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you can in fact make timestamps for future dates, check out mktime()

Let's see if I can help out! Line 69 includes the foreach which iterates over the contents found in $contents, which is populated by ftp_nlist. It would seem that the ftp connection was successful, but are you sure you are providing the proper directory name and location on the remote server? For some reason, $contents is empty which implies the directory you provided is wrong or empty. You might need to use the full path, and not a relative path, this is especially important depending on how your host has their accounts set up. Example: Certain hosts allow you to use /httpdocs as a location if your account is set up in such a manner that supports it. But others force you to actually use the full path: /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs

I'll echo everyone else's thoughts, if you are going to use prebuilt php functions, use mysqli_. If you want to go one step further, as mentioned by a previous poster, use an abstraction layer that would allow you to change the calls within say one class, instead of throughout all your code. Zend_Db in the Zend Framework works beautifully!

I know this thread has not been active in some time, but having seen what the original poster asked for, I had to reply. You seem to be asking for help to build a platform that would allow your visitors to easily create a social networking site. I think you managed to overlook the only answer to your solution: Build your own social networking site, but keep in mind that you will want to make it flexible in order to accomodate other styles/websites for your visitors. Have you ever built your own social networking site? I would recommend you start there if you haven't.