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Really glad you're back. I loved your tutorials. I would love to see some JavaScript tutorials.

Hi, Could someone please tell me when is wrong with this MYSQL query. [syntax=sql] SELECT `problem`.`problem_id` AS `id`, `problem`.`problem_title` AS `title`, LEFT(`problem`.`problem_body`, 512) AS `preview`, `problem`.`problem_user` AS `user`, DATE_FORMAT(`problem`.`problem_date`, '%d/%m/%Y %H:%i:...

I have another issue with my code. I am submitting a form which adds a company to the database. I have a file upload box in the add company form. Before I added this it all worked fine. Could some please take a look at my code and see if there is anything wrong. It's probably something really easy w...

Hello, I have setup user permissions so that only certain users can view certain pages. I have make a form to add a company to a database but I want to assign it so only certain users can see it and edit it. It's a Intranet I am trying to build for a company and they want 3 user permissions, main ad...

Since I want people to die once their time runs out, would it be efficient to run the cron job every second?

That is a lot more understandable, Thanks very much.

I have this code which will work out how many days, hours, minutes and seconds, from seconds. Is there a possibility to keep counting down a number in the database. For example I auto set it so when they start they get 1 week which is 604800 seconds, then every second that number is subtracted by 1 ...

Hello, I am trying to create a game inspired by the film In Time. I was wondering is it possible to make a count down timer in the database. The idea is everyone is given 1 week time, and then there will be ways in which they can make more time and there are things they can do to spend the time. Thi...

Would this work for getting the user_id in your login system?

[syntax=php]
$_SESSION['user_id'] = htmlentities($_GET['user_id']);
[/syntax]

How would I store two values in the session?

Yeah, how would I make it so the page will get the userid to display the right information.

Hello, I am implementing the user profile system into your login system. On the edit profile page it isn't grabbing the users information. I have changed the session parts to the session in the login but it still doesn't get the information. This is my edit_profile.php - [syntax=php]<?php include('c...

I would suggest web based game. Nothing too fancy. Just some cool features which the community could vote on.

I was looking through my code and i noticed that i didn't include the include file, that's why my code wasn't working.

Hello, On the user login system i want the user to be able to login from the index.php page. I have set that up but i am having some problems with getting it to change when the user is logged in. I want it so when the user is not logged in the login form shows and when the user is logged in i want a...

Thanks very much! All working now.

For some reason it still doesn't add the activation to the database. It's in the function is_active.

Kamal wrote:function vaild_credentials

omg i didn't even notice that, i knew it would be a spelling mistake.

It's in the user.inc.php: [syntax=php]<?php // Checks if the username exists in the table function user_exists($user) { $user = mysql_real_escape_string($user); $total = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(`user_id`) FROM `users` WHERE `user_name` = '{$user}'"); return (mysql_result($total, 0) == '1...

Hello, I finished off the User Register and Login tutorial and it all worked fine, i moved onto Email activation one and i got some errors. When i register it all works fine, the user is added to the users table but the activation isn't added to the user_activation table. The activation email is sen...

I'm in the process of developing a php game and i am using a button, i want to make it so the button can only be pressed every 20mins, how would i go about doing this?