Major problems and milestones

Some of the major problems i had whilst building my blog include:

- Deleting posts using reply_id's and forum_id's
- Search function
- Some posts are posted at the bottom of the forum.php page and not in: ... order by date_posted desc
- Database relationship problems with forum_id on both tbl_forum and tbl_replies tables
- While loops processing too much data on the forum post page(This was fixed when the variable $threadid was being passed through these files properly
- Email could not be done until uploaded to http://tyron.surfandlearn.net because of blocked ports through wamp

Forum.php while loops

This while loop was used to process all data from the tbl_forum table, i had quite a bit of trouble processing the $threadid variable into a div tag because the $_POST function was not correctly processing.

to overcome this i created a hidden field with the id='threadid' and then on the focum.php and message_details.php created the variable $threadid = $_GET['threadid']; which seemed to pass through the $threadid variable into the header to determine which threadid would correspond to each reply.

code can be viewed here

Admin page

Created the admin pages login is - user: admin pass: password2009

Admin's are able to delete posts and create posts using the admin username. They can also view user accounts and delete them.

While loops and

I used while loops, if statements and mysql records to process the tables, for the forum message_details.php file.

Css problems

Had trouble with css – couldn’t get the $css variable to pass through all of the pages – finishing later on

Site creation

Created login.php, login_check.php – forum.php - message_details.php and post_topic.php

Sessions September 2009

Worked out session_start() using the online php tutorial, created session_start() which is applied using the include("config.php"); tag on each php page