I am totally new to the SEO world. I got a client though, for whom I am doing SEO. He has a laundry/dry clean/moving/shoe repair kind of business and a website for it.
I have no idea how much I should charge him. Also I am not sure whether it has to be a one time thing or ongoing work with monthly payments. We agreed that he pays me $300 and gives one month to work on his site, and we'll see what happens after that. I have done a lot of work on the site - both on-page and off-page. Am I supposed to be supporting it and getting paid monthly? And if so, what should my work be? I am just lost.
Could you please give me any guidelines? Thank you!
There are almost endless options which all are claiming to be the top hosts or the least expensive service, and this can make it almost impossible for web masters to sort fact from fiction. The best way to select a quality web host is to take the selection process one step at a time.
Thank you very much! For now, I've chosen Dreamhost. So far so good. :)
Why are you trying to pass the value as a SESSION variable ?? would'nt it be wise to use a form/POST-GET ?! (btw, the snippets are still not clear enought to debug ... I suggest you post ~all the code)
Yes, and here is why I try using SESSION instead of form's POST: My form is divided into two pages, and I need to collect data from both and put it into a database. In the past I just used to insert data from the first page, get a unique row identifier, and based on it, update the row in the database with data from the second page. I just think that using SESSION would more sufficient, no? Anyway, if I don't succeed in this, I'll go back to my old good method. :)
I'm sorry - you comments didn't make it to my mailbox. It's strange - comments seem to be coming to the mailbox randomly. Anyway, here is the fuller code of the two scripts:
page1.php:
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['invtype'] = $invtype;
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
if ($_POST['firstname'] != "") {
$_POST['firstname'] = filter_var($_POST['firstname'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if ($_POST['firstname'] == "") {
$errors .= 'Please enter a valid first name.<br/><br/>';
}
} else {
$errors .= 'Please enter your first name.<br/>';
}
if ($_POST['lastname'] != "") {
$_POST['lastname'] = filter_var($_POST['lastname'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if ($_POST['lastname'] == "") {
$errors .= 'Please enter a valid last name.<br/><br/>';
}
} else {
$errors .= 'Please enter your last name.<br/>';
}
if (!$errors) {header("location: offerform_switch.php");
}
else {
echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/>
</div>';
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Offer Form, Part 1</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="inventron_sage_short.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="form.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id = "logo">
<img src = "img/top.jpg" alt = "logo" />
</div>
<div id = "wrapper">
<div id="stylized" class="myform">
<form id="form" action="page1.php" method="post">
<p>
<label for="firstname">FIRST NAME*:
</label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" value="<?php echo $firstname?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="lastname">LAST NAME*:
</label>
<input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" value="<?php echo $lastname?>" />
</p>
<div id = "category">Categorize your invention:</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<p>
<select id="invtype" name="invtype">
<option value="0" selected="selected">Select …
<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['invtype'] = $invtype;
$firstname = $_POST['firstname'];
$lastname = $_POST['lastname'];
if (isset($_POST['Submit'])) {
if ($_POST['firstname'] != "") {
$_POST['firstname'] = filter_var($_POST['firstname'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if ($_POST['firstname'] == "") {
$errors .= 'Please enter a valid first name.<br/><br/>';
}
} else {
$errors .= 'Please enter your first name.<br/>';
}
if ($_POST['lastname'] != "") {
$_POST['lastname'] = filter_var($_POST['lastname'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
if ($_POST['lastname'] == "") {
$errors .= 'Please enter a valid last name.<br/><br/>';
}
} else {
$errors .= 'Please enter your last name.<br/>';
}
if (!$errors) {header("location: offerform_switch.php");
}
else {
echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/>
</div>';
}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Offer Form, Part 1</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="inventron_sage_short.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="form.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<div id = "logo">
<img src = "img/top.jpg" alt = "logo" />
</div>
<div id = "wrapper">
<div id="stylized" class="myform">
<form id="form" action="page1.php" method="post">
<p>
<label for="firstname">FIRST NAME*:
</label>
<input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" value="<?php echo $firstname?>" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="lastname">LAST NAME*:
</label>
<input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" value="<?php echo $lastname?>" />
</p>
<div id = "category">Categorize your invention:</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>
<p>
<select id="invtype" name="invtype">
<option value="0" selected="selected">Select type</option>
<option value="product">PRODUCT</option>
<option value="software">SOFTWARE</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Next!" />
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
offerform_switch.php:
<?php
session_start();
// echo variable from the session, we set this on our other page
echo $_SESSION['invtype'];
$invtype = $_SESSION['invtype'];
//connect to your database ** EDIT REQUIRED …
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['invtype'];
switch ($invtype){
case "product":
include("page2_product.php");
break;
case "software":
include("page2_software.php");
break;
default:
echo "The invention type did not go through correctly.";
}
I get this:
The invention type did not go through correctly.
all the time.
Although, if I hardcode the SESSION variable value in page1.php, like this:
$_SESSION['invtype'] = 'product';
I get this:
productThe invention type did not go through correctly. all the time.
which means that the value does pass from one page to the other, right? Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
I'm trying to obtain the font-weight somewhat between normal and bold. Or bold and even bolder. Nothing seems to work. When I try numeric values, 590 shows as normal text and 600 is full bold. Nothing in between.
Thank you! I've already started learning WordPress, then next step will be Joomla!, and the last - Drupal. I've noticed that the demand for Drupal comes with larger companies that require more complicated, professional web based software.
From my experience is Wordpress the easiest one to grasp. Drupal has an enormous learning curve and will take quite a while to fully understand and I haven't tried Joomla! yet. My suggestion is that you first and foremost figure out what kind of site you will use it for: a forum, marketing site or personal site/blog. Wordpress has a forum plugin but Drupal or Joomla! would be better suited for it. The same for marketing sites/online stores. But Wordpress can do all that too but it may just not be just as convenient since it's from the beginning a blogging platform.
But if you are just curious then my vote would be that you start learning wordpress since it's so simple and easy to start working with. :)
Thank you very much! Yes, I'm just curious because I see a lot of demand for CMS around, especially for WordPress. And I did figure out that it is the easiest one to learn and I started with it. :)
Let's say a user submitted some information through a form into a MySQL database. The data was timestamped. The user is given a certain number of days to submit an additional chunk of data into the database. If he doesn't submit it by the required date, an email has to be sent to him with a reminder. What is the best way to do this? I'm thinking of automatically running the PHP script once a day. How do you run scripts automatically on a schedule? Or is there any better way to do the reminder email?
I've never used any CMS as a developer. Now I think it's time for me to start getting familiar with them. There are three out there I laid my eye on - WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal. Which one should I begin with?
The @ just stops an error from being shown, if there is one. OK, if you're happy with that, fantastic. Result!
Yes, it deletes the file if there is one uploaded, and doesn't print any messages in the browsers if there is nothing there to delete. I'll try and dig it further, but for now my task is completed. :)
If you don't specify your destination, the file won't be there. See handling file uploads in the php manual. I'm assuming that you've just used 'is_uploaded'. I think I'm right in thinking that you need move_uploaded to actually place it in the directory in the first place.
Yes, Alan, it's done right. You'll be surprised at what made it all work! Here: @unlink. I don't know why. To me it's a mystery and magic, although my brother-in-law (also a programmer) says there are no such things in programming as mystery and magic. :) This is what my code looks like now:
I use SwiftMailer in my PHP script to send emails upon HTML form submission. On the test server it all works fine. On the production server (different host) it gives me this error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/alkal5/public_html/html/swift-mailer/lib/classes/Swift.php on line 18
The two machines use different version of PHP: one is PHP5 and the other is PHP4.4.9. Could that cause the problem or it's something else? How do I resolve it? Thank you!
I use SwiftMailer in my PHP script to send emails upon HTML form submission. On the test server it all works fine. On the production server (different host) it gives me this error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CLASS in /home/alkal5/public_html/html/swift-mailer/lib/classes/Swift.php on line 18
You only do a $_FILES[...] if you've uploaded a file. If there is no file upload, there can be no $_FILES[...] variable, so when you use it, you get an error.
in case I do upload a file, it works fine - uploads the file, sends the emails with the attachment, deletes the file. But if I submit the form without a file, it gives me this:
Okay, I'm back. :) It's not finding the file. "no file found" is what is displayed, and the file, although in the directory, doesn't get deleted. Here is my code:
Thank you a million, prixat! It worked. The only problem left is that in IE is still only seen one button - "File Upload". Do you have any idea what could cause it?
As a result, the buttons are positioned vertically, one below the other. In IE only "Upload File" button is seen. I need all the buttons to be positioned horizontally, one next to the other, and look consistent in all browsers. How do I obtain that? Thank you!
Could you add your HTML code, as well as your php.ini file?
Actually, I was able to fix it with this:
if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'])) {
Now, though, I got another problem. I want the file to be deleted from the directory after it was sent as an attachment with an email. When there is a file uploaded, it all works fine. But if there isn't, I get this error message:
just do an if(isset($_FILES....)) to check for an uploaded file
Thank you! Actually, I fixed it with this:
if (is_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'])) {
Now, though, I got another problem. I want the file to be deleted from the directory after it was sent as an attachment with an email. When there is a file uploaded, it all works fine. But if there isn't, I get this error message:
Here is a problem. I have an HTML form with several fields in it. One of the fields - 'Upload file'. When I upload a file, everything works properly. But when I choose to submit the form without a file, it gives me the error message: "There was an error uploading the file, please try again". Looks to me that the script thinks that uploading a file is mandatory. How do I change it?
Here is my PHP:
//File upload
// Where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = "uploads/";
// Add the original filename to our target path.
//Result is "uploads/filename.extension"
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']).
" has been uploaded";
} else{
echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}
//End of file upload
Hi levsh!! thanks!!, but is there any option available for only $allowed_filetypes? thank you very much!
I'm sure there is. I just haven't gotten to that point myself. I'm having trouble attaching an uploaded file to an email. When I get this to working, I'll worry about the allowed filetypes. :)
//File upload
// Where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = "uploads/";
// Add the original filename to our target path.
//Result is "uploads/filename.extension"
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']);
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['uploadedfile']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']).
" has been uploaded";
} else{
echo "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
}
//End of file upload
'uploadedfile' is the name of the 'file' input type element in the HTML form.
