echoninja

to expand on what samshell said, in your when you send your info from the form to the database just simply do this $ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; and then just add it into the INSERT like the rest of the data :)

[code]if(!$page) { **your register bit** } if($page == "registered") { echo "You have registered succesfully"; } [/code] this assumes you are using ?page= so register.php would display the register form and register.php?page=registered will display the message :)

$_SESSION['username'] = $row['username']; $_SESSION['email'] = $row['email']; is from the sender right? well for that simply register $session_user with the session when they login and do a db query for their personal data like email and register them. that way you can just use $session_whatever instead of drawing them each time and causing problems could be the cure, could not, its still some good advice for ya ;)

Ok at the moment I have a list of entries for articles, I want a quick preview when the person hovers over the link, this is the code I have at the moment [code]$str=$a["body"];               $newlength="60";                             $a_body=substr($str, 0, $newlength);               echo "&nbsp; ● <acronym title=". $a_body ."><a href=showarticle.php?id=". $id .">". $a_title ."</a></acronym> [posted ". $a_date ."]";[/code] It works to an extent, it only displays the [b]first word[/b], what am I forgetting?

thanks ill give a shot looking up GD

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*ahem* page 4 i think not

Ok ill explain a bit more Im looking to learn how to do it on the fly so when I hit "upload" it uploads 2 images and one gets cropped by a defined variable of width and hieght

Ive looked on various forums and websites but cant find any results. I want to upload an image twice, 1st will be normal size, 2nd will be a cropped 100x100 image, now, I DONT want to resize it, i want a 100x100 area of the image displayed. Is it possible to do with php?

I acutally decided (before reading your post) to inster $username at the start, so then it doesn't matter if they overwrite a file, because they are changing it for their avatar anyways. Thanks for the help folks

nevermind i actually found it in the membership tutorial, well the command, then used it for my own diabolical ends :) if anyone wants to know [code]$ext = strrchr($_FILES['avatar']['name'], "."); if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['avatar']['tmp_name'],$upload_dir.session_id() .".". $ext)) { [/code]

because its for user avatars, and session id's are unique. That's not important though, I cant get the mime type to add onto the end

Hi again folks, I have an upload script for avatars/images, but I dont want them to retain their original name I want them to use the session id, now I can get the files to upload with the session ID but I cant get the extension to go on, any help? I have currently: [code]$ext = $_FILES['avatar']['type']; if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['avatar']['tmp_name'],$upload_dir.session_id() .".". $ext)) { [/code]

If you are using sessions, when you first create it in login_process.php or whatever then put [code]  $session_username=$_POST["username"];     session_register("session_username");   [/code] then you can display [code]<? echo $session_username ?>  [/code] anywhere on the page, if someone is logged in then it will display theirname you can expand on that by doing this [code]<? if(!$session_username) //if there is no session username do the following { echo "You are not logged in, please either <a href=login.php>login</a> or <a href=register.php>register</a>, its free!"; } else //if there is a session username do the following { echo "Welcome Back $session_username"; } ?>[/code]

great stuff, I can see how it works now :) thanks very much