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Ok, thanks. I've looked through some of these tutorials and they look good for starting with jQuery so I'll work my way through some. In the meantime if anyone knows of an example or tutorial that is close to what I'm try to achieve I'd be grateful if they could share. I wouldn't have thought it would be too complicated to set a PHP session variable to the contents of a text form field as a user types in it - I thought I'd find an example of this but after lots of searching I've failed to find an easy way to do it. Any suggestions gladly received. Thanks

I have a form which will be submitted normally but there are a few fields I want storing in PHP session variables as they are typed in ie. before form submisssion. I was looking at possibly using onkeyup for each of these fields to run a function that stores the current form field value into the session variable. I'm proficient at PHP but don't know much javascript/jquery and have never used ajax. If anyone knows of a simple way to achieve this I would be greatful for suggestions and example code snippets.

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Please does anyone have any ideas?

I have used OSCommerce and have had no problems with it. I do program in PHP/MYSQL so I have been able to apply mods and make my own changes to ensure it works to my customers satifaction. I looked at Actinic before as it seems to be a well known one but I didn't like the fact you updated products on sofware on a local machine then uploaded. Also, although it is quite powerful you are stuck with the features it has and the way it works. You will alway find you want to make changes to fit in with how you go about your business so I would go for a an open source solution written in PHP/MYSQL. This way you can get the best of both worlds - a predeveloped system but customised to your requirements. I cannot speak for the other open source shopping carts as I have no experience but I have no complaints with OScommerce provided you have someone who can make changes for you. If you want any more information on OScommerce as a solution let me know.

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I have used AceFTP for years and it works well. Internet Explorer is cumbersome but is useful if you are away from home eg. internet cafe.

This looks like good info. Thank You

I am in this situation myself and can't afford a massive advertising campaign like some of these big companies. If I go ahead I will have to offer all services free until it becomes well used and successful, but there is no guarantee this will happen.

Does anyone know of an easy to understand summary of the differences between PHP4 and PHP5?

This is great, I was going to ask this question myself. Thanks

I have a live OSCommerce shop running which does not show session id in URL after first couple of clicks and everything seems to work fine - if you leave site for a minute and come back user is still logged in ok. Force Cookies is not being used. I have a test mirror of this site that is set up with all same options but session id is shown continually and if you visit another site then return user has to logon again. The only differences I can think of is that test site is in a subdirectory off main domain root directory and it doesn't use SSL. Does anyone have any ideas why one works perfectly and other doesn't?

I would advise going through a good beginners book such as Sam's Teach Yourself PHP/MYSQL in 24 hours - it will give you a reasonable understanding of PHP/MYSQL and you will learn everything you need to do this through practical examples. You can skim the early stuff and get to the database part quickly.