knimbus

I put this topic here becuase I am refering to no specific code.I would like to create a search engine for a site, like google, msn, yahoo etc. Now I have searched for hours and read alot of articles on he matter but I need some extra help. If I want to go about this, what code should I be using for these two parts1. Database, retreival and updating (should i use ASP with MS Acess, PHP with MySQL or what?)2. Spider, I have seen ASP used, I have seen C# used, I have seen Java used and I have been told that google uses Python, so what do I go for?If any has any good tutorials on this I wuld be grateful, also, If it is possible I would prefer not to go in to C# or Java as I have no knowledge of them.thanks,knimbusP.S I also want, if possible for the spider to move on to new site by following links on the current page, eg It searches these forums and finds a link to a tutorial that one of you nice people are going to post for me, and then it goes to a link form that page and so on. It would be good if it also could check the database for an existing url as I want to try out a page rank thing, eg. It saves http://w3schools.com to the database, and then at a later time finds a link to http://w3schools.com on another site, then adds +1 to a 'links' colomn in the table.table going like this maybeTBL 1URL ............... Keywords ............... Description ............... Linkshttp://a.com ............... aaaaa ............... 111111111 ............... 1234http://b.com ............... bbbbb ............... 222222222 ............... 5678thanks for any help in advance,Knimbus

Hallo, I have been reading some of this topic and found it really intresting, I know that its a bit off topic, but its in the same theme of the 'unknown' so as to speak.I read near the start of this topic that there are two things man cannot imagine, I cant rember them now () but i would also like to throw in this: Try to imagine a colour that has never been seen beforeIts not possible, or at least I couldnt manage it. The second thing is something I learned in a physics lesson at school that our teacher started going in to despite its irrelevance to the current topic. If you can think for a bit, why can two solid objects not pass through each other? Well every solid object (including man) is made up of insane amounts of atoms. In an atom you have, at the very center, a nucleus and also a space around the outside, inside the nucleus you have prtons (+ charged) and nuetrons (no charge). Then in the space around the outside of the nucleus you have electrons (- charge) it is the electrons around the outside of the atom that repel (same poles) that stop two objects passing through one another, they repel at HUMUNGUS forces and two electrons will never touch, but if two never touch, what happens when you put your finger on, say your computer desk.well at atomic measurements (really really really really really really small) there is actually a gap between your finger and the desk.There are, I find so many questions that arise from this, like if you think, paint doesnt touch a wall. We are (technically) floating as we walk. and the one that torubles me the most, how can you taste anything if your tastebuds dont touch food. It leaves me to wonder if the electrons some how inherit the properties of the object, thus, no object does anything. It is electrons that taste your food, electrons that have different frictions (rubber and Ice).Just thought I would throw in my knowleddge (very little ) and if anything is incorrect or if this post was a total wase of time, blame modern education!!!,Knimbus

anyone? I really need this...

Hi,I am not sure where to put this but because it is related to css it can go here, lolI decided to start a new review site yesterday, so I set up a hosting account and all that... I wanted to be able to post a review, with images etc and for people to be able to comment on how useful the review was, or just what they thought of it. I thought the easyiest way to do this would to be to use a blog script. I decided to use Wordpress since I had heard it was good, but I dont really like it, and I cant use my own css with it unless I change the default css but it confuses me, lol, with all its custom divs and all :)So...I just wondered, can anyone tell me a blog that will literally just post and let comments be posted, under the paragraph format or one that you specify and it will relate to your style sheet and you can also make it appear inside a DIV?or...Can anyone link me to a site that has a tutorial to making your own blog, very basically? like one that has a way to post by logging on as admin and posting through a html enabled text box from the site, will let people (not logged in) to comment at the bottom of each post and last but not least, can all be viewed inside a div?Really sorry for the long and confusing post but please, someone help me!lolps. when I say text box from the website, I mean like the one i am typing in right now to post this topic.

Thank you very much aquatsr, I worked it out like, 30 seconds before I read this, its always the way... lol... Just one question though, as we have seet the height as 1000px, how do I make it variable so that it expands if my typing is say, 2000px high? or is that what overflow does?thanks again,Chael

hmmm I am really sorr to cause any potential inconvenience but can you give me a very quick example of setting up a Div and then making the CSS for it?just with a coloured background and a white canvas that says 'hello' or something pleasE? I have never used a div like this before....

Hi, I am learning CSS atm so that when my website goes up tomorrow I can make it look half decent, anyway, I was browsing around some sites for idea and I came accross http://blog.unknownserv.net/What I want to do is something similar, except I dont know how... How do I make it so that there is a background, in that sites case blue stripes, and then a white canvas over the top of that which scripts will stay inside... or to put it in an example, http://blog.unknownserv.net/ use wordpress 2, but how does wordpress know not to spill out over onto the blue stripes but stay in the white?Please answer asap because I know it will probably be something simple! lol

ok, err... I dont understand this... What do you mean about a textfile? Are you saying just create a form like that and it will work?

out of the server side scripting, i know php the best, but i dont know it well by any means, could you plse give me the code

How can you make a poll in html or javascript that has X number of options which the user selects as a radio buttons and then a submit button which will increase the overall score for both of them, kinda like this:key: X = radio buttonFavourite colour:X greenX red submitand then the page reloads like this:green = 80% and 8 votesred = 20% and 2 votesany help is appreciated

Does anyone know why that when I try to send the html document that opens the tray once, just once, when I send it over msn and my friends try to test it for me they see a continue button (part of the script) but when they click it does either nothing or makes a security alert?

ok, had a permission denied error after I uploaded it to site and now I get another error which I cannot remeber the nature of due to the fact that it has murdered the browser window it was on, try and help me fix it please, here is the link, but please use and empty window!http://car-buzz.com/eject.htm

sorry justsomeguy, I am not too sure on how I would get code to work about checking wether the browser is IE or not, I tried but when it refreshes after the 1 second it displays the pop ups again, but thanks to scott (again) We now have a minimise featurebtw, that is soooo much fun to play with

THANKS!out of intrest is it possible to minimise the browser window after the tray opens?

lol, it might seem mean but it is strictly friends only, just as a joke, are you able to show me the code with the delayed loop included?

hence this, Can smoeone show me how to do this?

justsomeguy, I think your suggestion would work but I don't know how to or where to put the code for a loop with one second delay in, could you show/tell me please?

Right, to recap...I want to make the tray open, i can do that... I want to make it so as when the tray is closed, it re-opens...The ideas I have as how to do this (but i dont know the code for it) is to either somehow (if possible) to check if the tray is open and if not then to open it.ORHave the alert box (or confirm box) to appear the first time the page is displayed and after it has been clicked once, they answer is 'saved' and the browser refreshes every say, second and automatically opens the tray because it sees that the answer to the box is already 'ok' or 'yes'

oh, can you not? I thought you could but oh well, thats that... now I just have to figure out the same but to close the tray, and then I will put the open and close in an infinite loop to annoy my friends mwahaha... Any idea on that?

Can you explain the while(c<col.count)col.item(c++).eject(); for me please?

wait, I think I got it, I changed it to this:<html> <head> <title>Eject</title> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- function EjectAll(){ // Eject all CD-ROM drives var col=Player.cdromCollection, c=0; alert("Click ok for a free cup holder instantly" ) while(c<col.count)col.item(c++).eject(); } //--> </script> </head> <body onload="EjectAll()"> <OBJECT ID="Player" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" style="display:none" width="245" height="240"> </OBJECT> </body> </html> that seems to work, however, how do I insert 'working' bold tags (<b> m </b>) inside my message?

lol, I actually kinda want it to annoy someone, or I could do a pop up which says something like "click here for a free cupholder instantly" clicks button and cd tray cmoes out :)actually, scott, do you know how I can edit the code to do that? could you maybe put a few more comments in through the script as I am fairly new to javascript?

What I want to do is create a page were you click on a button and it will open you cd rom drive, is this possible to do in either of the two above scripting languages?if so, can someone give me the code for it please?

I pm'ed you, I know you know that LG but i don't want others thinking i have ditched you in this thread :-)

what is the html code to make a window redirect to a different url after 5 seconds of the page loading...I want to have a link in my navigation panal which when I click on, starts a timer and brings up the page it displays noramlly which syas "now redirecting to forum" and then after 5 seconds loads the url of the forum, hope this is clear