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  1. miahmiah

    how can i get the URL of referring page?

    i need to get the url of the page that referred the web browser to the current page. (the page the user clicked from to get here) i used to know how to do this in vbscript / asp - however, i have looked and looked in the php reference and cannot figure out / remember how to do this. can anyone...
  2. miahmiah

    html editor suggestions please

    If you want to use a wysiwyg editor, my favorite (based on quality of code) is Macromedia's Dreamweaver. Good luck!
  3. miahmiah

    Uppercase conversion

    If none of the above do what you expect them to, I would suggest using the OnKeyUp event to trigger the uppercase conversion.
  4. miahmiah

    Please wait, page loading

    in the interest of good web design - a warning should be displayed for the user before the shell_exec call. if it is the first page on the site, then it should be simple to write a bit of html that tells the user to be patient, if it is not the default page, a note by the link the that the user...
  5. miahmiah

    random variable

    your question is not very clear - but you can use the code below for writing a random text string to the html code using php. -------------- $anames = array('answer1', 'answer2', 'answer3', 'answer4'); srand ( (double) microtime() * 1000000); // when generating a random number, be sure to use...
  6. miahmiah

    CSS specificiations for combo boxes or radio buttons?

    hello, i have a question regarding the look of combo boxes being changed by cascading style sheets. i have successfully used style sheets to alter the look of text boxes, submit buttons, and list boxes - does anyone know where to find info about changing the look of combo/drop-down boxes or...
  7. miahmiah

    how do I close or show a pop-up window automatically?

    OOPS nevermind, figured it out... ;) I just had to make the window an object: popupwin = window.open(...); and also: onFocus = "popwin.close()";
  8. miahmiah

    how do I close or show a pop-up window automatically?

    I tried using <body onBlur=&quot;window.close();&quot;> in a pop-up window created by window.open() but but the onBlur does not always activate immediately - can I use onFocus in the parent window? How do I close a window that is not the window that the window.close command is coming from...
  9. miahmiah

    how can i trap mysql error messages with php?

    does anyone know how to trap error messages that mysql generates, when coding with php? i want to stop mysql from printing to a page its error messages (like the &quot;0 is not an index&quot; error for a bad database connection attempt), and instead create user friendly messages and options.

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