redbullmarky

would fit either a site of a violent or sexual nature very well, IMO. if you want a social network of people with all sorts of odd fetishes, i think you've done a good job with that domain name. if you're looking to become the next facebook with it, it just won't happen.

SA - whilst you're on a buying spree, i'm selling a Gibson Les Paul......hehe Got 3 guitars (GLP, Ibanex and a Washburn acoustic) - just sold a 12-string, and a keyboard (which lives in the loft, hardly ever used) plus loads of random bits and pieces, multitrackers and cables galore. I bought a Mac a few years ago fully stuffed with Logic Pro 6, BFD (Big Fat Drums) and Amplitube - loved it! I don't get the time as much these days so will probably shift most of it and keep the bits i need to keep recording little demos. I don't consider myself a musician really, mainly because of the time limits, but I'd never be able to do without having a guitar around the house. Am even looking at trying to get a proper band together at some point now things have settled down a bit. So yeah! Another (sort of) musician in the house!

this might be a good start for something very simple: http://www.massassi.com/php/articles/template_engines/ the one i built for myself was heavily based on the stuff there and works a treat.

that would probably be classed as reverse engineering which would/could possibly invalidate your copy of windows, or just generally screw things up. i'd heavily recommend against going down this road. i know it's Windows, but i think that some people can be a little TOO paranoid (with many good reasons, admittedly). Alot of people will install firewalls and norton this and that and anything else they can find, and then go recklessly off on voyages to dodgy sites or downloading/installing dodgy software without any care or thought at all. simply sticking to reputable sites and sources, and only downloading from those places, will go a long way to keeping you safe. a copy of AVG or similar to keep your computer clean of virus', coupled with the built in Windows firewall, is generally fine as long as you go about your surfing with a bit of care. i tried zone alarm and stuff like that but they were just annoying the hell out of me, and the simpler version has kept me going for years without (so far so good) any issues to speak of. i have a laptop which i work from most of the time, and it has XAMPP installed for local testing. i'm not sure why i started to get into the habit of it, but there's a little switch on the side of my computer that disables the wireless connection altogether which i use when i'm not needing to use the internet.

that to me would still be classed as presentation logic - ie, not making calcs or grabbing info from the DB, but deciding what/what not to display based on variables - like you would when making alternating row colours, for example - so all good there IMO.

lol i meant this one: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,165712.0.html

here's one - MVC - discussed: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,165768.0.html here's lots more resources, some of which what you're after but ultimately related: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,107835.0.html

with the variable you're using, are you running the data through stripslashes at all before putting it in the DB? if there are no "escaping" slashes in the string (ie, the result of running the data through addslashes/mysql_real_escape_string), then it'll take out others with undesirable results.

a lawyer? seriously - if you're gonna be looking at making some £££ from this, you got to be prepared to do some proper homework and perhaps invest a little cash. for legal stuff, you're asking the wrong people altogether. a lawyer won't need to know much about PHP to tell you if it's wrong or not and what measures you'll need to take.

please read the stickies before opening new threads... http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,117475.0.html

using tables introduces layout/styling into your HTML, which is what CSS is for. The HTML should really be just about your content, not how it looks. This way - you can drop in a new CSS stylesheet or make changes to it and your site can take on a whole new shape. CSS layouts do take a little longer to craft and code, and to get working properly cross browser, but considering it makes long term amends easier, plus makes your site look less "rigid", it's worth it. Daniel pretty much said much of this this in his last paragraph. As for accessibility, much has to do with ordering when it comes to screen readers - ie, what content appears before other content, etc. When your layouts get a little more complex, and you use tables, ordering can go all over the place - meaning poor user of screen reader is going to be scratching their head trying to get around your site.

You own one of those domain squatting porn sites? haha no. it's a single image with a forwarding link at the moment whilst i work on its proper content, which will be a newspaper/lads mag.

i own a name that's the same as a very popular brand of brown sauce (at least in the UK) i'd post the link, but the contents of the site would be well against phpfreak's guidelines

you're sort of asking two questions here: the former is something different and the answer is as Daniel said. The latter is generally down to Google and a dose of "I'm Feeling Lucky". When an address cannot be found (at least in firefox), the browser uses Google (or whatever you have) to perform a search. If a virtually exact match is found, there's your site. If I put "phpfreaks" in my address bar, with nothing else, I get to this site.

having said that then, it's a poor idea. I hope it works for you - so good luck with it - but you did ask for opinions on the idea, and feedback here seems perfectly above board, fair comment, and exactly what you asked for. i understand your point about people being particular, by aiming at a certain group in a particular way. a BETTER model, IMO, would be to build a reputable network of sites and drop a more subtle "christian" link/banner (eg, "Part of the blah blah network) in the footer. Your site would then have the "stamp of approval", but would also not alienate other groups; but the way it comes across at the moment is all wrong and could be taken as discriminatory, even if that's not your intention. Looks nice and clean though - as for the comments previously about using Drupal, I couldn't disagree more. Drupal needs some hard work and plenty of learning to get it to play ball, unlike more conventional CMS's, so good job there.

Radiohead have never been ones to stick to convention, be it their music, attitude or methods. Radiohead interviews are few and far between, so you never quite know what they're up to - just when you think they've disappeared, they re-emerge with a bang. Personally I don't think it'd work for all bands, just the ones (as Neal said) that have a sort of cult following. Many of my work colleagues/friends have already downloaded the album but also "want the disk box or CD when its released next year as something to keep." That's gonna make the band some serious £$£$£$ Also - lets be honest here - if you want a song from an artist, or even a whole album, there are many places you can get it for free, albeit illegally. So in this respect, selling an album for £9+ less than the shops gives you more profit than you'll get from the cheapscate that downloads a copy from unoffical sources, plus it makes the REAL fans feel they're been given something back for their loyalty that made them famous in the first place. Or just the fact that many are sick of the chunk of money sliced off the total cost for the fat cats and pen pushers, rather than going to the band. Thumbs up to Radiohead. It's a cracking album, too

use a framework, or keep things as reusable as possible. group together common areas - ie, contact forms, static pages, libraries of functions. keep your templates/site specific stuff as seperate as you can from the logic of your code. if you can find similarities/common ground, you can hit two projects as if they're just the one.

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,99899.0.html

something low level with a bit of whack. C/C++ would do the trick, as would many of a similar level.

it's too blue, it doesnt hit home straight away, it's a little boring, and just looks like Yet-Another-Money-Making-Site. Also, IMO, a site pushing itself as an advertising solution should NEVER use 3rd party ads.

it's not just you. my host is one of the largest in the UK, yet have only just upgraded all of their main packages and default server packages to PHP5 and MySQL 5 (from php 4.3.1/mysql 3.2.23 - so even mysql is lagging also) considering the benefits of php5 (including performance and development), and also considering that if any changes are required to take a site from 4 to 5 they're generally very minor and simple, it's more surprising that php5 has been so slow to be adopted.

depends on whether you're developing on it for clients, or using it for yourself. if it's the former, then you need to be careful that their server can/will support PHP5. if it's the latter, there's absolutely no reason not to. all your PHP4 stuff is generally compatible, maybe just requiring the odd tweak if any. things with PHP5 just seem more, well, "polished", not to mention the additional OOP support and tonnes of useful extra functions. as many big hosts now support php5, i tend to find it fairly easy to either convince clients of a host move (as they're having a new site anyway) or to host it for them.

learning the fundamental basics of programming rather than PHP-specifics will help alot. control structures/loops/functions/classes, etc - all help.

doing your own research including google, books, trial and error, php.net, phpfreaks, etc = self taught. being taught by a qualified professional = edumacated.

do you mean that the server is not externally located, and lives in your own home? in this case, wouldnt a direct ethernet connection work rather than FTP? or just get a CD drive for you server and put them on directly?