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Forum: Programming 14th January 2014, 08:40 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 843
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Server Injected via old Joomla install - be warned!

Well, I don't know how the discussion got to hosting. The problem is 100% related to the insecure Joomla install. I have a very reputable host (Servint), and a Joomla 1.5 website was still hacked on...
Forum: Programming 26th December 2013, 02:03 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 787
Posted By Andrew H
Re: unlink and unset in PHP

People who post questions that clearly have done no research should have their sig link removed. If you posted that question into google instead you would have received an answer much easier... but...
Forum: Website Design 12th December 2013, 11:11 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 569
Posted By Andrew H
Re: how to go about building on wordpress for clients.

In it's simplest sense a website is just files on a hard drive, you can transfer it to another server by just moving the files. Obviously this is extremely easy if your website consists of just one...
Forum: Website Design 10th December 2013, 02:19 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 366
Posted By Andrew H
Re: How did these get designed?

Second site is Drupal
Forum: Programming 2nd December 2013, 07:41 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 469
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Php fetch array

Well you can't have your li elements having the same ID, which is what you are doing - use classname instead.

As for a unique url for the links, you have a couple options. Is the 'name' field...
Forum: Website Design 27th November 2013, 09:39 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 372
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Suggestions on What You Would Charge

It is your fault that the client thinks content and web development are the same thing. I always explain that content should be provided, or if they prefer I can have our copywriter create their...
Forum: Programming 22nd November 2013, 02:06 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 1,453
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Does Craigslist Read ipv6 for geotargeting?

It amazes me how people come to a forum asking for advice, and get so bent out of shape. Clearly no one here wants to help you violate the craigslist TOS.
Forum: Programming 15th November 2013, 12:17 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,100
Posted By Andrew H
Re: SQL Injection?

Yeah for the sake of developers that come after you please don't use stored procedures.

SQL injection is basically allowing a person to execute arbitrary code by not sanitizing their input. So,...
Forum: Website Design 9th November 2013, 07:26 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 521
Posted By Andrew H
Re: slow loading website - advice if possible please

Yeah, there are like 30+ images loading.

The main culpret is this bad boy: http://www.peterichardsonastro.com/style/content.jpg

While 2.7mb isn't a large file by any means, the fact of the...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th November 2013, 07:15 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 485
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Get the "story".

This is so true. Personally I consider myself a pretty bad 'sales person', however I find it very easy to talk to people in general. I do web development, and my 'sales' meetings usually consist of:...
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th November 2013, 12:10 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 680
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Best businesses to contact on Saturdays?

Yeah, cuz the only thing better then getting telemarketer calls is.. getting them on the weekend! woohoo.
Forum: Website Design 29th October 2013, 08:21 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 313
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Question about creating a custom box

And since it's not 1999 anymore, I present you the proper way (ie: not tables...) to do this:


<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<img...
Forum: Programming 29th October 2013, 07:51 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 976
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP SCRIPT TO RETRIEVE QUESTIONS RANDOMLY AND DISPLAY IT ON A HTML FORM

Well thats likely because you need to uncomment session_start() at the top of the page (ie: remove the two slashes before it).

On another note, this script looks like complete garbage - it appears...
Forum: Website Design 29th October 2013, 12:18 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 632
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Help! How to Avoid 100 Spam Robot Sign Ups a Day on my Newsletter List

A very easy way to get rid of a lot of the more stupid (or simplistic) spam bots is to include a honeypot field. Basically it is a field that is hidden with css or javascript, when the field is...
Forum: Programming 13th October 2013, 09:45 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,143
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP code to retrive data from Mysql database and display the retrive data

EDIT: I assume the problem is you are only getting one result (student_id is a unique value in that table?) and then treating it as an array. PDO makes situations like this easier as well. See the...
Forum: Programming 12th October 2013, 04:18 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 407
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Can someone help me with CSS (Pictures inside)

Why not just pay $9 for it and see exactly how the author did it?

Marketing - App Builders HTML | ThemeForest (http://themeforest.net/item/app-builders-html/2733956)

Blocks of blue and white?...
Forum: Website Design 12th October 2013, 03:13 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 364
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Help a newbie! make one part of image clickable.

it just meant that you needed to have the jquery JS library loaded. I changed it so it will load from the google CDN.
Forum: Website Design 12th October 2013, 10:58 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 364
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Help a newbie! make one part of image clickable.

Put a div over the image of your button and then use jquery click event?


<div id="clickhere">

</div>

<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js"></script>...
Forum: Programming 6th October 2013, 01:26 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,057
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP or Joomla: Social Network Site?

Check this script out: PHP Scripts - PHP Social Network Platform | CodeCanyon...
Forum: Programming 6th October 2013, 12:34 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,057
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP or Joomla: Social Network Site?

I'm not a big fan of taking a CMS and turning it into something it wasn't made to be (ie: social network, etc) via an extension. Your much better off just developing or finding a php script that is...
Forum: Programming 5th October 2013, 05:48 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,057
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP or Joomla: Social Network Site?

Well Joomla is built with PHP.

Codecanyon has a php social network script you might want to check out.
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th October 2013, 07:36 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,338
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Insty.me hosting for Offline Marketing??

No. Hosting is one of those areas in life where you can pretty much live by the mantra - you get what you pay for.

I always recommend Servint.net VPS because their support and uptime is...
Forum: Programming 2nd October 2013, 11:31 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,016
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Freelancer threatening to hack my website

This is a weird scenario. I would contact the freelancer.com support to tell them what is happening.

To be honest I wouldn't interact with him. Probably just bluffing, but if you get him riled up...
Forum: Programming 2nd October 2013, 11:10 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,016
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Freelancer threatening to hack my website

Well the fact your using wordpress would make it easier to hack.

He could also DDOS your site.

Probably just pay the freelancer the money you owe him?
Forum: Website Design 25th September 2013, 02:00 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,669
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Someone please explain PSD to HTML to me.

You can't handle this job. Move on....
Forum: Programming 24th September 2013, 11:45 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 465
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Need a programming feature on my WP site

Looks like you are too far into this to jump ship on wordpress. I am firm believer that something like this should be built on a custom platform.

Anyways, here is the section you need: Wanted -...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th September 2013, 04:15 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 827
Posted By Andrew H
Getting rid of my hosting clients (<$50/mth) - suggestions

When I fist started doing web design (couple years ago) I used to just pump out joomla sites for a couple hundred and then do the hosting for $15/mth. Now most of my work is php/mysql development for...
Forum: Programming 15th September 2013, 05:10 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,536
Posted By Andrew H
Re: How Long Would It Take Me To Learn Enough Programming To Start Earning?

Probably the best advice that could be given to a new programmer.
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th September 2013, 12:39 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 712
Posted By Andrew H
Re: The "Millyun Dollar" difference between "Will Do" and "Done"

That post looked so obnoxious with all the caps, bold text, and ellipsis that I couldn't manage to finish. Maybe consider including abstracts in your future posts.
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th September 2013, 08:54 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,184
Posted By Andrew H
Re: I'm interested in getting involved in offline marketing but $0 for investment.Is it possible to

You don't need to buy any books if you don't know what you want to do. People have this notion of the 'offliner' that is very off. Don't think of yourself as an 'offliner' (this word means nothing,...
Forum: Website Design 5th September 2013, 10:10 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 397
Posted By Andrew H
Re: A coding question

well first thing I would do is go into your phpMyAdmin and a search for the phrase that is being displayed. If it shows up that means the info is in your database, and most likely you can remove it...
Forum: Offline Marketing 30th August 2013, 09:43 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 613
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Provide "results in advance" to get your foot in the door...

There was an article posted here recently about a company who hired a marketing firm that wrote fake reviews for their yelp page. Caused a big media storm with a lot of bad publicity. I'm sure the...
Forum: Website Design 25th August 2013, 09:09 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 465
Posted By Andrew H
Re: What are the various breakpoints for a Responsive Web Design?

Good for you that your custom coding. However, seeing that twitter bootstrap is a popular and thoroughly tested framework you should check out what device widths they are optimized for (ie: check the...
Forum: Programming 22nd August 2013, 07:17 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 880
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP troubles.

You seem to not understand the issue of sanitizing your inputs. What everyone is saying, politely, is that you need to STOP what you are doing now and go read about sql injection. When programming...
Forum: Programming 20th August 2013, 08:39 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 880
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP troubles.

Well.

1. This script is wide open to sql injection; your friend that made it should be thrown out a window ;) Never put user input directly into an sql query. You should use PDO or you can use a...
Forum: Programming 14th August 2013, 03:12 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 619
Posted By Andrew H
Re: App Development

Let me guess. The developer does ALL the work and takes ALL the risk, while you just spout out random ideas that are a dime a dozen.

No thanks.
Forum: Programming 13th August 2013, 01:19 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 619
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Cheapest UK/EU based VPS provider?

Check out digitalocean.
Forum: Website Design 13th August 2013, 01:18 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 376
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Social Network For Athletes Functionality

Great. Let's get a test account so we can take a look at it.

Username: warriorforum
Password: 12345

Thanks.
Forum: Programming 9th August 2013, 09:50 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,061
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Auto Fill Optin Form

Are you able to use PHP on this page? If so, it's simple.

You can use $_GET[] to get the variables from the URL. So you could do something like this:

Sample URL: yourwebsite.com?refid=23

...
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th August 2013, 11:07 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 513
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Economic Downturn Can We Save Businesses?

Why not provide a post with real substance stating how you achieved these goals, rather then trying to get people to PM you? (which is presumably so you can sell them, get them to optin, or any other...
Forum: Website Design 29th July 2013, 10:45 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 463
Posted By Andrew H
Re: HTML Template in Wordpress - Need Help Please!

Simply out of curiosity... why are you even using wordpress for this landing page? Seems like a whole lot of complication for no reward.
Forum: Programming 25th July 2013, 05:27 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 652
Posted By Andrew H
Re: PHP Load Variable in Field

This would be done with javascript. I am not an expert with JS but this should get you in the right direction. I would do it with some jQuery (ie: be sure to load the jquery library or it won't work)...
Forum: Programming 17th July 2013, 10:02 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 371
Posted By Andrew H
Re: How do i write this as a join?

Your code is wide open to sql injection. Read this please: mysql - How to prevent SQL injection in PHP? - Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60174/how-to-prevent-sql-injection-in-php)...
Forum: Programming 8th July 2013, 06:48 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 502
Posted By Andrew H
Re: How to add functionality to search website?

It really depends. Is your content stored in a mysql db? in that case the obvious solution would be php+mysql for the search function.

Is the content in html files? probably using google custom...
Forum: Programming 5th July 2013, 03:10 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,196
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Want to Hire SQL Expert to Protect Against SQL Injections

You need to be using PDO. PHP: MySQL (PDO) - Manual (http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php)
Forum: Website Design 2nd July 2013, 01:10 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 453
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Please help html

You wan't to embed the image?



http://www.gonzotrucker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Pro-Drivers.jpg

or embed the image with the link:
Forum: Programming 12th June 2013, 10:49 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,442
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Using a USA Proxy

https://www.digitalocean.com/

run a vpn/proxy through the server. Select a US server when you register your hosting.

Added bonus: you get american netflix as well :)
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th June 2013, 01:58 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 863
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Why Use a Contract? Do They Mean Anything?

For $1,500 it is definitely a tough call if you want to go small claims court. Does he have any solid reason for not paying? Or is he just being a dick?

Taking a lawyer to small claims court for...
Forum: Website Design 3rd June 2013, 12:38 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 380
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Hosting geographically far away from your target market and using CDN? Please help

I have never seen a big deal in where the host is located. It should only matter if your serving large content like videos.
Forum: Website Design 31st May 2013, 02:34 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,143
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Teaching myself coding.

w3schools is the worst thing to happen to the internet.

As for learning coding. Just do it! Think of something interesting and make it. Build a simple php/mysql application to keep track of your...
Forum: Programming 31st May 2013, 02:31 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 384
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Adding a Crime Map

Use gmaps.js &mdash; Google Maps API with less pain and more fun (http://hpneo.github.io/gmaps/)

For your crime data store the coordinates of each event inside the database table. Then just...
Forum: Programming 25th May 2013, 02:42 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 934
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Want to Get a Job in Google as Software Engineer......

A company like google seeks highly qualified people - and they attract the most highly qualified. If you have to post in a marketing forum to ask where to apply, you certainly are not of the right...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd May 2013, 08:28 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 879
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Paid a third party firm and he sucked so bad..

It's only 1700. Move on.

If he signed a contract and he 'did' the work, there is really little hope of getting the money back.

I know you got screwed over, but I sort of laughed when you said...
Forum: Offline Marketing 1st May 2013, 01:03 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 451
Posted By Andrew H
Re: That's a long time

How to torment telemarketers with one word - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=33BCEPMGggU#)!
Forum: Website Design 21st April 2013, 04:06 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 546
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Should I go with manual website or CMS website

HTTP is over rated. FTP is where it's at. If people want to view anything they can download the .txt file. Just make sure they are named appropriately.

ie: 'contact_us.txt' can have your contact...
Forum: Website Design 21st April 2013, 02:43 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 546
Posted By Andrew H
Re: Should I go with manual website or CMS website

Really? If you have no intentions of updating your website frequently how can you ever suggest that a CMS be used? It causes so much headache for no reason (issues with PHP upgrades, transfer of...
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