover box. I have no clue how to do it.

     

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Event Calendar</title>
    <style>
    html {
    font-size: 62.5%; }
    body {
    font: 1.2em/1.3 Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    background-color: #cef;
    padding: 2em 0 0 2em; }
    
    h1 {
    font-size: 2.5em;
    margin: 0; }
    
    #calendar {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    width: 700px;
    border: 2px solid #333;
    background-color: #ddd; }
    
    #calendar li {
    list-style-position: inside;
    font-weight: bold;
    width: 88px;
    height: 88px;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    float: left;
    background-color: #fff;
    padding: 5px;
    overflow: hidden; }
    
    #calendar li:hover {
    overflow: visible; }
    
    #calendar li ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    clear: both; }
    
    #calendar li ul li {
    list-style: none;
    font-weight: normal;
    float: none;
    border: none;
    padding: 5px 0;
    margin: 0; }
    
    #calendar li:hover ul li, #calendar li.hover ul li {
    position: absolute;
    width: 150px;
    margin-left: -38px;
    height: auto;
    background-color: #8cf;
    border: 1px solid #069;
    padding: 10px;
    z-index: 10; }
    
    #calendar li.wednesday {
    margin-left: 300px; }
    .clear {
    clear: both; }
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    
    <ol id="calendar">
    <li class="wednesday">
    <ul>
    <li><a href="#event1">Event 1</a></li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    </ol>
    <p class="clear"></p>
    
    <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <!-- just for test -->
    
    <a name="event1"></a>
    
    6/8/2013 -- Summerdale, AL (C) MAGNOLIA SAILPLANE FESTIVAL. Site: Magnolia Field. John Phillips CD PH: 251-343-xxxx
    Email: xxxxxxx@bellsouth.net. Visit: www.ty.com. All Sailplanes welcome including electrics. Gates open
    at 8AM, pilots meeting at 9AM. Landing fee $7.50 which includes lunch and drinks throughout the day. Winch and high start
    launches available. Please visit website for additional info and map. Sponsor: BAY AREA RC SOC BARCS
    </body>
    </html>
    

  9. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title>SARCM Event Calendar</title>
    <style>
    html {
    font-size: 62.5%; }
    body {
    font: 1.2em/1.3 Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    background-color: #cef;
    padding: 2em 0 0 2em; }
    background: url(../Pictures_Other/background.jpg) fixed no-repeat 50% 50%;
    h1 {
    font-size: 2.5em;
    margin-left: 163px; }
    h2 {
    font-size: 2.0em;
    margin-left: 276px; }
    #calendar {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    width: 700px;
    border: 2px solid #333;
    background-color: #ddd; }
    #calendar li {
    list-style-position: inside;
    font-weight: bold;
    width: 88px;
    height: 88px;
    border: 1px solid #999;
    float: left;
    background-color: #fff;
    padding: 5px;
    overflow: hidden; }
    #calendar li:hover {
    overflow: visible; }
    #calendar li ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    clear: both; }
    #calendar li ul li {
    list-style: none;
    font-weight: normal;
    float: none;
    border: none;
    padding: 5px 0;
    margin: 0; }
    #calendar li:hover ul li, #calendar li.hover ul li {
    position: absolute;
    width: 150px;
    margin-left: -38px;
    height: auto;
    background-color: #8cf;
    border: 1px solid #069;
    padding: 10px;
    z-index: 10; }
    #calendar li.sunday {
    margin-left: 0; }
    #calendar li.monday {
    margin-left: 100px; }
    #calendar li.tuesday {
    margin-left: 200px; }
    #calendar li.wednesday {
    margin-left: 300px; }
    #calendar li.thursday {
    margin-left: 400px; }
    #calendar li.friday {
    margin-left: 500px; }
    #calendar li.saturday {
    margin-left: 600px; }
    .clear {
    clear: both; }
    #head4 {
    font-size: 30px;
    margin-left: 170px; }
    #head1 {
    font-size: 20px;
    margin-left: 103px; }
    #head2 {
    font-size: 30px;
    margin-left: 38px; }
    #head3 {
    font-size: 20px;
    margin-left: 40px; }
    </style>
    <!-- *********************************************************************-->
    </head>
    <body>
    <h2>January 2013</h2>
    <!-- ******************* Days of Week ******************** -->
    <table style="text-align: left; height: 100%; background-color: rgb(128, 200, 254);" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
    <tbody>
    <tr>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>SUN</strong></center></td>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>MON</strong></center></td>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>TUE</strong></center></td>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>WED</strong></center></td>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>THUR</strong></center></td>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>FRI</strong></center></td>
     <td style="width: 92px; vertical-align: top;"><center><strong>SAT</strong></center></td>
    </tr>
    </tbody>
    </table>
    <ol id="calendar">
    <li class="tuesday">New Years Day</li>			
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>
    <ul>
    <li>Club meeting at the field. 12:30 PM. Food and drinks.</li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li>
    <ul>
    <li>1/19/2013 - 1/20/2013 -- Auburn, AL (C) WARBIRDS OVER EAST ALABAMA. Site: Club Field. Roger Sailors CD PH: 334-707-3387 Email: fwman190@knology.net. Visit: www.rcflightdeck.com. Restricted to Giant Warbirds in Military or Civilian paint. Open flying format. No events, no awards, 80' Mono, 60' Multiwing minimums. $20 entry fee for entire event. AMA required. Flying 9-4 CDT all days. (Open til dark) RV parking/camping, no hook ups....FREE Sponsor: AUBURN PLANESMEN RC
    </li>
    </ul>
    </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <li> </li>
    <div class="clear"></div>
    </ol>
    </body>
    </html>
    

     

    The info shown for 1/19 looks pretty tacky because it overflows the given space. The hover info display is ok.

    Is there any way to limit the amount of info initially shown in the column for 1/19 and still show all the

    info on hover?

     

    I know there are other ways to do the calendar but this is the easiest for me. I am not that good at javascript.

  10. <html>
    <head>
    <style>
    #table.my-table{
    border-color: #FFCC00 #FFCC00 #FFCC00 #FFCC00; <!-- #BFBFBF #5A5A5A #5A5A5A #BFBFBF; -->
    bgcolor: #FFCC00;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 10px;
    text-align: left;
    border-collapse: separate;
    border-spacing: 2px;	
    }
    table.my-table tr{		
    }
    .my-table td{			
    padding:2px 7px;		
    border:1px solid;
    border-color:#5A5A5A #BFBFBF #BFBFBF #5A5A5A ;
    }
    </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <FORM>
    <center>
    <table BORDER=4 BGCOLOR="#bfe3fe" >
     <tr>
     <td ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=CENTER COLSPAN="7"><center><h2>Temperature Conversion Calculator</h2></center>
     </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
     <td ALIGN=CENTER>Fahrenheit</td>
     <td ALIGN=CENTER>Celsius</td>
     <td ALIGN=CENTER>Kelvin</td>
     <td><center><INPUT TYPE="Reset" NAME="Reset" VALUE="Reset"></center></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
     <td><center><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="F" VALUE="" SIZE="6" MAXLENGTH="6" onchange="eval('C.value = ' + this.form.C_expr.value);eval('K.value = ' + this.form.K_expr.value)">
    			 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="F_expr" VALUE="(Math.round(((212-32)/100 * C.value + 32)*100))/100;">
    			 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="F_expr2" VALUE="(Math.round(((212-32)/100 *(K.value - 273) + 32)*100))/100; "></center></td>
     <td><center><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="C" VALUE="" SIZE="6" MAXLENGTH="6" onchange="eval('F.value = ' + this.form.F_expr.value);eval('K.value = ' + this.form.K_expr.value)">
    			 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="C_expr" VALUE="(Math.round((100/(212-32) * (F.value - 32))*100))/100"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="C_expr2" VALUE="(Math.round(K.value - 273))"></center></td>
     <td><center><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="K" VALUE="" SIZE="6" MAXLENGTH="6" onchange="eval('F.value = ' + this.form.F_expr2.value);eval('C.value = ' + this.form.C_expr2.value)">
    			 <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="K_expr" VALUE="(Math.round((100/(212-32) * (F.value - 32))*100))/100 + 273"></center></td>
     <td><center><INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="Reset" VALUE="Calculate"></center></td>
     </tr>
    </table>
    </center>
    </FORM>
    </body>
    </html>
    

    I was looking for a program to do length, volume, weight and temperature conversions for my web site. I found the first 3 written in Javascript. I tried to modify it to include temperature with no success. Then I discovered one for temperature and modified the look to match what I already had.

     

    But I have never seen computations done with html alone. I cannot find an explanation anywhere. Everything I can find says “onchange designates a Javascript to run…”

     

    Can you point me to an explanation of :

     

    onchange="eval('C.value = ' + this.form.C_expr.value);eval('K.value = ' + this.form.K_expr.value)">

     

    and

     

    VALUE="(Math.round(((212-32)/100 * C.value + 32)*100))/100;">

     

    I understand the math. But I can’t find “eval, this form, C expr.value” used with onchange. And I can’t find “Math.round” used with VALUE.

  11. The image files doesn't exist. You're linking to Pictures_Other/wind_forecast.png which will go to http://southalabamar...nd_forecast.png that doesn't exist on the server.

     

    I know that because I deleted it. But it still shows up when I click on the wind forecast. And I have no idea why.

     

    I changed the image name and the new image displayed. Then i changed the image back to wind_forecast.png (which still doesn't exist on the server) but it still shows up.

     

    I don't know what is going on. I changed wind_forecast.png to a jpg and it works.

  12. Marcus:

     

    That is exactly what I did on my last site. I have a good thumbnail program and might change back to that. The average size of the tn file is about 8 k and the average size of the resizer is about 28 k. Don't have any idea how much that would reduce the load time.

     

    Thanks for the suggestion.

  13. Hey Kevin:

     

    I answered a couple of days ago but I guess I forgot to hit post.

     

    I don't like the logo either. As I mentioned above, I lost my graphics helper...cssfreakie who use to be one of the CSS gurus here. He doesn't answer my emails. I might have to learn how to use Inkscape.

     

    The Concorde, same problem, had a nice graphic before but not applicable here. It does look awkward so I deleted it.

     

    For now going to leave videos as is since I had such a problem getting them to work.

     

    Blue and orange...no reason. Changed all them to orange.

     

    I have not optimized the images because it is such a pain and so time consuming. But! I Googled it and found a great resizer on CNet named Mihov Image Resizer. It is a tiny program and will do batch resizing, rename the result and load it in the same file. I resized about 20 images of 2.5 megs each and it did it in about 20 sec. You select the pixil size for resizing.

     

    I love redneck cheesy music but I took it out.

     

    Thanks for your time.

  14. From the very bottom looking up I can say from experience you could not have made a better choice. He is an expert in his field and with undying patience will go out of his way to help even a struggling beginner. Congrats to you Pikachu!

  15. Don't know where that came from but I must have done it. Didn't notice it because it didn't seem to be doing anything. Deleted it.

     

    I had a site before and a beautiful image that cssfreakie did for me. But he doesn't answer emails and seems to have left PHP freaks and I am not a graphics person so I just put that picture there to replace his.

     

    Haven't done the member's area yet. Not sure they even want one so I have commented it out for now.

     

    One thing I might have to fix is the time on the clock. Sometimes it is right (CST) and other times it is 6 hours fast which I assume is Zulu Time. I just like the looks of this one.

     

    Thanks kindly for your comments.

  16. Being a novice programmer I am primarily interest in your comments relative to layout, colors, ect. I have used some tables where I should not have but it is just easier and faster for me. And my CSS is not the best but it works which is in itself a miracle.

     

    The site is southalabamarc.com

     

    Thanks for taking your time to help.

  17. I could get the videos to play in a new window by linking directly to a .html program. But I wanted them to play on the current open page. I beat my brains out and only discovered how to do it by chance. Here is the code in case it might help someone else.

     

    crashes.php

    <html>
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
    <title>AVS FLV Player</title>
    <!-- SWFObject embed by Geoff Stearns geoff@deconcept.com http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="content/pages/swfobject.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body style="direction: ltr;">
    <div id="flashcontent"> <strong style="font-size: large;">The contents of the page could not
    be displayed.</strong><br><br>
    This can be caused by the following reasons:
    <ul>
    <li>Microsoft Internet Explorer blocks the flash content on
    your page.<br>
    Click the warning in the upper part of the browser and select the <strong>Allow
    Blocked Content... </strong> option to continue opening the
    page.<br><br>
    </li>
    <li><strong>You need to install or upgrade your Flash
    Player.</strong><br>
    Please visit the <a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">Adobe
    site</a> to download and install the latest version of the Flash
    Player necessary to be able to display the contents of this page
    </li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var so = new SWFObject('content/pages/avs4you_player.swf', 'player', '450', '370', '7', "#ffffff");
    so.addParam("allowScriptAccess","always");
    so.addParam("allowFullScreen","true");
    so.addParam("wmode", "window");
    so.addParam("scale", "noscale");
    // this is the name of the converted file that will be played by the player
    so.addVariable("file", "video_crashes.flv");
    // here the size of the player itself is set in pixels - width and height
    so.addVariable("width", "450");
    so.addVariable("height", "370");
    // the name of the player skin
    so.addVariable("theme", "content/pages/Platinum.swf");
    // the movie loop parameter - can be set to 0 (the video will stop after the playback is over) or 1 (playback is looped)
    so.addVariable("repeat", "0");
    // the movie automatic startup parameter - can be set to 0 (the playback will not start automatically once the page with the video is loaded) or 1 (autostart)
    so.addVariable("autostart", "0");
    // the name and path of the image that will be displayed when the page is loaded, provided that the autostart value is set to 0 (i.e. no autostart is enabled)
    so.addVariable("image", "");
    // the volume that will be used to playback your movie
    so.addVariable("volume", "50");
    so.addVariable("scaleonresize", "none");
    // the top and the bottom captions displayed when you roll your mouse cursor over the player window
    so.addVariable("top_caption", " ");
    so.addVariable("bottom_caption", " ");
    so.addVariable("showlogo", "0");
    so.addVariable("v", getQueryParamValue("v"));
    so.write("flashcontent");
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>
    

     

    What stumped me was this line:

    so.addVariable("file", "video_crashes.flv");
    

     

    I had included a path to the video same as with the player and player skin. Still don't know how it works. Guess it assumes the video is located in the same directory as the player. In testing I left the path off the video file unintentionally and lo and behold it worked. If you want to see it at southalabamarc.com I have not finished fixing all of them but Funny Crashes works.

  18. I hate to do this but the only honorable thing to do is to admit I am just stupid. As many times as I have checked over 3 days I have been making a keypunch error and then reading it wrong. Back to typing school.

     

    Thanks so much for your efforts.

  19. Pikachu:

    If you remember this is the exact code we developed over a year ago. Everything else works perfectly except I can't get my videos to play. I am testing by keying in the URL in the address bar. I assure you the video_f86.html file is there. Also when I double click on video_f86.html in my Windows Directory it works. But if I key it in the address bar it 404's me.

     

    Xaotique:

    I am keying these two URL's directly into the address bar. I am not an expert so I don't know what you mean by misconfiguring the configuration file.

     

    Keep trying guys because I have run out of ideas.

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