I added image confirmation to a guestbook and even though it works greate for
most people, some people have problem and I can't seem to figure out why this
happens. Note that I'm not talking about the same guestbook on one server but
the guestbook is on people's own hosting server.
The php
I don't think it's built in, so I was wondering ya'll would recommend as the
best way to convert int to string, not basic type casting, but converting to
the english word the int represents.
Something like this:
5 = Five or 20 = Twenty
If you wanted a full solution (well maybe, I didn't read
I need recommendations for a good CRM done in PHP, thanks!
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Lots of options, ratings, reviews, demos, etc.
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I need recommendations for a good CRM done in PHP, thanks!
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Lots of options, ratings, reviews, demos, etc.
[/snip]
Lot's of good CMS's there, only one, maybe two CRM's.
Woops. That's what happens when you read too fast...
No experience with it, but
I've got some weird behavior using PHP 4.3.9. I use the function of
strtotime(last Sunday); and it's returning the timestamp for last
Saturday. However, if I use strtotime(-1 day); (I'm running this program
on a Monday) it returns the correct timestamp for Sunday.
Is this a bug in PHP 4.3.9?
I am trying to read form a database and place everything in a
multi-dimentional array
This is what I am doing and the output (for testing) seems correct
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$banner= array($arrayIndex = $row);
echo $banner[$arrayIndex][image]. br;
echo
I am at the beginning of creating a web service. As I am not very familar
with both SOAP and XML-RPC it would not make much difference in which one I
learn.
Which one would you guys recommend for a web app that has to be transformed
into a white lable solution.
I just did one using SOAP.
I have almost finished making a set of scripts that would communicate with
maybe 1k sites to start with...
I'm sorry I cannot give you more details about the scripts but this guy is
really nervious and had me sign an NDA etc etc
but what i would like to know is; would there be a problem with
How do I detect the difference between a bad ereg pattern and no matches?
I've got a UI that allows the user to enter an ereg expression. Clearly,
the user may enter an invalid expression (for example, the expression may not
have matching [] brackets). ereg returns false if there are no
I simplified the code a bit, and I am guessing that it was too much. Below is
the complete code that works fine. The weird part is, the part that I have
the question on, is if I change $r to $i, it doesn't work anymore. $i doesn't
count up as it should and instead gives me some unpredictible
I am slowly converting my webapps to use the 'ajax' technology. I'd like to
know what 'best practices' should I use when it comes to authenticate,
identify the requests in a more restricted context.
So far I've migrated some 'open' areas where the user, without having to
identify himself can
I'm trying to resize GIF images and up with very large files
For example:
Original width = 720
New width = 980
Original height = 1008
New height = 1274
Original filesize = 80kb
After resizing = 235kb
Based on the area increase; I'd expect the file size to about double, not be
4x as large.
I have a.php includes b.php . b.php is used by other pages that are served
through apache. a.php used to be started through apache, but now need to be
started from command line. How do I know if a php file is running as apache
module or as CLI ?
I have a few PHP scripts where I log hit to a page i.e. IP and hostname via a
look up.
What I want to do is create essentially a blacklist to prevent bots and other
hosts and IP from being logged and skewing my stats. My local IP/host and
the MSN and Googlebot hits should not be in my stats
I have a project where I need to connect to a remote SQL Server and move
data from their to my localy MySQL server. On the remote SQL Server, I only
have access to a few views but need to get their data and move it to my
local MySQL db. What is the best way to do this? I have freetds compiled
I have been searching for this, but maybe one of you has seen it before
and can save me some time. I need a class that will allow me to create a
zoomable map application. I have a map, I just need folks to be able to
zoom and scroll,etc. TIA!
http://script.aculo.us/
might have what you need...
[snip]
I have been searching for this, but maybe one of you has seen it
before
and can save me some time. I need a class that will allow me to create
a
zoomable map application. I have a map, I just need folks to be able
to
zoom and scroll,etc. TIA!
http://script.aculo.us/
might have
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How do i get a unique max number from a mysql table column?
[/snip]
SELECT MAX(number) FROM table LIMIT 1;
That might not be unique though... I'm wondering if the original poster is
looking for AUTO_INCREMENT (ie. sequences) to ensure a unique id to use
for insertion...?
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Hi everybody! I have a problem and I was told to check out the sessions
part in PHP. What I want to deal with is the following : I have a PHP
page with a form, where the user writes some data. These data are then
written into a file which is then used in a system command as input for
an
I'm having kind of a weird problem I want $MailSubject to contain a the value
prayer unless I tell it other wise.
// on a form processor.
$MailSubject = Praise;
include_once(mailit.php);
// then in mailit.php
include form2mail.php;
// and in formtomail.php
if(!defined($MailSubject)) // This
Hello list,
it has been a while since I've posted the last time, but now I need your
help/ opinion again. I'm re-designing an existing page for an online
shop which is supposed to be used in different languages. The former
design was just a plan echo for an output since the page was only
Good afternoon. I'm having trouble getting PHP to loop from A through Z.
Here is what I tried, coming from a C background:
for ($l = A; $l = Z; $l++)
echo $l;
// Returns A, B, C, ..., X, Y, Z, AA, AB, AC, AD, AE, ... YX, YY, YZ. (26 *
26 results!)
Interestingly, if I make it a less
Just wondering if anyone know of a mailing list of forum specifically
dedicated to soliciting for programmers to fill PHP programming
positions?
I see people post to this list periodically but it really doesn't seem
like the right place. Our project is going to be expanding quite a bit
and
i need to know how many bytes are in a string
example:
$string = blah;
string == how many bytes
Well, if you're willing to ignore all the unicode stuff, you can use
strlen() since 1 byte = 1 character. Check that manpage to see if there's
a unicode safe version.
also i need to know how
i have been trying to learn php.
what is the best approach to learning php for someone who has no programming
experience?
i am very familiar with html, xhtml, and css. i'm not an idiot when it comes
to using computers.
i have bought several books and have subscribed to a couple of the php
Jim Moseby wrote:
Well said. If you're going to buy a $15 Cert from billy-joe-bob's CA and
carwash, you might as well sign your own cert. Thats free...
That might work in an intranet setting, but in an internet setting, you will
get the security warnings. :)
Only once per user/browser
On Fri, February 3, 2006 11:06 am, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
it permanently. With IE you have to ask that they download your root
certificate (click click, installed)
I've never gotten that to work, actually...
It always keeps asking me over and over to install the cert and I
do, and next time
I'm working on an application using the html map tag where I'd like to
automatically place a small image on a larger image automatically.
For example, I've got a table of map coordinates such as:
map name=Map
area shape=rect coords=469,188,488,205
href=/courses/Start_Locs/Loc_Maps/baes.jpg
(skip down)
I'm trying to create a thumbnail from a jpeg stored in a long blob in mySQL.
What's wrong here? I get an image that's the correct size, but it's black.
Any ideas?
code
$dbQuery = SELECT image_type, image, image_width, image_height ;
$dbQuery .= FROM pictures ;
$dbQuery .= WHERE
I have been looking for this in several areas and I can't seem to find it.
I'm new to PHP (any programming since FORTRAN, really :) so please forgive
my ignorance.
I am trying to send username/password credentials to a web server using a
PHP script. This is done to automatically log into a web
How would I go about getting the timestamp of a day of the week from 7 weeks
ago?
In my case I'm getting the timestamp of last Sunday (no matter what day of
the week it is currently) and I want to get the timestamp of the Sunday that
happened 7 weeks ago.
$lastSunday = strtotime(last Sunday);
I am trying to get xml from AIM's new presence API.
The url is unusual, it has quotes in it.
Anyone know a way to get the text from this?
http://api.oscar.aol.com/SOA/key=PandorasBoxGoodUntilJan2006/resource-lists/
users/*anonymous*/presence/~~/resource-lists/list[name=\users\]/[EMAIL
Assume that I save data about an object and it has 10.000 observations of
the object stored in a MySQL database. I want calculate the average value of
a column, is it faster done by using PHP on the result array or using the
MySQL function to do that?
MySQL.
You don't have to transfer all
I'm reading in a 66MB file into php so I can parse it and load it into a
database. However, it is taking a long time for php to read the file.
So long that the script times out. I know about the
ini_set(max_execution_time, 120) or whatever length I want to set the
time out for the script,
I'm reading in a 66MB file into php so I can parse it and load it into a
database. However, it is taking a long time for php to read the file.
So long that the script times out. I know about the
ini_set(max_execution_time, 120) or whatever length I want to set the
time out for the script, but
Would it be enough to set a key for each checkbox, for example explicitly
say:
checkbox[1]
checkbox[2]
checkbox[3]
then a non checked box will have an empty string as a value, whereas the
checked ones will have a value of 'Y'.
Nope. That's the problem. If a checkbox is unchecked the browser
If I have
$myStr = $a * $b;
and I pass it as an argument
$result = myFunction($myStr);
function myFunction($var) {
$a = getData(1);
$b = getData(2);
return // Use $var
}
Is there a way to use $var to process $a and $b?
http://us2.php.net/eval
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the page shown below works fine on my own machine, but on another (remote)
server, it gives me a strange result.
Here's what happens: The first time I view the page it says array(0) { }
as I'd expect, but on the second it says object(kurv)(0) { } where I
expected another array. The problem seems
I have a web application I've just completed, and I want to present it as
part of my online portfolio, most of which hi-lights my work as a front end
developer. My question is this: How do I go about showing off all of the
hard-work I've done on the back-end? Do I simply describe the structure
I'm writing a filter/parsing function for texts entered by users, and I've
run into a problem...
What I'm trying to do is to parse URLs of different sorts, ftp, http, mms,
irc etc and format them as links, that part was real easy..
The hard part is when a user has already entered a complete
hello again
I am trying to figure out how i can read the list of files in a directory
using the opendir() and readdir() functions. Normally this goes fine but
within the loop, what i am wanting to do is echo the filename if it is a jpg
file, but if its a .gif, just continue.
I have several
Does anyone know if it's possible to use the
header() function to POST form data to a URL?
If so what syntax needs to be used?
No, but a quick search for HTTP POST PHP example will get you the code
you need.
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I'm writing a content management application which saves file paths in a
database and allows users to search the database for those files. Problem I'm
having is that although the PHP script that handles the database queries
works fine, when the search results get to the browser, all the paths
Reading this, a question arose me: is it possible to read a shared memory
area with php, supposing than both programs are in the same machine? does php
support ipc? that would be greatly useful.
yes.
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.sem.php
Mariano.
James Benson wrote:
Each has its
HI All,
Has anyone on here created a search engine in PHP?
I have project to create a search engine that will search about 50K or
so pages of information on 100 or so various domain names.
What have you all done in the past? PHPdig was a failure.
Do you recommend any of the ones that are for
Sorry, as a follow-up, I just realized that from 'cat' I AM finally getting an
error in the log file, which will perhaps help trace the issue:
cat: stdout: Broken pipe
Could be wrong, but I think you're getting that error because you are
closing $pipes[0] which well, closes the pipe and
Can anyone suggest the correct regex to replace col1,col2... with count(*)
and strip out everything just before ORDER BY?
so for this:
SELECT col1,col2... FROM tbl WHERE filter1 filter2 ORDER BY order1,order2
I would get this:
SELECT count(*) FROM tbl WHERE filter1 filter2
$str = SELECT
How secure is it to save a password in $_SESSION.
i.e. $_SESSION['password']
is it safe and is it practical?
Probably not. If you're on a shared server, I could write a PHP script to
look in /tmp and read the contents of every session file there...
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i'm trying to find an open source app that would provide me with user
admin/site admin functionality. i've been playing with a few of the open
source cms apps to get a feel for how they implement this kind of
funtionality. i could rip out what i need, but it might be painful for
something like
Hi List,
I am trying to allow dynamic URL's for my users to remember
similiar to:
www.mysite.com/joesoap
So I want to use joesoap in a PHP script to pick up the
user's details
from a MySQL database. If the joesoap does not exist in the table
I will handle that.
So basically I have one file
Hi List,
I am trying to allow dynamic URL's for my users to remember similiar to:
www.mysite.com/joesoap
So I want to use joesoap in a PHP script to pick up the user's details from
a MySQL database. If the joesoap does not exist in the table
I will handle that.
So basically I have one file
I've recently been working on building my own wiki engine for my blog
site. While the majority of the engine is complete, a remaining concern
I have is how to handle competing edits (ie when two or more people are
editing the same wiki page simultaneously).
I'm wondering if anyone else on the
realpath() is your friend...
That has been my first impression too, but...
realpath() expands all symbolic links
I am actually using symlinks :)
I trust the files on my server so local redirects via symlinks are no
problem, the user submitted data is.
Then realpath() your doc root as
I'm working on a script which basically loads an image, the user
requested and wonder how to properly sanitize the passed path. For
instance the user should never ever be able to do somtehing
like ?load=../../../etc/passwd.
My approach so far is to simply urldecode() the given string and return
Hi, folks. I'm having trouble with a simple regex. I'm sure it's just
something small that I'm missing but nothing I'm trying is working.
In an HTML file I have comments like this:
!-- START PRINT --
various html crap here
!-- END PRINT --
Here's the regex I'm using:
/!-- START PRINT
if chunk_split function split the line of text (here on 50 char)
I was wondering if there exists one function who take care if
the 50 char is in the middle of the word and split the line
first empty space before the word or just after?
$newstring = chunk_split($row[1], 50, 'br /');
echo
I am trying to stream a movie file with 'fread'
this my first step in trying to dynamically encrypt the file as it is being
streamed from the server
do I need to fread the data in chunks?
If so, how?
$filename =$path2file;
$file = fopen($filename,'r');
$fileSize = filesize($filename);
I have written a script which dynamically generates PDF documents (with
PDFlib). The link to the PDF file is presented as a static link (thanks btw
to Richard Lynch and his previous contributions to this list on the subject
force download). It is redirected to the script via a htaccess file. If
to expose this server to
the Internet.
Any ideas are still welcome!
/frank
2005-09-22 kl. 18.55 skrev Steve Lefevre:
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
We finally figured out that IE was beginning the download of the PDF
itself, but if it downloaded more than about 1mb, it would pass it off to
a helper
Hi All,
My very first post to this group as I'm a freshly spanked new born php
baby. Hope I have the correct stop for noob tech questions. Please
re-direct me if I have it wrong. I've been doing web dev for a quite while
with a variety of methods (html, xhtml/css, cfml, flash/as, on and
but you could do what you want to do. however, it's going to
be painful if
you want it to match the rfc spec...
Really? Why does it need to be painful? I just need to do a 'EHLO', 'Mail
From:' and 'RCPT to:' and 'QUIT'. It's not going to actually send an email.
Seems simple to me. Maybe
Is there a quick way to compare dates in the format dd/mm/yy without
exploding and comparing the individual parts?
Compare them in what way? Before, after, days between?
In any case, i'd look at strtotime() to convert them into timestamps, then
diff them to get the number of seconds b/n
I have a simple database with one table with about 6 fields, just
holding filenames, filepaths and sizes. Very basic audit for management
here. Problem is I import a load of records into this table and it
seems to only allow me to put in about 550,000 records.Maybe it's
just mysqlFront
any code/pointers to this...
i've been doing the google/search thing and haven't come across anything
which relates to what i'm searching for...
so.. any help in this area would be greatly appreciated!!
i would have thought there would be articles/open course code/apps on this!!
-thanks
I've searched online and am unable to find how to increment by more than
one in a for loop.
for ($i = 1; $i = 6; $i++) {
Is it possible to increment $i by 5?
Sure.
for ($i = 1; $i = 6; $i+=5) {
-philip
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How large can a string be in a cookie? (the value-parameter)
According to here: http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
There are limitations on the number of cookies that a client can store at
any one time. This is a specification of the minimum number of cookies
that a client
Still learning, so sorry if this sounds really simply noobish. But as I
understand things currently this should work. But doesn't. I've been
looking over tutorials but just don't see whatever the problem is.
I created a simple table with the following fields (in order)
tc_id (auto nmbr)
lname
Hello All,
I'm having some issues with carriage returns. Specifically the control M
character (^M). I have attempted to clean and validate the file I'm
creating. Here's the code.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
// assign and clean vars
$artist = trim($row[artist]);
$tdDate
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, babu wrote:
Hi all,
I want to write regular expression for checking the string format entered by
user.
the allowed formats are
examples:
10
10,
10,12-10
12-10
that is the valid strings are:
1. only integer
2. an integer, range of integers example 3
and no other
I am searching for the right equivalent for cut -d : -f5
but it must work with php4.
$fields = explode(':', $string, 5);
Hmmm.. that's going to create a 5 element array assigned to $fields. So,
using /etc/passwd as an example...
philip:*:1000:1000:Philip Hallstrom:/local/home/philip:/bin
Am 2005-09-06 12:18:18, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
$etcpasswd = username:passwd:123:345::/home/username:/bin/sh;
$pwdarr = explode(:, $etcpasswd);
echo $pwdarr[4];
OK, this works now.
But can I read a whome /etc/passwd into an 3d array ?
This would avoid multiple reads...
I know, that I can
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:
You were right! That was exactly the problem
after reading your message, I 've verified the value for gc_maxlifetime
and found that it was set to 1440 secs in other words 24 minutes.
Thank you for that.
But, now I need to come up with something
On checking form fields that they are of type int, what is best to use:
intval() or type casting (int)?
In terms of speed, would (int) not be better, because we save a function
call (especially on very large sql statements)?
Time it.
On an 800mhz box doing absolutely nothing else (it's just
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:
Hi, I have this problem , When I start a Session everything seems to be
ok but sometimes with no reason the session vanishes.
I'm using PHP 4.3.4 as a Apache module.
Apache version is 1.3 under Suse Linux 8.2
All settings are default , I mean
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
That's a bit misleading. The HTTP response headers are sent a soon
as you output something from your script (calling header() or
setcookie() doesn't count as output, so you can set all the headers
and cookies you want).
They're sent to Apache, but that doesn't mean
Hi there!
Anyone that has an easy solution to this?
I have a string filled with content. A lot of content is before Jumping Jack
flash
I want the $content - string to start at Jumping Jack flash
Is there any smart way of doing this?
Use strstr() to find the first occurence of Jumping Jack
I am new to php. I am going to be setting up a page that has a form
on it. When the user clicks on submit an email should be sent with
the contents of the form. My question is How do I do that?
the webserver that I will be placing this page on has php ver 4.4.0 on it.
Any help would be
Is it possible to get the number of saturdays and sundays for a given month
/ year?
This seems to work...
?php
$month = 9;
$year = 2005;
$day = 1;
$ts = mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $day, $year);
$week_day = date(w, $ts); // 0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
if ( $week_day 0 $week_day
Simple question I guess..
How do I set a cookie so it will never expire? (I don't want it to expire)
You can't really... I could delete it and that would be the same as
expiring it...
Best you can do is set it to expire 100 years in the future or some
such... see the manual for SetCookie()
the number of seconds before you want it to
expire. Or you might use mktime().
time()+60*60*24*30 will set the cookie to expire in 30 days. If not set,
the cookie will expire at the end of the session (when the browser
closes).
Jason
On 9/1/05, Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Using an API for an Ecomemrce app. Wondering how I can ensure I have
access to port 443 and that it's open?
use fsockopen() to open a socket connection to the host on port 443. You
should at least connect... if it fails to connect, it's not open...
-philip
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Is there a way, using PHP, to determine if session cookies are enabled (or
disabled) in the user's browser privacy settings?
Set a cookie using setcookie().
Then use an HTML meta refresh (or javascript, just not
Header(Location...) to redirect them to another page.
On that page, see if the
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
Then use an HTML meta refresh (or javascript, just not Header(Location...)
to redirect them to another page.
Why not header(Location...)? Just out of interest -- it's always worked for
me, and it's a much better way to redirect users for many reasons[1] (like
hi
i have a problem when i am formating a string
the problem is it converts the \n in the string to a new line
here is the code
?
$Text = D:\AppServ\www\intranet\admin\store\nodirectory\sub;
$Replace = D:\AppServ\www\intranet\admin\store;
$with = http://localhost/bank/admin/store;;
//$doc =
I have an array of strings in which I am passing to imagettfbbox() in order
to calculate the height of the text box for each string. I am then
subtracting the height from the y position in order to deviate the pivot
point form the top left corner to the bottom left corner when I used
$words= If length is given and is negative,
then that many characters will be omitted from
the end of string (after the start position has
been calculated when a start is negative). If start
denotes a position beyond this truncation, an empty
string will be returned. ;
echo substr($words, 0,
A little while back there was a post where someone needed to read all files
(images/thumbs) from a gallery
and paginate them automatically, I cannot find the thread in the archive but
if anybody can point me to the
thread or knows how the poster solved his problemplease reply as i need
We have quite a complex product all written in PHP and our own mySQL
wrapper. We initially wanted to use smarty, but due to time constraints, we
couldn't re-write everything, so it never got implemented.
Two feature requests we get a lot are the ability to sort the tabular data
by column heading
It's too bad you have to use Windows and IIS. Just curious but why are
they not wanting to use Linux? Do they know it's free and way less likely
to be attacked?
I've made this argument numerous times. Management seemed to be receptive,
and I thought they were starting to change their
I've done a google and can't find anything on this.
I want to parse a long list of useragent strings for a web analysis script I
am writing. I could use get_browser, but firstly this would slow down my
script quite a bit and secondly I am relying on the browscap.ini file of the
newness of
Is there a technical reason why PHP does not allow comparison operator
expressions like the following:
if (2 $x = 4) {}
I prefer this concise way as it is common for mathematics expressions, and
much easier to grasp physically on first glance. From what I can tell, this
expression can
Benchmark it both ways and see.
I benched this with a 100 MiB text file (largest I could find at short
notice). Buffer used for fread() calls was 2 KiB as above.
Values are averaged over 100 runs (I would have liked to do more, but I don't
have time). All values are to 4 significant
What is the fastest way to do this? I know
echo(file_get_contents('myfile')); is not a good idea ;)
Why not?
My guess would be because file_get_contents returns the contents as a
string. So if 'myfile' is 100mb, you're going to have to allocate 100mb
of memory to store that string while
All you need is the mktime() command.
do something like:
$futureDate = date(Y-m-d, mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, $today+
$daysToAdd, $year));
Jordan
http://www.php.net/mktime
mktime() is useful for doing date arithmetic and validation, as it
will automatically calculate the correct value for
Easy enough to change that date(...mktime(...)) command above to return
the weekday and while the weekday is a weekend just add a day and repeat.
Actually sorry to post again on the same post, but this is like the
first solution posted and is invalid since it doesn't account for
non-weekdays
Ashley,
How are you creating the gallery page? You must be reading the filenames in
the directory and producing an img for each one. Can you create an array
of those filenames, save it to session (or generate it each time), and
iterate through them?
Say the images are in a folder
I apology for mysql question posted here, but, as I said once, I like you
guys more! :)
have two tables: orders and special_orders. foreign key is trans_no.
I can't figure it out how to create a query that pulls orders from the
orders tables that are NOT in special_orders table?
I can never
No, Christopher, that is not a bug. As long as the var is empty, and if
you try to compare with 0, or false, it will report true in the
comparison because the variable does not contain anything, which will
mean false for a boolean and 0 for a variable. If you are attempting to
discover if a
robots.txt will not do what you want it to.
Just sniff for those robots' User-Agents (Google, MSN and Yahoo all publish
their UA strings on their websites, AFAIK) and send different content if
it's one of those.
they will hammer you for it eventually - AFAICT all major SEs send out their
i'd like to create a graph with the amount of downloads per hour, i am a
little confused how i should go about this.
i know i can use rrdtool/mrtg, but im looking for more 'user friendly' graphs
with custom colors,etc.
each time someone downloads a file it is incremented in the db and the
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