geroid
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Can anyone help me with this problem. I'm trying to include the irish language on my webpage which has special characters like á ú ó If I write the page with these characters they are not understood by the browser (IE or Firefox) and appear as junk characters. I know that I can include code like Glór Cheatharlach and this will appear like Glór Cheatharlach But this is far too much work as the entire site needs these characters over and over again. I have looked at the source code of other irish language sites and they have the special characters straight there in the code with no stuff like ó and it displays in my browser perfectly. If I copy and paste that text into my html page it does not work and I get junk characters again. I really need to crack this one. Will you please look at the following site to see what I mean about the characters: www.glorcheatharlach.ie Take a look at the source code and see that the characters are written straight in and display fine except for when I do it in my pages. Thanks
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Thanks for that reply JD*. I'll work on that and hopefully when I get started you can give me some more advice Cheers
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Not sure what a CMS stands for. The typical admin tasks will be to retrieve records, change records, add site content, email users or groups of users etc. What about the admin password. What security can I attach to this?
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I'm working on a website that will have user pages but will also have admin pages. I'm wondering how to set up the admin pages. I'm thinking about security here and I figure I have two choices: 1. Put admin pages on the hosting server and allow login by admin just like any other user 2. Allow the admin to login off the server (at home) and make changes then upload changes to the hosting server. What is the normal way this is done. I'm concerned about the security of having admin login directly on the server in case it is hacked. I am also concerned about the extra work for admin if login is off the server and they have to upload changes all the time. Can you advice me on this. It's just that the admin part of the site is so sensitive that I would'nt like the possibility of some unauthorised person getting access to it.
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Hi I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction for this research. When I visit some websites I notice that hovering over a menu link sometimes produces a dynamic drop down menu with sub options (links). How is this achieved. Can it be done in php or is it javascript? Do you know any good tutorials for this effect?
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Now I've got the page displaying ok. That's great but it's not playing the song
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Its the only php on the page that begins with: echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"; and th error is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\music.php on line 53
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Ok this is what I have now but I'm still getting the same error message. I'll post the entire page this time. Your script starts on line 51 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <title>Blueberry</title> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon"/> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="gorotron1.css"/> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="banner"> <div id="bannerLeft"></div> <div id="bannerRight"> <h1>Glor Cheatharlach</h1> <h2></h2> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div id="leftColumn"> <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="index.html">» Home</a></li> <li><a href="history.html">» Irish Language History</a></li> <li><a href="newletter.htm">» Newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="course.html">» Our courses</a></li> <li><a href="phpBB3/index.php">» Forum</a></li> <li><a href="events.html">» Events</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.focal.ie" target="_blank">» Dictionary</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.gaelchultur.com" target="_blank">» Gaelchultur</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.carlow.ie" target="_blank">» Carlow Council</a></li> <li><a href="radio.html">» Radio</a></li> <li><a href="events.html">» Events</a></li> <li><a href="fiveday.html">» Five day Irish</a></li> <li><a href="index.html">» About Us</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">» Contact us</a></li> </ul> <div id="leftColumnBottom"> <p>The image above the navigation bar should be sized 100h x 150w.</p> <p></p> </div> </div> <div id="rightColumn"> <h3>Five day Irish audio course <span class="date"> 12.28.06 // Comments (3)</span></h3> <p> </p> <?php if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) { echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\"; volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />"; } else { ?> <form action="music.php" method="get'> Song Name: <input type="text" name="song" /> Volume(out of 100): <input type="text" name="vol" /> Repeat song?: <input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false" /> <input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" /> </form> <?php } ?> </div> <div id="clear"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="copyright"> © 2007 Glor Cheatharlach. Site design by <a href="http://www.gorotron.com">gorotron</a>.</div> </body> </html>
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I forgot to say that I put your script into a page that already has existing html - a template for the site. Your script starts on line 51
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Yes sorry, I made a mistake there but changed it and still getting the same error message. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\music.php on line 53 (echo line) <?php if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) { echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['song']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\" volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />"; } else { ?> <form action="music.php" method="get'> Song Name: <input type="text" name="song" /> Volume(out of 100): <input type="text" name="vol" /> Repeat song?: <input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false" /> <input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" /> </form> <?php } ?>
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Hi again I've put the following code in a doc called music.php but I'm getting an error message like this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\music.php on line 53. Line 53 being the 'ecgo' line. <?php if(isset($_GET['newsong'])) { echo "<embed src=\"/Irishlang/FiveDayIrish/".$_GET['Day01.wma']."\" autostart="true" loop=\"".$_GET['loop']."\" volume=\"".$_GET['vol']."\" />"; } else { ?> <form action="music.php" method="get'> Song Name: <input type="text" name="song" /> Volume(out of 100): <input type="text" name="vol" /> Repeat song?: <input type="checkbox" name="loop" value="false" /> <input type="submit" value="Play Music!" name="newsong" /> </form> <?php } ?>
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Hi MasterACE14 Thanks for the reply. As I'm relatively new to this I wonder could you help me a little more. The PHP code you supplied does not seem to have the sound file (Day01.wma) in the code. Could you write the code exactly as it should be written. The page where the link will be on is called fiveday.php. I've spent all morning trying to get various codes to work from the Internet with no luck. I'm afraid right now I need baby instructions and then once I see it working I can understand how it works. So let's say I click a link which takes me to the fiveday.php page which has a link on it like "Play this song". Clicking that link will make the song play. Hope you can help
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Hi I want to play an audio file on my webpage but have no idea how to. The user should be able to click on a link and listen to the sound. Can anyone help here. The location of the audio files on my system are: C:\xampp\htdocs\Irishlang\FiveDayIrish\Day01.wma Also, is wma the ideal format for this. I just simply want a link that starts the sound file and some way for the user to stop it perhaps Thanks
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Thanks for that. I will have a look at all those options when I start to encode the project. Much appreciated
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I've just been looking at an Irish language site and cut some text out to go on my webpage. However, the text was not displayed properly. If you look at the example below, you will see that in many irish words we have a symbol above the letter as follows: dé Céadaoin In the case of the above example, the browser replaces the e in de and the e in Ceadaoin with a symbol that looks like a small square. However these display correctly in the original site where I copied from. What do I need to do to get a proper display of these characters. Thanks
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Hi ToonMariner Thanks for the reply. Do you think this is the way the example site that I gave is done. I was thinking that all the sound files would be in a database and retrieved as requested by the user. If it was a speaking dictionary, for example, would every word not have to be recorded as a sound file and retrieved from the database as needed?
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Hi I'm looking into designing a website that will speak its contents to the user. So if they hover the mouse over a word, it would speak that word to them. At the moment I'm just looking for ideas of how to implement this. I understand that the words would have to be recorded and the files stored on the server accessible through a database search link. What I'm interested in right now is 1. What format would the audio file be in (that is for best quality and minimum size) 2. A click/hover of the mouse by a user results in a search of the database and retrieval of the appropriate audio file but how would this be sent to them and how would the web site play it. I'm just looking for ideas now but would appreciate any help. If anyone wants to look at the following web site they'll see exactly what I mean. It speaks the result to the user. How would I go about doing this? http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=hellishly&submit=Submit
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Hi Yesideez Thanks for your reply about the newsletter yesterday. Can I just ask your advice on something? What if I just wanted the newsletter to be on the web site via a link which would show the different issues etc. Would that be a good idea? Also, what program would we create the newsletter in and what format (pdf etc.) would be the best. After that I presume we just enter the newsletter in the database (or a path to the file) and all newsletters would be retrived for the user. Does this make sense or is it a stupid idea?
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Hi I'm currently researching how to implement a newsletter on a website. I was thinking about a button (newsletter), that shows a list of issues for the user to choose and then displays that newsletter. Is this the best way. What are the different ways to implement a newsletter. Most importantly, what is the best format to provide the newsletter (i.e. pdf) and how is that done. Are the pdf newsletter files stored on the server and the path referred to in the database? I'm a bit unsure about this. Also, if pdf is the choice, how does the user create their newsletter and make it a pdf file? Does anyone know a site with relevent info on this? Thanks