yabber — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:42:10 +0000

Oh & I think that the foxserve site is created using a php portal like the one from http://www.myphpnuke.com/

Mika

yabber — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:51:41 +0000

Foxserve 2.0 is 1 file, it's just an installer program, click & go, the only configuration you have to do is to give MySQL a user name and password.
MySql then starts everytime you start your PC
Apache is started by clicking an Icon
then type "http://localhost" in your browser and it will show your index.xxx in C://foxserver/apache/www/
It really is as easy as that.
It also includes phpmyadmin for database management, it is a great program. Oh & its free

Mika

taff — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:56:02 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by yabber
php/mysql is probably the way to go, a good place to start is php.net there are some great tutorials and links there, also go to http://foxserv.linuxmax.net/portal_database.php?action=view&fid=2&cid=1 and download/install foxserve 2.0 it will install apache/php/mysql on your windows system to you can run everything locally to learn/test your scripts.

Mika

How user-friendly is foxserv for someone with little or no serverside experience? This thread has got me drooling to play with SSI (I had no idea it was so simple!) and it would also be nice to be able to test PHP locally

yabber — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:35:37 +0000

I use php includes for all my pages, a few of my pages look like this

<body bgcolor="#fdfdfd" text="#000000" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000">
<? include("/path/to/directory/with/header.html"); ?>
<? include("/path/to/directory/with/menufin.html"); ?>
<? include("/path/to/directory/with/anmeldung.php"); ?>
</body>
</html>

that gives a page that looks like http://www.omahost.com/partner/fin/reg.php

I use the same header & menu on all my pages & also include any other php scripts that are needed, in this case anmeldung.php

I LOVE PHP :D it's :gandalf:

Mika

jag5311 — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:52:30 +0000

Hey Brian

I like your site infostar webdesign. Very slick

I have two comments

on your portfolio on this site
http://www.cetaceacorp.com/scuba/

When your mouse hovers the stocking, it brings that window up, but if you move the mouse down slightly, it starts making some jagged movements. Just thought i would point that out.

Also, you might want to take this site off your portfolio if its not up and running
http://www.loltech.com/

Just my 2 cents, but nice layouts and designs

bryan

Brian Farkas — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:42:59 +0000

Hi,
They are using the "background" attribute of the TD tag. This is their code:

Hope that makes sense.

Brian

jag5311 — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:31:40 +0000

Im in shock at that FoxServe site. It is awesome, but everything is text highlightable. There are no images, the tables you see aren't images, how were the tops (titles of each table) created, their color looks like it fades, but you can't save it as an image, you can only save the background which is that of a fox. I know im just rambling on, but it confuses me.

bryan

jag5311 — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:22:52 +0000

I think im doing something wrong with the menu?

What i really just planned on doing was applying that line of code

To all my pages that i want the menu on, which is all of them. But if its going to alter all the content on each page, then i don't think i will do it, unless however i can get it to work

jag5311 — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:00:48 +0000

ok, im having a problem with the menu.

i copied what my menu is suppose to look like onto a new sheet, saved it as menu.shtml Then once the menu was how i wanted, i saved it.

Then i deleted the menu on my index.shtml and created a small layout cell, then i applied this line of code inside the cell.

since that is the path to the actual menu.

here is a picture of the individual menu file i created
gamecubecheats.net/menu.gif

But if i am correct, i wouldn't see the change until i uploaded onto the server. Well, once i refreshed in my dreamweaver after making the change, it pushed everything off to the side, and distorted everything, and i don't know why. I have the spot i want the menu in, but when I previewed it in my browser it actually pushes everything on teh page around, really distorted.

Im actually creating an example right now. Go to this site to see what it did to my site with that line of code in

gamecubecheats.net/index2.shtml
it looks great here

but check out these pictures of what it actually looks like once i added that line of code in, Dreamweaver doesn't show it very nice, but on the web it looks just fine
gamecubecheats.net/messedup.gif 64kb
gamecubecheats.net/messedup2.gif 50k

mairving — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 02:04:48 +0000

Still quite easy to do with PHP. Just build a file as Brian suggested, menu.html, menu.php, menu.inc, menu, the extension doesn't matter. Doing it with a database you would really just need one template page. Doing it without a database, you would have to create a page for all of your different categories.

What I would do is to build your main index page in dreamweaver how you like it.
Then cut it up into pieces like header.inc, footer.inc, menu.inc or leftmenu/rightmenu, etc. Your pages would look like this:

<?php
include(\"header.inc\");
include(\"menu,inc\");

---Page Contents here---

include(\"footer.inc\");
?>

It makes it quite easy to change the header, footers and menus for all pages at once.