thescientist

well, time will tell, but almost 100% certain this is what everyone is thinking, I know I am...

you keep making my point. The price has to be based on your abilities, because as someone little experience, things will take you longer. i could do a website in less time, but charge more for it because I have the experience to know exactly what I can get done and in how long. You are the opposite end of the spectrum, with little proven experience in just about any capacity. That's a critical factor in estimating. But if you're just looking for numbers irrespective of the meaning behind.... well, then I guess I can only say that I feel bad for what you client is about to get himself into. It's just like in the code, if you can't explain each line and what it's doing, you're not ready to be doing it for money. If you could, then you would know what goes into each part of the clients request, and you would be able to figure out most of it yourself. Anyway, I'm sure this will all just go in one ear and out there other...

yeah, but the post he "liked" just took an arbitrary time with an arbitrary rate and come up with an estimate. and the poster even pre-faced by saying it was an example. Not trying to argue with you, but just calling out the OP.

how is that any different from what Ingolme and I told you? Count up the hours and multiply times a rate reflective of your services? You're weird man...I don't get you at all.

displaying those links already is an example. if you want to create a demonstration, then you should give the option (carefully) to allow users to add (INSERT) links, and then when they submit, the page could be refreshed, and their link would then be displayed. again, you can't really show a database (not sure if you get that yet), but you can create an application, that uses a database, to highlight the features and benefits that it offers for those who are curious, or don't understand the concept. like in this case, adding records and then displaying them. the next step, is to allow a user to edit links (as opposed to add). That should more or less cover CRUD.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete

bug off then. what do you want from us? If you can't even bothered to estimate your own work, and are asking us to do that too, you don't deserve the work, quite honestly. The whole point is that different people have different skills sets. You have to estimate your own work, because you are the one doing it. Ironically, in the time you've taken to blow off everyone's responses, you could probably have a basic assessment of all this already. The fact that you can't do this, or be bothered to do this, clearly demonstrates that you are far from ready to even consider taking on work for money,

Again, as mentioned, you need to estimate how long it will take you to do it. Go through all the tasks and honestly asses (in hours) how long it takes you do each task. For the harder stuff, give it to the more experienced person. Determine his rate per hour, then do the same for you, obviously you should charge a lot less per hour. So you add up all his hours times his rate/hour, and then add up all your hours times rate/hour, and there's your total to charge for the project. On top of that, you will have an estimate for how you think it will take to complete the project.

sans-serif, I believehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif

well, first it has to be a php page. Then you could write it to execute an SQL SELECT query against the database and table you've been inserting data into. The tutorials has examples.http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_mysql_select.asp

then you need to present them as such. You should be helping us out and learning how to put code in code tags on this forum. it is a standard courtesy to explain and present your problem in the clearest and most presentable manner to those who you keep asking help from. JSG has also told you how to debug these kind of situations. You need to know if your form is even submitting correctly, and this is by outputting the content of $_POST. http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=43189&st=0&p=238257entry238257 You must learn these things. Seriously. You say you understand them and that the replies are helpful, but still it's the same mistakes...

you really are a piece of work. still the same SQL problem, still the same misunderstanding of POST, still the same confusion about array indexes....I thought you said you already figured this out? You seemed so confident... you almost had us fooled...http://w3schools.inv...98 and as said by Don E., that if this is one page, then you've been told why there would be undefined index's herehttp://w3schools.inv...30 Honestly, my mind is blown at this point. All the work we've gone through, and yet you only manage to go backwards in your comprehension.

###### read the tutorials!!!!!!!! Look at their examples!! ##### not only that, we've told you!! sigh, i hate to say it, but I don't think you can really learn this stuff at all....

are you familiar with phpMyAdmin? can your print out the query to check that it looks right? echo"SELECT * FROM listing WHERE Name LIKE '$find'"); you can try it directly in phpMyAdmin and then play around with it too. Also, you may need to use wildcards. have you reviewed this page in the tutorials at all?http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_like.asp

i don't know anymore. even when you ask and get handed working example, you don't seem to get it. I'm not sure what else you are expecting from us at this point.

then clearly you still don't understand anything that anyone has told you. This is clear example of using a form to submit values to put into a database. Which part of that are you missing? Which part don't you get? Using this example, you could have the same page with the form on also SELECT from the same table being INSERT'd into, to show the comments as well. You really need to learn how to start connecting the dots or else you're never going to get any of this stuff.

um.. just make each form submit to it's own script. If you can get that working, you can try and make it so that one form does it all. That could be as simple as having a hidden form input that passes a "command" if you will, (i.e. "update", "delete", "insert") that you can use in your script to determine what kind of query you need.

well, it's actually the code that you are leaving out that is important. We can infer the structure of $lists because of the loop, which appears to be multidemensional. A simple way to confirm for yourself is just to output $list. this is a simple appx. of what $list might look like that would work for that loop. $list = array( 0 => array(0 => 'somevalue'), 1 => array(0 => 'someothervalue'), 2 => array(0 => 'yetsomeothervalue')); edit: and yes, the loop counter would need to be $i

The simplest implementation I can think of would just to have an AJAX function execute on page load to a server side script (like PHP) that can do one of two things. Read in a file and increment the value of the number in it. Or use a database, and make pages table, and increment the value in the table. additionaly, you would want to save the page for the hit, so would want to pass a referrer value from the JS function to the script. Personally I would recommend using a database for this and doing the incrementing/UPDATE with SQL. Also, you may to use some sort of IP tracking to make sure hits are unique and daily.

the majority (most of the end) of this thread has been about saving attachments (images at least), so I don't think that would be super useful to use something that didn't really support attachments. As it stands, the OP has made significant progress in writing his own code for this, that appears to work well with multiple mail clients, and is just in the process of ironing out a couple of bugs. I think he would prefer to stay the course as it were, since he is nearly there in completing all the work he started out on.

if you don't want them to overwrite it each other, then yes, you need to something to prevent that. You have to check the name, and then change the name before saving it, if the name already exists.

in other words, for each attachment, use file_exists on the filename first, and if it does, then change the name of the current file you are trying to save. i.e. image.jpeg, then image2.jpg, image3.jpg, or something along those lines

Typically when you sign on to do work for a client, you define a SOW that specifically outlines the work to be done, and covers the clients expectations of what they are paying you for, balanced with what you are willing to do, in what time, and for how much. Typically there are clauses for any sorts of revisions, extensions, etc which are agreed upon beforehand. Once you fulfill the SOW, then yes, you could say it's finished, but often times you can add provisions for maintenance work or whatnot to do past the point of completion. In software development/programming, projects are never really finished, they just get revised, updated, tweaked, etc. Your own projects can be whatever you want them to be.

Good. now take the time to master it. This is commonly referred to as the learning process. You learn in steps, securing your foundation in one aspect of your desired area of development/skill before moving on to more advanced concepts. Now you may say you aren't a great designer and thus you may argue that it's not your fault that your website doesn't look great, and I would say the same thing about myself. However, if someone came to me with a design and requirements for expected functionality, the difference between us is that I could realize it in well written, semantic, and valid code (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/etc). That's not the level you are at and so you need to recognize that and build your skills first. Over time, you will hopefully learn a thing or two about design along the way so you can make your own judgement calls.

I wouldn't even bother with HTML5/CSS3 until you know what you're doing with just HTML4/CSS2.

we've also told you to write things down. or at least that's what most people do when they want to retain information they are concerned they will forget/want to remember.