Duh.......your protected page is not a php page it's an html page. It has to be a .php page. Just change the .html to .php and update any links to it then try gaining access directly again. (php code won't work in an .html page) ... View more

Something is not right at the top of your 'protected' page. Try just inserting the below first. It must be right at the top before any other code on the page and no spaces between the lines. <?php  session_start() ?> <?php if (!isset($_SESSION['username']) && !isset($_SESSION['password'])) { header("Location: http://www.soarraptors.org/passtest.php"); } ?> ... View more

redtail_SOAR wrote: I spoke too soon.  I had my husband type in the URL directly (the volunteers only page that is to be password protected) and the browser loaded the page. I do have the following code at the very beginning of the page: <?php  session_start() ?> <?php if (!isset($_SESSION['username']) && !isset($_SESSION['password'])) { header("Location: http://www.soarraptors.org/passtest.php"); } if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) { unset($_SESSION['username']); session_destroy(); } if (isset($_SESSION['password'])) { unset($_SESSION['password']); session_destroy(); } ?> What do I look for, what isn't right?  Would appreciate your help! Linette Did your husband sign in - get taken to the protected page - then type the protected pages url in the browser? The session would still be live until the browser is completely closed down and rebooted. I've just done a dummy test in a 'fresh' browser and get taken to your login page. HINT: You also want to change the usernames and passwords (which I'm sure you were going to do in good time) right? ... View more

MurraySummers wrote: Well you could build a switch() system that would work for multiple users, but for more than a few dozen users at the most you would run out of energy entering all of the case statements! Then you'd really have to use a database. Well yeah you could use a dozen or even twenty or more elseif conditions but its not very pretty. I'd most likely use it if I only had a dozen people who wanted individual passwords, like clients because its not worth building a database in that sort of instance. ... View more

bregent wrote: >Have you considered using .htaccess Yeah, that was mentioned early on (actually via the host control panel -- not .htaccess -- but essentially the same ) but was rejected by the OP because he thought it applied to the entire website. Nobody informed him that it can be applied to a folder and you can put everything you want to protect into that folder, or used on a single file. Wasn't it beacause they thought it produced an ugly pop alert box (via the control panel) which couldn't be integrated into the page? EDITED Re-reading the post it does appear 'I'm only interested in protecting one specific page' in one reply. I personally would not use the control panel to protect a page beacuse from what I remember it pops open a pretty ugly box outside of the websites widndow, although it will do the job alright. ... View more

redtail_soar wrote: Yes... I saw that bit of code in the thread and added that at the start of the page code. Can two password-protected pages on one site be built like this?  How would that work?  If yes, then would one set of code need to have a name change? Sure, Just include the url you want to send the staff or volunteers to. In the example below if you enter Pink/Elephant as the username/password combination you get access to the staff.html page. If you enter Blue/Sea as the username/password combination you get access to the volunteers.html page if (array_key_exists('ewTest' , $_POST)) { $username = trim($_POST['username']); $password = trim($_POST['password']); if (($username == "Pink") && ($password == "Elephant")) { $response = "Welcome! <a href='staff.html'>Enter Here</a>"; } elseif (($username == "Blue") && ($password == "Sea")) { $response = "Welcome! <a href='volunteers.html'>Enter Here</a>"; } else { $response = "Sorry, access is denied!"; } } ?> Obviously this is a very simplistic login system whereby each set of people - staff or volunteers get the same username/password. For anything more sophisticated you would need a database to store usernames and passwords. ... View more

redtail_soar wrote: Now, I need to put a button / hot link on the template and that button should go to the .../passtest.php page, correct? Linette Yes, that's correct 'click to login' - link it to passtest.php Be sure to insert the following bit of php code at the top of your page/s you what protected, before any other code on the page. That way if someone stumbles upon them while surfing and the username and password is not set it will take them to the login page. <?php  session_start() ?> <?php if (!isset($_SESSION['username']) && !isset($_SESSION['password'])) { header("Location: http://www.yourDomainName.com/passtest.php"); } if (isset($_SESSION['username'])) { unset($_SESSION['username']); session_destroy(); } if (isset($_SESSION['password'])) { unset($_SESSION['password']); session_destroy(); } ?> ... View more

Its just a warning nothing more. The mysql extension is no longer supported in php 5.5....so what it is saying is be WARNED that if you use it and your host used php 5.5 or your host updates to 5.5 your code will not be compatible. That will probably be a few years away yet. Most hosts are still using php5.3 or 5.4 and I suspect itwould be really silly of them to NOT issue you a warning way before they decide to update to 5.5. ... View more

As far as I know there are no NEW server behaviours UNLESS it's part of the update. It's a well kept secret if it is. ... View more

One tiny error can cause a ripple - an incorrectly closed tag: <?php $conn = new mysqli('localhost' , 'username' , 'password' , 'databaseName'); $getNameList = $conn->("SELECT * FROM tablename") or die ($conn->error); <?php ------------- SHOULD have been ?> ... View more

Or you could just use: $formName = $conn->real_escape_string(trim($_POST['formName'])); $conn is the new mysqli connection variable: $conn = new mysqli('server' , 'username' , 'password' , 'database'); ... View more

Not really following. Are you trying to return the names and ids in a list and create a link to a delete or edit page? if so I would just query the database like so: <?php $conn = new mysqli('localhost' , 'username' , 'password' , 'databaseName'); $getNameList = $conn->("SELECT * FROM tablename") or die ($conn->error); <?php <?php while ($row = $getNameList->fetch_assoc()) { ?> <p><a href="textlink.php?ref="<?php echo $row['id']; ?>"><?php echo $row['name']; ?></a></p> <?php } ? > ... View more

Ness_quick wrote: Thank you! Happy New Year! Happy New Year. ... View more

Ness_quick wrote: I have just noticed that there is already a hidden form field (see below) will this not do the same thing? <input id="Hidden_Field" name="Hidden_Field" type="hidden" value="<?php echo((isset($_GET["invalid"])?ValidatedField("formtoemail","Hidden_Fi eld"):"")); ?>"> Could be : Does the php file form-to-email.php reference it by trying to get a value from it? $variable = $_POST['Hidden_Field']; if(!empty($variable)) { DO something - like terminate the form being sent. } To test you can make the hidden field visible. Type something in it and send the form. If you don't get a response it's worked - if you do then the hidden form field is for some other reason. ... View more

Ness_quick wrote: Oh yes i see. The validation is working for the email address but not on the security section. Although i does flag up red if nothing is entered. All the validation pages are linked up ok so it must be that there is some code missing somewhere Halve the problem.......you don't need 2 spam validation fields. Or make it simpler. Personally I use a hidden form field which if a spam bot fills in as they do the form won't send. captcha is rather overdoing it in my opinion although at least with yours it is just about readable but not for those who have trouble with contrast. ... View more

Form is still submitting when I type any old garble into the spam security fields. The form is possibliy not picking up one of the js validation files as these two lines should not appear when you first go to the form: Entered text does not match; please try again Incorrect response; please try again. ... View more

Ness_quick wrote: Thats strange its working fine for me. Which part of the form isn't working for you? Maybe try refreshing the page, see if that helps. I can put what I want in the security code and the answer fields and the form still 'appears' to send the information through. If it isnt sending the information then its confusing to the user because they get no message to say the form has failed - they just get taken back to the form page where all the boxes are blank and have to start over again.  In that senario you should at least 'preserve' the information that they have previously filled in for the 'name' , 'email' and 'comments' fields so they don't have to fill them in again. At the moment the form from a users perspective is not clearly indicating what is happening or what has happened. I'm assuming when the form field turns green that indicates the field has been validated correctly - try inserting anything in the 2 security boxes and see what happens. ... View more

Ness_quick wrote: Great thank you. I think i have sorted it though. Its submitting and im receiving the email with all the correct information. Humm.... doesn't seem to be working as one would expect on the url provided? http://www.milesfunerals.com/contact.php Maybe you're testing another version of the form? ... View more

Might want to have a look at this form below. It's similar to yours but no styling - you'd need to use some css to style it up a bit. It's just the raw html/php coding. The form action="form_send.php" - basically save the code to a Dreamweaver document named form_send.php and send the information back to the page to be processed. <?php $number_1 = rand(1, 9); $number_2 = rand(1, 9); $answer = md5($number_1+$number_2); if(isset($_POST['submit'])) { // get the name from the form 'name' field $name = trim($_POST['name']); if (empty($name)) { $error['name'] = "<span>Please provide your name</span>"; }                                                                                // get the email from the form 'email' field $email = trim($_POST['email']); if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) { $error['email'] = "<span>Please provide a valid email address</span>"; } // get the comments from the form 'comments' field  $comments = trim($_POST['comments']);    if (empty($comments)) { $error['comments'] = "<span>Please provide your comments</span>"; } // security against spam    $user_answer = trim(htmlspecialchars($_POST['user_answer'])); $answer = trim(htmlspecialchars($_POST['answer'])); if (md5($user_answer) != $answer) {     $error['answer'] = "<span>Wrong answer - please try again</span>"; } // if no errors send the form    if (!isset($error) && md5($user_answer) == $answer) { $to = 'info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk'; // send to recipient $from = 'mailserver@yourDomain.com'; // from your domain $subject = 'Response from website'; $message = "From: $name\r\n\r\n"; $message .= "Email: $email\r\n\r\n"; $message .= "Comments: $comments"; $headers = "From: $from\r\nReply-to: $email"; $sent = mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); echo 'Your message has been sent.'; } else { $number_1 = rand(1, 9); $number_2 = rand(1, 9); $answer = md5($number_1+$number_2); } } ?> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Untitled Document</title> <style> #contactForm span {     color: #900; } </style> </head> <body> <form name="contactForm" id="contactForm" method="post" action="form_send.php"> <p><label for="name">Name<input type="text" name="name" id="name" value="<?php if(isset($name)) {echo $name; } ?>" <?php if(isset($error['name'])) {echo 'style="background-color: #FCC;"'; } ?>></label><br> <?php if(isset($error['name'])) {echo $error['name']; } ?></p> <p><label for="email">Email<input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php if(isset($email)) {echo $email; } ?>" <?php if(isset($error['email'])) {echo 'style="background-color: #FCC;"'; } ?>></label><br> <?php if(isset($error['email'])) {echo $error['email']; } ?></p> <p><label for="comments">Comments<textarea name="comments" id="comments" <?php if(isset($error['comments'])) {echo 'style="background-color: #FCC;"'; } ?>> <?php if(isset($comments)) { echo $comments; } ?></textarea></label><br> <?php if(isset($error['comments'])) {echo $error['comments']; } ?></p> <p>Spam prevention - please answer the question below:</p> <p><?php echo $number_1; ?> + <?php echo $number_2; ?> = ?<input type="text" name="user_answer" <?php if(isset($error['answer'])) {echo 'style="background-color: #FCC;"'; } ?>/> <input type="hidden" name="answer" value="<?php echo $answer; ?>" /><br> <?php if(isset($error['answer'])) {echo $error['answer']; } ?></p> <p><input type="submit" name="submit" id="sumbit"></p> </form> </body> </html> ... View more

I'll give you my opinion: I  have never got on with Wordpress because it takes the control away from you. Unless I knew Wordpress inside out, up and down and back to front I could never offer a client a service which involved Wordpress. It relies on too many widgets that you as a developer have zero idea of how they work. If a client comes back and says can you alter that slightly the answer, unless you are a php genius, is NO. Security upgrades are regular and widgets do not always work going forward so your website could stop working. Again unless you have a deep knowledge of Wordpress it would be hard to fix and most likely send you into a panic. The user interface is overbloated with options that most clients would never use or need. So if you don't hide these options the client has a free door to bugger up the website completely. In my opinion Wordpress swings RADICALLY both ways. It's either for the inexperienced or lazy who can live with a badly designed site BUT they can update it themselves or its for highly experienced php professionals who can make it sing and dance. If you're somewhere in between forget it in favour of a more simpler CMS. You're right I do see a lot of so called web developers offering Wordpress as a service but I also read that they will not change the template radically....so usually the client is stuck with a one size fits all.....which in all the years I've been a creative has never happened. I've managed to get to grips with most things css, php, mobile design, a bit of jQuery, writting my own CMS etc BUT Wordpress I guess I just don't have the desrire to entertain it as my main tool for building websites. ... View more

MinerWilly wrote: Yes, most people using the older packaged versions of Adobe products (in our case Web Standard CS3) have now found that the packages refuse to open, quoting some generic license issue which Adobe customer support are unwilling to discuss. Blimey if that is the case then its totally unacceptable. I would think you would have some kind of legal case against Adobe. Never have I seen it mentioned that old packages would stop working, only that they would not be officially supported any longer on certain OS's. Was it just the web packages affected as I have CS3 design standard package that still works. MinerWilly wrote: I spent forty five minutes on hold, only to be put through to somebody who could barely speak English, and be told that Adobe no longer support CS3 so my only option was to subscribe to CC. Very poor form. Did you update to a different OS then it stopped working, because that's always been the official line - Adobe stops support for certain products on more recent OS's? MinerWilly wrote: A quick Google search will show that there are thousands of people complaining about the same issue, and Adobe have offered no working solution. However, it's a bit OT for this thread I guess. As I say its not been mentioned to the point that it has drawn my attention in this forum UNTIL now. ... View more

MinerWilly wrote: So, a couple of weeks ago all of our Adobe software ceased to function due to the ridiculous licensing issue that has blighhted everybody who made the mistake of buying Adobe products through package deals (in our case Web Standard). I'm not aware that any past Adobe package stopped working? Really.....is this true? I don't think anyone has mentioned it in this forum. ... View more

MurraySummers wrote: I see the bump didn't manage to clear this obsession with validation (said with tongue in cheek) It only made it worse! I'm mending very well, thanks - much better than I expected. Will probably be able to begin physical therapy in couple of weeks. I will need it for both right knee and left shoulder. Hope things progress well for you Murray. Nice to know you're heading in the right direction. MurraySummers wrote: In a way, you have proved my point. When faced with a layout issue, the first thing you do is look at the code. In a way, you run a rough mental (virtual) validation. When you are good with code, you can do this and determine whether you need to go further with a real validation. And my point really is that one should not begin debugging a layout without having some evaluation of the code state. I'm assuming that most people who are using positioning as a layout method are not so good with code which is where the validator comes in. If people are using positioning as their main layout technic then they need to learn how to code first before attempting to produce a 'real' website. Validator can help given you know your coding and what the validator errors actually mean but I wouldn't place as greater emphasis on it as some do. ... View more

MurraySummers wrote: With regard to the value of the validator, think about this: does it make sense to debug a layout problem when you know the page contains HTML that does not validate? Admittedly, missing alt attributes do not affect the layout of the page, but do affect its usability. Depends. Anyone any good can tell pretty quickly just by looking at the pages code whether to persue finding an issue regardless whether the page validates or not. I've stepped back from many a page on this forum because the page coding was awful. I've also found many an issue were the page wasn't valid and had nothng to do with validation but persisted because the coding was rather good. Hope you're on the mend now. I see the bump didn't manage to clear this obsession with validation (said with tongue in cheek) ... View more

infatum wrote: Thank you for describing how to keep the code nice and clean, but the question is, if it is working with the same functionality, does one need to bother about changing 30+ pages just to keep the W3 validator happy? 😃 No, its not necessary at all in my opinion. Virtually none of the pages I produce will validate but they are 99% correctly coded, that's good enough for me. I test in the browsers I want to support...if the page works job done. I'll always maintain that once you write good html/css you will have no need for the validator. I can pretty much not validate any page I produce and 99% of the time know it's going to work in all major browsers first time.....that's because I know what I'm doing. You may hear that a page that doesnt vaildate won't work in this browser or that browser or that it will be ranked lower in search engines. This is all untrue. Infact validation is no guide as to if it will or won't render correctly. Don't rely on the validtor rely on your ability to produce code that works, any minor mistakes are immaterial. It's true, your page should not be packed with dozens of coding errors that's just sloppy but the odd one here and there isnt going to make any difference. ... View more