[[SOLVED] Chinese Manufacturing]

Personal recommendations != Google.

 

Can't recommend any though.

[cant install dx9 from MICROSUCKS website!]

Search DirectX 9 redist, it's the version the give DirectX 9 programmers to package with thier games.

 

[Windows alternative for Cron Jobs]

Is scheduler the most reliable?

[MX records?]

I have a server that runs plesk. I setup an MX record. If I ping mail.domain.name I get the new ip is resolves too, but the mail is still going into our webmail system.

 

Since plesk is running the DNS, is it maybe somehow grabbing a copy of the email? Is it sending pings to the right IP but screwing up mail? Any ideas how to fix this?

[Protecting My Scripts]

You realize the DP is like the ghetto of the internet right?

 

Here's the thing - there are two kind's of people, the kind that buy scripts and the kind that steal them. Even if you can 100% protect your script, no one from the second group is going convert to the first. My advice is to basically ignore it - I'll pay to use scripts, especially if my boss is the one dropping the cash, but I won't buy anything that is encoded or compressed.

 

And CV is right, web services are the way to go if you 100% don't want something stolen. Tie it to your server and hide the useful parts (think google maps)

[Reverse hacking with PHP]

Probably not. If it is a browser based proxy, you can toss some ajax / iframe code in their to get his real browser to connect, but it's probably a real proxy.

[Are XMLHttpRequest's reusable?]

Mine kept failing after the first load. I changed my code to recreate the whole object each time, using the same and only reference, would should mean it's garbage collected...

 

Is there something like a close function that lets me reuse the object? (yes, I tried close)

[[SOLVED] How do I go about making a site without frames???]

Yeah - just like that.

[Good smtp mail class - pros and cons of using one?]

Well, I wasn't looking so much at it failing, but in having the ability to possibly send it's outgoing mail through another server, as well as handling the headers for me.

[Good smtp mail class - pros and cons of using one?]

A site I worked on one time used a class called PHPMailer (http://phpmailer.codeworxtech.com)

 

The class doesn't use the built in mail function, but rather uses sockets to connect to an SMTP server. It supports html and non-html email.

 

Does this sound like something that I should use? Are their any disadvantages / benefits of doing it this way?

 

And how do I send html email with the normal mail function - I can never get it to work

[Insert HTML tags to text field entries before saving to text file]

// Put your data into an object...
$data = array();

$data[] = array('id'=>'FR23OE', 'name'=>'Joe Smith', 'desc'=>'A guy.');
$data[] = array('id'=>'FR23OF', 'name'=>'Joesph Smith', 'desc'=>'Another guy.');

// Later on, store it...
file_put_contents('dump.ser.gzs', gzcompress(serilize($data)));

// And retrieve it...
$data = unserilize(gzuncompress(file_get_contents('dump.ser.gzs')));

// And print with tags...
foreach($data as $record){
echo '<b>'.$record['id'].'</b>';
}

 

Boom!

 

or... you know, you could use databases like everyone else.

[Insert HTML tags to text field entries before saving to text file]

Use gzipped sterilized objects. You can do everything you want to with no screwing around.

 

[Copy a large pointed polygon and recolor it]

Couldn't you have made a mask, and put the color you anted to change in as transparent - then float that over another div and just use javascript to change the color? I was going to say that, but I idn't know what you where doing it.

[[SOLVED] How do I go about making a site without frames???]

LOL - I almost forgot about non-iframes.

 

Some people like to break it into header, footer and menu - I like to make a central index page and load in the content based on the request url. My way I can make 100% sure the auth gets called, %100 sure the files are protected from direct access, and I never have to use header('location:');

[Is XML the right solution?]

If your doing all PHP to PHP I'd recommend serialized objects over XML. XML support in PHP is pretty weak.

[Hard Drive Backup Program]

Just use WinRar and verify the archive after completion.

[Stupid mistakes]

What's the point of this thread?

 

To talk about stupid mistakes you've made, in programming.

[[SOLVED] help with explode]

I'm just use preg_match_all, you'll go nuts trying to do it with explode.

[Losing DB info]

I hacked you.

 

Is it possible there is something wrong with the directory on your server where the sessions are stored? Generally you don't have to worry, but if it was working before, and you tried completely restoring everything, you might want to run a few tests to make sure that sessions in general are still working correctly.

[Copy a large pointed polygon and recolor it]

Imagick will do it, but you might need to piss with it. You'll probably need to create an image of the new color, then merge it with another one. I know you can do some cool stuff with "composite -compose Multiply", but probably not what you want.

 

[How is it possible?]

Use the Imagemagick extension, or just use PHP and make imagemagick command line calls.

[Upload Problem]

You might have a .htaccess thats messing with the real URL's. You might have to use a real ftp program to see them.

 

Or your index page is named something weird?

[Stupid mistakes]

I made a site that took orders, and stored all the prices as integers

 

Guy was like: "If I stick in $5.30 it becomes 5. Could we possibly add a way to keep track of the remaining pennies."

 

Also, I had the error handling on an upload daemon fail, and a site thought I was doing a DOS attack against them. Whats really weird is that even after that they didn't ban my IP or mention the fact I was automating my uploads.

[Should I add an index]

If I have a table with a many to one relationship, should I add an index to speed it up?

 

ratings -> products

 

And products have multiple ratings. And ratings have an `Owner` field.

 

And what would the syntax be?

 

create index `identifer` on ... ?

 

Thanks

[PHP script progress bar]

Yeah - the way I understand it, the ajax progress bars work by seeing how much of the file the server has saved, which means accessing the uploaded part of the file before it is uploaded. Flash works by getting the progress on the client side, which is the better way to do it but not supported by browsers.