Jay Gilford

1. You need to start a session on EVERY page you want to use a session. Without doing so the session data can't be accessed
2. You will need to validate on each page that the user can access the page (ie has a valid session login) before executing code
 
Using the approach you have, the easiest thing would be to create a new php file - we'll call it bootstrap.php for arguments sake. Now in there you put the session start code and some code to validate the current user session is valid, and if not redirecting to the login page. Then on every page you would add an include to bootstrap.php
 
The one exception to this would be the login page which you would add the session start to on its own (otherwise you'll end up in an infinite loop)

You create a table called comments with the necessary comment fields, then use a 'user_id' field where you assign the users id to the comment. This process is called normalization

You need to submit the forms with AJAX. You'll still need PHP (or whatever you use) server-side to process and sanitize the form submission.

getdate isn't a mysql function. I think the one you need is curdate()

Not really sure why you have duplicated the script or indeed the JS code... You would be better using

<script> var pid = <?php echo $pid ? $pid : "''"; ?> </script>
 
That said, personally I would put any js variables into an array in php, then use json_encode() and set one variable to have all the array values in, such as
<?php $vars = array( 'pid' => $pid ); ?> <script> var v = <?php echo json_encode($vars); ?>; </script>
 
Then to call the variable for $pid in JS, you could just use

v.pid
This is a more convoluted method for the single variable, but if you're passing multiple, this becomes far more convenient and means you don't have to assign loads of variables in JS

Change
 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.website.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]
to
 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?page=$1 [R=301,L]

Yeah, you're going to need to give the join definition as well. You also only seem to be running the search on one table column (title). You should have
 
WHERE (title LIKE '%$search_term%' OR newsTitle LIKE '%$search_term%')";

You can rename field names using an alias, such as
SELECT `column_name` AS `alias_name` FROM .....

do a var_dump on $sth and see what it outputs. You seem to be using an object and a standard function for databases simultaneously which shouldn't be done. I would imagine the values in $sth are an array of results, and that you just need to use a foreach for those

You're definitely going to need JS to get the effect you want for the checkboxes and also to make the single text box editable for certain values. It's worth noting that you are going to need to validate it regardless once the form is submitted, as JScan be bypassed/disabled pretty easily and while a majority of people do use JS, not all do. As for where to learn - I see you're using jQuery which is a great library and the one I use for everything. I'd recommend using this site
http://www.learningjquery.com/
or getting the sitepoint jQuery novice to ninja eBook

MVC isn't a language, nor does it only work with ASP. MVC is a way for you to set up your web application to keep various parts separate
Take a look at the wikipedia webpage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller
for more info
 
In terms of MVC for PHP, take a look at CakePHP, Zend framework and Code igniter. All of those are good frameworks

hehe well client side you should have to change very little, but you'll need to basically replicate your checking php side and add errors client side accordingly. As for the cleaning data - well that can also apply to your contact form depending on how it's set up. For example, check this out
http://www.tonyspencer.com/2005/12/15/email-injection-exploit-through-a-php-contact-form/
 
It may not apply to your form, but it's worth a read for any future contact forms

You can use
 
or wrap the item in a span, and add a margin-right style to it for finer control

While I'm not sure as to the problem, you should probably have put somewhere that your problem relates to wordpress as well

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^/website/$ /website/home/ [R=301,L]
 
Something like that should do it
 
Note that the / after the ^ might not be required, so if it doesn't work, remove that

so the first code line I gave you above gives you the current product ID in the variable...now you add that to your query string, so you'd use

"SELECT `status` FROM `product_lock_sold` WHERE `product_id` = '" . $product_id . "'"

If you're on the product page, you need to get the product ID from there. It's pretty easy to do

$product_id = (int) $this->request->get['product_id'];
 
While I appreciate you're learning php/mysql, you should really be adhering to Opencart standards, and using the right tools. For example, instead of what you have above for the querying, it should be
 

$result = $this->db->query("Query here"); if($result->num_rows) { ... Code here if there's matches ... }

Some browsers cache the 301, so you may need to clear your browser's cache for that page. I'm not sure exactly how long they cache it for

If you've deleted all of the old htm files, you could just use a simple file exists to work out if you need to rewrite it

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.html [R=301,L]

If you've deleted all of the old htm files, you could just use a simple file exists to work out if you need to rewrite it

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)\.htm$ $1.html [R=301,L]

Seems a bit bad you are posting an affiliate link jamesosix, considering you weren't even the original person to suggest it, though I have a feeling this thread will no doubt attract a few such links

The assignment operator is a shorthand for
$a .= 'some string';
 
is the equivalent of
$a = $a . 'somestring';
 
See here for more information

That should work perfectly. My guess is you don't have php parsing on when it's run. Do you have the .html extension instead of .php?

Have you set a webserver up on your local machine? or are you using hosting to test this?
If you haven't set up a webserver, I'd recommend WAMP or XAMPP for windows. html is not parsed as PHP. to parse php, you need to use the .php extension, and access the file using your browser's localhost

And you're getting no output whatseover? Is the title showing in the browser at least?