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Subject: [OM] Re: OT Web Design
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 06:49:35 -0400
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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