One thing that I hate not doing is not keeping up with php since I took a class about php about 4 to 5 yrs ago. its just that I’ve “built” a user login system but I have trouble figuring out a few things in regards doing functions and etc. Or doing a combination of things like using the if statement, and so forth, to make sure that I would have the current user that’s logged in would show on the profile page or on the links that I have set up on the pages that i have. regardless of the “userid” that I’ve used the only “user” that is shown is the “userid” that I have in the first row of the user database. and I’m coming out and admit that I should have paid more attention in this one php class that I took. I was planning to take it again as a “refresher” but its not being offered again this fall.
I just don’t want to use some freely available login system that could be found on the Internet, nor I don’t want to be fully dependent on the use of the stuff that’s found in Dreamweaver. I would be willing to use a little – well very little php stuff that built into Dreamweaver.
What I want to do after figuring out the login/userid issue is figuring out how to work the scripts that I would try to set up for a gallery on my family pet site. Granted there are premade galleries out there on the web, but I just don’t want to use them, cause that i found them constricting to use especially when uploading files while using gallery.
Though one problem that I see at the moment is when selecting a picture and viewing it on a “detail” page. I would like use the following url style when doing the site: view.php?picture=filename.jpg/detail.php?picture=filename.jpg. though the name of the specific page doesn’t matter at the moment. though it will when I start working on the php code at some point this summer.
Though, another project that I’m thinking of doing is cataloging all of my mothers books. she has a good size collection of books that should be cataloged. but this point the problem is that how to set up each dbase, what I’m trying to say is that in each dbase I currently planning to set up as id, name, link (to other dbase). I know I would need to use the join query when entering and displaying stuff. I would name the book catalog dbases as the following: authors, title or books, and for each series of books i might set up a specific dbase dedicated for them. I might set a dbase up for star trek, dune, and cook books but don’t know about the last one.
I would also like to do similar “projects” in regards to cataloging movies, cd collections, etc. I know I could use something like Excel, Filemaker to keep things organized. Both along with php have pros and cons in using them in every day settings, but I just like to use php over the other 2 products.
Though I could get someone to build all of the related pages and the related code, but what would be the point of learning php even more if got someone to the coding for me. but knowing my luck that my end up happening in my case at some point. then would have things set up where I could modify or tweak the code for some weird reason in the future.
back to the user login problem that I’m having, all I really need is to have a function loop(s) of various combinations, as I’ve said above but the problem that I’m having is actually writing the said functions. i know i could try varying combination’s but I get easily frustrated about writing them. since I don’t have access to the net home I’m unable to work well into the night for only so far, without wanting to break something.
I know I could look at similar login, catalog stuff around the Internet to see what I could on what I’m doing but its like comparing apples to oranges in my case. i basically would need to build what I want from scratch, which is a basic, integrated gallery into my sites, with the look of each of my sites.
Depending on how things go with the “login” system I may or may not post an update when I get things worked out.
Date: May 19th, 2009 ·
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