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Question 1) Is the only and proper way to call a parent function "parent::function()"? Are there other/better ways from within a child function? Question 2) What are the deciding factors for when to make a function or attribute static? How do you make that decision? Assuming 5.3... Thanks.

That's what I did. I put it in the ini file. This is my first time running on a remote server so I'm not familiar with this.... Thanks!

I don't understand how to use this function with my code. Do I put it in an include file for each page?

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for 'PDT/-7.0/DST' instead in /home/cernem5/public_html/includes/form_functions.php on line 2 I looked through all of the php.ini file and I can find this setting. Any suggestions? I contacted the guys at inmotion who are hosting my vps and they said they had to make a change on their server since I didn't have root access. Is there a way in my coding to avoid this problem? Here is the code that is causing all the problems: <?php echo date("Y", time()); ?>

It is saying: 5.2.13 if I run it from my PHPEd IDE, which opens http://localhost:8080/file:/C:/wamp/www/xhtml-css/contact-us.php but if I type in http://localhost/xhtml-css/contact-us.php it says 5.3.1. Apparently I have something configured wrong. Is there a place we can move this so I can have someone help me understand what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

I am running WAMP on windows 7 and PHP 5.3.1 and I am getting this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function checkdnsrr() in C:\wamp\www\xhtml-css\includes\form_functions.php on line 80 According to the research I did checkdnsrr() was available on the Windows platform at 5.3 so why am I getting this? Here is where I make the call: if ($isValid && !(checkdnsrr($domain,"MX") || checkdnsrr($domain,"A"))) Any ideas?

Figured it out...the code I copied had debug mode turned on...sorry for bothering you. Thanks for asking for the code...it made me go back through it.

I'm getting a strange response using PHPMailer where it is echoing the gmail server responses. SMTP -> FROM SERVER:220 mx.google.com ESMTP e20sm5319142vcm.40 SMTP -> FROM SERVER: 250-mx.google.com at your service, [68.4.142.3] 250-SIZE 35651584 250-8BITMIME 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.0 OK e20sm5319142vcm.40 SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.1.5 OK e20sm5319142vcm.40 SMTP -> FROM SERVER:354 Go ahead e20sm5319142vcm.40 SMTP -> FROM SERVER:250 2.0.0 OK 1279116570 e20sm5319142vcm.40 I don't tell it to echo anything. Any ideas? Thanks

I thought private methods couldn't be called by child classes and protected could but not by anything outside the class or sub-classes. Am I wrong?

I haven't seen "!==" before. Isn't it suppose to be !=?

So I am a little confused. The user class extends databaseobject so I should be able to call a protected class from the instantiated child right? i.e. $user->save(); Where save is protected method in the databaseobject class. But when I just did I got an error saying that I called a protected method. As soon as I change the save() method to public it worked perfectly. Can someone explain? Do you need more information? Thanks!

Thanks guys...still wrapping my mind around all this.

That's exactly what I want it to do. If I make the method static, will that change?

If I have a class DatabaseObject that has the follow method: protected function attribute () { return get_object_vars($this); } And I call this method from the class user which extends the DatabaseObject class (i.e. $user->attribute), what will "$this" refer to? The parent or the child? Thanks!

Is it safe to assume that this is the best/only way to do this?