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  1. Me: Thank you for calling the Geek Squad, how can I help you?

    Cust:  Yes, is this the Geek Squad?

    Me: YES.  How can I help you.

    Cust: Are you a Geek?

    Me: Sure, now how can I help you?

    Cust:  Do you work on computers?

    Me: YES.  What is the problem you are having???

    Cust:  I can't get my computer to turn on?

    Me:  Is it a desktop or a laptop?

    Cust: It is a Gateway.

    Me: Okay, but is it a desktop or a laptop? Is it a big computer or one you can carry?

    Cust:  It fits in my bag and i can carry it.

    Me:  Did you try to plug it in?

    Cust:  The guy at the store said it was wireless.

    Me:  Yes, the computer is capable of picking up wireless internet.  Did you plug in the computer to the power outlet?

    Cust:  No, the guy said I could take it everywhere with me.

    Me:  Yes, but it has a battery that needs charged when it dies.

    Cust: I didn't get a charger for the battery.

    Me:  Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to call Gateway because it sounds like an issue on their end.

    Cust: Okay, thank you.

     

    EDIT:

    We call this an I-d-ten-t error, or id10t error :P

  2. We upgraded to SMF 2.0 today.  It had some major changes including CSS changes and we lost some of our mods.  Among these are:

     

    No topic solved

    Smaller code box/quote box font

    New font style

    The header is a bit messed up

     

    We know and we are working on it.  Also,  new stuff added:

     

    Warn system: Mods can now warn you and after so many warns you get auto banned by the system

    Cleaner layout

    WAP2 support

     

     

    We are still looking at what all was added/changed. Any question please post here.  DO NOT START A NEW TOPIC! WE WILL CLOSE IT AND POINT YOU HERE!

  3. thanks thorpe. I am so confused as to what he wants as well.

     

    If you want to be your own ISP you have to open a ISP provider business. But from somewhere you have to get internet (i think from the government) and it still has rules.

     

    If you want your own host get a POS computer and set up in your house, install linux on it, set it up as a web server, and make sure the outside world can access it (I do this and my unit cost me $200 one time fee, and all I pay for is my Cox cable and an added $30 per month that allows Port 80 and a static IP).

  4. Supertrooper images were used to as restricted access images. We had that one first that if you tried to view an admin section on the main site you seen that. Then we changed it to one where a guy from supertroopers was flipping you off if you tried to access a restricted site.

  5. I was a mod during the IPB era, and promoted to admin in the IPB era (near the end).  I remember this because AJAXFreaks and such were on the old IPB system and PHPFreak and I had linked them up and gave me network wide admin access to the forums. Shortly before the change to SMF, or shortly after I can't remember, Ober was promoted to moderator.  From there we decided that we wanted to do some work so PHPFreak promoted Ober to admin on the forum side, and then gave Ober and I server access shortly after. 

     

    Before I was a mod there were two other admins with PHPFreak, who worked at The Web Freaks  with PHPFreak. They were demoted to moderator around the time I was promoted to mod. From there we did a forum sweep, and they were demoted once more because it had been many months since they had visited the forums.

     

    Before that is ancient history that no one but Eric will remember.  I think it involved two site design changes, I still have a snapshot of the VERY FIRST PHPFREAKS.COM DESIGN!  Then we went to PHPFreaks 2.0 and then PHPFreaks 3.0.  The original was in my member days,  we went to 2.0 right before I was promoted to mod, and 3.0 right around the time I was promoted to admin.  That is when Ober and I were promoted to become server admins as well as forum admins because 3.0 was just a new design with the old backend code from 1.0 ported forward and it was really buggy.

     

    Is that enough history for you?  I don't think much more came before that.  That was right around the time the site started kicking off.  If you want more history, I can get nitty gritty.

     

     

    Nitty Gritty

     

    From how I remember it, Eric bought linuxforum.com. It was already an active site that he gained I believe through a purchase.  From there we saw PHPFreaks, ApacheFreaks, and MySQLFreaks.  From here you know the history all way up to the present.  I will add though that right after 3.0 (and right after I was promoted to admin but before ober was promoted to admin) PHPFreak added AJAXFreaks to the mix because he had really gotten into it and wanted to provide a place of support for it.

  6. Reading that article I get a feeling of it being some comical joke. Like something in the Onion. I mean it could be true, but things like Dark Matter and warp drives, and shrinking at the front and expanding at the back?  I mean that last one there reminds me of Star Wars where the ship warps into hyperspace.  The front kind of shrinks up, the back kind of expands, there is a pop, a sense of what looks like extreme forward motion, and then they are half way across the galaxy. 

     

    Then again I could be wrong!

  7. Where are you telling the difference between data and form?  You should an if statment like so:

     

    if (!submit) {

     

    code for showing the form

     

    } else {

     

    code for showing the chosen category

     

    }

     

    On top of that, you need to grab the form data when the page refreshes using $POST['category'];, assign that to $category, and go from there.  See if you can work with that.  if you run into more problems, post what you have and I'll sit down and write up some actual code.

  8. When you call the page have it read the URL and match it against a database, and pull all the rows from the table matching the url column.  What I would do is have a table called adverts set up like so:

     

    Table adverts:

    ad_id

    country

    city

    ad

     

    From the URL  grab the .co.uk (or whatever) and match against country.  If there is something before sitname.co.uk (or whatever...ex: london.sitename.co.uk)  have it match both the country and the city.  From there just pull down information and print it out.

     

    As far as file system goes,  you'll probably only have files that are basic templates, and the entire site ran as a backend.  For this, look into a framework.  I really like Cakephp.

  9. Try:

     

    <?php

    $categories=array();

    $sql="SELECT * FROM client";

    $result=mysql_query($sql);

    while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){

    $categories[]=$row['type'];

    }

     

    echo '<form action="' . $PHP_SELF . '" method="post" id="type">

    <select name="category">';

     

    foreach ($categories as $category){

    echo "<option >$category</option>\n";

    }

     

    echo '

    </select>

    <input type="submit" value="show" />

    </form>

    ';

    ?>

     

    I think the main problem might have been your </select> was after the <input type...etc....>.  Anyways,  cleaned it up a bit, put it in order, and didn't break out of php so much.  This way it is cleaner and easier to read and hopefully you'll be able to understand it a little better.

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