I'm a sometime developer who is trying to get up to speed on customer-facing sites. I have a designer (who has years of experience, but it's all been print, so she's also ramping up on web design) so I'm not looking for design or usability tips. What I am interested in hearing about is the step-by-step process of doing the actual coding ...
I'm trying to get up to speed on HTML/CSS/PHP development and was wondering how I should validate my code when it contains content I can't control, like an RSS feed? For example, my home page is a .php doc that contains HTML and PHP code. I use the PHP to create a simple RSS reader (using SimpleXML) to grab some feeds from another blog ...
I found the following code in php.ini. what does that mean? And "PHP registers" -- what is that? ; This directive describes the order in which PHP registers GET, POST, Cookie, ; Environment and Built-in variables (G, P, C, E referred to as EGPCS or GPC). Registration is done from left to right, newer ; values override older values. ...
Is it at all practical to try to use Joomla or Drupal to design anything but brochure-ware or a blogging website? Are the modules/extensions frameworks really flexible enough for designing web applications that have a lot of data entry and reporting capabilities, or would you just be better designing it using a MVC framework, ASP.NET or ...
I've been tasked with updating our contact and feedback forms for the entire site. Not quite sure how many forms are out there, but at least 20 and growing. I know that once this is in place it will be there for a while. Also, the person that will be responsible for adding new forms doesn't have much code experience so I'm trying to make...
so I am using the .hover feature of jquery.. but im having a small issue. the drop downs stick and dont get hidden when yuo move the mouse over them very quickly (ff3). it seems like it is skipping the mouse out function if the previous function hadnt completed which is slideDown. anyway to fix this? heres the test site: http://vasos...
Hello, I searched the Web about this question but I found nothing: What is the logic of the back button? What is happening when we hit the back button on a Web browser? I really would like to understand more about that. Thank you. ...
Newbie question here. I'm in the beginning stages of laying out a site in HTML/CSS based on a sketch I did. So I'm planning my DIVs on the home page and I'm wondering how to name them and which elements should have their own containers. So far, I have the following : container (contains everything on the page) header (will contain the ...
I have decided that I want to take a stab at creating a "game" that is just in a nutshell a chat room with lots of features for people to play 'paper DnD' online. Obviously there is a lot more to it and I'm looking to add a lot of features but anyways keep in mind that I'm a solo developer so quick development times are great. I starte...
What QA package offers the widest possible support and is the easiest/fastest to develop for? The qualities I am looking for are: widest support of scripting languages, or which language your preferred package supports capability to test webpages for interaction against forms and user interfaces capability to test data input for quali...
i have a java ee project which has a text file that uses a xml for loading data but i cannot address the test file xml which is behind the java test file. in the test file i use this statement: InputStream inputFile = AddressTreeTest.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("test/testAdr.xml"); but when i run the file inputFile is n...
I have page which is redirected from htaccess. now I can pass the German characters as params like site.com/maörx/idasd Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9äÄöÖüÜéß\-]*)/?$ page.php?var=$1 [L] it is working in the localhost . but not on the server.... server i am getting the same old issue(Error 404:Obj...
Hi. I'm working on a website that will use features of social networking (like facebook for example). I would like to implement a notification system which shows stuff like "X added you as a friend", "Y invite you to the party", "Z has taken the lastest quizz"... and i don't know how to do. I wonder what is the best solution : Solut...
I am developing a relay chat application , divided into 2 panes. right pane - > The Chat responses of users (this uses a ASP.NET Multiline Label control placed inside the update panel , so when any user types the responses and submits it is added to this control) left panes -> the list of users currently online(this uses ASP.NET list c...
I'm joining a new venture, and we're selling a software product that we're going to create. We need to create a website that will: Handle customer orders Take credit card payments Distribute serial keys Handle support queries All the other misc stuff But here's the thing, we can't really spend a lot of time on the site, and we can ...
Hello Does anyone know of an application (for mac) which will format a page of html code nicely? ie Open the html file and indent all of the code/blocks, put character returns in and format it into sections so that it is readable rather than being just a big block of code. Then also give the ability to minimize/collapse sections of the...
Hello! I'm setting up a jqGrid which needs to visualize multiple values in one cell. The input comes from a form where the user can select multiple choices. I am able to display the select box, but not populate it. I have tried to insert an array in the JSON object, but to no success. This is the model: index:'ship', editoptions:{mult...
I intend to create a web based application server. The server is implemented in C and I wish to create a web based interface instead of a specific client application. Could anyone please suggest what approach/technology I can use to implement ? Thank you. -Mac ...
I am working on a website which the good user inputs a website domain name, http://www.mysite.com. But I have been reading about remote file inclusion (RFI), and it is pretty interesting. Simply by adding ?page=http://www.mysite.com/index.php? or something near that I get some type of error (500). Other peoples sites using wordpress/ PH...
I am creating a new web application and just wandering if I should spend my time developing a RSS Page. Do you guys think RSS is worth it? ...