code:

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 <div id="galleryThumbnails">
	<div id="motioncontainer" style="position:relative;overflow:hidden;" align="center">
		<div id="motiongallery" style="top:0; white-space: nowrap;" align="center">
			<nobr id="trueContainer">
			<?php
			$con=mysql_connect ("localhost", "gabellin_cristof", "knollstudio") 
			or die ('I cannot connect to the database because: ' . mysql_error()); //connect to server
	
			mysql_select_db("gabellin_design", $con); //open database
			$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM Gallery WHERE Keyword='$keyword'"); //open table
			$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);

			$dir = dir($row['Path'] . "little/");

						$y=0;
			while (($file = $dir->read()) !== false)
			{
				switch ($file)
				{
				case ".":
				  $y--;
 				  break;
				case "..":
				  $y--;
				  break;
				default:
 				 echo "<a href=\"#\" onClick=\"return modifyimage('galleryPicture', " .$y. ")\"><img src='" . $row['Path'] .
				 "little/". $file . "' border='0' name='" . $file . "'></a>";
				}
				 $y++;
			}
			$dir->close();
	
			mysql_close($con);
			?>
			</nobr>	
		</div>		
	</div>
</div>

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code:

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<?php
phpinfo();
?>

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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
 
Right, fugu13, with an additional command to print "hello."

The .php extension is not recognized on my computer, however, despite having installed the program.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
Installed the program? Describe in more detail the steps you took. While you can run php on a command line or such, it is almost always executed on a server. This means you must have a webserver such as Apache httpd installed, and that must have the appropriate capability to handle PHP set up.

If you are on windows, a good way to get started is to use WAMP: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ .
 

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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
 
I just went to that link, wamp, installed it, and did all the default values.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
"did all the default values" isn't an explanation of the steps you took. Where did you put the file with the php code in it? What are you trying to do to view it?
 

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Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
 
I managed to get everything to work -- for the moment at least, through wamp, which seems to be working great. Thanks, fugu13!

What would be a really good way, imo, to learn the language is a bunch of problem sets. I.e., you see some material then are given a challenge or something based on that material. This is the method I used to learn Calculus and I found it satisfying and successful. Does anyone know of any websites that provide such a format?

Thanks all .
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
http://codekata.pragprog.com/

They're a little more oriented towards Ruby, but can be done in any language. He provides test cases for Ruby, which is a great way of validating your code.

I don't know of any PHP code katas, though if you're having particular problems with any of them I'd be happy to create some basic test cases for it.
 

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Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
 

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The most likely candidate I have right now is something in the different javascript elements trampling each other. My suggestion is to go through your page and iteratively remove parts of it until the scrolling works. Start by trying removing the extra javascript.

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Thanks fugu. I did this and figured it out. And like most problems it ended up being simple and stupid.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
No problem
 

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