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I tried once to argue the fact that Wordpress is a poor choice of clients on here once, people are too tied down by what they 'specialise' in or 'what they always use' to realise that there are better solutions out there that are far more suited to whatever job needs doing, Wordpress although useful for 'fast' development in my eyes is not suitable really for professional client works unless you are prepared to work the core files to protect your clients.

instead of removing posts, would it be better to remove the name of the poster associated with the message? so instead of "danieljoseph" it will be "anonymous[privacy]", so keeping the message and keeping anonymity for the poster if they wanted some privacy.

instead of removing posts, would it be better to remove the name of the poster associated with the message? so instead of "danieljoseph" it will be "anonymous[privacy]", so keeping the message and keeping anonymity for the poster if they wanted some privacy.

your update statement should be like this
UPDATE edit SET email = $email WHERE id = $linid You are trying to update Records in a field? not a table, which is why you got the ALTER functions from NOCK, which is used to alter tables.

yeah and never ever give over the final product until you get paid in full! hehe

I would go with PHP because it runs server side so the user cannot interfere with your script and the script will run even with JS disabled as the previous poster suggested.

<?php

// Make the searches all lower case
$var = "find me";
$var2 = "search";

$line[20] = strtolower($line[20]); // make the line all lower case

if (strpos($line[20], $var) || strpos($line[20], $var2)) { // || means OR. You can use && to mean AND
// string contains $var
} else {
// string dosent contain $var
}

?>
 

so does the import work into mysql from the previous messages which D4YO set out for you?
 
Another idea which could be quicker is import everything into mysql, and then run a clean up script on mysql to remove all the records you don't want!

view this page http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php
 
so for each loop it inserts into mysql, it is a bit slow this way, but for this purpose you can start in this way and then build on it.
 
Within the loop you can add an if statement to not process certain lines which meet a criteria you have set, so "IF(condition is true)" then continue with insert, if not true ignore and continue to next row.
 
i hope that kind of makes sense, makes sense in my head lol

if you want to ignore certain data possibly you can use http://www.electrictoolbox.com/mysql-insert-ignore/ instert ignore? or a NOT IN function i haven't really done anything like this on the mysql side. i tend to write a small function to do what I want in php and then insert into mysql.

yes use php or another programming language to sort out the data and the import into mysql
 
so put data into an array and then you can sort it, and output into mysql.

I know what he wants, he wants to be able to select certain attributes on the left to narrow down in on a products. Such as specifying screen size, processor etc..
 
But this is quite a difficult one to answer without data to play with? but a lot of e-commercce software now has that built in, for instance in magento it is called Attributes and you can set as many as you want, the painful thing is setting it all up...

oh yeah sorry forgot to mention they are free, just need to install it and and put in your paypal codes and you're good to go, from experience it always starts of small until you see it grow and then you want more more more more, so prestashop is a good start and easy to use.

Agreed, you have to first judge how long it will take to produce the task at hand and then charge a package price for the project, and then charge an hourly rate for any additions which were not agreed in the initial contract. otherwise you could give your customer a ridiculously big bill as the customer doesn't know how long it takes to build a site or solve their solution.

I wouldn't shut it down immediately, I would give him fair warning, 4 weeks to find a hosting providor of his choice, that way you have given him an opportunity to move over to another host!

I wouldn't shut it down immediately, I would give him fair warning, 4 weeks to find a hosting providor of his choice, that way you have given him an opportunity to move over to another host!

yeah should be a pretty quick process, why don't you find some cheap hosting which he will be happy with, and then get him to buy it with HIS card details

you can also be a bit sneaky and charge him a fee for the trouble of setting it up on another host

I wouldn't shut it down immediately, I would give him fair warning, 4 weeks to find a hosting providor of his choice, that way you have given him an opportunity to move over to another host!

I wouldn't shut it down immediately, I would give him fair warning, 4 weeks to find a hosting providor of his choice, that way you have given him an opportunity to move over to another host!

yep I guess stephen88 needs to start with something... might enjoy the design side more than the coding,

To be a professional web designer you are going to have to start building websites and learn from your mistakes! you are going to need 3 key skills, HTML, CSS and Javascript without knowledge in these 3 areas you are going to struggle, it will be hard in the beginning but you soon pick it up.
I would recommend you read materials from A list Apart, Steve krug, J.Nielsen they are all good for usability and good standard industry techniques. Oh and of course E.Meyers CSS expert.
These are skills you will need as a front end developer....
 
I started out as a graphic designer and for some reason I actually found that harder than front end design, plus I wasn't a very good grpahic designer so much pressure to create something new all the time magazine adverts, leaflets etc....
 
But whatever you do grab a project and just do it! then come on here so we can criticise the hell out of it

yep I guess stephen88 needs to start with something... might enjoy the design side more than the coding,

Ok then please tell me how you would pass web requests through a excel spread sheet and then return the response to a webpage (as the op has asked for on Lines 2-5 in the original post) if you can easily make this i will hold my hands up and admit i am wrong, but i still stand by my opinion that it would be easier to pass the requests through a simple JS/JQuery script to display the results on a web page.