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At 7/6/06 09:08 PM, xero_xs wrote:

At 7/6/06 07:21 PM, JeremysFilms wrote: Why are you blocking right clicking? Don't think there aren't other ways to get a page source, and what's so bad about someone getting it anyway?

I found that you're really blocking right clicks via this: http://xs.xmgfree.com/disables.js

i disabled right clicking and highlighting so that it makes it harder for people to plagiarize other people's work. of corse i kno that there are other ways to get page source, im a fuckin coder, duh, i kno that shit, its jus some people mite want to highlight and copy and paste it, then give up after they found they cant. i was jus tryin to protect other peoples writing a little

and yea good job on finding my javascript file, that musta been hard, u want a cookie

First off, it sounds nicer to call yourself a programmer or web designer/developer. Second, who right clicks to copy text? The last time I did that was years ago when I didn't know about shortcuts. (CTRL+C)

Finally, you don't have to be a dick about it all, I posted the URL to the javascript file in order to prove that it wasn't just my computer making the right click be disabled and that you were in fact controlling this.

At 7/7/06 05:38 PM, xero_xs wrote:

At 7/7/06 05:06 PM, elbekko wrote: He can get that error if his server finds 1 connection too much ;) :P

thnx, thats probly wuts happening, how do i fix it?

He was being sarcastic.

This is one the stupidest questions I've ever read.

ActionScript has to do with flash since flash runs actionscript. The programming forum description tells us to keep actionscript related posts in the flash forum, actionscript 3 is the third version of actionscript, but it's still (obviously) actionscript.

So in conclusion, AS3 topics should be posted in the flash forum.

No, no, no, no, NOOO!!!

No more * Main threads should be made, there's 3 that are going to survive (C++, PHP, AS) and no more need to be made because not enough people ask about them or need tutorials written.

This thread will be locked and people may flame you, I hope not for your sake.

PS. Even if this thread wasn't going to be locked, what would be the point of it? It'd end up flushing out HTML/XHTML questions.. meaning the regs would have less questions to answer, and if you haven't noticed, this place isn't too busy.

Please further define what you mean by "programs". A program is really just an instruction given to the computer to carry out a specified task.
Are you talking about writing software and applications? Are you talking about writing simple macros? Are you talking about writing server side programs to handle data transfer? What exactly are you talking about?

Although I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about, I say what said above to explain to you that you need to be less vague about this sort of thing as there are so many different answers you could be provided with.

I'm pretty sure you're talking about writing standalone software, like painting applications or text editors or any of that fancy stuff. If I'm correct, there's an expansed variety of programming languages you could learn to write this kind of software. I'll just name a few languages you could use:

- Java
- C++
- ActionScript (if you have flash you could use this to develop software, though I wouldn't suggest you use it to make professional software for a mass amount of people so I wouldn't suggest it)
- Perl
- Delphi
- Visual Basic

There's so many, but these are some that are widely known, C++ or Java would probably be what you should try first. Java would be easier I believe.

At 7/6/06 09:01 PM, SlightlyCrazed wrote: What is the best program to design a webpage with? I know there is the notebook, but is there something more, visual?

I think you mean "notepad" ;).

But yeah, there are things called WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML Editors. They're applications that write HTML (and any other languages added (depending on the application)) that matches what you create through tools given in the application. It's sort of hard for me to explain though, but I'll continue to try.

Do you know of Microsoft Word? In it, you can create a table by going to the table tab at the top or doing numerous other things. You can also format text and make it bold, underlined, etc. You don't see any code, you just see the rich text. In a WYSIWYG HTML Editor, you'd be able to create web pages using the same concept of just seeing the rich text and being able to easily edit it as if it were in a rich text editor with many features for web elements such as form fields. These editors write the HTML code needed to make what you created using their editor. You usually can use these applications without any HTML knowledge, but they are much easier with the knowledge.

To my knowledge, the two best known WYSIWYG HTML Editors (that cost money) are the following:

- DreamWeaver
- Microsoft FrontPage

Get the free trials of both of those if you plan to use a WYSIWYG HTML Editor or at least want to try one out before buying either of them.

I'm sure there are great free WYSIWYG HTML Editors out there, if you want to find them, google is waiting for you. (click link to save time ;))

At 7/5/06 11:01 PM, chubbs153 wrote: hey im new to html how do i add a link for a program like a video

I'd like to help you but... that really confused me. What do you mean by "a program like a video"? Do you mean a link to a video file that will prompt for download? Or do you mean how to put a video on a webpage?

At 7/6/06 10:46 AM, robokid wrote: Macros could be a solution, but be more spicific when you say "depositing"

- robokid

What do you mean. It would vote on 5 entries, then click the link to deposit that NG provides you.

Why are you blocking right clicking? Don't think there aren't other ways to get a page source, and what's so bad about someone getting it anyway?

I found that you're really blocking right clicks via this: http://xs.xmgfree.com/disables.js

Ugh, if you really want to make a bot like this so badly, there's one way I'd probably say wouldn't be breaking any rules... not that I endorce it, but it's better than trying to find a way to hack the system. Just write a macro to actually launch a browser, to actually go to submission pages, to actually click the buttons vote, and to actually click the link provided to deposit. This way, you're just making the macro do for you what you would do yourself, therefore not doing anything truly that wrong.. In other words, it'd be like having someone else vote and deposit for you. This way, you'd still come to the site and not use any of this cURL nonsense to hack the system and do what isn't right.

However, if you were nice, you'd just not be lazy and do it manually as the portal system was designed for.

At 7/5/06 04:13 PM, IndianCheese wrote: I just uploaded the script to my site and the file downloads, but the file itself is completely different. The contents say:

<br />
Warning: readfile() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/joeschmo/www/forcedownload.php on line 4<br />

What does this mean?

It means your host disabled the readfile() function. Contact your host about giving special permission to you to use this function.

At 7/4/06 02:02 PM, Lozenger wrote: I don't know if people still play Farcry that much, but i can't play online atm so i've been messing around a lot with the Farcry map editor. I recently downloaded a really good Mod, and i want to make some of my own. Any ideas where i can get a decent modder?
Thanks

I may be wrong.. but doesn't this belong in general?

At 7/4/06 02:31 PM, Momo_the_Monkey wrote: i was using it as an example. Holy crap. I'm not using that code, i was just searching in google for a code like that, and that happened to be the first one that popped up.

holy crap, please don't accuse me............... :9

Holy crap don't et so paranoid.

I'm just curious... how many people actually use the "E-mail someone about this discussion!" feature from threads?

At 7/4/06 09:25 AM, Chames wrote: Ok, my old host used to let the user input variables in the address bar;
eg: (page.php?variable=10)
But, on my local host test server it wont do it. Does anyone know what this is called and how I can change it so that it works on my test server?

(I use xampp for my server if that helps)

Are you asking what feeding variables through the URL is called? If so, it's the get method. You can access these variables with the $_GET superglobal array. Example:
$_GET['variable']

If you want an HTML form to send variables via this get method, set the method attribute to get. Example:
<form action="something.php" method="get">

At 7/3/06 09:58 PM, Momo_the_Monkey wrote: 2. Host doesn't support php. It only supports .asp, .aspx (and all other extentions of the asp/asp.net type) .htm, .html (and all other extentions of the html type)

TIme to find a new host then?

Sorry, I can't help you but I'm just curious... why don't you just learn PHP and then more people will be able ot help you and it'll probably be easier to debug problems. Unless you already know PHP?

By the way, I'm not telling you to stop with ASP if you don't want to, but in my opinion, PHP would probably be the better way to go.

At 7/2/06 03:34 PM, This-Is-A-Long-Alias wrote: Ill just set it to post, stuff in a random thread like "cool", and ok, cron jobs was a first thought of mine, but is there not an easier way?

First off, in my opinion, that's not a good idea. Why would you do that? Why not just tell people on your site in an announcement that you are going on vacation? It's not that big of a deal, I've done it.

Anyway, this forum is yours, correct? If it wasn't, I'd have a problem with helping you since I doubt the forum owner would be ok with you doing this.

So if it in fact is your forum, a cron job would probably be the easiest way.
All you've gotta do is make a php file in a password protected directory that when run will insert data into the forum database.

If you have cPanel, it's quite easy to run a cron job. You just need to use:
php FULL FILE PATH
Of course changing FULL FILE PATH to the, obviously, full file path... and not the public file path by the way.

At 7/2/06 03:20 PM, This-Is-A-Long-Alias wrote: If you must now, it is so i can post regulary on my forum, while im on holiday, so no one will know i am gone, i just used newgrounds as an exmaple, as people could realate to it.

How can it post regularly for you? How will the bot know what to post? Are you gonna load it with messages to post each day or something? If this is the case, you might want to use PHP and a cron job.

At 7/2/06 03:06 PM, This-Is-A-Long-Alias wrote: Atleast reveal the language you could use for this?

gug.. I'll tell you, but it's not that nice to use a bot.

There's a lot of different languages you could use for this. You could do it with PHP, but you could also do it with something client-side. Hell, you could even write a macro to move your mouse in the right locations to vote for you and set a scheduled task to run the macro every day.

At 7/2/06 02:36 PM, JeremysFilms wrote: Doesn't this go against NG rules in some way?

I meant, wouldn't it go against NG rules if used on NG, and also go against other sites' rules?

Sorry for double post.

Doesn't this go against NG rules in some way?

http://www.phpmix.or.._a_dynamic_signature

Go there and at the bottom, it explains how to use .htaccess to make php files be interpreted as png file :).

When someone clicks a link or follows a URL to an image, they are downloading it. However, the reason it doesn't come up like a .exe file download would bring up a download manager is because most browsers will view it within the browser.

What I mean is that it downloads to the cache and then the browser opens this file with itself. Like, on a machine running windows xp, if you right click a file and choose "open with" to open the file with a specific application.

So concluding my post, I'd say the only way I know of to do what you want would be to have a link to the image and tell the person to right click the link and press save target as. However, on a mac I think it's either control click or option click.. I don't know, I don't have a mac.

At 7/1/06 01:53 AM, whatthedeuce wrote: I don't see why we would have to treat him with respect.

Because he treated us with respect when asking the question and never flamed us or did anything worth not being respected. He made a mistake, he only has about 40 posts, that means he doesn't come to the forums too often. Even though there is text stating "but keep ActionScript-related posts to the Flash Forum", it doesn't have any formatting or something to make the text stand out (such as bold-facing). Do you read the descriptions of every forum every time you are about to click a forum link from the main forums list? I certainly don't. The only reason we know that AS belongs in the flash forum is because we have read it at least some time. He was just coming to ask a question and didn't read the descriptions because the topic titles seemed self-explanitory... however, there are some special variables in the descriptions (I believe programming is the only one with a special variable) such as only posting AS in the flash forum. This isn't standing out so he assumed that the forum was just about programming because he found no reason to read the description since he thought it was simply explaining what the programming forum was.

Ending my rant, if the text "but keep ActionScript-related posts to the Flash Forum" was in bold-face, he would have most likely not posted this thread in this forum and would have read the description more thoroughly.

Hey, I'm just curious, if you happen to be someone who doesn't have cPanel and you wanted to create a MySQL database, how would you find out your database prefix? My prefix is the same as my cPanel username, jeremyfi, so all of my users and databases are named as jeremyfi_user or jeremyfi_database.

How would someone who does't have cpanel find out their prefix? I want to know because I wrote a few programs that I want to create installer fiels for and one of the fields the person installing must fill out to install is database prefix. So I want to provide a solution as to where they could find the prefix.

Oh and on http://www.cookiejes..shsystem/addvote.asp

, you aren't checking if the posted form variables don't exist to redirect or display an error message. Also, I tried to hack it by sending external post variables to the page with a vote of 9999999999999999 instead of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 and I'm guessing you are somehow checking for the vote to make sure it's not above 5 or below 0, but it still cahnged the score so I don't know what it changed my vote to. My suggestion would be to test if the vote is equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. If so, cast the vote, if not (if it's not equal to a valid vote) make an error message such as 'you have cast an invalid vote'.

Good.. not to be insulting but... who still uses ASP?

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