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Creating site for 3000 members

Hi, I’m going to coordinate my first big project, a website that is going to be used by at least 3000 people. (But it might grow to 10000 soon).
Each member would have a personal homepage and there are going to be several tools and questionnaires of which the data has to be saved and displayed [...]

Different User types, same search results question ????

Hey Guys,
Wondering if anyone can help me with this little chesnut??
I am developing an app that has two different user types, lets say, student and teacher.
A teacher or a student can both create "a group" and a regular user can then search through all of these groups together. So there is no real difference [...]

DAL (Data access layer) design question

Hi.
Lets i have two classes: Posts and Comments mapping the Posts and Comments tables from the database.
I want to get all coments from a specific post.
Should I make post->getAllComments() or comments->getByPostID(postid).
I have one class representing each table and one class represent each row of that table.
What do you think is the best way?

Web App software procedure diagram

hey folks,
i been developing a web app and now my work place are going for ISO certification and they have asked to give them with the ‘Software Procedure Diagram’ like a flowchart the process involved in it. this is something totally new for me, basically i m a web designer. i design mock up, [...]

Checking for boms in files

Got quite a few php files that I think may have boms in them, but can’t be definite. Are there any free programmes that can physically check files for boms please ?

load balancing

As my experience in writing applications has grown, so has their size and complexity. I’ve never really thought much about efficiency because I’ve never had to. Not that I don’t try to write clean code, just that I’ve never been put to the screws. The server has handled the traffic load, the language and database [...]

User class and possible sub-types

I’m trying to plan out what classes I need for my e-commerce site. (I have not written OOP before.)
There will two types of users on the website: Visitors (unregistered) and Customers (registered).
I definitely need a "Customer" class, but I am unsure if I need to create a "Visitor" class to handle people who [...]

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PHP -> exe program needed

Please i want to change my php/ mysql project into an *.exe program to run it on any machine
i want to setup my project in any other machines with my database and all my php files.
any one have an idea or programs??

Web site development testing

I am currently in the process of outsourcing a web site development project. I would like advice how test or someone to test the different stages of the project to ensure the web developer will supply a site that is to specification and complies with the normal industry standards. Any suggestions?