[Random prize assign based on percentage win rate]

Hi all,

 

I am building a random prize assigner function based on weighted percentages.

 

I am able to assign a basic true/false weighting but am struggling to form a way of selecting an array based prize based on the win rate. 

 

Heres my current code:

function selectPrize() { 
    
    $prizes = array(
        0 => array(
            'name' => 'Top Prize',
            'rate' => 50
        ),
        1 => array(
            'name' => 'Middle Prize',
            'rate' => 30
        ),
        2 => array(
            'name' => 'Bottom Prize',
            'rate' => 20
        ),
     
    );
    
    // oops
} 

selectPrize(); 

Could somebody please give me pointers on how i could approach this?

 

Thanks.

[Responsive image positioned over responsive image]

I have setup a jsfiddle of what i'm trying to do:

 

http://jsfiddle.net/MgcDU/3936/

 

 

The image of the cat is my background image which resizes as the browser resizes.

 

The ball image is absolutely positioned over the cat. How can I get the ball image to resize and stay in the same position as it is my default?

 

Thanks for help with this

[RSS feed get full content/ image]

Hi,

 

I am building an RSS Aggregator plugin for my Wordpress Installation.

 

One of the feeds I am using is:  https://news.google.co.uk/news/feeds?pz=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&cf=all&as_qdr=w&output=rss&q

 

As you can see this feeds content is a table of data including news headline, excerpt and a tiny thumbnail image.

 

How is it possible for me to extract the actual full article text and the large Image from the <link> tag of the RSS item or does it look like I have the wrong news feed?

 

Thanks for advice with this.

[SSH tunneling via Expandrive/Transmit problem]

Hi all,

 

I am using a MAC to tunnel to the servers at my work so that I can work from home.

 

I am using http://coccinellida.sourceforge.net/ to firstly tunnel into the work server then create a local alias at localhost port 2000.

 

I am then able to use Filezilla to SFTP to localhost:2000 using my username and password.  I want to be able to create a local drive so that I can work with the files in my code IDE.

 

I tried ExpanDrive and Transmit, both won't connect to the same localhost connection that Filezilla will connect to.  Expandrive gives no errors but Transmit says permission denied.

 

Anybody have an idea how to sort this problem out so that i can mount the sftp as a local drive?

 

Thank you for your help

[Dynamic forms table design]

thanks for your reply.

 

Yeh a table type column would be needed too.

 

So a separate INSERT for each row is the best way to do this? Just seems a bit of an overhead but can't think of another way.

 

thanks

[Dynamic forms table design]

Hi all,

 

Having a little trouble designing my database for a project.

 

The web app consists of a number of 'pages', each page with a form and some fields on.  The fields on each form need to be editable and stored in a database. So basically it is a number of forms with dynamic fields.

 

My current table structure is as follows:

 

Questions Table

id

field_name

title

description

orderno

 

1

company_name

Company Name

What is your company name

1

 

2

telephone

Telephone Number

What is your telephone number

2

 

Then for each time a user starts a questionnaire a row is created/updated in the 'assessments' table:

 

Assessments Table

id

user_id

question_id

answer

 

1

32423

1

My Company

 

2

32423

2

01144556677

 

 

For a static form I usually would do an INSERT statement and insert the value corresponding to the column name, however using the approach above I would need to do an INSERT for each separate question on each form.

 

Does this seem like the best approach for storing data on a per user basis for a dynamic table?

 

thanks for your guidance on this.

 

 

 

 

[GeoIP determine UK region via latitude/longitude]

Hi all,

 

Bit of an odd question. 

 

I am using Maxmind GeoIP (http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location) to locate the approx location of users.

 

The api returns an object containing longitude and latitude.  I now need to use these longitude/latitude values to determine if the user is:

 

England

Scotland

Wales

Republic Ireland

Northern Ireland

Rest of World

 

An option is to gather the lon/lat of these areas and test if the user is within this range.

 

What would be the best way to go about this? Anyone done anything similar?

 

Thanks for help with this!

[Git user interface?]

Thanks for the reply.

 

I am aware of Google but didn't find anything that did the same job of SecureCRT but without the ancient command line interface.

 

I guess it's just something I will need to get used to until I find the right powerful GUI.

[Git user interface?]

Hi all,

 

Not entirely sure if this is the correct forum for this question.

 

I am relatively new to git and SSH.  After starting a new job I quickly realised that I need to learn this.

 

I am using SecureCRT to connect to the webserver and have been using commands such as:

 

git add ...

git commit ...

:qw

./publish

 

I understand the basic principles of git and committing changes to the server but I can't help but feel that there should be a simpler GUI to do this for Windows7.

 

Is there a program for windows that would make this process easier to understand?

 

thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mobile specific website]

I am developing a mobile specific version of a web site.

 

I am using the following tags in the header which work for the iPhone:

 

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no" />

 

However on an Android phone the initial view is zoomed in too close. Is there something i'm missing that can fix this problem?

 

Thanks

[Horizontal items won't center?]

Hi all,

 

I am usually able to make my horizontal menus center correctly in IE7 but can't seem to make it happen with this.

 

http://jsfiddle.net/9bkgd/1/

 

If you view in most other browsers the items will horizontally be centered but not in IE7?

 

Please help!

[Group by query unless column=1]

Thanks Keith,

 

I managed to fit your example to my project 

[Group by query unless column=1]

thanks for your reply, I think my explanation could have been better.

 

Basically I am currently returning rows like so:

 

code

colour

size

quantity

admin

123

2

34

1

0

143

6

23

3

0

145

8

37

1

0

 

The query is grouping the rows by code, size and colour then counting the quantity column.

 

I need the query to group the results like above but only if the admin column is 0.  If admin is 1 then just output the row without grouping  like so:

 

code

colour

size

quantity

admin

123

2

34

1

0

143

6

23

1

1

143

6

23

1

1

143

6

23

1

1

145

8

37

1

0

 

 

Is that any clearer?

[Group by query unless column=1]

Hi all,

 

I have a SQL statement which selects all records from a table, groups them by product_code, product_colour & product_size. I have added a new column 'admin'. I need to alter the query to return the items like before but only group the items that have 'admin' set to 0.

 

Is this possible in one single query?

 

SELECT *, SUM(quantity) as item_quantity
FROM orders_items
WHERE orders_id="1" 
GROUP BY  code, sizes_id, sizes_id_2, colours_id
ORDER BY id ASC

 

Thanks for help with this

[Determine if website matches development server url]

Seems to work great, thanks alot! 

[Determine if website matches development server url]

Hi all,

 

I have a PHP snippet that determines which state the website is in. LOCAL/ TEST or LIVE:

 

if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '127.0.0.1') $state = 'LOCAL';
elseif(preg_match(".............<Not sure>..............", $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'], $vresult)) $state = 'TEST';
else $state = 'LIVE';

 

Im struggling with the preg_match section to determine if the website is on a development server. The development servers are structured like so:

 

devXX.WEBSITE.com

 

XX - any number

WEBSITE - the website name for my dev server

 

any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Fit wide layout to centre at 1024x768]

Thanks for your reply.

 

The black line was added by me for illustration purposes.  The lack line represents what I want the user to see at 1024x768 resolution.

 

I am looking for a way to show only the black highlighted area rather than the left hand padded area at 1024 resolution as this causes horizontal scroll bars.

 

Thanks

[Fit wide layout to centre at 1024x768]

Sorry, here's the image:

 

[Fit wide layout to centre at 1024x768]

Hi all,

 

I have a question that may be related more to the jQuery forum if this is not possible with CSS.

 

Here a visual of my layout

 

 

The black line is the area that I want to be visible to 1024x768 users, however as the header is protruding slightly, it is showing this part and chopping off the right hand side resulting in horizontal scroll bars.

 

Here is my current DOM structure sample:

 

<body>
   <wrapper>
       <header></header>
       <main></main>
   </wrapper>
</body>

 

Here is a css sample:

 

body{
background:url(../images/bg_top.gif) repeat-x 0 0;
font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, serif;
font-size:12px;
color:#333;
}
#wrapper{
width:1052px;
margin:0 auto;
}
#header{
width:100%;
height:177px;
background:url(../images/header_bg.jpg) no-repeat;
}
#main{
background:url(../images/content_bg.png) repeat-y;
padding:13px 55px;
position:relative;
min-height:400px;	
z-index:1;
}

 

What is the best method to have only the black marked area show and hide the protruded part of the header at 1024x768 resolution?

 

Thanks for your help.

[javascript not working in php file.]

Your line:

 

$myurls = 'http://'.$url2.'/'.$newurl[1].'/'.viewprofile.'/'.$profile_name.'/'.$profile_id.'.'.html;

 

is missing the <b>$</b> tag for viewprofile.  Does that solve the issue?

 

EDIT:

 

also the string is formatted incorrectly, try this:

 

$myurls = 'http://'.$url2.'/'.$newurl[1].'/'.$viewprofile.'/'.$profile_name.'/'.$profile_id.'.html';

[How to i accept only <a href> tag but strip all other html tags?]

Hi,

 

Im pretty sure the strip_tags function has a second parameter that specifies the allowable tags.

 

strip_tags("This is a<b><i>test!</i></b>","<b>");

 

this would strip out all tags apart from the bold. 

[Another Drop Down question - need help]

Can you provide your HTML, it's hard to see whats going on with only CSS code.

[Floating UL inside sub menu]

Thats done the trick.  Thanks very much! 

[Floating UL inside sub menu]

Hi all,

 

Here is my problem: http://jsfiddle.net/faRur/2/

 

I have a horizontal menu which opens up a dropdown sub menu when hovered over.  I want to float each separate UL list inside the 'sub-menu-content' div however they are displaying as a long list.

 

As the sub menu data is dynamic I cannot define a width for the 'sub-menu' div (which when defined seems to work ok).

 

Any ideas please?

[Auto format broken <li> items]

wow, amazing.

 

Thanks very much.