[CURL Login Challenge]

moving to php freelancing.

[problem with PDO]

glad to help - please mark this as solved if you manage to get that extension working. try looking at www.php.net for the file.

[problem with PDO]

on the windows platform, the extensions are often in the:

 

C:\Path\To\PHP\ext

 

directory. you'll want to check that the selected extensions' .dll files are in there. another resource that might help you look for where they should be is the phpinfo function, which will tell you what include paths are enabled.

[problem with PDO]

have you checked to verify that the required *.dll extension files are where they need to be (ie. in PHP's extensions folder)?

[Need to check if a form has been sumitted.]

three cheers for repetition! marking as solved.

[Need to check if a form has been sumitted.]

you could try adding something to the value attribute of the input. i'm not sure if that would help for an "image" input type. perhaps simply use another one of the form elements? if it's the only form element, you could always add a hidden one.

[Form submition help]

we'll need more information than that. an undefined index in itself will not lead to the failure of your script - notices from PHP are simply errors pointing out poor coding practices, rather than any sort of fatal or halting error.

 

what happens when you submit the form? how is it "not working?"

[Web design/programming course]

agreed - your best bet is to continue down your path (depending on how much time you have left in the degree) so that you have a very transferable qualification. a simple certification is often far less transferable and usually too focused to yield any major long-term competencies.

 

web programming is something that is notoriously difficult to certify, and often your portfolio and knowledge are most considered when finding work. having a degree to back you up is a serious leg up, and the portfolio and knowledge are both things you can develop concurrently, without having to drop everything and pursue it full-time in a several-year program.

[Adding unique scores with pull downmenu]

i've moved this to the third-party applications forum, as you're asking for a pre-existing solution for your problem.

 

the red message is probably just one about the fact that you're a new user and you've edited a post - don't worry about it .

[Adding unique scores with pull downmenu]

greetings - these are english forums, so i doubt you're likely to find help by posting in (german?). perhaps you can translate?

[managing to botch my first simple join in mysql :(]

and did you confirm that the row indeed has a `un` value of 'jjokoja'?

[managing to botch my first simple join in mysql :(]

have you tried just selecting the whole table?

 

SELECT * from `upload`

 

that should show you.

[managing to botch my first simple join in mysql :(]

i think what he meant was, show the query and its returned recordset from something simple like "SELECT * FROM duplicate WHERE un='value'" and "SELECT * FROM upload WHERE un='value'".

[managing to botch my first simple join in mysql :(]

my first guess is that you may have some reserved keywords in there that require backticks, or that your values aren't identical due to the use of VARCHAR for the column types. do you receive any error?

[select query where field is null question]

have you tried that query? it looks like it should work.

[Members Section With Credit Management]

you won't need a paypal IPN button/script for every download product, presuming you want to go the credits route. presumably, purchasing credits is separate from actually using those credits for a download. in this case, you need only one form/button that will communicate with paypal, which is to "Buy Credits." spending those credits doesn't need to be at all linked with paypal, as the exchange of credits for a download is entirely at your site's discretion - the user has already paid for the credits.

 

perhaps i'm misunderstanding your plan for using credits - if you want to use paypal for every document, why incorporate credits at all, rather than simply selling the documents directly for cash?

 

as for pre-made solutions, there are open-source shopping carts available out there that interface with a variety of merchant processors. i haven't used any personally (apart from the old version of osCommerce), but a quick google for "php open source shopping carts" might be helpful.

[User Registration]

my guess would be that this query:

 

select * from user where ActivationKey=$queryString

 

isn't returning what you think it is. you should format it with delimiters around the query string:

 

select * from user where ActivationKey='$queryString'

 

and see where that gets you. also, have you checked that $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] contains what you think it does? the if-else structure was okay the first time, so uncomment those lines again.

[Members Section With Credit Management]

there are several aspects to your question, and it's tough to narrow down which part(s) you're having the most trouble with. do you know PHP, and do you program regularly, or are you looking for a pre-made solution?

 

if you're using a third-party merchant processor for the credit cards, they often have a method for interfacing with your website to perform an action once the purchase is made. with paypal, it's called IPN - not too sure about other processors.

 

consider the purchase of credits and the exchange of credits for downloads as separate actions. this ensures that your merchant processor is only implicated in the purchase of credits, and the actual usage of credits is isolated to your own website. dealing with a refund/return policy for documents can be tricky (for example, what if the download "doesn't work?"), but provided it's solely related to the user's credits, it keeps arguments about credits a little bit removed from real money as long as the purchasing of credits is flawless. be sure to remind users that the purchase of credits is non-refundable if this is the route you go.

 

not sure if this helped, just some general thoughts.

[Member Section Ideas?]

travesty! but seriously, you might consider asking your members what they'd like? it's a bit silly to sit around thinking about features they'd want - if you have to think about it that hard, they are likely neither in high demand, nor very useful.

[User Registration]

first, if you're going to post code in these forums (ESPECIALLY if you're going to post that much code) please use code tags. note that i've edited your post to put them in.

 

second, you may consider removing your database connection credentials from future posts. one thing that might help with this is to actually look at your code and choose smaller chunks to post, rather than just copying/pasting the whole file. it's not very helpful to simply dump your code and say "something's wrong, fix it." what have you tried so far?

 

you're lucky that rayth has offered a suggestion here - we generally need more information if we're going to help you.

[Member Section Ideas?]

a keychain and a member's discount at safeway.

[Odd TR issues.]

what display setting are you changing it to?

[Modern Warfare 2?]

Got CODMW2 for XBOX360 today. Pissed off at getting wasted on the multiplayer games all the time. Some people must play this for hours on end to be that good, or im just really bad.

 

it does take a little while, but once you start earning some of the weapon and kill/deathstreak upgrades and getting familiar with the weapons, it gets better. by a little bit. i still get my ass kicked regularly.

[Question, when did you start programming!]

Thats pretty much the problem right there, there too cheap. Custom software is not cheap. Looking at scriptlance I cant belive that there is people there quoting things like 20 days delivery for $1,000. There out of their minds, or the software they will deliver is going to be  garbage, and  if you live in the western countries $1,000 might not pay your rent, and 20 days is pretty much almost a whole month shot to hell for $1,000. You'll be a programmer in poverty.

 

have you considered that they aren't working 8 hours a day on that project during those 20 days? i would habitually give a delivery date based on roughly 15hrs/wk on the project simply because i had several concurrent ones. i agree most clients are cheap, but it entirely depends on the client, and therein lies my earlier point: freelancing becomes viable and arguably enjoyable once you find a few good clients. it may take a while, but you can't cast the entire freelancing market in a bad light because there are some retard clients out there.

 

as for the indecision, it grinds me when a client expects you not only to create a website for them, but generate the content too. it makes me wonder why they wanted a website in the first place if they had no idea what they wanted to say with it.

[Modern Warfare 2?]

That is why I turned voice Off, seriously, only place i'd want it on is in WAW with Nazi Zombies. (Can't wait for next mappack!!!)

 

wait.. by "next" do you mean to imply there already is a map pack available for it?