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have you tried $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] ?

Why not put it both places?...just in case

try: SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY Total DESC LIMIT 1

Check this out: http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/40007.html

bump, any other ideas?

This should help you out: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/chainedselects/index.htm

Linksys G - don't bother with the speed booster (you can just get new firmware that will do the same thing). Make sure you encrypt your signal and don't broadcast it. I'm not sure how much you can do with the fax/scanner as far as making them network nodes...you might have to keep the scanner on a computer and just share it over the network. This kinda depends on your actual harware. Hope that helps. Side note - Once you buy one brand (linksys) stay with it, there are a lot of small differences between companies that can make your life somewhat painful Staying with the same company will ensure that you will have the least amount of issues.

This worked for me: <?php $movie_page = "<?php \n echo \"Hello, world!\";\n ?>"; $movie_page_name = "test.php"; $handler = fopen($movie_page_name, 'w'); fwrite($handler, $movie_page); fclose($handler); ?>

Well what I would recommend is start small. If you want to go 100% into a full blown business you better have some money saved up like tomfmason said. Otherwise I would recommend keeping some sort of regular job just so you can pay your bills and everything. Let the web stuff be your "extra". This way you aren't begging for work all the time and it won't really matter if you get a lot of work or no...cause you are covered. Once you get going a little more and once you feel that the web work can sustain you, then you can quit the part time gig. One thing that you will notice really quick is that you won't get a lot of work until you have DONE a lot of work. People look at your portfolio first before they even think about calling you (if they don't know you already). So if you don't have a portfolio...you are nothing. If you are starting out I would get as many simple/low end jobs as you can to build up your portfolio. Also make a "demos" section on your site that just have what you can do and show people what you can do. Ex: make a 10 page catalog/shopping cart with a decent design. Here is the best advice that you can get...Always talk about your business to everyone! It doesn't matter if it's your friends or someone you just met. Make your friends sick of hearing about your business because when they are out without you they meet and talk to people...if something gets brough up about your type of business your friend is going to say, "Hey, my friend *** does something like that...here is his number you should call him." You should always make it a point to mention something about your business and what you do. This is where you will get a lot of easy business. Its amazing how you can just mention something to someone and it takes you to a whole new place and maybe you could get some business out of it. Always be friendly to everyone...you never know how they could help you out someday.

You can always use "other" as a choice in addition to the states, if they pick that you can use some javascript to show a text box where they can enter in something else.

Well this is something that I found: http://support.internettoolkit.com/speedcheck/index.php but obviously I can't see the actual script. This is pretty much what I need, but I just need it to run in the background for the first time someone visits a site. I don't want to display the output, I just want to use that number internally.

I would add in some sort of "start date" in the users table that you can query off of. This can also be helpful later on down the road too for other things. for the count you can do something like: SELECT userid, count(userid) as total FROM comments ORDER BY total DESC LIMIT 1

I would like to calculate a viewer's internet connection speed when coming to a site. How do I do this? I've done a bunch of searches and came up with a few scripts that weren't that accurate when I tried them. Any ideas? Thanks

Quickbooks has an API that you could use. http://developer.intuit.com/

You should do something like: users: userid username password ... products: productid name description ... votes: vid userid productid vote ... That should give you a good start.

I'm getting the same thing with your file. It looks like its reading all of the header information on the excel sheet. Try saving it as a csv file and running your script again. You will have to change \t to ,

Can you also post the results you got and also attach your info.xls file? Thanks

can you post your code?

Read my post here: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,133807.msg563168.html#msg563168 That should get you going in the right direction

Check this out: http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Flash/1

<?php $result = mysql_query("SELECT id FROM Mark WHERE id > 0 ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1"); ?> This should work like taith said. It's always faster if you can just do it in the query itself

Yes, JOINs should speed this up a lot more.

Yes, you can easily format those with css. If you really want to get fancy you can use some javascript too.

2-3 days usually

you can use mod_rewrite to change the file extentions