AncientTom Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hello everyone. My real name Is Thomas Strike. I am 71 years old. I am a retired Television Engineer from California, now living in the Ozarks in Missouri. I am trying to re-invent myself as a serious website developer. I have just signed into this Forum for the first time. I went to my profile and clicked on the avatar image to upload an image and it says that my user account is disabled. I could not find any links to do anything other than change my e-mail address and password. Does this mean that I am not a member yet until someone approves me and unlocks my account? I have been using php for about 10 years now on my websites. My CMS of choice is concrete5. Most of my sites are concrete 5.6. I got distracted from building websites for a couple of years with the on-line game Minecraft and as a result, took up Java to write my own enhancements to my games. It is now time to put the games aside and return to work with concrete5 and php. I am finding that a lot has changed in the course of my absence in both php and c5. PhP is now namespace conscious. I find myself having to learn php all over again and I will be using this Forum from time to time for help with clarification on those php nuances that I am having a hard time grasping. In the new, re-invented concrete5, I got a glimpse of a new generation of styling which now uses .less scripts instead of .css. I first thought "Oh No, I now have to learn yet another new scripting language". But then, after digging into how c5 implements .less, it's beginning to appear that .less is just taking a more structured approach to CSS. It fixes the main thing wrong with CSS. CSS is a simplistic styling scripting structure designed to step on itself and other scripts that it loads on top of. This may have seemed to be a good thing in it's beginning, but let me tell you, it can be a nightmare when other work is integrated into your project, or even worse, you are trying to integrate into a framework that is already heavily styled. The reason I am Mentioning a non php entity here is because php's namespace awareness and .less is being used hand-in-hand to re-invent c5 from the ground up and it's beginning to look real slick as I explore the new c5's architecture. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/303989-my-profile-is-disabled/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques1 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Welcome to the forum. Some profile features only become available after a few posts. Our admins sometimes change the user group manually upon request, but the people before you quickly left the forum after they got their avatar, so I'm not sure if this wish is still granted. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/303989-my-profile-is-disabled/#findComment-1546742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientTom Posted May 23, 2017 Author Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) Welcome to the forum. ... but the people before you quickly left the forum after they got their avatar, so I'm not sure if this wish is still granted. That is a real shame that anyone would not stay with community that could help with understanding issues that arise that are not found in any Google search. I have an on-going subscription with Lynda.com which is my college of learning. Their videos are top quality learning tools. The one thing missing from learning with a video course rather than sitting in a classroom is the opportunity to ask the instructor questions to clarify his presentation in your mind. So, I expect that you will be seeing me here quite often looking for answers. Edited May 23, 2017 by AncientTom Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/303989-my-profile-is-disabled/#findComment-1546756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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