php, coldfusion and general web development waffle

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

possibly, i've never done a horizontal type thing but i guess it would be the same technique. have you got an example of what you mean? when you say delay, why would you want a delay? or do you mean slide/animate to a position over time?

if you mean slide/animate, i was thinking of that with some jquery i've seen - where they slide back to the top of the page, its quite a nice little effect instead of just jumping

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

that looks cool - I'm not sure if it's worth the time you've put in though.

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

you're probably right Laughing

this is the last one;

same as before, but now moving over the section header you've gone to and clicking takes you back to the top

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

nice one, it is a pretty cool thing for pages that have a lot of content.

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

yeah, its works nice on the page it was for, doubt i'd use the technique often though - not really the need for it usually

i will use the slide to top though

Brown Sauce · Joined: 07 Jan 2007

yes I did mean, slide and animate.
Looks good, going back to the top is a good thought, and is useful

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I've been planning to make certain topics on the site here into more manageable single pages, so I'm looking to use an iframe for pages that will display a table with all the relevant info. Making a standard html table is ok, but I want the tables to be sortable, by country, year, name etc.

After fannying about for a while I got this sorted really easily using the free code from this page:

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/

basically it requires a simple call to the .js file in the <head> and then a matter of giving any table a class definer.

Very handy.

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

nice find, i can see me using that for sure - i've always just reloaded the page and sorted it by whatever, but this is a much nicer way

looking forward to seeing the changes to the couch!

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

an old story from last year, but a great idea that should be adopted by all web designers for ALL versions of internet explorer!

World's first 'tax' on Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

has anyone had any experience of creating email accounts, and/or maintaining forwarding lists on email accounts manually - ie through code on a site?

like most hosts you'll have a plesk or cpanel control panel so you can add email addresses, setup forwarders etc, but i'd like to be able to do this from the site using coldfusion ( or php or asp - whatever it takes! ) but i can't find any information on actually creating/maintain email accounts through code.

i mean, if you can do it through plesk/cpanel, you must be able to code your own version?! does anyone know how these things actually work, like if i setup an email account through cpanel, does it then just setup an account through like exchange server, windows server or something?

Confused

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

I don't know enough to be certain, but you could use gmail to run as your SMTP server. Either way you would need an SMTP setup somewhere.

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

thanks, interesting, i'll have to look into that sometime

for now i've given up with that idea, i thought it would be easy, but i've been speaking to the hosting people and they don't reckon its possible - although from some of their answers i don't think they really understand. they moved our server from the uk to germany and theres a bit of a language barrier sometimes with the tech support now!

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

i had my first site hacked today, in 16/17 years of doing web sites! it wasn't so bad, just a line about glass sex toys and a pearl rabbit Laughing

i'm pissed though, because i always knew the vulnerability was there, but i thought its a shitty little site, who would bother to hack it - its not a bank or nasa!

is php open to sql injection? theres an easy way to fix it in coldfusion, but for a few sites that are based on an old system i did, i never bothered fixing it! now i'm going to have go through all my sites based on my old system and fix them, in case this hacking cunt tries it with any of my other sites! i could have done without this this week Sad

faceless · admin Joined: 25 Apr 2006

it would probably just have been a sniffer script that checks thousands of sites an hour. But you shouldn't have to update your code, I'd have thought - isn't that what new versions of SQL server protect against?

luke · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Location: by the sea

it does appear to be some sort of script, theres hundreds of attempts at all sorts over short periods of time. i'd seen similar things in the past in the log files - on a much smaller scale - trying to access various folders and .asp or .php pages which don't exist.

i moved everything over to mysql a year or two back. i don't know if they'd have been successful if it was on sql server - but i did know this was a potential problem