randalusa

I doubt the site has ever validated properly. Just too much mishmash of code going on. And yet 98% of the members log in fine. So I am guessing the blame lies elsewhere, thought it could end up being helpful in some ways cleaning up that code. Cookies, no, they're still being accepted. For instance, when I came to this forum, it already had my username in the greeting.

Various members have been complaining for a couple years about logging in, then getting booted to the "Can't find your session" page. Though highly concerned, I could hardly begin diagnosing if unable to duplicate the problem on my own machine, and thus experiment with browser settings to find out which would make a difference. Yesterday morning that changed. The night before, my computer lagged shutting down due to a long auto-update. Upon logging in the following morning, okay, I'm in. But clicking on any other page knocked me right back off. I have seen a similar situation when the database table for sessions crashed. But no crash this time. Moreover, other people were navigating the site just fine using either browser. I started up Firefox yesterday to see how it might behave. That let me in with nary a clue of the IE situation. The sessions are homemade, created by multiplying some number (forgetting which) by the rand() function, then inserting into the sessions table. That code is transferred from page to page through hidden form fields. I believe there is a cookie involved also. This was all designed prior to the Php implementation of sessions. Short of tearing out the entire sessions mechanism and replacing with the built-in Php function (which I would be willing to do, though lack that level of skill), I am at a loss figuring out how to repair whatever is going on with IE to create so much difficulty. Wondering if anyone might have a clue. Possibly a longshot. We'll see. I could restore my computer to a day before the recent update. That would probably get IE to accept my site again. But I would then lose the means for diagnosing the problem. PS: I already had the site listed on the Security tab for those allowing cookies from.

You make the mistake of believing that how you view the world is how all people should. In my case, seeing so many pinned threads, I didn't even make it far enough to read all the titles. And you put the most important one (perhaps the only one important enough to be pinned) as the 6th in line. Do as you will. But your signature reveals that this condition keeps occurring. I only noted that hearing of the recurrence is no surprise to me. Instead of frustrating yourself because people don't think the way you do, may I recommend just realizing how many of us humans do think, then adjusting for the reality. Being a programmer, likely a proficient one, perhaps you read and grasp things faster than a lot of those who show up here. I used to teach flying. Students who failed to get what seemed to me like easy concepts confounded me. And I lost patience a few times. I lost some of the students too. Years later, I finally figured out something about my own life (which is probably not true in yours). I too am a slow learner. It took me a massive effort to get through all the testing to become a pilot, then commercial, instrument, flight instructor and multi-engine. I always blamed my slow learning on bad teachers, poorly written textbooks and videos. Right! After figuring that out about myself, I became wayyyyy more patient with others. Now while trying to learn programming, I know that my learning is more slow than most of the guys out there. So I am far less inclined to complain about those who teach me these days. But it still takes an effort finding anyone with enough patience to wait for my mind to absorb the information, which frequently needs to be said in about 3 different ways for me. Au contraire. When a site is shut down, people unable to get their mail, a large investment at risk, I am fine qualifying the word emergency with the modifier coding. Like already noted, I believe most people will make an effort. But you confuse newbies by pinning so many things. They end up thinking either you are a control freak, or there are merely a bunch of favorites up there. Already told you that I completely agree. I found the advice in the advice thread to be sound and reasonable, even added a post to make up for my lapse in the first one. Or did I modify? Nope, probably should have, upon reading the recommendations. Getting lost in semantics here. I guess it's good they are not rules though. Covered this territory. I have no disagreement about the recommendations. I merely wanted to offer a tip about how more people seeking help might read them in the first place. Maybe you could change the color of that one thread title? I am sure from your role it gets tiring. I am a forum moderator also, forced to answer questions about site problems and suggestions. Maybe you are missing the idea that I WANT the help found inside that pinned thread. What I don't want is needing to take a long time trying to figure things out during a moment of merely needing an answer. I had been rushing around that day trying to hire a programmer on a bid site, laboring to get information from the host, answering questions from frustrated members. Oh, I have a regular life too. Even then, I looked for the rules, though found nothing at a quick glance that stood out. It is your choice to leave them as #6 and in the same color. At least one more infrequent member now realizes where they are. BTW, thanks for helping in any way. These forums have been useful to me. I do appreciate experienced people taking their time to assist dunderheads like me.

Nobody throughout the process mentioned anything like an MYD file. Though I frantically sent maybe 15 emails to the host over a couple days, his replies were often one sentence with little information. Oh, and he mentioned that my emails had been mistakenly going to the wrong folder. Yeah, I figure all but the mistakenly part of that was true. So finding out the MYD thing never occurred. At any rate, the issue did get repaired. His backup had the table structure included. A few attempts to restore proved useless because of the table being broken. Yet a person who began helping got it working. He originally copied the functioning table from the men's folder. But then we worked on the broken table. It had ben renamed. A repair did take. But the data overhead was still causing problems. I began fiddling around in phymyadmin, and found a way to show email totals for the last 30 days. On one of those days, there was a huge spike, 5,322 emails in contrast to numbers no more than 180 per day regularly. I wrote a delete command to destroy everything from that day. Doing so got the thing running again. Yayyyy. Unfortunately, I am unable to recall what phpmyadmin buttons I pressed to produce that cool report. Thanks for the help. Oh, by the way, about your sig... Maybe you don't realize it, but being new to a site and being slapped with as many pinned threads as y'all got here can make a person just decide not to bother looking at them. I highly recommend dropping the number down to ONE, then putting links in that one to the others. I did eventually read the thread about posting. Good advice can be found there. But I know for a fact that typical humans will walk the quickest path to achieving their goals. Those who are polite (and perhaps not enduring an emergency) may try to obey if the extra effort is reasonable. It's worthwhile contemplating the idea of having as few rules as possible about posting anyway. Mostly, rules on forums are of the type demanding people be and think like the person making the rules. Yet we come in all different flavors, which is a good thing. Though reading one of the pinned threads, it is doubtful I will ever during a time of crisis take time to first read through, how many are there, like 6-7 threads.

Just heard back from the host. He seems to be contending that the data can not be restored without including the table it was originally in. Yet that table crashed. So even if I build a new table, restoration will overwrite the new table with the crashed version saved, again leaving me with no access to the data. Is that accurate?

Hey, I am going to send the guy your comment to see if it is useful for him. Read it earlier. Only then it cut off at "... valid inform" That left me confused. This time, upon quoting, I can see the rest. Thanks mucho.

It does help. The web host wrote and showed me the directory tree a few minutes ago. Sounds like the second one you describe. /var/lib/mysql/mydata Tells me in most recent email there are individual files for each table. Now I am waiting to hear back from him regarding whether his restore will rebuild the broken table, or if I need to do that manually, so to speak, in PhpAdmin before restoration. Do you know? Because I am unsure whether the webhost has this one down, and know for sure that my own knowledge is lacking.

The table in question had 2 years worth of email messages sent to women on the website, probably 100,000 or so. The men's table remains functioning just fine. Web host tells me he has a backup, though remains very illusive about questions. Backup of what, when taken??? 1. Can he separate just the one table of data from his backup? 2. Can just that data be fed into a new table? I took over the site 3 years ago. My understanding of PHP and MySql has grown to the point of understanding pretty much everything that other people have written, which is short of actually writing my own operating functions aside from basics in practice. Actually, it would be fairly easy except for the confusing and unique sessions code written by the designer. I am providing the above description of my knowledge level to help anyone measure what I might understand when hearing answers and possible solutions. Appreciate your help. I could also use an inexpensive programmer to help me fix, perhaps this, though definitely a couple other bugs. So if you know of one, please feel free to give me the info.

Hmm, if that is accurate for all people, are you saying all the people taking 4-year courses in college are going the hard way? In either case, I think it's possible that your typical programmer has an aptitude more suited for programming then me because I have already read 4 books and studied video lessons out my ears, yet still need help. Or my intellect may be lacking. Whichever, people might conclude that I should just give up and find another hobby. It's too late though. I plan on trudging forward after feeling like the time is very close. And I hope one-on-one will provide another piece in the process. Thanks for the perspective.

What I want help with is getting down the intermediate level. Having studied for a while, I can now understand virtually all code from an advanced site I run, and adjust plenty of the stuff there. But asking me to actually create new code is another matter. My desire is for exposure to instruction that will help better advance my pathway to finally feeling comfortable enough to write code. I posted in the freelance forum seeking a paid tutor. So if anyone reading here knows of a possibility, input will be much appreciated in that arena too. Will go look up the term framework to see if my grasp of the concept increases. Thanks.

I have been searching for live PHP instruction, with vitually zero results unless you count 3-day courses for $1200. There is a free 3-week course being taught that goes into PHP Cake. I searched the web yesterday, though never came up with examples or much of a definition. Anyone know if the coding is close enough to help me learn regular old PHP-4/5 ?;

One is in the code (located on some of the page files) of the site I took over a couple years ago. The other is in the url after logging in. It SEEMS rather obvious that one or both might be a substitute for SID or possible a term used for file, such as fileId=01005. Yet searching Google for help defining either of the terms results in nothing except for pages that include TID in the page address. 1. Why do I see TID in page addresses in the Google results, yet no explanation for what it means? 2. And what DOES it mean? 3. TDY, shown in the address window on MY site has zero results in Google. No one is talking about these terms. Live examples: http://community.mybboard.net/showthread.php?tid=10115 http://www.meetchristians.com/php/user_tools.php?tdy=5602hhc70pgycuenqug8 The first is a random Google result. The second is after logging into my site. It looks like a session ID that has fewer than the normal quantity of numbers. Perhaps the programmer somewhere defined tdy as a variable with a definition? Come to think of it, TID in the case of my site could stand for 'thread id'. I'll go search AGAIN to see if it is defined perhaps in an include. Anyone got a clue?

Wowwwwwww!!! I never heard of "backsticks", and figured you were merely using the wrong name for a backslash. :-( Oooops. And it worked too. Thank you soooo much.

Didn't help. Example follows: WHERE MONTH(date) = $month AND YEAR(date) = $year ORDER BY \"date\" asc"; It DID once again produce results (no syntax error noted), though no change in order by trying desc (first), then asc.

True, column 7 in the database table is 'date'. I tried ordering by date just now to no avail. The results showed up, but neither asc or desc would reverse the order. $query = "SELECT id, user, admin, ip, approve, filename, email, DATE_FORMAT(date, '%m-%e-%y@%H:%i'), orig_name, p_num FROM photo_log WHERE MONTH(date) = $month AND YEAR(date) = $year ORDER BY 'date' desc";