Any People Good With PHP?

[johns_ar]

Need some help pls, website help

[fugjostle]

I personally think PHP is the spawn of satan and you will smoke a big fat turd in hell but... some of my mates are PHP guru's so I may be able to relay any questions for you.

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fug

[johns_ar]

well i figured out some myself but got stuck on the rest....

http://www.northeastclubchat.co.uk

wanna get rid of the shit looking drop down box and replace with a nav bar (thats in hand) but its proving a bugger

also when u view the source of the home page i cant find the relevant file on the ftp of site to amend stuff like meta tags

[The Frog Meister]

<td bgcolor="#F3E1AF" align="center">
<form action="modules.php?name=Search" method="get"><font class="content"><b>_TOPICS </b>
<select name="topic"onChange='submit()'>
<option value="">_ALLTOPICS</option>
<option value="15">Dance Music News</option>
<option value="17">Other News</option>
</select></font></form> </td>


This is the coding.... Replace the
<form action="modules.php?name=Search" method="get"><font class="content"><b>_TOPICS </b>
<select name="topic"onChange='submit()'>
<option value="">_ALLTOPICS</option>
<option value="15">Dance Music News</option>
<option value="17">Other News</option>
</select></font></form>

With the details of the bar @ and that should do it :p

[fugjostle]

Originally posted by johns_ar
also when u view the source of the home page i cant find the relevant file on the ftp of site to amend stuff like meta tags

You need to be editing "index.php" to change the meta tags (I think). The PHP actually produces the HTML so the "index.php" file may either have a section of HTML meta tags or it will call another file which holds the values. Either way, index.php is your starting point.

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fug

[johns_ar]

tried that already but no joy

it leaves the box there, its weird cos there was search field before that and its gona but the drop down box is left

[fugjostle]

How aboot:

<table bgcolor="#F3E1AF" align="center">
<tr>
<td><a href="modules.php?topic=">All Topics</a>
<td><a href="modules.php?topic=15">Dance Music News</a>
<td><a href="modules.php?topic=17">Other News</a>
</table>

or something like that..

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Fug

[johns_ar]

index php shows bugger all really i think i need to be in the theme file

ill have a crack at it laterz and report back

[fugjostle]

I'll try and install postNuke tonight and check it out (if I get a chance)

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fug

[fugjostle]

Have a look at header.php btw.. thats the baby I think

[fugjostle]

from header.php:

echo '<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="'.pnConfigGetVar('slogan')."\" >\n";
echo "<meta name=\"ROBOTS\" content=\"INDEX,FOLLOW\" >\n";
echo "<meta name=\"resource-type\" content=\"document\" >\n";
echo "<meta http-equiv=\"expires\" content=\"0\" >\n";
echo '<meta name="author" content="'.pnConfigGetVar('sitename')."\" >\n";
echo '<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2001 by '.pnConfigGetVar('sitename')."\" >\n";
echo "<meta name=\"revisit-after\" content=\"1 days\" >\n";
echo "<meta name=\"distribution\" content=\"Global\" >\n";
echo '<meta name="generator" content="LostNuke '._PN_VERSION_NUM." - http://lostnuke.com\" >\n";
echo "<meta name=\"rating\" content=\"General\" >\n";

[johns_ar]

nice one fug, its a mine field i tell thee!

[DJFANTAZIA]

Been meaning to get into PHP, did a course a while back but never used it since. Stick to ASP where possible, Microsoft will be ruling the world soon so best to use Microsoft stuff.

Having said that from memory PHP is a liccle bit easier, i.e where as in ASP you might send a var across the querstring and then dim it into a var with the request.querystring, PHP just uses the querystring var and sets a callable var automatically.

N e way

:p

[johns_ar]

didnt get much choice about using php mate, its like a web portal template that can be updated by loads of users sort of thing - called php nuke lol

sorted now anyways - cheers fug & frog

[fugjostle]

I personally think JSP, ASP and PHP eat monkey nuts but I must admit, postNuke and phpNuke can both help you build a great web site fast.

Personally, if was being forced to use PHP then I would opt for postNuke over phpNuke any day... much better imho

http://www.postnuke.com/

As my grandma used to say... "use perl, chicks dig it"