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What is the best way to round the corners of a div (or whatever i guess) that will work in all browsers? I don't want to have to use images.

Ok, so i should hold off in slashing and unslashing the id's. Got it. And now that i think about it, the id adds itself, so i couldn't slash it even if i wanted too. No point in unslashing it. By the way, i got everything working with the slashes now. Thanks.

Oh, cool. So stripslashes from the output, not the query. Now, why didn't you stripslashes from the id as well? (was there a reason or was that just "because"?)

Heres a bit of a more specific question. Why doesn't this work? $sql_recentnews = stripslashes(mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 0 , " . $rpp)); while($topic=mysql_fetch_array($sql_recentnews)){ echo "<li class='recent_news_li'><span class='recent_news_topic'><a href='news.php?page=viewtopic&id=" . $topic['id'] . "'>" . $topic['title'] . "</a></span>"; } I get this error: Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/asdfdsa/public_html/testing123/index.php on line 69

Ah, now I get what it does, thanks. And so i need to use mysql_real_escape_string instead of addslashes(); and stripslashes(); to get it back. Thanks again.

Ok, so to be clear, the following is how i should do things from now on: $what_will_be_inserted = addslashes($_POST['asdf']); Then i can insert. And then to get it out again: $query = mysql(whatever); $what_will_be_gotten = mysql_real_escape_string($query); And this makes things safer?

Why and when would I want to use addslashes()?

Oh, wops. I was too quick to shrug off that one image idea...i didn't even think of the benefit. Thats much cleaner!

Nice! So I'll play around with that for a while. Sounds like thats all I need to get started. Thanks.

I want to make a page that calls 10 results from a database, one after another. I want page numbers at the bottom (if there are more than 10 results) so that clicking page [2] will give you the next 10 results. I know this has got to be a very common thing to do, so if you don't feel like explaining, can you link me to a good tutorial? Thanks

Awesome, i didn't even think to use css... Here is what i've found: Pros: Eliminates clutter. Using an external stylesheet, i don't need to confuse myself by looking through lines of rollover code on my main page. Cons: Images take a second to load. Is there a way to preload the images AND use the css method?

So heres what i have, basically (not exactly, but don't worry about that): <div style="float:left; height:25px;"> <p>Words</p> </div><img src="img.gif" border="0" height="25" /> <div> <p>Words</p> </div> In addition to this, there are some classes that tell things to snug up (margins:0 and padding:0 mostly). Now, in Mozilla, it does exactly what i want. The bottom of the first div+image is flush with the top of the second div. But, in IE, there is a gap. If i remove the image, it is flush in both. So this makes me think that explorer has a default something or other for images that creates this space. I tried setting the image's margin and padding to zero, but no luck. I did manage to fix it, but it broke something i need somewhere else, so i need another solution. Just FYI, the fix was floating the image right. Is there anything anyone can think of?

Actually, floating it did the job exactly. And by the way, i was using just the div to keep things simple. In reality, the text is within a <p> and the div surrounds everything. Anyways, its working perfectly, so thanks.

Awesome, this was the type of fix i was looking for. One thing though: i have noticed that floating works differently in IE and Firefox. I am not sure if it will in this case or not, but is there another solution that doesn't involve floating? If not, no worries. This works fine, thanks.

I need to repeat an image on the x axis behind some text so that no matter how long the text is, the background with be exactly as long. The text will be called in by a database, so it is variable in length. But, i can't have the image run off past the text (my current problem). Here is that i have (doesn't work, runs off too far to the right). <div style="background-image:url(images/repeat.png); background-repeat:repeat-x;">Some text of variable length.</div> How can i limit the repeat to just where the text is? I can't just use width:whatever; because the text is variable in length.