PHP is like Magic HTML
Yay.
Ta John.
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Zoe Finch - Mar 12, 2003 2:10:14 pm PST #3451 of 10000
Gradh tu fhein
John H - Mar 12, 2003 2:11:32 pm PST #3452 of 10000
Do people come across the acronym L.A.M.P. much?
It means "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP". So we are, I'd guess, a LAMP site? Though I don't know about the L.
Anyway, all four technologies are open-source and free, so it's a deliberate contrast with dot-net, which isn't free and doesn't stand for anything.
Betsy HP - Mar 12, 2003 2:12:17 pm PST #3453 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
I think every Well-Brought-Up Young Lady today needs to know HTML.
Mine does!
Now if I can just educate her in the evils of (A) background patterns and (B) background MUSIC, I may just avoid the necessity of removing her from the meme pool.
§ ita § - Mar 12, 2003 2:12:21 pm PST #3454 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually, not so much. HTML is markup language -- it's all about presentation, and not about logic.
PHP is an actual programming language that's easily embedded in HTML, and provides a fair amount of server side logic.
John H - Mar 12, 2003 2:17:35 pm PST #3455 of 10000
it's all about presentation, and not about logic
Oh, but it was supposed to be! And, XHTML, and, and, my metaphor of CSS being like Han Solo riding to the rescue of Princess HTML...
No, seriously, all I meant was really that if you want to learn PHP, you should have a grounding in HTML first -- that's the order to learn them in.
Jessica - Mar 12, 2003 4:51:40 pm PST #3456 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Would it be possible (by which I mean convenient, since it's obviously possible) to make Press work like the non-sidebar threads when it's clicked on from the Message Center? Currently, unless there are unread messages in the thread, clicking on it only shows the most recent post, which is almost never the announcement I'm looking for. If the thread title for Press could work like "recent" instead of "last," it would save me an extra click. (And an extra pageview, which saves on bandwidth, right? Good for me, good for the board.)
Jon B. - Mar 12, 2003 5:57:54 pm PST #3457 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's a known issue, Jess. At present all the sidebar threads only show the last post while all the main threads do the "recent" thing. We definitely want the two sections to be consistant. Last time it was brought up, consensus was that all should only show the last post. The logic is that if you're caught up in a thread and click on the title, it's probably because you want to post something in it, not reread posts. So it makes more sense to not have to scroll down a bunch of posts to get to the text box. Plus it saves on bandwidth since there's less text to load.
P.M. Marc - Mar 12, 2003 9:44:50 pm PST #3458 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Huh.
Can't seem to create a new thread, and we needs one.
John H - Mar 12, 2003 9:48:04 pm PST #3459 of 10000
What happens when you try?
Jon B. - Mar 12, 2003 9:48:58 pm PST #3460 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It submits just fine, but it doesn't show up in the list at the end.