[First Ever Website]

Most likely a flash image gallery, I know you can find a lot of them around.

 

Some of them look REALLY good.

 

Unless you want to take the plunge into Flash, Actionscript and XML

[First Ever Website]

As well as with the recommendations given above, browse some website design template websites.

 

I sometimes find inspiration there, as there is so much variety to choose from. Base your site around one of theirs.

[Integration with Facebook (Facebook Connect)]

Have you guys considered doing a Facebook Connect type of interaction? This would be great as it makes sign up so much easier.

 

Just my 2 cents.

[Change email php script is not working]

I do think however you might want to look at hashing your password with a universal hash that you call in.

 

This would help with security and browser sniffing greatly.

[Designing a (supposed to be) LARGE website]

Alright, now that I'm reading into persistant sessions, do you think I should keep my sessions in a completely separate LB/MDB/SDB array? I suppose it would give added security, but at a greater cost.

 

 

[is mod_rewrite and pdo insecure?]

If you're safe with both of them, they are NOT insecure.

 

However, I do know that Joomla was exploited with the Mod Rewrite bug but swiftly patched.

 

I suppose you could write a document explaining how Joomla was exploited and how it was patched (should have been documented somewhere)

 

I use both of them to keep my URLs nice and clean.

[Making a config file and languages file, without actually defining variables]

Ahhh that helped me so much.

 

I've also figured out how to keep the file as PHP without having to change it's extension, and that is to disable Apache's PHP module in the server.

 

Though, it's probably easier to just mount an invisible staticserve server and pull the file directly from there.

[Hello!]

Hello there!

 

My name is Chris. I'm 15 years old, and know how to code PHP.

 

Normally when I tell a fellow coder that I'm 15, they normally look at me with wide eyes wondering how such a "young" person could code so well.

 

I run a few high traffic websites, and am very fluent in the language (in my opinion).

 

I hope I can be a help to the community and receive help when I'm in need!

 

Thanks!

[Hello from a Texan exiled to California many years ago!]

¡Hola! Perdona me porfavor no estoy en Español. Mi clase de Español es so-so, pero me gusta la lengua de español.

 

I probably spelled things wrong too.

 

Welcome!

[Membership site with Paypal?]

Integration with the API should work. Which is what that post above is.

 

Be sure to have a SSL for your site though.

[Change email php script is not working]

I see no email box in that form, either that or my eyes are tired.

 

Can you make a separate PHP file and have that echo each variable?

[Like / Dislike buttons]

Either would be good,

 

I personally would make my own table and store the CID (Comment ID) L and D (Like and Dislike) as a boolean variable, then PID (Person ID) to keep track of if people are flaming your comments. The only problem with this, is that the server has to add up all the likes and dislikes, however, as long as your site doesn't have a huge overhead, you should be fine.

[Tagging Members mobile number to send out SMS]

LOL I would imagine for the pure sake of having people NOT want to bite your head off.

 

As long as that website provides an API, you should be able to integrate.

[One language file Vs multiple language files - Which is better?]

I would go with multiple language files.

 

One language file would (I imagine) get HUGE over time, if you were to improve or modify the site.

 

If you were to try and split that file, it would be very tedious, so to start structured at the start works great.

[Designing a (supposed to be) LARGE website]

Hey guys, I've got some problems that I just can't figure out on my own about how to structure my website.

 

#1:

 

I do know that I'm planning on keeping all of the script's files on one server, then simply mounting that server on my Apache servers, hence letting me load balance between servers of the same script.

 

However, I'm having a little trouble as to if I should with subdomains or just working with the domain/login.php type structure.

 

I personally think that working with subdomains is cleaner, but that sort of messes up my concept of working with one library of code.

 

I'm trying to have 1 configuration file serve my information, but if I were to use subdomains, I would need multiple config files (at least I haven't thought of a way around it).

 

I did think about having the system mount the root of my script, for example, /site then simply storing different sectors such as /site/login in each respective folder, then simply calling /site/config into the script via fopen or some other script to keep my config file universal.

 

#2:

 

I'm thinking about using load balancing with Apache and MySQL servers, however, how will I be able to keep my user's login sessions valid?

 

It seems that if the Load Balancer were to switch servers while the user's session were still valid it would invalidate the cookie.

 

That's when I thought of using cloud computing to run the entire site, however there are faults to that as I don't have a big initial investment to be putting into servers and colocation.

 

 

If you have any ideas which you think would help me please post.

 

Thanks!

[First Ever Website]

Looks good, however, I personally think you need a logo.

 

It doesn't matter what type, but as long it's in that top left corner, you're good.

 

 

[Making a config file and languages file, without actually defining variables]

Hello All!

 

Well, I'll get down to the base of my question.

 

Right now, I'm designing a website to use a languages file and a config file.

 

I'm approaching it in the following method, which is the languages file has

<?PHP
define("APPLICATIONTOP","Website Name");
define("ETC","Whatever the content is");
?>

 

and am trying to echo it.

 

My method of inclusion is requiring the file in the top of my document, like

 

<?PHP include('ex.'); ?>

 

and I'm trying to simply echo it. However, it doesn't work.

 

My echo method is

 

<?PHP echo APPLICATIONTOP ?>

 

which would be between my <title></title> tags for the HTML.

 

Any ideas as to why it's not working?

 

Thanks!