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I have something weird happening on my site. I bought an SSL certificate a while ago and got lost trying to get my site to show as "https". I'm savy enough with web development, but this stuff is beyond me. My site http://www.julianwalter.com works fine, but https://www.julianwalter.com loses some functionality (left/right arrows) and looks different. Does anybody know what's going on? Thank you! Julian

I am currently experiencing something weird with the menu items on this page: http://www.garrettbe....com/index2.php The borders are just to see the spacing more easily. I set them to go bold on hover, but the problem is all the others move when one is rolled over. This makes sense since they are all relative to one another. It is most notable in Safari. Does anybody have a suggestion as to how I could get around this with a different way of spacing them? Tables? Percentages? A property I'm missing? Thank you for any help! Julian

I have a page on another website that needs to be tracked. Basically the user signs up on our site, and then ends up on a "thank you" page on the billing company side. So the only way to track user conversion is by being able to track this "thank you" page. I thought I could do this by having them place a piece of code that I wrote of a 1x1 iframe to a page on our site, that way when this page has a view, it means someone ended up on the "thank you" page. However, this iframe misses some views sometimes (if anybody knows why, please let me know). We know this because we can see the amount of signs up from the billing company. I have seen the use of tracking pixels and can't figure out for the life of me how they work, nor can I find anything online. It's a code such as <img src="http://www.mydomain.com/pixel.php?signup=1234" width="1" height="1" />This must be better somehow than the iframe that I put in, because all advertising companies we have worked with use this. Do you know what kind of code would have to go into that 'pixel.php' page? Thank you very much!

Yeah but I'm looking for a way where I can hop on a random computer and open the file online just like you would in Joomla, without having to download an ftp client. I kind of doubt this exists but still hoping!

I currently am helping a friend with his website that is built in Joomla and requires updates several times a week, but to make the process more efficient, I was going to redo the pages from scratch with some php scripts. The plus side of Joomla is that I can update from any computer if I am out of town as long as there is an internet connection. But if I build this from scratch, it would require that I download the html/php files via FTP, edit them, and re-upload. Is there any online service that can allow you to log in, access your files, edit them, and save them, all online? Thank you for any info!

I have a site that uses a "userID" cookie and when the user clicks to a second related site that I built, I want to use that same cookie. Is this possible? Or is the cookie something that is always stored with the user? I tried calling the same if(!isset) code but it didn't seem to work. Any tips appreciated. Thank you!

Ha yeah I figured it wasn't the best method. I'll learn this SQL and see what I can implement. Thanks for the tips!

Thanks for the reply. I also realized an easy (withing my range of knowledge) way I could do this would be to have a folder containing files with the user IDs in the file names such as 123456.php, 234567.php, 987654.php, etc and do a $file=fopen("' . $ID . '.php","x"); command. This would either create a file with that user's ID as the file name if it doesn't exist, or return 'false' if it does exist. So when a user tries to log in with an ID, I could simply see if a file called "[iD that he inputs].php" exists in the folder, if it does then let them through, and if it doesn't then deny access. I know this might be quite a weird way to do this, but I wouldn't need any other stored information besides the user ID. And also I would have some details to work out that I left out here. Does anybody see anything wrong with going this route? Thank you

I have a small section of a site I want to build where someone can sign up and be given a user ID (six digit number). Four of the web pages I want to only allow people who are logged in to view, so when they come back, they can log in and then click to those pages. If they are not logged in and they try to click, they will be prompted to plug in their user ID, at which point I can simply assign a cookie to let them into the pages. I am familiar with some PHP scripting but have never done anything with a database. I am currently looking through the w3schools 'PHP Database' section to learn about it but just want to make sure I am on the right path. The user ID is generated by a third party billing company so I am not worried about that aspect. I just need a system that can automatically populate a table, or a list, (etc) so that when they are prompted to log in, a script can check if it is a real ID or not. Is this the best way to go about achieving what I want? Thank you for any help!