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What is best to learn for portability?
I'm looking into making applications in c/c++ or possibly another language. Since syntax in c and c++ is a little different I was wondering what language would be best to learn in. I currently know php/perl. So I'm open to suggestions on what language to learn. I will be wanting to be able... -
Design Issue with a large Table
I'm storing most of the users data. How I have it setup now, is below. create table userinfo_self ( ID int(9) DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, uid varchar(50) BINARY, password text, active varchar(4), gender varchar(6), age int(3), dob varchar(20), ast_sign varchar(50), city... -
Design Issue with a large Table
I have about 50 fields in the table that I'm needing to make searchable. In this I have noticed that when you index the table. You can use multiple columns for the index but with a Key length of 500 Characters. Is there a Way I can get around this ? Or is there a better way to design the table? -
populate a dropdownlist in PHP from database based on other drop list
You will have to use some javascript to auto populate the second drop down. You will need to make the while loops for the data being retreived from the database to process it into a list. -
Tries to Download File Instead of Executing
When it is trying to download the file that you are submitting the information too. This means that php is not correctly configured. What are you running this on? -
passing variables
you can also check your php.ini in the c:\windows dir .. for the line below is register_globals = Off If you turn this to on.. even though it is not recommended by php, you can use the string in the page <? echo "Welcome $name";
