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If you don't need a cart, and just a catalog to display items, it's really not hard to create this yourself, especially if a CMS for product management isn't needed. The hardest part of making your own would just be to create the database table(s) for the products. I've been working on my own shopping cart system lately, Community Cart, and I'm at the point now where I want to make a more elaborate products controller. I've used osCommerce, and Zen-Cart, and I think the problem with those is that you have to spend a lot of time to customize the product display. That's why I'm suggesting creating your own. If you are going to have to spend a lot of time to make something nice, it might as well be your own code.

Wow, wish I was at your house. That sounds great. I live close to Mexico, so we eat a lot more Mexican food than we should (according to my wife). Sadly, we are just having the traditional turkey dinner. Happy Thanksgiving!

Wouldn't that be: echo $totalpages;

If anyone would know an alternate method, it would be thorpe.

I'm using FileZilla, which is free, with FTPeS and have had no problems since abandoning plain FTP. I don't store passwords in FileZilla anymore either. What I've found is that the way I can connect depends on the host more than anything. I have a few accounts on Inmotion hosting and mddhosting, and both accept FTPeS connections. I have a customer with Godaddy, and they don't allow a secure connection for his account, even though they say they do. Whatever the situation, make sure to go with the most secure connection (and a good host). I haven't used public key authentication. Don't know how either. Guess I'll have to look it up.

mysql_real_escape_string is a php function, and you can read about using it in the php manual: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php As for checking if a user is logged in, what are you using to log them in? Once logged in, are you setting a cookie with some sort of value? This is what you would check.

The solution: 1) Never store passwords on your computer 2) Always use an encrypted connection instead of plain FTP This has nothing to do with the host. This is a virus that is on a computer or network of somebody that has either: 1) Stored the password on their computer 2) Used plain FTP Happened to me a couple months ago. Ended up being a virus on my mom's computer that is on my network. My computer had no virus, and was up to date with security. Didn't matter though, because the virus on her computer stole the FTP login by looking at the network traffic.

That's a good observation.

Is it appropriate to have so many designs in the portfolio that aren't legitimate sites that are live on the web? I have one or possibly two in my portfolio, but it seems most of your portfolio is. One even has Lorem Ipsum filler!

No and no. If you need a background, you'll need to position it in its own div. There's usually an easy way to do something, and if you post some code, or better a link to what you are working on, then you will probably get a quick solution.

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Well, I don't know what version of IE you are dealing with, but I found this related to downloading big files: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298618 I realize you are not dealing with a downloaded file, but perhaps the problem is associated.

Not a big fan of animation and stuff that moves around on screen, so the menu is a little annoying to me. If blue and animated menus is what the customer wants, then who cares? If the customer is willing to pay, then don't worry about it.

If you need some examples, you might look at phpclasses.org. Also, if you might use a framework, most frameworks either do this for you, or have user contributions to take care of authentication.

If you need an example of a crawler, you might check out phpSitemapNG.

Well, this thread is taking a funny direction.

For any CI users who are looking for a simple way to sell products online, you should check out my new Community Cart in the CI wiki. Community Cart is very minimalistic, but takes care of the essentials. Product display is not included, which allows you to create your own custom look for a unique shopping experience.

Sometimes reinventing a wheel makes a better wheel!

Without studying a bit on regular expressions, your not likely to figure it out, but the function that I would try to use on the data obtained from file_get_contents would be preg_match. See the preg_match page in the docs to see usage, and then go over to the regular expressions forum to see if you are doing it right.

You would want to use file_get_contents or similar function, and then search for: <span> <b>Minimum price:</b> 3.4m </span> <span class="spaced_span"> <b>Market price:</b> 3.6m </span> <span> <b>Maximum price:</b> 3.8m </span> replacing the numbers with regular expressions for float type numbers, which would be part of a callback to retrieve that actual data. I don't know if this is the most efficient way of doing it, but it's all I could think of.

On the right side, where it says "Lightning Bolt Technology on facebook", the work "on" is off in the grey background area. Right now I'm in Ubuntu (Linux) Firefox, and the problem is the same as on the Mac. Can't give you a screenshot, but my description is accurate.

I knew he was at Yahoo. I believe he talked about this in a FLOSS Weekly interview I had listened to. I wonder why he left. I've always like Yahoo until recently. Can't stand the new home page with animated hell.

It's really hard to comment on something that looks so plain. There is content that is going outside the content area in Firefox on Mac. I think you need more images, or some sort of design that makes me want to stay. I always think you have 5 seconds (or less) to keep somebody on your site. Spice it up a bit!

You could probably detect the browser and browser version using php. Or, you might try using a conditional comment, such as described here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/cc2.shtml Why do you need to worry about IE5?

You might try getting rid of the session_regenerate(). It's basically worthless unless you use session_regenerate(TRUE), and that could make things even worse for you. Also, remember that if a user doesn't allow cookies, sessions wont work unless you have the session_use_trans_sid set to true.