schizoman

Hi. I'll try to answer this to the best of my abilities. 1) You don't [I]need[/I] to purchase a certificate to provide SSL, you just need to install one (which can be done for free). However, purchasing a certificate adds "comfort" for the user, as your site is verified by …

We certainly use shopping carts (baskets) at my job. As you point out, carts are malleable and transient, while orders are hard data. It only takes a couple of SQL statements and a foreign key to transform the former into part of the latter.

Personally, I ignore the warnings. But then, I run linux and don't worry too much about infections. At work, we've been using a third-party checkout company for years. Just this summer, their certificate expired and, after numerous attempts to contact the company, we've concluded that the site is no longer …

Howdy. I just joined. At 53, I'll bet I'm near the right end of the age curve. I've been playing with computers since I first purchased an Apple II+ decades ago. Currently, I'm running Ubuntu Linux, and prefer it to Windows for a multitude of reasons. For the past 6+ …

There's lots to be said about all of the technologies listed in the replies above. Still, I prefer a simpler approach. Begin with XAMPP and Firefox. XAMPP is a PHP/Apache/mySQL package that works on various platforms. I choose the Firefox browser because there's all sorts of development tools available as …

Here's a quick and dirty way to do it with nested "for" loops: [code] $strQS="select [I]field[/I] from [I]table[/I] order by [I]index[/I]"; $refItems=mysql_query($strQS) or die (mysql_error()); $cols=ceil(mysql_num_rows($refItems)/15); $tableData=array(); for($x=0;$x<$cols;$x++) { for($y=0;$y<15;$y++) { $tableData[$y][$x]=@mysql_fetch_assoc($refItems); } } echo <<<TABLESTART <table> <tr> <th colspan={$cols}> Your Header Here </th> </tr> TABLESTART; for($x=0;$x<15;$x++) { echo "<tr>\n"; …