Class 07 assignment - 1 - Progress

I've probably put in 9 - 10 hours already. Designing the XHTML & CSS as well as learning php for this assignment.

My files are temporarily working at this location www.bonestructure.com/webdev/

So far I've created the functionality for all pages but the uploader. I have had each element working at one point but now I find some weird behavior I can't explain. When I write to the text file on the Become a Member page, it is always writing "david" as the username and writing in the correct password. This is very bazzar as I've never hard coded my name even in testing any elements. I'm at a loss and will come back to it. Not sure how well it will test for you but go for it if you so desire. I do know "david" and "bone" work for the username and password.

Still to complete

• Fix the writing to the text file.
  
• Figure out the uploader (have had tests working but my current build isn't working)
  
• Figure out the Home page (gallery of uploads) from the uploaded data. How to write to the page in a formated style and repeating. I would like to keep the uploaded images to a max width and height in the display grid.
  
• Figure out how to show only 50 of the latest elements.
• ...
  

Coding Observations

• There seem to be these two ananomous session cookies ("PHPSESSID") that I can't figure out where they are from and if they are affecting the functionality. The show even if you only hit the submit button.
  
• I've been using isset for checking if the Cookie is there and I thought unset would turn the Cookie off and delete it just like setting the Cookie again by writing over any previous values. Well I found the unset will return a false for the cookie but it won't delete it. So on that page I used unset, the Cookie would return false and I would see the desired results but if I knew a link and just jumped to it (say I jumped over the login page and pasted in the home page link) the Cookie that was floating around would still work on that page I jumped to.
• In the progression of building I came across a procedure I liked by accident. I have the "become a member" page passing a username and password, that username is used on the Home page but the home page also checks for a true Cookie which is only set on the Login page, so then the user is automatically sent to the Login page. In short, the new member will submit and then sees the login page. It happens so fast and the two pages are designed so similarly that I didn't even notice the behavior at first... I'm going to have to redesign the Become a Member page a little.
  

I have to get some Zzzz so I can vote bright and early tomorrow.
L8r - dbone