jeffman

You know, if you'd answered that question back in 2005, Chucklet!! might have stuck around the board longer.

The mods only lock stuff when people start to flame, post ads, or otherwise break the rules. The rest is just -- dare I say it again? -- common sense. This is really a mellow board. Even the youngsters behave themselves pretty well.

COMMON SENSE ALERT!!!!!FirefoxRocks is answering 3-year-old questions again.

Especially considering the Internet was developed by scientists!

I like the advice about experimenting small. If I'm trying out a new technique, I'll usually create a file(s) just for that technique. Then when I've mastered it, I'll work it into the project. It's called the scientific method. Change one thing at a time.

Web-development in a box. Think it'll help?

Thanks. Now for heaven's sake lock this topic! :)EDIT. Just realized you can't. Ah me.

FWIW, I really was trying to be funny. So over the top, I believed, my comments could not be taken seriously. I guess I was mistaken. Skemcin, I apologize publicly. And now I think I'll take a little vacation.

Skemcin:You really need to relax and get in touch with your feelings. What's really up with you and Xalor's sig? Some repressed issues with your father? Maybe someone hit you with a blue and green towel?Come on, man, let it out. We're here for you.

Just because it makes your retinas throb and will precipitate another end-of-the-month bandwidth crisis? Sheesh!

http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_intro.asp

Dude, are you just looking for something to do? :)I think you'll find most of the regulars on this board have abandoned tables for layout, or, if they're young enough, never used them that way to begin with. I've been writing pages since 1993, so I went the table route in the beginning. A "good" layout always led to tables inside tables inside tables . . .Divs and CSS are just better in the long run. IMHO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhtml

Ricardo, we'll need the stats for 2005. FirefoxRocks is up to his tricks again!

CR@P! Another one?FireFox, what are you up to?

I would be very surprised if a modern browser let you set a default path for a file element. Since the file structure of every common OS is well-known, this ability would let web authors troll for files on the hard drive of any user that came along, stealing your passwords, etc. Very bad security.

if (comment_is_incredibly_stupid($comment)) { echo "Duh . . ."; return false; }

Wow, we got a lot of new folks this month! Welcome. I'm new since January, and I come here everyday. You'll notice me answering more questions than I ask. Part of that is my nature. Part of it is a little trick I learned in graduate school. The best way to test your knowledge is to teach it.My point is this: don't just stay in the shadows. If you think you know the answer to something that really is at your level, try to put it into words. If it takes a little research and you've got a little time, look it up. You might be the one to help someone who's in a hurry. But you'll also strengthen what you know.And if you're wrong, the world won't crumble. Before the day is out, someone will come along and correct you. (Just to keep things civil, if you're not 100% certain about an answer, start out by writing something like, "I'm not completely sure, but . . .")And for heavens' sake don't worry if your English isn't perfect. Especially if you studied it in school, it's probably good enough for around here.And don't worry about age. There are a lot of teens who are very active on this board. As a college professor, I wish I had just half a classroom with as much curiosity and determination as you've already shown just by joining up. So go ahead and ask your question. Offer some advice.Learn something. pax

I think I need a faster computer!

You need too much darned syntax for a table.<table><tr><td>content</td></tr></table>COMPARE:<div>content</div>

Congratulations on being 14. Don't waste a minute of it! And welcome to the forum and the school. Lots of good stuff and good people here.

Thank you, Jonas. It looks good. And to me not confusing.FWIW, I think it might be a teeny bit confusing for newbies, having to navigate down one more level. But not a lot. And anyway, is that really how people use these forums? I show up and "view new posts." The forum name and the topic tells me if I want to read any particular post. So I'm not really navigating. The other thing I do is a keyword search. Also, not navigating. YMMV.

On second thought, some of that last post is wrong. You could end up with strange control characters, especially at newlines, that can't be seen. Mac, Windows, and Unix all have different ways of ending a line, but even copying from one editor into a "good" editor might keep the old characters.So maybe you can change the settings on your editor for that. Or change editors. And then I suggest typing from scratch. And once you have an editor that works, keep it.Oh, yeah! Expect everything to crumble if you just copy and paste directly from a webpage, for all of the above reasons.

Well, that may well be your problem, since we've excluded just about everything else, maybe everything. Doesn't your ISP have a built-in editor? Mine does. It SUCKS but it works. I also ftp with success./*EDIT -- The following paragraph may be dead wrong*/I don't think you'll have to do anything fancy to make the conversion from binary to ascii. If you can read your text in your editor, then what you see is ascii and what you copy and paste will be ascii. (Unless it comes up in your ftp editor looking like garbage; but then you'll know.)As a last resort, try to open a new file, set the permissions, and type everything from scratch.Are there any .pl files that came in your cgi-bin directory? Maybe peek at one, carefully, without saving, and see if you notice any differences.

Not right away, but in time. I'd start with O'Reilly's wonderful pages and then shop around for the best site on regular expressions. Then a primer on perl applied to CGI. It's out there. I've just Googled everything without making bookmarks. Lazy, I guess. I can't imagine other users on this board don't have some they could share. How've you done that in the past? Do a general request and eventually collate the best ones into a pinned resource?Anyway, I'd be happy to get it started.