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txmedic03

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  1. You should also test those codes before you post them...the age calculator has some bugs that need to be worked out.  Today is December 3, 2006 and I was born July 20, 1983.  I'm 23 years old, but according to the age calculator I am 22 years old.  A simple list of a few very basic PHP scripts is not real useful and you do have a serious lack of content to critique not to meantion the fact that you are competing with sites such as this one for traffic.  If this is just for fun and as a learning experience for you as a coder/designer then go for it, but please don't fool yourself and think you are out to better the web with six ultra simplistic scripts that don't function correctly.
  2. I've seen a post already with this site asking for critique...(the blm site anyway) the other one I'll leave alone because you didn't ask, but if you would like a few small annoyances pointed out I'd be happy to.
  3. I like the color scheme and the random images in the header.  The contact page should actually have some way of contacting you and not just a page that says sorry we aren't done yet.
  4. I really don't like the colors and the <> in the nav have to go.  The font is a definite faux pas and the quote bubbles seem to detract from the page.
  5. C4H32 :-D Oh, yeah and the site looks very nice.  Very clean professional feel.
  6. I have a myspace because one of my ex-girlfriends set it up for me.  That's about all I can say about it.  It's there and um...yeah, I prefer my cell phone or a face-to-face.  One of these days I'll go find the delete button for my account.
  7. You can have the design and the graphics work, SharkBait.  I just want coding.  Pure coding plain and simple. The best way I have found is just by talking to people.  Once they find out who you are and what you know they always want something done or know someone who does or they will meet someone who does and they will remember you if you leave a good impression. I don't like doing design work so I turn them down these days, but I get lots of requests just from talking to people or people that have seen something I've done.  I turned one down today for someone who has a site, but they don't know how to run it and they want someone else to build the site and set everything up for them.  Everyone knows someone in some way or another that has/wants a website or they want one themselves.  If they already have one at some point they may need help with it or they may want someone to do it for them.  If they already have someone doing it for them that may not work out the way they want and if you've made a good impression on them then you'll get the call and possibly the job.  Word of mouth is very powerful when it comes to local work.
  8. I wish I had that kind of bandwidth at my house...well that and the speed to make use of the bandwidth. :-D
  9. I know this is a bit off topic, but I just had to say I couldn't agree more with tomfmason about the term "hacker".  More often than not it is a script kiddie who doesn't know the difference between a port and a subnet.  A hacker, in the truest sense of the word, is not malicious.  The term has been dirtied by script kiddies and crackers, but it once refered to those now know by terms such as "internet security specialist".  I always correct people when they start telling me about the "hacker problem" they are having.  I hate it when people do that.
  10. Why would anyone want a PS3?  Especially in the first few months after it's released.  The first few months will be plagued by new bugs found by the general public which will result in lots of system being sent in for repair or replacement and the difficulty in programming games for the next gen will mean a lack of selection when looking for games tailored for the PS3.  I think I'll stick to my PC and my 360 for now.  Yeah, it has some nice features, but they don't out-weigh the price and the likelyhood of problems with the system and the lack of games built for the console. That's MHO anyway.
  11. I don't know you, nor do I recall any other posts by you, but I must whole heartedly agree with redbullmarky on this one as far as your current post is concerned and since he is a pretty good judge of character IMHO I would have to think that he is right on with the rest of his response, so prove him and everyone else wrong.  The simple fact is you talk about how everything is simple and trying to prove how great you are with empty words.  That may impress everyone else you know, but you are talking to people who have been there and done that.  I personally was a computer technician in the marine corps as well as many years of experience in the civilian world in networking, programming and general tech.  I've done more in the last 23 years than most of the 40+ that I know...is anyone here impressed?...nope...I can tell you all the things I've done and the places I've been, but they are just words since no one here knows me outside of these forums to confirm what I say.  I let the work I've done and the help I have provided speak for itself and hope it says good things about me to everyone here. Take your project...run with it...give us an update and let's see what it says about you.  If you need some help with coding we are all here to provide you the support you need, but it is up to you to put it to use.  Let's see all those hours of studying hard put to use.
  12. Okay, I suppose it could just be me, but I think Crayon Violent is on to something.  Why not add a small script that tracks IPs and locks an IP out for xx amount of time if they meet certain criteria.  If they refresh so many times in a short period of time then give them a nice message that says "Sorry no one needs to refresh that many times it isn't going to change that fast and it appears you are just screwing with my advertisements, so to protect them you have been locked out of my site for the remainder of the day. Thank you and have a nice day!" Would this not protect you from the people trying to kill your ad account? At the very least wouldn't it help to some extent?
  13. Hmm...how I got into PHP?  Well, I actually fell into PHP.  I started with lots of other languages many years before I even started working with PHP and then about 6 or 7 years ago I guess it was I wanted to have a message board on a website and I didn't like the way any of the ones on the web looked and operated, so I decided to write my own, but I didn't have a clue about anything above and beyond JavaScript, HTML and VBS.  I needed something a little more powerful to do things the way I wanted and after a little searching on the web I found this relatively uncommon language known as PHP.  I say uncommon for two reasons 1. I'd never heard of it and 2. Most of the websites I visited for quite some time after still had extensions like .shtml .html .cfm .cgi...  Now that I had found this new language and after a little playing with the installer I had a working copy of PHP on my local test server.  Then 3 hours spent reading through the functions on php.net and I was ready to start stumbling through my early works.  An additional 3 hours spent coding and I had a working message board that did what I needed it to do.  I have been hooked on the language ever since and that is how I got started in PHP.
  14. Good point, Daniel0... I think I missed something here...why do you need to get the thesaurus db from thesaurus.com for personal use?  Why not just go to thesaurus.com when you want to play with words?
  15. If you really want to know what would net you some cash online, go ask all the people you know who have internet access, but no coding saavy what they think is missing from the net or just what they wish there was a site out there for and capitalize on it.  Your target client base is your number one source of inspiration.  The only thing you're going to find here is what everyone else has already done.  I must agree with everyone else, if we all had great ideas for fast cash on the web we'd be doing it already.
  16. I've been gone quite some time myself, but nice to see familiar faces when I return.  I think it is time I return to PHP and my place amongst the freaks. :-)
  17. Okay, I guess it is my turn... I'm 23 years old, married since May 15, 2006.  A former U.S. Marine, a former volunteer firefighter, National Registry Emergency Medical Technician, a former Texas certified Phlebotomist and a coder at heart.  I haven't been on here in quite some time because I have been spending my spare time on World of Warcraft and writing UI mods for it.  Well, I don't really know what else to put, so I'll leave it at that for now.
  18. Not a good idea to pass the IP from the form. Someone could easily create a form on their desktop that passes anything they want to your page and still spam it. Better to obtain the IP address from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] on the page that processes the form or use sessions.
  19. Check the password for that user, if that user even exists, and make sure that the user indeed exists and has the proper permissions to do what you are attempting. The (using password: NO), of course, means that you did not pass any password to the server. The username of the user is 'ODBC'. Try using 'root' and see what happens. If you use phpMyAdmin and you can successfully login from there you can check the user from the mysql table and see if ODBC exists and see if it has a password or not. as for your SQL syntax...yes, Eric, owns this site, as far as I know, but I see only two things at a glance and one just looks like a typo. The first thing is the ')' after '$username'. Secondly, integers such as 1 do not require any kind of quotes. That's not to say that quotes around an integer is going to bring about the destruction of the Earth, but it is bad practice to tell the interpreter that your integers are strings. If you were to write a funtion that specifically required an integer and you passed a string it could cause you some headaches.
  20. I am sure there is probably a way, but I honestly don't know. The best thing I can say is to add line feeds/carriage returns. Like ToonMariner said, controlling printing from PHP is tricky. I don't work a lot with printing, so I don't know a whole lot about working with printer output from PHP and because of this there is probably an easy way to do it that I just don't know about. If someone has a quick and easy solution, I'd love to know about it just for kicks and grins.
  21. You have to get the id_num from the database at some point. I don't see where you have even attempted this. If it is in one of your included pages you need to show the related lines of code from that page as well. You should definitely listen to the suggestions that Barand made. Update your code with Barand's suggestions and show the relavent code from any other files and we can go from there. Also I see you use $shippername, but I don't see where you setup the variable.
  22. I'll look around and see if I can find an example otherwise I may have to write one myself. I might write one anyway since I will probably need one myself.
  23. You don't want people to have the actual address to the file. I suggest using the header() to pass content type and pass the content of the file to the user if the proper conditions are met. Alternatively you could create temporary downloads that expire after 24 hours or something. You could have temporary directory and move the files the user requests to that directory if the criteria is met then have the file removed in 24 hours.
  24. I am not particularly fond of the logo graphic or the choice of colors, and it may be a little overly simplistic, but it is a start.
  25. Try [a href=\"http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/\" target=\"_blank\"]HotScripts.com[/a].
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