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  1. Thanks for the advice I went to inhoster.com and reported the abuse but there are tons of reports about this isp on the net I'm not confident. Ideally I would ban entire countries from visiting my sites what is the easiest way to do this? I can do it in my php via looking up the ip on my ip to country db but I'm a little nervous of that from a search engine point. I would be in effect showing some visitors one thing and others another which I believe SE's don't like.
  2. I put a little text area form on my home page for feedback Knowing visitors are reluctant to enter their email addresses I left it anonymous Visitors can enter a message and I’ll receive it via email. The day after I received a spam message it was a big list of url’s and they’d tried to do some html type code. So in my send mail script I check the referrer is my site, and if not it sends me their ip and not the message. What did I do wrong? How come the spammer found me so quickly? What is the best way to stop it ? Sorry I only seem to come here when I need help but the truth is I’m not that good and don’t feel ready to give out advice. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Roy PS, I’ve only captured 2 different ip’s so far – but it occurs every day 85.255.119.75 66.249.66.137
  3. Hello, I've just moved hosts to ixwebhosting.com they seem very popular and have great deals But when my php scripts create stuff like directories or files they have a user and group of httpd which I assume is the default owner. I don't have the permissions to do anything with them - how can I make it so I own the objects? or have the permission to them. I know this question must have been asked lots of times, I have searched the forums but I can't find the answer.
  4. I have the functions they're quites small I didn't post them because I don't think its what the functions are doing its when they're called when using IE it works fine as far as I can tell  I open 2 windows side by side and as I move focus between them I can see the refresh counter stop and start But with firefox the counter doubles up like running twice as fast
  5. no it's from a guy called Joop Laan and it in turn uses sajax toolkit from modernmethod.com he's gone gone over to using ruby rails but I like this old version because it's really small and simple. but as I said I'm trying to get it to stop communicating when the window looses focus.
  6. Hi I have a large number of pages with ajax based chat on and I want to stop it communicating when the window looses focus using javascript I’ve almost got it working but there is a bug. It stops communicating when the window looses focus but when the window gets focus again it speeds up communicating, doubles it I think. I would be grateful for any help . This is the controlling javascript [code] <? sajax_show_javascript(); ?> var check_n = 0; var old_sha1 = ""; var new_sha1 = ""; <!-- Variable to check if window has focus --> var hasFocus = 1; window.onfocus = function() { hasFocus = 1; refresh(); } window.onblur = function() { hasFocus = 0; } function refresh_cb(new_data) { new_sha1 = hex_sha1(new_data); if(old_sha1 != new_sha1) { document.getElementById("wall").innerHTML = new_data; old_sha1 = new_sha1; } document.getElementById("status").innerHTML = "Refreshed: #" + check_n; check_n++; setTimeout("refresh()", <?php echo $cfg['refreshrate'] ; ?>); } function refresh() { if(hasFocus == 1) { x_refresh(refresh_cb); } } function add_cb() { // we don't care.. } function add() { var line; var handle; handle = document.getElementById("handle").value; line = document.getElementById("line").value; x_add_line("[" + handle + "] %spantag%" + line, add_cb); document.getElementById("line").value = ""; // document.getElementById("line").focus(); } // ]]> </script> [/code] I’ve been using some code called chatwall from http://www.laan.org/demos/chatwall/  For quite some time. it works great and is really small in kb's cheers
  7. Tiss okay, I sorted it it was subtle to say the least the parameter from delete.php had a bloody space infront of it!  
  8. Hrrrm I did what you said and created a button from delete.php back to list.php with the required data in a hidden field and it goes back but the second time in it doesn't find the record that was being edited. The record exists on the table I cut n pasted the form code from search.php into delete.php so I didn't get any typo's I've echo'd the inbound parameter and it's there. I'm wondering if it's a file pointer thing? I've echo'd the number of rows found and the first time in there is 1 and the second time in there are 0 is there something you have to do in mysql to reset the file pointer back to the begining of the table? if not then it's a regular type of error and I should be able to solve it.
  9. onlyican -  back button to re-post the data huh! [b][size=12pt][color=blue]You're a genius![/color][/size][/b] [size=8pt]Told you the problem, you told me the solution ![/size]
  10. Okay search.php has a form where visitors enter search argument when they submit they go to list.php which reads some information from a table and shows it as a list at the end of each line I've put a radio button so they can select one to delete. so they select one and click delete - and we go to delete.php which deletes it from the table then what do I do?  I've put a BACK button in delete.php so they can go back to list.php but obviously when they get back they have to manually refresh the page to see the change if I header redirect from delete.php then the POST'd search argument is not avsailiable so I cant refresh the list I wonder if there is some sort of auto POST variable trick I could use to get back to list.php and refresh I'm sure I've gone about this the wrong way? I feel sure you guys have done this sort of thing before and you might give me some tips 1 enter search 2 show list of widgets 3 select widget 4 click delete widget 5 show list of widgets (with one now missing) cheers Roy
  11. when ever I get them I've usually forgot to put a ; on the end of the line above.
  12. thanks for looking anyways redarrow I appreciate it.
  13. I'm coding a website link management thing I'm storing website details: url, title, description, and keywords. What I want to be able to do is identify releated websites. it doesn't have to be perfect I present them to the visitors as "possibley related websites" My initial idea was put the keywords in seperate fields and to do multiple searches one keyword at a time. but I'm thinking perhaps I should create a full-text index and do something better. perhaps seach the title and the description also suppose I had a string of keywords "fish,fishing,fish scales,fish tail, shark,fishing rod" You guys are usually really good at comming up with ideas, I thought I'd ask for your ideas before I build the tables Cheers Roy  
  14. I agree if by “untargeted” you mean service like the £15 per month one you mentioned with popups and expired domains no body wants that sort of traffic. And if that’s what “untargeted traffic” means then I was completely wrong I was thinking more literally about people finding your site while browsing. At the end of the day the only people who would want more visitors are people who make websites not the general public. Website lotto is designed to [b]give new websites a little boost[/b], long before they get a page rank or links in.  and yes people can Ctrl F and hightail it out of there. But others might find the site interesting, they may offer a link exchange or post on the forum, click an advert.   Make someone’s day. Anyways thank you all for taking the time to critique my site.
  15. so what are you saying SemiApocalyptic if someone stumbles upon your site you wouldn’t want them there? You wouldn’t want the chance to persuade, engage or interest or sell to anyone who came to your website via an unauthorised link? I am presuming that on all your websites visitors have to key in the relevant keywords to gain entry. [b]That is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard [/b] [quote] The main thing you get out of untargetted traffic is wasted bandwidth and data transfer[/quote] wtf does that mean? I pay $1 per Gb of bandwidth what’s the average page size 5kb? Lets go mad and say 15kb  so about 70,000 visitors will cost $1 in bandwidth. You know something I think people would be happy to pay $1 for 70,000 “untargeted” visitors who just might be reading their website looking for a secret word. [hr] [b]Ahh the tone of this might be a bit strong and I apologise for that, I see you are a global moderator with thousands of posts and think a high percentage of those are posts helping a lot of people.  so I am sorry if I've come across as disrespectful, I'm not deleting it though because I think I'm right[/b]
  16. businessman332211  You have helped me a lot in the past, I have read many of your posts helping others and you’ve responded to my plea’s for help. There is no doubt in my mind that your skills are of the highest order. I’m not going to go into detail but I think you suffer from the same problem as me. You are to logical, everything has to make sense, [img]http://www.websitelotto.com/images/headboppers.gif[/img] Example I am guessing that think its odd that: Mr headbopper inventor went to the financier and said lend me money I have this head bopper idea and they said “of course we love the idea” Then went to the manufacturer and they said “great idea we like it” Then went to the retailer and said “sell these”  and they said “Yes we like it” And Mr headbopper inventor became a multimillionaire and lived happily ever after. They don’t generate electricity to power your ipod they dont light your way on dark nights, they serve no purpose, they’re illogical. That is the reason your website looks like a programmer did it, in fact it looks like a program did it. Logic doesn’t sell – fun happy exciting jolly dreams sell, which is/was an alien concept to me  … but I’m learning ! To improve your site you need to include things that serve no purpose, fun happy exciting things people might like, silly things, wham bam exciting things. It will be hard for you I know. Anyways you’ve been on my buddy list for quite some time, for a reason, I’m going to contact you with a proposal.    Hope this helps Roy
  17. you know Crayon Violent, I was going to post an answer per day as a mechanism for keeping my post at the top, but I thought "No thats not fair" so I posted them all together and get into trouble for "double posting"  anyways I've amalgamated the double posts into one post, sorry for the offence. in response to your answer: what you are sugesting is that people change their websites in order to enter the lottery, I don't think they will. from my experience you make it as easy as possible for visitors. so the best that I can do short of giving them the answer is fill in the form with what they put last time. people might choose a word that is in an image thats up to them. I noticed one person that did when I was checking.
  18. AndyB [quote] I'd think twice before I pissed off every fifth visitor [/quote] I hear what you are saying especially about doing something else and not having the window maximized. I did think twice I’d be a fool not to, I presume you got the 20% statistic from http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp that figure must be taken in context with the type of visitor one is or wants to attract, for instance if I am creating a gaming website its safe to assume my visitors are running resolutions higher than average. I am presuming that a large percentage of my visitors are people who have developed websites and now want more visitors,  and also assuming that web developers don’t develop in 800x600. The statistics I chose to use for my decision were from the extreme tracking button on http://www.dafont.com/  they get on average 100,000 unique visitors per day. Their statistic show a different picture 90% of their visitors are 1024x768 or higher with only 8.16% in a lower resolution. If you optimise for 800x600 your visitors running 1280x1024 will have 37% blank screen plus any white space you decide to have. But I guess the underlying reason is 800x600 is so unbelievably ugly,  I run in 1600x1200 for graphics and 1280x1024 for other stuff, to me 1024x768 is big and quite ugly but 800x600 is a joke. I assume rightly or wrongly 800x600 resolution is for the poor and they’re unlikely to buy anything from my websites. [i]Statistics are like bikinis.  What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. - Aaron Levenstein[/i] [b]jdforsythe[/b] you are being a spoil sport, I hope to build a web development community at some point focussing on newly released websites only,  not so much on help, tools and advice but announcements and critiques – a bit of a stepping stone for new sites. I was thinking of providing a backlink for a month or so to get them started and legitimate related linking between sites free and regardless of pagerank where people do links because they quite like the person or they’re being nice where  powerful developers can give a helping hand to newer sites. So yes you can Ctrl +F then rush off to that all important site but I’m hoping the community spirit will kick in and people will take time to look, perhaps I give people to much credit lol. Anyway “Wales Women's National Lacrosse Team” won today !! their website  is of very little interest to me, but I read it and learnt something! True mostly what I learnt was that Wales actually has a Women's National Lacrosse Team which I didn’t know, and apparently they’re the European champions. I have a link on my website and tomorrow they’ll be on the past winners page. So there you go.. [b]Crayon Violent[/b] what do you mean? I don't understand, I wrote a captcha thing the other day that makes real sounding words from vowels and constinents readable captcha! so I know what captcha is. but I don't know or understand how I how I could use the same principles of capcha to prevent CTRL +F happening?. please explain. Roy
  19. I don’t think I explained it very clearly If I had a url say “http://www.whatever.com/article.html” and I wanted to know if the word “Fish” was in that webpage’s content not the url name itself but the content on the page the url is pointing to. Or am I missing the point? 
  20. Thanks Andy for checking it out, I'll remove the personal references as you suggest The error message was a bit of debug code left in there I'll remove that too thanks for pointing it out re your 800x600 comment - The minimum I cater for is 1024x768 now because there are so few 800x600 users and I don't  think everyone else should suffer from a design point of view. I just can't go that low anymore, rightly or wrongly I assume they're a bunch of cheapskates anyway. I'm interested in you comment about the graphics though - I was thinking I should make it "more fun", but on the other hand I do like minmalistic look n feel so I'm a bit torn. I don't know what to do. Thanks for the feedback though its appreciated  
  21. Its a very nice crisp site you did good.
  22. I'm blind I'm blind I'll never beta test again.... what were you thinking with those colors, I had to de-gauss my monitor
  23. Well I don’t think it has. [size=14pt][color=red]A Lottery for web sites where you win traffic ![/color][/size] Tah Darrr! Here’s the idea Find the secret word on today’s winning website to enter If you win: tomorrow everyone will have to visit your site to find you’re your secret word in order to enter. Have a go – enter your website it's completely FREE http://www.websitelotto.com I really appreciate feedback because I work alone and may be going slightly MAD. contributing to my madness now I have to press the lottery button at 9am every morning its like the TV series Lost.  Roy
  24. its an interesting idea if I understand it correctly, and especially for those free forums and free sites also interesting from a link point of view because you are providing a link and they're are likely to reciprocate somewhere yeah it is interesting to me. Hate the name though it needs to be shorted and no hyphens imho and it needs to work correctly  I couldn’t edit my entry and I changed my password and now I have an wrong link and can’t log in. Don’t get bogged down with how the site looks – concentrate on getting it working and people to visit. simple is good for this sort of thing
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