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PM me or add me to skype paul.lashbrook, this is exactly what I do for a living also notice the adwords professional link in my signature so can help there... mainly work as a consultant that will get his hands dirty to, so would prefer to show you how todo things (way cheaper that way)

i would blackhole google analytics by adding the following to your host file 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com to find your hosts file here is a list for each OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29#Location_in_the_file_system

no you got me right... in talks before with rackspace it was always for level 1 compliance which has tighter restrictions, I've just sent my account manager an email to talk about the lower levels if it turns out your right (i hope you are!) I think I might owe you a pint mate!

thats fine... even caching mysql querys in a mysql db is fine... if you can reduce complexity or latency my saving data as a serialized string in mysql thats a good thing... and in the case of twitter actually protects you a little from their api going down for abit

no its not, that’s what I was saying you would have to invest a few hundred a month or use a hosted shop like shopify or my up and coming service

yes... so to take card payments you have to redirect users to paypal, google checkout, sagepay form etc...

if you take card details on-site and process via an API then you can't simply because of outdated PCI rules on the definition of "multi-tenant" hosting as technically a VPS is a multi-tenant machine even though it was originally made to cover shared hosting... thats the source of the conflicting opinions. way round is to have a dedicated box todo the card processing for you... bit of a PITA really

continuing thread

as chris points out if "the page is horrible to read" you have bigger issues than google.... like the fact the page sucks? and yes they do have algo's for this and a google translate product which through machine learning helps them gain a deep knowledge of languages... not saying they do use the google translate DB for SERP's but ya know... if i were them... that’s what I would do.

I've been selling SEO services since 2004 and I have no idea what they are on about... to me google page indexing is referring to the way google gathers information aka google bot... so yes "google page indexing" is a requirement to ranking in google period. evidently google have already indexed the website... so i don’t get it.... this other SEO should be named and shamed because as you put it selling services to clients with techno babble is wrong... especially since from what you say it smells of blackhat which will put the company at serious risk that could result in them never ranking the domain in google again... well with some serious effort maybe but even matt cutts said years ago its best to just rename the company and start again. some company's get tempted to the dark side due to motives of greed or desperation... what will be, will be... you can only strongly express your advice and reference the fact you have people who have been doing SEO for the better part of a decade agreeing with you. more a side point... this bit made me laugh "He said no, its all down to this "google page indexing"." if he knew what he was doing why is he employing SEO's for advice... love it when clients try and tell you how your job really works

'guaranteed page 1' = total BS not even google can guarantee that...

no worries, glad to pay of abit more of my n00b debt's (referring to all the help i got when learning)

not tested this as ive just done it on the forum wysiwyg editor but i don’t see why the following wouldn’t work... but then again ive been programming most of the day so the head is fuzy personal preference: I wouldn’t use static functions on inherited classes class databaseObject{ protected $table_name; public function count_all() { global $database; $sql = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ".$this->table_name; $result_set = $database->query($sql); $row = $database->fetch_array($result_set); return array_shift($row); } } class Article extends databaseObject{ function __construct(){ $this->table_name = 'article'; parent::__construct(); } } $article = new Article; echo $article->count_all();

There is nothing wrong with the actual code you have posted so this is problem with the stuff directly around it or more likely the program your using to upload the file to your server is mangling it up. try downloading the copy on your server and check its ok. source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153678/building-a-mailchimp-signup-form-get-a-php-parse-error-mystery

can you post the full Parse error line as its missing the parts that tell you where the error is

Now everyone has seamed to have thrashed various points out I wanted to add MVC (Modal View Controller) is not the only architecture one can use... if you deal with more requests per hour than the avg website gets in a year then SOA (Service Orientated Architecture) is worth researching

It certainly not the most active project, last commit was 7 months ago there are still people on the IRC and the odd person making applications... just keep getting annoyed at my IDE... also with the RunKit extension the amount of fun you can potentially have is awesome. not lots of code but if I finish of the keyboard short cuts you can edit and save php files with all the syntax highlighting... and would probably help boost php desktop app development

Have you ever played with php-gtk? I’ve got a open source IDE project that’s kinda stale... alot todo for just me...

Hi Everyone, I agree with everyone to different degrees, the problem is you cant rank PHP against OO heavy weights as with PHP it is very much an after thought and not even fully implemented yet.... anyone who can remember the "OO" in PHP4 can see how it has been at least just a interface into PHP. Because of that PHP procedural is quicker in places and adopting tricks like getters and setters slows PHP down upto 100%! as its much faster to access the objects property direct Evidence: http://pastie.org/638732 not saying dont use OOP only that for best results take note of what PHP is good at and what its not... PHP ain’t Java ya know For program architecture MVC is evidently the obvious choice for many programmers creating web apps, but its not a one hat fits all... but its ruddy close. As for "deprecated" functions im standing up for mysql_* users... shock horror shot me down lol... nah really go do a speed test and the old mysql_* lib out performs by a huge way... so for anyone wanting to put through lots more querys/sec its actually the best one to go with... that said you should use the newer function available unless you need to use the old version for awhile (dont forget old packages live in pecl :] )

echo them anywhere, you need to check if the querys work... echo "SELECT * FROM users WHERE Username = '".$username."'"; echo "SELECT * FROM users WHERE Username = '".$username."' AND Password = '".$password."'";

echo the query its using and then run it on phpmyadmin or something... you should spot the problem then

RTFM http://uk3.php.net/var_dump

you haven’t set those variables in that code. In any case, ive noticed you post alot with this type of thing... its really easy to fix yourself, just echo out all your assumptions using var_dump() on arrays and objects... in this situation firstname ain’t doing anything so you should echo out the value so you know its right.... Simply trying to save you time, apologies if the above sounds like im being an arse... im really not trying to be

take alook at this class http://phpmailer.worxware.com I've used it for years... no point reinventing the wheel Also if you need a helping hand im available as a consultant and one of my projects (4 years now) is a hosted CMS that use's stuff normally reserved for big multi-national players... ya know, fault tolerant, no single point of failure etc etc... just PM me

Well that's abit rude of the gman... They do have a tool in google webmaster tools to drop pages... and you could add meta tags... or check for googlebot in the useragent header and 404 the page... will get them to drop it fairly quick... obv don't do that if there's page history that could be saved Thinking about it webmaster tools from google will tell you exactly what they think they should be doing in the diagnostics section....