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  1. rossmcl

    Hiding Excel when running a function

    How do you stop it being visible on the screen when an Excel function is running? At the moment, I have a function doing a lot of cell offsets and worksheet creates etc. I want to stop all this being visible on the screen. (ie I dont want the cursor to move etc). Is this possible? thanks rossmcl
  2. rossmcl

    EXCEL: Using Sumif to find Averages...

    Hello I have two columns in Excel. Column A contains Football Clubs, Column B contains Goals Scored (there is a diferent row per week) I want to create an summary for each football club, of the average number of goals they scored in the season. Do I use Sumif (or another function) to find...
  3. rossmcl

    Selecting a random line from a txt file and displaying on my web page.

    Hello I have a text file with 100 lines of text. I want to use a function in php to randomly select one of these lines of text every time my website is loaded, and display it on my website. Is this possible with php? If so, how do I go about doing it? (Sorry if this is a simple question, my...
  4. rossmcl

    Recalcing formulas in a worksheet in Excel

    Hi I have a spreadsheet with a few VBA-driven formulas. When I manually recalculate the cells with the forumulas in them (by placing my cursor at the end of the formula and hitting Return, it all works fine. But when I add a button to the worksheet, and try to recalculate that way, I cannot...
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    Static IPs in PHP

    Hi, I use the following code to store the IP address of a visitor to my site. It worked perfectly...until I recently changed ISP. This new ISP doesnt give me a static IP address. So I am wondering, does anyone know of a cunning way in PHP so that when I enter my website, it doesnt store my IP...
  6. rossmcl

    $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

    Any help much appreciated here. I am trying to store visitor details of people that visit that use my website. I do it to a text file as my domain provide doesnt provide MySQL (actually they do, but it is blooming expensive for my hobbyist needs.) What I am trying to do is add the URL of the...
  7. rossmcl

    UK Help needed - phone/pda advice

    Hi, I am in the United Kingdom, and wanting to buy a phone/pda. My main requirements are 1. to be able to download my yahoo email into the outlook on the PDA 2. ideally be able to listen to MP3's 3. have some sort of word or notepad functionality 4. preferably handwriting recognition / stylus...
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    Storing email addresses from my website

    Hi, This is probably very easy (but I am a web design amateur). I use Dreamweaver to create my website. Now what I am trying to do is add functionality so a visitor can enter their email address, so I can store it, and send an email out to them when I make substantial change to the website...
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    Adding string to top of a TXT file instead of bottom.

    Hi, This is probably a really easy one... I use the below code to store some information on a website visitor to a text file. The thing that is annoying me is that it appends the information to the bottom of the file, and it is now a pain to scroll down to see recent visitors. So I want to...
  10. rossmcl

    Getting information about site visitors.

    Hi I am new to PHP, and have just set up a few basic scripts, to get some information about my site visitors. At the moment I get Date and Time, IP Address and HTTP Referrer (which never gives me anything). Is there anything else I can get about who a visitor is using PHP? Things I would be...
  11. rossmcl

    Running PHP from an html file

    Is it possible (and it will have to be easier as I am brand new to PHP and HTML) to run a PHP script from within an html page? I have got my php script that I want to run when someone visits my html page? Is it possible to make it run as soon as the page loads? If so, how?!? Would very much...
  12. rossmcl

    Writing to text file if not a certain IP

    Hi I am very new to PHP, so this is probably me being stupid. When someone visits my website, I write to a file the date, time, and IP address of visitor. Works fine, but the annoying thing is whilst I am testing the site, I get my IP address coming up on the site a lot. I want to put in a...
  13. rossmcl

    Scroll Bar - where is it in Components?

    Hi I want to use a vertical scroll bar on my text box, because I have to much text to fit it all on. I have done some searches on the internet and they all talk about scroll bar, and how you can just drag it on from the components area. However I do not have a scroll bar to drag on. All I seem...
  14. rossmcl

    Posting FLASH movie info to PHP

    Hi, I want to post variables from Flash to PHP script I created. I have three text boxes (email address, name, country which I created into a movie clip (called form) My flash code on my submit button after the visitor enters data into the text boxes is: on (release) {...
  15. rossmcl

    Putting a Flash form contents into a text file using PHP

    I want to add a form to my Flash website, so a user can leave their email address. I then want to pass this to a text file using PHP. (I do not have a database, so want to store email addresses in a text file. How do I do this? I guess I need to pass a variable from Flash when I hit my submit...
  16. rossmcl

    Running a PHP script from within Flash.

    Hi With the help of people on the PHP board, I have managed to write a little piece of PHP that meets my (very simple) needs. How do I run this (called PHPStoreVisitorInfo.php) script from within Flash, so that it runs behind the scenes of my main flash website. It is just a stand alone...
  17. rossmcl

    storing some information into a text file using PHP.

    Hi I am brand new to PHP, trying to do something very quickly so I can store some basic information on visitors hitting my site. I have no idea about PHP, and have strung the below very quickly (and amateurishly) together. But I am getting errors (surprisingly enough!) I would REALLY...
  18. rossmcl

    storing website visitor information in txt file

    Hello. I want to store information on visitors coming to my website using PHP. (my website is FLASH-based) I unfortunately do not have mySQL, therefore I need to store the information in a text file. (wrong way to do it I know, but I cannot use mySQL for other reasons. 1) is this possible to...
  19. rossmcl

    Unique visitors using PHP

    Hi, Can someone please tell me how to find unique visitors to my Flash site I am already using PHP to have a hit counter, but I want to also record unique users, so I guess I need to also record some information from the users machine (?) when they visit. I suspect I can also use PHP to do...
  20. rossmcl

    How do I use (Paypal) HTML in Flash swf...

    Hi, I want to use HTML in my flash SWF. Essentially, paypal has provided the html (below) so I can charge for something on my site. How do I embed this html behind a button, so that clicking on the button does what the html says? (I am a real beginner in Flash, apologies if this is a real...

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