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That's the thing, I'm using a VPS shared hosting thing through GoDaddy, I don't even know if I can access a terminal I can barely do anything, I don't really know where to find stuff outside of my root directories of each domain When I created the VirtualHost entries, I used this Apache editing "thing" that only allowed me to edit certain "ranges/areas" Literally I had three options, two being "Post-Virtual-Host" "Pre-Virtual-Host" like what the hell I've edited the hpttd.conf file before for my my own server using pico in the terminal but I'm not allowed to access it through GoDaddy? I don't even know where it is... thankfully the domains work as in urls are working...

Yeah I've seen this error before, I immediately think CSS but how can that be? Fatal error: Class 'mysqli' not found in

What are you referring to? "...you should just save the path/file names..." I'm not getting anywhere, if anything I'm regressing I don't get any sort of validation /error reporting at all, just a blank page, even when I directly copy code <?php $servername = "localhost"; $username = "cjdc_dn2d8"; $password = "pass"; $dbname = "cjdc_Accounts"; // Create connection $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); // Check connection if ($conn->connect_error) { die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error); } $sql = "INSERT INTO dn2d8-new-accounts (Name) VALUES ('name')"; if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) { echo "New record created successfully"; } else { echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error; } $conn->close(); ?>

Okay thank you I've got the columns laid out already That's a great tip about the date of birth and the age, I mean that would be great if they were around long enough to notice that change yeah this is mine right here I have some interesting problems to tackle, for example buying more photos (ha who would do that?) or $0.20 per point as a person can only give a certain person a point once a day. The quality points give people more visibility time / different data stream (scroll feed). I don't know if it's dumb to set up gender by boolean eg. male is true, female is false (sexist?) anyway Unique-id int(10) Age int(3) One-word-description text Gender tinyint(1) Interests varchar(1000) Bio varchar(3000) Photo-1 mediumblob Photo-2 mediumblob Photo-3 mediumblob Photo-4 mediumblob Photo-5 mediumblob Photo-6 mediumblob Photo-7 mediumblob Photo-8 mediumblob Photo-9 mediumblob Photo-10 mediumblob Video mediumblob Quality-points int(10) Name text The blob thing is interesting, I figure pictures are roughly 2MB and a video file at a cetain seconds cut off is about 10MB The data field / type / value is tricky This is pretty funny, 80 failed attempts

Wow hahaha going to pat myself on the back here for my superior brilliance hahaha You need to add users to a database for them to use the database right... this instrument to my liberation Look at these cool privelegs I was looking for this

That extra crap is desperation, trying every thing I also can't that redirect thing to work, am I missing something? Like do I need to have a header file at the destination? See this is what I don't understand... I don't want to point fingers but I've used PHP and SQL before with Inmotionhosting and it worked I had a little basic comment system setup on my site, albeit there was no life, it worked GoDaddy and their shared hosting VPS plans, although cheap and lack of support unless I pay $80.00, I can't get this thing to work I mean, no ini file so mysql_connect isn't even recognizable? what the hell is that? Anyway, I had a long response to your long response I have a crap computer right now, although it has been the best $120.00 I've ever spent, as it has lasted me this long and could possibly make me a hell of a lot more than $120.00 It's running linux so I can't use those IDE's ? you mentioned. Bluefish is actually great. Doesn't use a lot of memory, very clean. Another hurdle later on down the road (in a few days) is camera access through HTML5 though supposedly it is easy, as in a single line of code easy.

I realize now that "PHP server side scripting" may not actually be helpful for this but Still an interesting project, bad people aside I also wanted a clone browser that was like a TOR network (TOR? so vague) but complete privacy... bouncing ip addresses whatever That's not related but "scripting" seemed like the thing to do this stuff

Ahhhhhhhh my damn left hand grazed the touch pad and before I knew it, a couple of backspaces and my long response was gone ahhhhhhh Alright, first thank you for your thorough response up above, I appreciate that really I don't know what is going on, supposedly I connected successfully but I have not created a single row I also have problems with Primary keys, being that I can't "un-primary" key columns, I even deleted the columns and recreated them and they are still set as primary keys, I don't even know what that means. I just know that for the auto-increment thing to work it has to be primary key. I did crack the PHP manual I got as far as "Don't use GET method to capture passwords" then I branched off to SSL's and passowrd salting/hashing I'm buillding an entire social media site and in a bad way I'm going all over the place, I was designing the "GUI" for the create account page and then I realized that I needed to be able to get data input / retrieve and then I also need to figure out that GD part to create images from backgrounds/user entered data. This stuff is great though honestly, to be able to make anything that you can draw on a piece of paper... that's wonderful Anyway thanks again, I think I'm going to lay down, I'm reaching that point where you are awake and your mind can't really do anything productive anymore

God what a nightmare VPS is turning out to be I had to do a whole slew of things php.ini file config.inc.php something like this I don't see the difference here but the first one works, the other one says "connection denied from ip-address of dn2d8 to ipaddress of vps server" here I would have had to have changed an auth file in the config.inc.php file which I downloaded and can't find that entry <?php $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'usr', 'pass'); if (!$link) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } echo 'Connected successfully'; mysql_close($link); // we connect to example.com and port 3307 $link = mysql_connect('dn2d8.com', 'usr', 'pass'); if (!$link) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } echo 'Connected successfully'; mysql_close($link); ?> Well I was hoping I would be smiling saying "Yay I got my name into my database" I don't understand why nothing is showing up, I've tried various ways to enter the data, last I knew I was connecting to the database This is my current attempt, I have a basic html form that takes in a name then uses connection-test.php to try and store <!DOCTYPE HTML> <head> <style> </style> </head> <body> <form action="connection-test.php" method="post"> Name: <input type="text" name="name" value="name"> <input type="submit"> </form> </body> <?php if( $_POST ) { $con = mysql_connect("localhost","cjdc_dn2d8","pass"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db("cjdc_dn2d8", $con); $users_name = $_POST['name']; $users_name = mysql_real_escape_string($users_name); $query = " INSERT INTO `cjdc_dn2d8`.`dn2d8-new-accounts` (`Name`) VALUES ('$users_name');"; mysql_query($query); mysql_close($con); } $link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'cjdc_dn2d8', 'pass'); INSERT INTO dn2d8-new-accounts (Name) VALUES ('name'); mysql_close($link); header("Location: http://www.dn2d8.com"); die(); ?> Oh man my eyes hurt haha maybe need to lay down, then round two

Yeah excuse me for asking basic questions like "What is the first letter of the alphabet?" I am going through some tutorials and picking out the information I need. This problem is interesting but one of the answers to my own question is The action="" piece of code is a new page that takes the data collected from the previous page and does whatever to that data.

Looks like I'm SOL on an IDE or something like that Eclipse supposedly uses 900MB of memory and seeing as I only have 2048MB hmm.... Seems to work (highlight) when I type php in a separate window and save as .php I don't understand the life span of data This is my simple task, take in data, write it to database and then retrieve some of it I don't know what action="" does, I think this is what is "executed" when I hit submit So... if I wanted to open a new webpage while taking some data with me, how does that data live between the transition? Should the data be written to the database on the same page that the submit button is on? Or have the data writing part happen on the action=".php" part? The other problem is, in the 3 phase step, what happens if someone skips to step three and then the rest of the account creation process continues for this random person? eg. look up last id and assume this person is the same person who just filled out the last row

I'm also not successfully connecting to my database this is the code I have it is sort of jargen or crap I think I need to find something better than Bluefish, for some reason I get the impression that it doesn't support PHP as those entries are not highlighted / autocorrected No it does support PHP, not sure why anything with <?php ?> is not highlighted <!-- form submission --> <?php // define variables and set to empty values $nameErr = $ageErr = $genderErr = ""; $name = $age = $gender =""; if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"]=="POST") { if (empty($_POST["name"])){ $nameErr = "Name is required"; } else { $name = test_input($_POST["name"]); // check if name only contains letters and whitespace if(!preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z]*$/",$name)){ $nameErr="Only letters and white space allowed"; } } if ($empty($_POST["age"]){ $ageErr = "Your age is required"; } // check if age only contains numbers and whitespace if (bool is_numeric(mixed$age)=fale){ $ageErr = "Only numbers are allowed"; } if ($empty($_POST["gender"]){ $genderErr = "You must select your gender"; } function test_input($data) { $data = trim($data); $data = stripslashes($data); $data = htmlspecialchars($data); return $data; } $dbhost = 'database localhost/cjdc_Accounts'; $dbuser = 'cjdc_dn2d8'; $dbpass = 'notshown'; $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass); $mysql_select_db('cjdc_Accounts'); global $a, $b; $a = SELECT COUNT(Unique-id) FROM dn2d8-new-accounts; $b = $a + 1; $sql = 'INSERT INTO dn2d8-new-accounts'. '(Unique-id,Name,Age,Gender)'; 'VALUES ("$b","name","age","gender"); mysql_close($conn); FROM dn2d8-new-accounts; ?> <div class="form" align="left"> <form method="post" action="new-account.php"> <div class="data-collect-container" align="center"> <?php echo $nameErr;?> <?php echo $ageErr;?> <?php echo $genderErr;?> <div class="field-1" align="left"><input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $name;?>"> <font color="#303030">Name</font><br></div> </div> <div class="data-collect-container" align="center"> <div class="field-2" align="left"><input type="number" name="age" value="<?php echo $age;?>"> <font color="#303030">Age</font><br></div> </div> <div class="radio-collect-container"> <div class="radio-container-text"><font color="#303030">I am a</font></div> <div class="radio-container-male" align="center"> <input type="radio" name="gender" value="1"> <font color="#303030">Male</font><br> </span> </div> <div class="radio-container-female" align="center"> <input type="radio" name="gender" value="0"> <font color="#303030">Female</font><br> <!-- <span class="error"> * <?php echo $genderErr;?> <?php if (isset($gender) && $gender=="female") echo "checked";?> value="female">Female <?php if (isset($gender) && $gender=="male") echo "checked";?> value="male">Male <span class="error">* <?php echo $genderErr;?></span> --> </div> </div> <a href="" class="pagination"><div class="button" ><img src="create-account-button.png" width="154" height="44"></div></a>

What is a session value? There are four steps to the account creation : basic info and creation of unique id, send to database... oh... right The Unique-id field will be the identifier, which is created after the row has been made, so... but I've got two people, person a, person b. Person a just filled out the form, he hit submit, in the process of launching the next page, person b just hit submit and now his data is... I don't know why I can't think of this right now

I sort of understand what you just said I'm thinking about using IP address, I'm not sure if I can collect that but I could use that, save it as a string or something and find the table. I figure if someone just made an account, eg. completed part 1 of the account making procedure, they would still be on the same machine to complete the other part. But... what if you have multiple devices sharing that same IP address ? or the last octet would be different right? I reread your post, I see what you're saying, I need to see how to enable that. Does this seem stupid? Collect three pieces of data, hit submit, action opens up a php file that redirects to a different web page, it has a script run that pulls up last entry... continues account ad process... see this is where I encounter the identification problem I could use IP but I'm not sure if that is a good solution I'm also not sure about "pagnation" for submitting with a button using href, yet another thing to Google

I don't even know if this is physically possible due to latency, mechanical, etc... But, the way my website is planned at the moment, a person submits basic info, hits "Create account" and then is taken to a new page with that basic information and an incremented unique id, based on last unique id entry read from database. My concern is that if two people or more were making accounts within the same time frame and one person hits "Create account" before another person does, what if the wrong data is pulled? The unique ID I guess is the only thing being pulled, if 0, start at 1, whatever But I wonder if I can temporarily hold data between two webpages before it is stored in the database finally when all fields have been filled. Thanks for any help / ideas

Okay thank you and I have changed my signature

I'm not sure if the window often seen being filled out, such as this one that I am writing into is php. I'm looking for a window that will auto-size or has the ability to be expanded on demand like this window with the three lines on the bottom right corner. Or to specify a size based on page properties like proportions or what is supposed to be typed into the field eg. character limit. Is that php? I'd be happy with a link of documentation or anything Otherwise, currently I only have the basic fields that come up when using POST and GET Thank you

Rookie mistake #8,365 I'm in the wrong domain Well actually that's not true, I think I posted some stuff from another website into this domain for some reason... I'll make sure that's not the case

I laughed when I first read that response "Apache needs restart" could it be that simple? Well that did not work I think the key thing I'm missing is this : Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I don't know if anything I am doing is even being "seen" as everything I have tried has always led to the same message. I tried go get help from GoDaddy haha... Unfortunately... this is a managed server, not a fully managed server eg. an extra $80.00 for a couple lines of code hahaha Oh well, I'm going to try the chat

yeah so I created a new .htaccess file on my root public_html folder and included that ErrorDocument 404 /index.html Does not seem to work

I'm going to try and figure out your last post there but I took down the .htaccess file I found the error pages and tried do enter that up there : ErrorDocument 404 / Which is probably not what you meant I'm sorry you guys have to spoon feed information to me like a child Yeah what you said makes sense / was correct I am reading through an article on .htaccess and 404 code forwarding Thanks so much for your time and response

I think I just have to wait but the change I applied does not seem to stay/ work When I set the Points To value to be dn2d8.com it reverts to @ after I hit save @ is pointed to the IP address so I don't know why it isn't working with a www prefix Thanks for pointing this out Yeah the reverting is the problem. Maybe I have to make the changes in virtual host? create alias entries? I share the same server with three different domains/ip-addresses

Anyway this isn't hugely important at the moment, I would like to get this to work but I may also just spare the four dollars... don't give up young one. That is the way of the bum. Messages have been accepted? Yet still there is the delivery failure message, don't know what that means

I don't understand what "your mail client' means, I tried both from my phone and from my computer using Gmail

What the H it is right here I see, I just did this txt edit on my domain lol v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all but I guess I'm looking at the wrong end of the gun Wait I'm not understanding this, so you're saying if other people tried to send me emails, they're going to get the same error? What the efff I get that it's a security thing but how many clients or whatever do I have to approve? Why doesn't it just work... (crying) haha alright