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PHP calculating age ranges when time stamp is useless

2008-08-19 11:14:21

Working on a little project where we have to determine user demographics and have come to the part where we determine the percentage of users in each age group: less than 20 20 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 - 59 60 - 69 70 & greater We have the users birth dates represented as Year-Month-Day and stored as a date datatype in MySQL. The problem here is, on many systems, UNIX time stamps are not valid before 1970 and PHP/MySQL just reports back 0 as a stamp. I wrote up a small function to make my own time stamp: ## Some fake timestamps to handle the infamous 1970 epoch problem for days only## Year-Month-Dayfunction TimeStamp($date) { $date = preg_split("/-/",$date); $x = 1; while ($x < $date[1]) { $mdays += cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, $x, $date[0]); $x++; } $mdays += $date[2]; return floor(($date[0] / 4) + (365 * $date[0])); } Now of course, this is going to be off by a couple days here and there because of leap years, but I did my best to calculate them within reason. I know there has to be a better way to do this, but am a bit out of ideas... Anyone? -- Custom PHP/Perl Development. Vbulletin And Wordpress Mods Too!

Help with Jscript Code

2008-08-19 07:57:49

I have not done coding for a long time and have pretty much forgotten most of the basics. I have this following line in the code: var Filename=prompt("Name of File?");var fso, s; fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"); s = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\\My_Directory\\" + Filename + ".jbw" , ForReading, -1); y=1; I want to keep the code the way it is, however I want the program to be able to detect the drive letter, as I want it to run off a USB flash drive. I searched for some code online and I saw something like this: Shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); USB = Shell.CurrentDirectory; // Returns the drive letter where the .js script is located // It is "F:\" on my system (different on others!!!) However when I add that to the program and change it to s = fso.OpenTextFile(USB + "My_Directory\\" + Filename + ".jbw" , ForReading, -1); I get an error. Can anyone recommend or help me out on what I should add to make it work. -- Mastermind 4 Life ® ™ ©

Blog Software Question

2008-08-17 01:47:23

I am working on a site for a client and they want a blog(s) as a part of the site. I'm familiar with blogs as I use WordPress for my personal site. But that's just it. My personal site is a template I got online for Wordpress. I am wondering if there is some blog software that anyone knows of that allows me to just write something, submit it, and simple add a snippet of code into my already designed site that will displays all blog entries? -- \m/(-_-)\m/ TMB :: HEM Designs :: Inviting Images

Oracle 10G run report from forms.

2008-08-15 16:35:34

We just moved my development from 8i to 10g and things have overall gone smoother than expected, as far migrating goes. I have run in to on brick wall that I just can't seem to pick out just right. I have a form that the user enters data in to. It then calls a report and gives stats and what-not. Everything worked in 8i. My code looks much like this: PROCEDURE print_report IS pl_id PARAMLIST := GET_PARAMETER_LIST('pl_bill_report'); report_id Report_Object := FIND_REPORT_OBJECT('GenericControlTotals'); v_rep VARCHAR2(100); BEGIN SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id, REPORT_COMM_MODE, ASYNCHRONOUS); SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id, REPORT_EXECUTION_MODE, RUNTIME); SET_REPORT_OBJECT_PROPERTY(report_id, REPORT_DESTYPE, CACHE); ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id, 'p_bill_date', TEXT_PARAMETER, TO_CHAR(:bill_date, 'MM/YY')); ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id, 'p_ctr_key', TEXT_PARAMETER, :ctr_key); ADD_PARAMETER(pl_id, 'p_process_name', TEXT_PARAMETER, :p_process_name); v_rep := RUN_REPORT_OBJECT(report_id, pl_id); The only major difference is that report_destype used to be SCREEN, but in 10g you can only use CACHE or FILE. With Cache nothing happens. If I do file and give it a destination it creates the PDF, but the PDF is 0 bytes. If I run the Report manually in Reports Builder with paper layout everything works just fine. I have spent hours reading over http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/forms/pdf/10g/frm10gsrw10g.pdf but don't see that I have missed anything. -- "Padre, nobody said war was fun now bowl!" - Sherman T Potter http://www.cafepress.com/maxolasersquad http://maxolasersquad.com/ http://maxolasersquad.com/network/ My DSL Network Guide http://myspace.com/mlsquad

Database design - am I normalizing this correctly?

2008-08-20 00:24:07

OK, so I'm writing an internal web app for my company...and I'm new to this... I have two SQL tables, let's call them 'projects' and 'personnel'. I need to keep track of which personnel are involved with which project. I'm stuck on the concept that a variable number of personnel are likely involved with each project. So: is it considered good, normailized database design to create a third table to store pairings of project_id and person_id ? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- May you always be prepared, and never need preparations like H.

Sunday Advertisements Type Flash

2008-08-19 23:33:25

Let's say I have an advertisement I want to publish to the web, but I want it done like how many companies do it: http://circuitcity.shoplocal.com/circuitcity/Default.aspx?action=browsepageflash&storeid=2396863&rapid=575937&pagenumber=1&prvid=CircuitCity-080817&promotioncode=CircuitCity-080817 Anybody know of any free or cheap flash or other language scripts that will do that? Thanks! -- My BLOG!Black Friday Ads

Realty Software

2008-08-18 19:26:30

I'm looking for something simple where I can have a rotating photo show up on my main site with the photo and basic listing info and if you click on the photo it takes you to the detailed info. Anyone know of any free software that can do this easily? I need to make it easy for a computer novice to use. Thanks in advance. -- \m/(-_-)\m/ TMB :: HEM Designs :: Inviting Images

PHP obfuscator/compiler/scrarmbler

2008-08-18 12:17:00

Hello, I am looking for as free php "Compiler" working on a unix/linux server. I have many scripts, some mixed html and php. Is PHPcoder a good idea? Some suggestions, Thanks for your help.

CSS Opacity

2008-08-18 19:34:18

OK, just did a search in the BBR archives and found a similar issue but the coder fixed it with a negative margin. My issue is that I won't know how far offset the div could be based on content included. So, what I'm looking to do is have a fluid (height) div that will have a transparent color background so the background image comes through, however have the content in it at full opacity. Here's my CSS code so far: #dealsHere {float: left;margin: 15px 0 15px 15px;width: 480px;clear: right;} #dealsHere .dealBG {background-color:#fff;width: 470px;padding: 5px;filter:alpha(opacity=50);-moz-opacity:.50;opacity: .50;margin-bottom: 10px;}#dealsHere .deal {filter:alpha(opacity=100);-moz-opacity:1.0;opacity: 1.0;} And my HTML code so far:

This is a deal here

Thanks for help. I haven't done much with opacity, but have noticed this is working in both FF and IE so that's a bonus! -- # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y

Dropdown Menu Help

2008-08-18 19:25:12

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