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I've now checked. The emulate IE7 meta tage cannot be edited to emulate IE6, to test pages in IE6 you still need another computer or a virtual machine (a virtual OS with IE6 on it) or one of the specialist programs. The emulate IE7 meta tag will not be in the final version of IE8, so Microsoft either expect IE8 to be good enough not to display badly or they expect web designers to get the code to be up to standard and validated error free.

I've been using the same code in one of my forms but I just realised that it might not be working; on the other hand it hasn't raised any PHP warnings because I haven't got any variables defined for $headers or $string either so it may be OK; I just want clarification.

You might find it more reliable to use margin-left instead of text-indent:- * { margin: 0; padding: 0; } #sitemap { width: 400px; background-color: #eee; /*text-indent: 100px;*/ list-style-position: inside; } #sitemap ul { margin-left: 30px; } #sitemap ul ul { margin-left: 100px; } /*for the nested ul tag if you want a different margin-left there.*/

Re Eric's edits; I think the tags were correct if the nested ul is supposed to be inside the Diary li tag, it looked OK to me as it was originally in the first post.

Your list is indenting by 100px in IE7 and Firefox. I edited your styles like this to add a width and background-color to the div just to check:- #sitemap { width: 400px; background-color: #eee; text-indent: 100px; list-style-position: inside; ul, li { margin: 0; padding: 0; } which showed the gray div with 100 px space on the left. I also added ul, li { margin: 0; padding: 0; } which didn't make any difference but it is a good idea with lists as the ul tag has different default margins in different browsers and it helps to get them all doing the same thing first, then you add margins or padding where you want and it should be the same for all of them. In this case the text-indent seems to have set them all the same. Look at item 5 here:- http://w ww.wickham43.net/lists.php which shows two columns, the left with default margins and the right with corrected margins, the upper set for list-style-outside and the bottom two for list-style-inside so the bottom right applies to you and you have text-indent in addition. See if it clarifies the matter.

I've been reading this long topic again:- http://www.killersites.com/mvnforum/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=10257&offset=20 Shetland Wolf on 2 April 2008 and ewwatson on 5 April 2008 2.53 pm used this code:- if (preg_replace($headers, '', $string) == $string) { return $string; } else { die('You think Im spammy? Spammy how? Spammy like a clown, spammy?'); } but as far as I can see, $headers and $string variables aren't defined anywhere in Eric's form, so were these just names as an example which require editig to those in your form (or Eric's form) or are they some kind of global code applicable in any case?

If you mean why didn't they build in an emulate IE7 into IE6 that that's clearly impossible and a joke by you, but I'm sure I read somewhere that the emulate meta tag in IE8 can emulate IE6 for testing IE6 by editing IE7 to IE6 in the meta tag, but I've never tried it and I may be wrong.

The code you have now:- background-color: #B3EA10; background-image: url(images/sky.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment:fixed; background-position: center center looks fine and should show the background image centered horizontally and vertically and not stuck to the top left corner, and with the background-color around the sides. Give us an online link if it doesn't. If you don't want the image in the center vertically use top center instead of center center.

There's SHTML but that type of "include" is almost identical to teh PHP method but PHP gives so much scope for other things to add in later like forms to a database. PHP "includes" are the easiest part of PHP to learn. Otherwise you could use a frameset with the repeating bit in a separate frame, but no one will advise you to do that now that PHP can do it better.

They should both have ( )

I agree that you can put includes inside includes; it just makes the page a bit more complicated and you have to keep a check on what's happening when they all display.

I thought that might be the answer, but it isn't. I usually have cookies set as session cookies only, but Opera has more detailed cookie settings and I've tried "Accept cookies only from the site I visit" and "Accept cookies" and checked in Manage Cookies and seen that my site is listed there, but the linked page session2.php still doesn't show the date and time. I've cleared the cache and history too. However, Chrome had cookies blocked (I don't use this browser much) and after unblocking cookies the date and time now show on the session2.php page, so I'll try Opera again. Edit: Opera still refuses to show the date and time on session2.php even with cookies. Edit2: at long last I've got Opera to work. I reset the global cookie setting and it didn't work, but then I found that I'd set my own domain names in the site specific settings to accept javascript but the cookies were still blocked, so that setting overrode the global setting to accept them. Thanks tpattison.

This test page shows the code in the main page and the code in the linked session2.php page below the horizontal rule. http://w ww.wickham43.com/forumposts/phpdatetime3.php The date time shows in all browsers on the same page but if you click the link to session.php you will see that Opera and Chrome do not show the date and time, so it looks like a browser problem rather than a php code problem. but it could be serious for Opera or Chrome users if their session isn't working so I wondered if there is a solution.

I've used Stefan's tutorial for session code and all browsers show date time or browser information if the code is on the first page, but if the session is repeated on a second page which he calls session.php, Opera and Google Chrome do not show the date and time or browser data but IE7, Safari and Firefox do work. <?php session_start(); ?> above the doctype on session.php and <?php echo " Wickham43.net PHP page was opened on " . $_SESSION['time'] . " ";?> in the body Is this a known bug with these browsers and how is it overcome?

When I use Stefan's tutorial to identify browsers using PHP <?php $_SESSION['browser'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; ?> I get this using IE7:- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1) and this using Firefox:- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 What is the Mozilla/4.0 reference in the IE7 output and what are the Windows references in the Firefox output? General explanation please.

The downloads have been much quicker for the last week or so, so perhaps Stefan has fixed something.

Blogger creates sub-directories for each user and it calls them myblog, etc. and it's formatted in this case as myblog.blogspot.com but in some cases it could be blogspot.com/myblog but they have chosen to format it before their own domain name. The input data entered by the blogger is always held in a database and fed to the page.

I've had no trouble with TIMESTAMP in MySQL either. sjhwebdesign, you offered separate date and time codes; I've had to edit them to be in a session and they work as shown here:- http://w'>http://w ww.wickham43.com/forumposts/phpdatetime2.php My original code was supposed to be combined and a standard code but it didn't work online, only on WampServer, which seemed crazy. I found that the short combined version date('r') did work online as shown here:- http://w ww.wickham43.com/forumposts/phpdatetime3.php I'm still mystified why the proper combined versions date(DATE_RFC822) or date(DATE_RFC2822) don't work online. Why are they shown on tutorials? Edit: my hosting service has PHP 5.2.5 so it can't be that it's an old version.

This code from Stefan's tutorial for sessions for showing date and time placed above the doctype:- <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['time'] = date(DATE_RFC822); ?> and this as the body output:- <?php echo "Welcome on " . $_SESSION['time']; ?> shows this result when online in IE7 and Firefox:- SunPMGMTE_RFebruaryC850 but correctly this when viewed in WampServer:- Sunday, 01-Feb-09 14:34:44 GMT Any ideas why it's corrupted online? Edit: I've reduced it to the minimum code here:- http://w ww.wickham43.com/forumposts/phpdatetime.php which is still corrupted online in IE7 and in Firefox online, but OK on localhost in Firefox. Edit again: this is ridiculous! I found this http://uk3.php.net/date Kenneth Kin Lun 2 Oct 2008 date(DATE_RFC822) and date(DATE_RFC2822) both work. note that RFC 822 is obsoleted by RFC 2822. The main difference is the year being 08 in RFC 822 and is 2008 in RFC 2822. To use date(DATE_RFC2822), a short form is date('r'). RFC2822 did not work for me but 'r' did work (I've not edited my own url above so that you can still check if it's corrupted for you.)

This works, but I don't really like your page structure, so it's just a quick fix:- Edit the style in the head section of the test page to make it position: absolute which takes it out of the normal flow of the other codes (adjust the top position if not correct):- .glossymenu{ position: absolute; top: 365px; left: 50%; margin-left: -85px; padding: 0; width: 170px; /*width of menu*/ border: 1px solid #9A9A9A; border-bottom-width: 0; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; /*margin-left: 20px;*/ }

Newseed's suggestion is the normal cure, but you have this:- html { margin:-10px; padding: 0px; height: 1000px; width: 700px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } which attempts to give a width and auto margins to the html which is not a div, it's the whole page. I've never done that and I don't think it's correct. Use a wrap div and then check whether any of the divs inside have a side margin within it (which is why Newseed said delete them). Edit: try changing html to #wrap in the CSS above #wrap { /*margin:-10px;*/ padding: 0px; height: 1000px; width: 700px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } and putting in the wrap div around the markup as Newseed suggested

That copyscape site really is useful. I tried it with my sites, my tutorial showed up my own mirror site I have as free webspace with my ISP! I then used copyscape on my old mirror site which showed lots of entries, but most seemed to be just short extracts with a link, which is acceptable.

It needs to be big enough to cover the whole page, and remember that some people use resolutions of 1920*1200. An alternative is to position a large background image centrally so that in smaller resolutions both sides get cut off equally as that usually looks better than if the right side loses a lot and the left loses none, or if your image isn't big enough for large resolutions it will center with space at the sides. See http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background-position.asp Falkencreative gave yo the short method of coding with all styles inside the background. w3schools gives each separately using background-image, background-position, etc.

A common problem is that people save a file as say home.html or style.css and it doesn't work because it's actually been saved as home.html.txt or style.css.txt. Check in Windows Explorer with view Details to see if files have a .txt extension and remove it.

That's what we have here with one board for admin hidden from the general public, but it isn't controlled by a separate username and password, it's controlled by the Administrator who sets permissions. PhpBB3 seems to have gone a stage further in that some forums can be password protected by another level of passwords.