natbob

I checked out the Bambalam complier and it looks good. t complies multiple files and can contain required modules for dynamic load. You can find it at http://www.bambalam.se/bamcompile/

The complier that I was talking about was the roadsend complier. (See previous post by 'The Little Guy') Just as clarification, it DOES compile to a stand alone executable which does NOT require the compiler and I don't think that it puts the whole interperator in. I will have to check on that. It does have mysql support natively so thats a plus, but I haven't found any way of loading any other modules yet. It worked well for me to make a simple mysql lookup program so that you didn't have to use a web browser to get to it.

it is a little overkill but it does have some practical applications such as for simple database lookups where you don't want to install any software

What would be a good way to print on a windows system from a php script?

Do you mean the old WAP browsers?

I don't know if this is this is something unique or not but I found this php complier. Right now you can only complie command line apps, but their team is working on gtk support. Complies to normal exe files, just use normal command line syntax, STDIN STDOUT. If you know of a better compiler please post.

Does anyone know any free SMTP servers that will send to outside mail addresses (yahoo etc.) in some tutorials I read they recomend using ArGoSoft Mail server which works fine if you send only to locahost. If you try to send to any outside addresses it says that "SMTP server response: 554 Direct sending is disabled, and there is not a single gateway entered. It is impossible to deliver messages".

The simplest way is to use cookies, but it is very insecure, however if this is a low security situation it would do the job. <?php if (!isset($_COOKIE['plays'])) setcookie('plays', 0, time()+86400); else if ($_COOKIE['plays'] <= 5) { The code of the restricted page... $_COOKIE['plays']++; } else { echo "You are not allowed to play any more today, come back tomorrow."; } ?>