biggieuk

April 5, 2010

Hi all,

I have a fairly large form of around 50 textboxes, checkboxes & radio buttons.

Each form section is broken up into sections for instance:

Contact

Name

Position

Address

....

For each section I have named the name tag of each like so:

name="contact[name]"

This is so that I can handle the $_POST data in arrays.

My question is, what would be the best database structure for this? A collegue suggested using serialized arrays?

I don't want to have to create a database field for each item on the form but I need to be able to retreive this data based on a userid also.

Thanks for any help/ guidance with this.

March 25, 2010

edited the wrong post, but thanks again. ill get the hang of this one day.

March 25, 2010

Thanks for this reply, it works a treat.

March 15, 2010

[search]htaccess dummy re-write help[/search]Hi guys,

Im working on tidying up my urls using some htaccess vodoo but need a bit of help with this.

Heres my htaccess:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.html$ /index.php?page=$1&id=$2 [L]

The dynamic link is:

http://www.website.com/index.php?page=news&id=5

which using the above htaccess is now:

http://www.website.com/news/5.html

Any ideas how I can edit this so that I can have some dummy text at the end, like so:

http://www.website.com/news/5/Blah-Blah-Blah.html ?

Where 'Blah-Blah-Blah' could be anything.

Thanks!

February 12, 2010

Hi all,

I am trying to do what is normally a simple task of positioning a 'position:absolute' div over a 'position:relative' div containing and img tag.

Here is a (amazingly drawn) sample of what it looks like in all modern browsers but IE7:

In IE7 the green box for some reason is behind the big grey banner?

here is my css:

#green_box {
background:url(images/layout/business-card.png) no-repeat;
width:363px;
height:190px;
text-indent:-1000em; 
position:absolute;
margin:17px 0 0 29px;
z-index:999;
}


/**********  Feature Box **********/

#grey_container {
position:relative;
width:947px;
margin:34px auto 0 auto;
z-index: 0;
}


a.arrow_left {
position:absolute;
z-index:2;
left: 20px;
top: 89px;
width: 21px;
height: 38px;
text-decoration: none;
background:url(images/feature/arrow-left.png);
}

a.arrow_right {
position:absolute;
z-index:2;
right: 20px;
top: 89px;
width: 21px;
height: 38px;
text-decoration: none;
background:url(images/feature/arrow-right.png);
}

The grey box html is as follows:

<div id="grey_container">
            	<a href="#" class="arrow_left" title="Previous"></a>
                <a href="#" class="arrow_right" title="Next"></a>
           		<img src="images/feature/banner.jpg" height="214" width="947" alt="Banner" />
                <div id="navi"></div>
</div><!-- grey_container -->

Any ideas? Im going mad.

Thanks!

February 12, 2010

Thanks for your reply but that's unfortunately not what im looking for.

I'm looking for a way to remotely tell the iframe on my page to load up in another page once the submit button has been pressed.

I'm guessing this is not possible unless i have some sort of access to the iframe code itself however i thought id give it a shot.

Thanks

February 11, 2010

Hi all,

I know this is a long shot but i have an iFrame to collect customer details and display the best deals for them. Unfortunatly I have no control over the iFrame apart from styling.

Is it at all possible for me to control the submit actions so that when the user clicks a button inside the iframe the next page loads into a different parent page?

Currently the iframe is on my hompeage and ideally i would like the next iframe page to load into another page on my website.

Is this possible or am i dreaming?

Thanks

July 15, 2009

Hi all,

I am creating a web service using Visual Studio in .Net.

Basically, a value is passed in, this could be an ID, postcode or surname and i want the webservice to send values to another ASP(classic) webpage i have. This then processes the passed through variables and returns an XML feed which i need to be passed back to the original function.

I know this probably sounds like a roundabout way of making this but i already have the ASP part working and need to get this working this way if possible.

Would i need to use Ajax to pass these variables from a .NET webservice to another asp page and then back to the function or is there another way i can do this?

Thanks very much for any help/ clarity with this.

June 25, 2009

Yeh that worked perfectly.

thanks very much

June 25, 2009

The textbox is currently floated left as is the arrow so they line up horizontally.

Thats pretty much it but heres therest of my code.

.dropdowntextbox { //This is the textbox
	  font-size: 10px;
	  font-family:Arial;
	  width : 121px;
	  height:17px;
	  font-weight:normal; 
	  background-color:#E8DFEB; 
	  padding : 1px;
	  border:#7F9DB9 solid 1px;
	  border-right:none;
	  color:#000000; 
	  float:left;	
	  font-family:Verdana; 
}

.btnList {  // This is the button floated left next to it.
	  width : 22px;
	  height:17px;
	  background-color:#E8DFEB; 
	  padding : 1px 1px 1px 3px;
	  border:#7F9DB9 solid 1px;
	  border-left:none;
	  color:#000000;
	  font-weight:bold; 
	  float:left;
	  cursor:pointer;
	  overflow:hidden;
}

#dropdownwindow {  //  This is the dropdown window that hides/shows
	width:300px;
	height:265px; 		 
	background-color:#FDFBFF;
	border:1px solid #D2D2D2; 
	border-bottom:none;
	position:absolute;
	z-index:1000;
	display:none;
	float:left;			
}

my html:

<div class="inputContainer">  <! --  Around the whole thing -->
<input type="text" name="txtMedia" id="txtMedia" class="dropdowntextbox" onkeyup="search_delay(this, this.value);" onClick="make_blank(this.id,'Search Media');" value="Search Media" /><div class="btnList" onClick="btn_search();"><img src="../applications/dropdown/images/down.gif" width="16" height="16"/></div>



<div id="dropdownwindow" style="display:none;">	
....
..

</div>
</div> <!-- Close inputContainer -->

thanks.

June 24, 2009

Hi all,

I have a javascript component which adds to & deletes from a Js array.

I need to pass this array through the querystring to my next page.

Is it possible to assign the contents of the javascript array to a html hidden field so i can pass the field contents through the querystring?

thanks very much.

June 24, 2009

I've attatched an example to make it easier.

June 24, 2009

Hi all,

I have a textbox(with an arrow image on the end so it acts a dropdown list). The textbox is currently floated left as is the arrow so they line up horizontally.

When the arrow is selected i want a hidden div of 200 x 200px to display underneath this textbox but it is currently to the right of the textbox.

The div box is set to absolute positioning so that it displays over all the other content on the page under the textbox.

Does anybody have any ideas as to how i can get this div box to display directly underneath my textbox so it acts like a dropdown?

thanks very much.

Posted June 23, 2009 · June 23, 2009

hi,

I am using a DHTML Treeview from dhtml.com which is coded in Javascript so i need to load the generated dynamic tree when the user clicks on the dropdown.

I need to do the rendering of the treeview before the user clicks on the dropdown.

thanks.

Posted June 23, 2009 · June 23, 2009

thanks gevans,

would using a jquery function allow this loading to be completed 'behind the scenes' so the user can interact with the rest of the page whilst it loads?

thanks again.

Posted June 23, 2009 · June 23, 2009

Hi all,

I have created a custom dropdown box which when clicked loads a dynamically generated xml file and populates a DHTML Treeview.

This process is currently taking far too long to load the div once clicked (4-6 seconds). Is it possible to somehow use the onload of the page to load this hidden div before the user clicks my dropdown?

Simply using the function i have now adds the 4-6 second delay onto the page loading time and the user is unable to do anything until this has loaded. Can this be loaded completely in the background so the user can still interact with the page during this 4-6 sec delay?

thanks for any help with this.

June 16, 2009

Thanks for your reply, I looked into the sleep function but wasn't too keen on freezing the client for however many miliseconds.

Here is the solution i found:

function search_delay(element, objSearch) {

if(objSearch == ''){
	hideBox('window');
} else {

	if ( element.zid ) {
		clearTimeout(element.zid);
	}
	element.zid = setTimeout("show_loading_message('" + objSearch + "');",200);
	}
}

and the input field:

<input type="text" name="txtMedia" id="txtMedia" onkeyup="search_delay(this, this.value);"....

thanks.

June 16, 2009

Hi all,

i have a textbox that 'onkeyup' performs a query to build a dynamic xml file which populates a dhtmlxTreeView component i am using.

If i type into the text box fairly slowly it returns the correct results but if i type faster it cant handle the constant xml requests and returns multiple entries.

Is it possible to somehow slow down the input to the textbox or wait a certain amount of time before performing the query?

thanks for help with this.

June 10, 2009

Scrap that, i had the If ending in the wrong place.

Thanks!

June 10, 2009

Thanks very much, seems to work well, althought the xml format is slightly wrong for my purpose.

It is returning a </item> tag after each SubCompany:

<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
...................

Where's i need it so its only closing off the parent after the SubCompanys have been returned:

<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
</item>
...................

Any ideas?

Thanks

June 9, 2009

Hi all,

Im struggling to figure out the best solution for the following:

I have two tables:

table1 contains columns called MainID, Company.

table2 contains columns called SubID, SubCompany, MainID.

table2 has many records assigned to each MainID.

I have an sql query that retrieves each record from table2 and displays which MainID it is assigned to.

With this data i am trying to dynamically populate an XML treeview but am having trouble thinking up a way to loop through each record and construct something along the lines of:

<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
<item id="parent" value="<%= Company %>" >
      <item id="child" value="<%= SubCompany %>" >
..............

Thanks for any help with this, please ask me to try another explanation if that is slightly confusing :S

June 5, 2009

Hi all,

i am looking to create a dropdown box that allows for multiple selections via a checkbox.

The idea i am going for can be seen on: http://www.monster.co.uk/ if you click on more search options then industries.

Could anyone give me some guidance as to creating a dropdown menu like this? I know the standard html dropdown does not provide this facility so i am assuming some sort of DHTML, Javascript thing could produce this?

thanks for any help or samples.

Dan

May 7, 2009

Hi all,

I am automating a paypal transaction window via my website using the following url:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=my@website.com&item_name=MyProduct&item_number=1&amount=14.99&return=http://mywebaddress.return.com&currency_code=USD&notify_url=http://mysite.com/ipn.php

The bold text shows the sensitive data i don't want the user to be able to change.

Is there a PHP function to decrypt a URL so that the user cannot edit a link to the paypal system?

thanks for any help with this.

Dan

April 11, 2009

You could also look into the Youtube API. Let them do all the hard work for you

April 8, 2009

Thanks PFMaBiSmAd,

Could you please tell me a little more about caching the menu? So a query is run every time something changes and is stored in a included file?

thanks.

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