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  1. Ok, that worked. Thanks. I will proceed with getting some redesigned menu code.
  2. What happens why you try to visit the site?
  3. I have used the same html code (self developer/amateur - siftradingsytems.com) for the past ten years. I've just noticed that I am getting a 404 error code message overlay when I mouse over my menu, which you can see from the image. Everything works as it always has. If I select an item from the menu it navigates to it as it always has. I'm trying to figure out the cause of the errant 404 error message. The only changes to my website have been that I asked the webhost company (Hostgator) to provide a security certificate, which they did. The menu uses some javascript that I got from DynamicDrive.com (ddlevelsmenu.js). Hostgator, says it's a script problem. I'm looking for a little guidance on how to fix this.
  4. I have a website http://www.siftradingsystems.com/ I would like to devote one page to some comments which would come to the page in the form of a small text file uploaded from my desktop. The page would be scrollable and each added comment would appear in its own window. I simply want the web page to grab the uploaded text files and display them sequentially without my having to do anything other than create the original text file and put it where it can be uploaded. Can someone please point me in the right direction. Thanks for any advice.
  5. Right, I was planning on it being a cron job. I was mainly concerned about figuring out what the php script would look like.
  6. On my home network, I have a computer that is uploading data to my website. One file being uploaded is just the date and time, and this happens about once every five minutes. I wish to create a php script that will test this file and send me an email when the file is no longer updating. This will tell me when my home computer has lost internet connectivity or has stopped working. There seems to be plenty of examples of php script that would do the file test. How do I get the script to execute on a timer?
  7. Thanks for your comments. I will try using jquery again and come back if I can't get it to work. Where was the comma supposed to be? Nevermind, I finally got it to work. Here is my test page: http://www.siftradingsystems.com/LightBoxTest.html
  8. After much frustration, I have finally wandered into something that looks like what I wanted. http://www.siftradingsystems.com/P15C3.html Let me just say that cookies are not a piece of cake...
  9. I have been experimenting with a lightbox and it works well enough. http://www.siftradingsystems.com/P15C2.html However, I need to turn this off for some period of time some the user is not repeatedly confronted with the disclaimer. For this I would seem to need to use a cookie, but I cannot get the jquery.cookie plugin to do anything. Here is some test code I've been working with. Any reference at all to $.cookie causes nothing to happen. <!doctype html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>Lightbox 2</title><meta name="description" lang="en" content="testing" /><meta name="author" content="Lokesh Dhakar"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"><link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="images/favicon.gif" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script src="/js/jquery.cookie.js"></script> <script src="/js/lightbox.js"></script><script>if(typeof $.cookie('Cookie1') === 'undefined'){//if (1 == 1){ //no cookie $('document').ready(function(){$('#ele_id').trigger('click');var date = new Date();date.setTime(date.getTime() + (5 * 1 * 1000));$.cookie('Cookie1', 'Kooky'{ expires: date }); });} //} else {// have cookie, do nothing// alert($.cookie('Cookie1'));//}</script></head><body><a id ="ele_id" href="img/Disclaimer.png" rel="lightbox" data-title="Disclaimer"></a><p>This is a test page.</p></body></html>
  10. I found this code which would appear to do what I want, except (in my browser, at least) the disclaimer page is blocked by my adblocker. How does one avoid this? The other problem is that the popup blocker can completely defeat the purpose of the cookie code? How does one get around that? <script>function getCookie(NameOfCookie){ if (document.cookie.length > 0) { begin = document.cookie.indexOf(NameOfCookie+"="); if (begin != -1) { begin += NameOfCookie.length+1; end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", begin); if (end == -1) end = document.cookie.length; return unescape(document.cookie.substring(begin, end)); } } return null;}function setCookie(NameOfCookie, value, expiredays) {var ExpireDate = new Date ();ExpireDate.setTime(ExpireDate.getTime() + (360)); document.cookie = NameOfCookie + "=" + escape(value) + ((expiredays == null) ? "" : "; expires=" + ExpireDate.toGMTString());}function delCookie (NameOfCookie) { if (getCookie(NameOfCookie)) { document.cookie = NameOfCookie + "=" + "; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-70 00:00:01 GMT"; }}function DoTheCookieStuff(){ visited=getCookie('visited'); if (visited==null) {setCookie('visited','yes',365)MyWindow=window.open('Disclaimer.html'); }}</script>
  11. I think the best would be to have the user only have to acknowledge the disclaimer once. I am sure there are examples of this here and other places, but in searching, I have been unable find what I'm looking for.
  12. I am somewhat familiar and when given some example code, I can usually adapt it to my needs. I'm just looking for an example of how to do it.The disclaimer I want people to have to see is about 250 words, so I need something that looks more like a web page than just a simple text box with a button.
  13. I need to create disclaimer message which will require the user to click on a button to gain access to a specific web page. Please point me in the general direction of how to do this.
  14. This code runs ok in Chrome and IE, but not Firefox. How to fix? <!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" id="viewport" content="target-densitydpi=high-dpi,initial-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no" /> <title>Document Title</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.1/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">$(function(){ //option 1 insertme('LineChart'); }); function insertme(ref) {//this can be placed in external js file var join = ""; join += '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="300">'; join += '<param name="movie" value="../FusionCharts/Line.swf" />'; join += '<param name="FlashVars" value="&dataURL=clientFTP/' + ref + 'MoTrnd.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300">'; join += '<param name="quality" value="high" />'; join += '<embed src="../FusionCharts/Line.swf" flashVars="&dataURL=clientFTP/' + ref + 'MoTrnd.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300" quality="high" width="500" height="300" id="Line" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />'; join += '</object>'; $('#dumphere').append(join); } </script> <style type="text/css"> </style> </head> <body> <h1>The chart goes here</h1> <div id="dumphere"> <!--<script> ///option 2 - just remove comment tags insertme('LineChart'); </script>--> </div> </body></html>
  15. I've run across one more small problem with these revisions. Everything seems to work ok with Chrome and IE, but Firefox will not display the chart. It does have the flash plug in and it will display the chart on the old website, but not the new one. Any suggestions? Here is the page which is supposed to display the chart: <!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" id="viewport" content="target-densitydpi=high-dpi,initial-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no" /> <title>Document Title</title> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">$(function(){ //option 1 //insertme('ESCombo7'); insertme('<?php echo $_GET["sysname"].$_GET["period"]."Bar" ?>');}); function insertme(ref) {//this can be placed in external js file var join = ""; join += '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="300">'; join += '<param name="movie" value="../FusionCharts/Column2D.swf" />'; join += '<param name="FlashVars" value="&dataURL=clientFTP/' + ref + '.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300">'; join += '<param name="quality" value="high" />'; join += '<embed src="../FusionCharts/Column2D.swf" flashVars="&dataURL=clientFTP/' + ref + '.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300" quality="high" width="500" height="300" id="Column2D" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />'; join += '</object>'; $('#dumphere').append(join); } </script> <style type="text/css"> </style> </head> <body class="twoColFixLtHdr"> <div id="container"> <div id="header" class="fltlft"><img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="SIF Trading Systems Logo" class="fltlft" /> <img src="images/software_box.jpg" alt="Software Box" class="fltrt" /> </div> <br class="clearfloat" /> <div id="dumphere" style="text-align: center"> <!-- <script> ///option 2 - just remove comment tags insertme('ESCombo7'); </script>--></div><div style="margin-left: 200px"><br><p>This chart is automatically updated directly from a TradeStation chart.</p><p style="margin-right: 125px">PAST PERFORMANCE WHETHER REAL OR HYPOTHETICAL IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS.</p></div><div id="footer"><p><a href="<?php echo $_GET["sysname"] ?>.html"><?php echo $_GET["sysname"] ?></a></p></div> </div> </body></html>
  16. I am seeing that the above code works ok on Chrome, but not IE9. How to fix that? edit: Adding <body onload="PDataFunc()"> along with wrapping the the earlier code in the PdataFunc() fixes the IE problem. edit: On further review, I notice that once the values get loaded in IE, they never seem to update, while they do in Chrome. Ideas? edit: IE has a setting which makes this problem go away.
  17. No. The data is updated daily by FTP from my local computers. The file is on the server. I want to get the data and display it on the page whenever someone browses the page. It does not need to be asynchronous. I have used an ajax ticker in the past to do something like this, but I thought there might be a simpler way. After much flailing around, I put together something that does what I wanted. <script>var txt ="";var Ary ="";$.get('../clientFTP/AlligatorFin.txt', function (data) { txt = data; Ary = txt.split(","); document.getElementById("Gain").innerHTML = "Gain: "+"$"+Ary[0]; document.getElementById("Maxrunup").innerHTML = "Max RunUp: "+"$"+Ary[1]; document.getElementById("Drawdown").innerHTML = "Drawdown: "+"$"+Ary[2]; document.getElementById("Acctsize").innerHTML = "Min Account Size: "+"$K"+Ary[3];});</script>
  18. I need to be able to read a text file (csv), parse it, and then display the parsed values (numerics) in a web page. This only needs to happen on page load. The values in the file will not change more than once per day. I have spent a couple of hours trying to figure this out on my own, so I'm giving up on finding it. I found this bit of code which will read the text file and display it on the page, but I can't figure out how to break the string apart and assign it to different elements. <script>$(document).ready(function(){$("#div1").load("../clientFTP/SomeData.txt");});</script> Thanks for any assistance.
  19. I'm sorry, but I've probably done a poor job of even asking the right question. This is the main website: SIFTradingSystems If you go there, you'll see a menu on the left which invites you to go to some linked pages (different systems). Each system has it's own main page like ESCombo7. Once you get to a system page, you have the opportunity to pull up one of a number of charts which will give some historical performance on the system, usually a flash chart, such as the one we'be been working on: ESCombo7 monthly bar chart. Each system may have 3 or 4 charts, and up until now, each chart has had its own page. It dawned on me that I might be able to avoid duplicating all these pages, by just have a generic page and telling it which data file to use when the page is loaded. The hand off of this system name needs to occur between the system page and the chart page. That's what I've been trying to figure out how to do. I hope that's clearer, but since I've already have the php method, perhaps we should just let it go at that. I appreciate all your help.
  20. Yes. How does the page which displays the chart (ESCombo7 24 Mo Bar Chart), acquire the name of the system for which the chart is to be displayed from the page which is requesting the chart page (ESCombo7 Main Page)? If you look at the main page, you'll see two links which are both requesting the 24 month bar chart. One is my original method, and the other uses php to request the chart page by passing the name of the system to a generic chart display page. So my question was, how does that happen using js instead of php. You may well have explained how that is to be done, but I have failed to grasp it. If that is the case, then don't go to any more trouble; just tell me to look harder.
  21. I have rerun the code you are referencing here and it does load the page; not sure why it didn't before. In order to understand what you've done, I need a much better understanding of how js works, and that will take some time, and I'm not sure that investment in time is worth my trouble. When I used the php, I understood how the xml file reference was being passed to the page which is to display the data in the xml file. I do not understand how that is supposed to work in your example. What does that calling page need to do using js to get the xml file reference passed to the page being called and which is supposed to display the data in that file?
  22. I could not get your last code to load a chart, but I've been looking at using PHP, and this is what I've come up with. In the html calling page I've changed the link which calls the chart page to this: <p><a title="" href="FCBarChart.php?sysname=ESCombo7">Bar chart for last 24 mo.</a></p> This will pass the sysname as a variable in the url. Now, using your first example above I've change the chart page to this !DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" id="viewport" content="target-densitydpi=high-dpi,initial-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no" /> <title>Document Title</title> <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">$(function(){ //option 1 //insertme('ESCombo7'); insertme('<?php echo $_GET["sysname"] ?>');}); function insertme(ref) {//this can be placed in external js file var join = ""; join += '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="300">'; join += '<param name="movie" value="../FusionCharts/Column2D.swf" />'; join += '<param name="FlashVars" value="&dataURL=clientFTP/' + ref + 'MoBar.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300">'; join += '<param name="quality" value="high" />'; join += '<embed src="../FusionCharts/Column2D.swf" flashVars="&dataURL=clientFTP/' + ref + 'MoBar.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300" quality="high" width="500" height="300" id="Column2D" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />'; join += '</object>'; $('#dumphere').append(join); } </script> <style type="text/css"> </style> </head> <body class="twoColFixLtHdr"> <div id="container"> <div id="header" class="fltlft"><img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="SIF Trading Systems Logo" class="fltlft" /> <img src="images/software_box.jpg" alt="Software Box" class="fltrt" /> </div> <br class="clearfloat" /> <div id="dumphere" style="text-align: center"> <!-- <script> ///option 2 - just remove comment tags insertme('ESCombo7'); </script>--></div><div style="margin-left: 200px"><br><p>This chart is automatically updated directly from a TradeStation chart.</p><p style="margin-right: 125px">PAST PERFORMANCE WHETHER REAL OR HYPOTHETICAL IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS.</p></div><div id="footer"><p><a href="ESCombo7.html">ESCombo7</a></p></div> </div> </body></html> This correctly loads the chart page, so I can now maintain only one chart page and just pass the sysname variable to tell it which xml file to use. Is this a proper/good way to do this?
  23. So far, so good. The page above renders ok, and I have modified it so it will look like all my existing chart pages. What I still need is to understand how to pass the 'ESCombo7' as a variable or value from the page where the link is which will cause the chart page to load. I gather there are several ways to do this, but I can't understand any of them well enough to implement it or to understand which is the best/correct method.
  24. A lot of the pages on my website are displaying the same chart with different data. To create a new page, I just make a copy of an existing page and change a couple of data references. Simple enough. However, I've been going through changing all of my pages to get HTML5 compliant and the process of changing all these pages gets a bit tedious. It's occurred to me that I could create a generic chart page which gets called by every master page (the master pages tend to be more unique in form). Then when the page gets called from the master page, it would just pass the name of the data files (xml) to the chart generation page. Here is an example of a chart page: <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title>ESCombo7 24 Month History</title><link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ddlevelsfiles/ddlevelsmenu-base.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ddlevelsfiles/ddlevelsmenu-topbar.css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="ddlevelsfiles/ddlevelsmenu-sidebar.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="ddlevelsfiles/ddlevelsmenu.js"></script></head><body class="twoColFixLtHdr"><div id="container"><div id="header" class="fltlft"><img src="images/logo.jpg" alt="SIF Trading Systems Logo" class="fltlft" /><img src="images/software_box.jpg" alt="Software Box" class="fltrt" /> </div><br class="clearfloat" /> <div style="text-align: center"> <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="300"> <param name="movie" value="../FusionCharts/Column2D.swf" /> <param name="FlashVars" value="&dataURL=clientFTP/ESCombo7MoBar.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300"> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="../FusionCharts/Column2D.swf" flashVars="&dataURL=clientFTP/ESCombo7MoBar.xml&chartWidth=500&chartHeight=300" quality="high" width="500" height="300" id="Column2D" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></object></div><div style="margin-left: 200px"><br /><p>This chart is automatically updated directly from a TradeStation chart.</p><p style="margin-right: 125px">PAST PERFORMANCE WHETHER REAL OR HYPOTHETICAL IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS.</p></div><div id="footer"><p><a href="ESCombo7.html">ESCombo7</a></p></div></div></body></html> There are only two things on this page which make it different from all the other pages displaying the exact same chart, but with different data. The first is the name of the data file (ESCombo7MoBar.xml), which appears twice. The other is the name of the page which called this page ("ESCombo7.html) and some text which describes that page. This is essentially just one thing, namely ESCombo7. I suppose there could be just one variable passed to do everything (ESCombo7) since that is the only text which varies within the page. I think it might be possible to pass this information to this page as a variable in js, but I'm not sure what that would look like. Is this correct or is there another, better way. Thanks for any assistance.
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