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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Web Design
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:43:51 -0400
Shoot.  Shouldn't do that. Do you have cookies disabled?

I'll check the code, as it should handle this situation -- without cookies, 
the automatic image resizing won't work.  Cookies are the only way I can 
pass the windows size from the client (javascript) to the server (php).

Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 6:49 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT Web Design


>
> Tom:  I get *"Notice*: Undefined index: scalesimages-x in
> */home/scalesfamily/www/www/scalesimages/index.php* on line *24"
> *displayed when I access the site using Firefox 1.06.
>
> Earl
>
> Tom Scales wrote:
>
>>Take a look at my website refresh I am working on:
>>
>>www.scalesimages.com
>>
>>It is almost entirely done in PHP (with just a touch of javascript where I
>>need the size of the user's browser window).
>>
>>All of the images are dynamically resized and the copyright is 
>>automatically
>>added if the image is over 200 pixels.  In particular, once it loads, 
>>resize
>>the window.  All the images and buttons will automatically resize to fit 
>>the
>>new window.
>>
>>All of the menu buttons are randomize (click the Images link).
>>
>>Most importantly, the site dynamically creates itself.  All I have to do 
>>is
>>add a new image to the appropriate directory, and the site updates itself 
>>to
>>include the image. If I want a new menu item, I just create the
>>appropriately named directory, add the images, and the site updates 
>>itself.
>>
>>The latest feature I added was 'auto-caching', where the site caches the
>>image with the copyright and shadow, so the next time that image is
>>requested in that size, it can just load it instead of dynamically 
>>resizing
>>it and adding the shadow.
>>
>>I like PHP.
>>
>>Tom
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Andrew Dacey" <adacey@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:39 PM
>>Subject: [OM] Re: OT Web Design
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>On 8/1/05, Jeff Keller <jeff-keller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>PHP seems to be commonly used but not as widely as the above pair. Are
>>>>there
>>>>any obvious reasons to prefer this choice or the above?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>PHP doesn't do style so it won't replace CSS for you. It's a
>>>programming language particularly designed for web usage. It's
>>>designed to be embedded with html code (you may be more familiar with
>>>ASP which works in a similar way) and to generate html code (although
>>>you can have it output other text so you could dynamically generate a
>>>style sheet for instance).
>>>
>>>PHP is processed server-side so there's no compatibility issues with
>>>browsers, just need a web host that will support it. Personally, I
>>>like a mix of php for my programming and css for the style and I tend
>>>not to use javascript. I tend to prefer keeping my scripting
>>>server-side for simplicity and compatibility with browsers but you
>>>don't get the control over the browser like you can get with
>>>javascript.
>>>
>>>
>
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