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Thanks!

Stefan

Related to this comes this topic question: Am I following the correct order or is there any course missing in the middle?

The course order .txt goes like:

1. PHP Basic - 274min

2. PHP Misc. - 141min

3. PHP and MySQL Basics - 105min

4. PHP CRUD + Pagenation - 90min

And the downloads zips/folders do not contain any "PHP Misc" that I could find. It is really confusing and I'm wondering if maybe I'm having trouble because I am missing those files. I am sure I downloaded all of the ones on the download page. Hope somebody can give me any pointers on either the difficulty jump or if I am indeed missing files.

I attach the finder image with the .txt and all the folders I got from the site, which I had to order and name myself because they were all mixed up. :c

Thanks in advance!

My knowledge on coding is around the intermediate level I'd say. I've got good HTML knowledge but I'm still trying to fully master CSS knowledge as there's a lot more to take in than HTML, but I can manage when it comes to coding a site in html/css and deciphering code. I've completed all the courses on Code Academy and I've tried learning using W3Schools but I learn best when it's interactive learning that comes with hands on projects and W3 kinda reads more like a book than interactive work.

What I want to know is..

Will the sites courses give me detailed info on hand coding or is everything taught in Dreamweaver? ..I have Dreamweaver, but I'm told that I should learn hand coding before heading into dreamweaver.

Has anyone started from beginners/intermediate level coding and progressed because of this class? If so, please post up your story.

Will these courses show me how to code AND design or are they mainly focused on coding?

Any and all feedback is appreciated. If you've purchased the subscription package and feel it wasn't worth it, please post why. If you feel it was worth it, please post why as well. Greatly appreciate anyone that replies, thanks!

i have tried <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> , also i tried <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> too its still the same and not working for my Spanish characters such as é á . instead of showing it as output its showing another letter

i don't know if the platform i am working on have any thing to do with the encoding because am currently working on the windows platform but am sure <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> and <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> works on UNIX platform .

Please i need help with this Thanks.

when I can't seem to get the Loggin color box to pop up with the Jquery/colorbox function.

I can login by typing in the full pathway in the URL (http://wolfcut.co.uk/app/login.php)

but thats not how its supposed to be.

There are also no error messages at this point.

Could it be that I haven't reached the appropriate tutorial yet? Or that Jquery/colorbox pathway is somehow incorrect, because of the latest Jquery.

I did follow precisely what the tutorial says on video 19 and used the JQuery provided. I also replaced your JQuery with the new version, but both don't seem to work.

t_login.php

<link href="<?php echo APP_RESOURCES; ?>css/fp_style.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.2.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">$.noConflict();</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo APP_RESOURCES; ?>javascript/colorbox/colorbox.js"></script>

<link href="<?php echo APP_RESOURCES; ?>javascript/colorbox/colorbox.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

$.colorbox({

transition: 'fade',

initialWidth: '50px',

initialHeight: '50px',

overlayClose: false,

escKey: false,

scrolling: false,

opacity: .6,

href: '<?php echo SITE_PATH; ?>app/login.php'

});

});

</script>

t_head.php

<link href="<?php echo APP_RESOURCES; ?>css/fp_style.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<!-- jquery & colorbox -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.5.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">$.noConflict();</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo APP_RESOURCES; ?>javascript/colorbox/colorbox.js"></script>
<link href="<?php echo APP_RESOURCES; ?>javascript/colorbox/colorbox.css" media="screen" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(document).ready(function($) {

});

</script>

Any suggestions.

Thank you

I want to create a Contact Us page, but do not know how to go about it

Thanks for your help in telling me how, or in pointing me towards the right place to find the info so requested.

The courses and instruction are great!

This is a minor complaint that a little tweaking can fix.

Perhaps this thread can be used for similar tweaks needed with other courses.

The problem is that on occassion, a correct answer is given, but the validation

process does not accept the answer as correct.

The correction is to update the validation for those answers.

Two examples:

In the HTML5 CSS3 and JQuery course, an answer to update the HTML tags to HTML5

was considered incorrect. In comparing the given answer (obtained after "giving up")

to the one I had, the only difference was this meta tag:

<meta charset=utf-8> vs. <meta charset=UTF-8>

Clearly, both are correct, but submitting the "wrong" case yielded an error.

In the same course, in the Intro to CSS3, video 2 Intro to Crossbrowser Compatability,

Question 2, we are asked to "Add the html5shiv script for older versions of IE"

The website is given, so one just has to copy/paste. Well, the code has changed since

the course was written, so the new code is marked wrong. Asking for the answer so that

one could paste in the former answer and move on was not helpful-- it referred to the

same site.

In creating new course content, it may be wise to not ask a question that has an

answer that is likely to change, such as a script on another site. It might also

be a good idea to check validation scripts so that correct answers are not deemed

incorrect.

Aside from these minor flaws, the teaching and flow of the Killersites University

courses are excellent and a pleasurable way to learn.

I just wanted to say I am very happy so far with my premium subscription. There is enough content on there to keep me going for ever. Also backed up with the friendly and mature forum in honesty I don't need look anywhere else.

Im currently studying:-

Wordpress

Dreamweaver

HTML

CSS

PHP

Not in that order, I do what I need to do today as I have a client and am learning as I go.

I can honestly say Killer sites is the backbone of my start up web design business! I don't know how I can give a higher rating than that.

So, keep it up and ill keep stumping up for my subscription

I should mention that we changed the Killersites University to the Killersites Library: http://www.killersites.com/video-library/

Our new interactive training system can be found here: http://www.killersitesuniversity.com/

Thanks,

Stefan

$image_tmpname = $_FILES['file']['name'];

//echo $image_tmpname ;

$imgdir = "../wajahat_pro/uploads/"; //in this folder the images are saving

$imgname = $imgdir.$image_tmpname;

$query = "SELECT * FROM store WHERE id =30";

$result = mysql_query($query);

while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))

{

echo $img=$row['name'];

echo '<img src="' . $row['name'] . "' alt='' />";

}

the images are not displaying on the page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-2NTRqCa8w

You can check out our interactive training at KillersitesUniversity.com!

Thanks,

Jody

Killersites.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh9TiCug3fA

You can check it out at KillersitesUniversity.com!

Thanks,

Jody

Killersites.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzNvYIHo4a4

You can check it out at KillersitesUniversity.com!

Thanks,

Jody

Killersites.com

if I type

"info   hello <h1 id="bummer">"

in a wysiwyg, or a textbox (maybe even a oneline, not sure) I will get in a print_r($_POST)

Array

(

[uri] => ticketing

[block] => content_maincontent

[field] => info

[nbsp;_hello_ "bummer">

)

I know it has to do with the javascript that builds the datastring, but how to resolve this issue?

var dataString = 'uri=' + uri + '&block=' + block + '&field=' + content;

thanks! Scott

How can I get my design view to give me WYSIWYG as Stef did?

Thanks,

Don

Well we are about to start a new round of video tutorial creation and I was wondering if you all had any suggestions?

Ben just finished the Building a CMS series and we have a CSS list and Navigation video coming out this week or next that does NOT use Dreamweaver.

Some ideas:

I am putting together a series on SEO that I should start recording this week. So far, I have 41 parts written up.

I am now considering the following:

- Beginners Illustrator.

- iPad and iPhone development for web designers.

- More wordpress based courses - say on plug-in creation?

Any suggestions anyone?

Stefan

I'm trying hard to follow on here but have no clue how we get from downloading wordpress to having it installed.

On The Setting up Wordpress Part 1 video, we seem to jump from downloading WP (at 38 seconds)to it magically being installed. By 1.00 the instructor goes on to talk about the installed structure. ??? I didn't see anything get installed. One minute we were downloading then next he was deleting double wordpress files and renaming one.

Its then mentioned something about extracted all the files onto his file system. Whats a file system? A hard drive folder where we should instal too? How do we instal??

At 1:39 we are told "Now that we have Wordpress installed" (Downloaded yes, but not installed) and then we go onto MAMP.

Could anyone go over this please.

Thanks

shoppingcart.php

<?php

class shoppingCart {

protected $items = array();

public function addItem($product_id)

{

if (array_key_exists($product_id , $this->items))

$this->items[$product_id] = $this->items[$product_id] +1;

else

$this->items[$product_id] = 1;

}

public function GetItemCost($product_id)

{

$cost_string = get_item_cost($product_id);

$cost_float = "$cost_string" + 0;

return $cost_float * $this->GetItemQuantity($product_id);

}

public function getItems()

{

return array_keys($this->items);

}

public function GetItemQuantity($product_id)

{

return intval($this->items[$product_id]);

}

public function emptyCart()

{

$this->items = array();

}

public function GetSsalesTax()

{

$salesTax = .07;

$subTotal=GetItemQuantity * $salesTax;

return $subTotal;

}

public function GetShippingCost($quantity)

{

if ($quantity <=2)

return 10.95;

else

return 0;

}

public function ShippingCost()

{

$total = 0;

foreach($this->items as $product_id -> $quantity)

$total = $total + $this->GetItemQuantity($product_id);

return $total;

}

/* public function GetTotal()

{

$salesTax = .07;

return $this->GetSubTotal() + $salesTax;

}*/

public function GetSubTotal()

{

$total = 0;

foreach($this->items as $product_id => $quantity)

$total = $total + $this->GetItemCost($product_id);

return $total;

}

public function GetSalesTax($unit_cost, $quantity)

{

$salesTax = .07;

return $unit_cost*$quantity*$salesTax;

}

public function GetTotal()

{

return $this->GetSubTotal() + $this->GetShippingCost();

}

}

templates.php

<?php

function render_shopping_cart_row(ShoppingCart $shopping_cart , $product_id , $line_item_counter)

{

$quantity = $shopping_cart->GetItemQuantity($product_id);

$amount = $shopping_cart->GetItemCost($product_id);

$unit_cost = get_item_cost($product_id);

$shipping_amount = $shopping_cart->GetShippingCost($quantity);

$salesTax = $shopping_cart->GetSalesTax($unit_cost, $quantity);

$output = "

<tr>

<td>

$product_id

<br />

Sales Tax: $salesTax

</td>

<td>

$quantity

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>

$$amount

</td>

</tr>";

return $output;

}

function render_shopping_cart_shipping_row(ShoppingCart $shopping_cart)

{

return "

<tr>

<td>

</td>

<td>

Shipping:

</td>

<td>

'$.$shopping_cart->GetShippingCost().'

</td>

</tr>

";

}

function render_shopping_cart_total_row(ShoppingCart $shopping_cart)

{

return "

<tr>

<td>

</td>

<td>

Total:

</td>

<td>

'.$shopping_cart->GetTotal().'

</td>

</tr>

";

}

/*video 11

function render_paypal_checkout(ShoppingCart $shopping_cart)

{

return "

<form action='".PAYPAL_FORM_URL."' method='post'>

<input type="hidden" name="business" value=" " />

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart" />

<input type="hidden" name="upload" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" />

<input type="hidden" name="LC" value="US" />

" . render_shopping_cart($shopping_cart) ."

<input type='image' name='submit' src='https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynow_LG.gif' alt=' pay online with PayPal '>

</form>";

}

<form action="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick">

<input type="hidden" name="hosted_button_id" value="M8GEXMCBNPSPC">

<input type="image" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">

<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">

</form>*/

?>

checkout.php

<?php

require_once('functions.php');

require_once('templates.php');

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<link href="doggyTreats.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

<style type="text/css">

.shoppingCart {

width: 600px;

margin: 0;

}

</style>

</head>

<body>

<?php

$shopping_cart = get_shopping_cart();

if (isset($_GET["id"]))

{

$product_id = htmlspecialchars($_GET["id"]);

}

if (product_exist($product_id))

{

$shopping_cart->addItem($product_id);

}

?>

<table class="shoppingCart">

<tr>

<th>

Product ID

</th>

<th>

quantity

</th>

<th>

Amount

</th>

</tr>

<?php

$line_item_counter = 1;

foreach ($shopping_cart->getItems() as $product_id)

{

echo render_shopping_cart_row($shopping_cart, $product_id, $line_item_counter);

$line_item_counter++;

}

echo render_shopping_cart_shipping_row($shopping_cart);

echo render_shopping_cart_total_row($shopping_cart);

?>

</table>

<?php

set_shopping_cart($shopping_cart);

?>

</body>

</html>

This is probably a newbie question, but I couldn't find it on Google, so I'll try here. I've been watching lots of tutorials here lately and many times I see the person of the tutorial select some text in their text editor, and then move it with tab. So I want to do that too, cuz it would speed up my workflow a lot. I just can't figure it out. It's not command-tab, or command-shift tab, or all the other buttons.

Can someone please help me out?

I am using mac os x lion with BBEdit.

shoppingcart.php

<?php

class shoppingCart {

protected $items = array();

public function addItem($product_id)

{

if (array_key_exists($product_id , $this->items))

$this->items[$product_id] = ($this->items[$product_id] +1);

else

$this->items[$product_id] = 1;

}

public function GetItemCost($product_id)

{

$cost_string = get_item_cost($product_id);

$cost_float = "$cost_string" + 0;

return $cost_float * $this->GetItemQuantity[$product_id];

}

public function getItems()

{

return array_keys($this->items);

}

public function GetItemQuantity($product_id)

{

return intval($this->items[$product_id]);

}

public function emptyCart()

{

$this->items = array();

}

}

functions.php

<?php

require_once('classes/shoppingCart.php');

/**DEFINE GLOBALS**/

define('STORE_XML_FILE' , 'catalog.xml');

/*FUNCTIONS*/

session_start();

function render_products_from_xml()

{

$output = '.<table class="product">

<tr>';

foreach(get_xml_catalog() as $product)

{

$output .='

<td class="product">

<h2>'.$product->title.'</h2>

<div>

<img src="'.$product->img. '" />

<span>

'.$product->description.'

</span>

</div>

<div class="price">

'.$product->price.'

</div>

<div class="addToCart">

<a href="checkOut.php?id='.$product->id.'">add to cart</a>

</div>

</td>';

}

$output .='

</tr>

</table>

';

echo $output;

}

function get_xml_catalog()

{

return new SimpleXMLElement(file_get_contents(STORE_XML_FILE));

}

function get_shopping_cart()

{

if (! isset($_SESSION['cart']))

return new shoppingCart(); //starts new cart

else

return unserialize($_SESSION['cart']);

}

function set_shopping_cart($cart)

{

$_SESSION['cart'] = serialize($cart);

}

function product_exist($product_id)

{

foreach(get_xml_catalog() as $product)

{

if ($product->id == $product_id)

return true;

}

return false;

}

function get_item_cost($product_id)

{

foreach(get_xml_catalog() as $product)

{

if ($product_id == $product->id)

return $product->price;

}

throw new Exception('item not found' . $product_id);

}

?>

checkout.php

<?php

require_once('functions.php')

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php

$shopping_cart = get_shopping_cart();

if (isset($_GET["id"]))

{

$product_id = htmlspecialchars($_GET["id"]);

}

if (product_exist($product_id))

{

$shopping_cart->addItem($product_id);

}

?>

<table class="shoppingCart">

<tr>

<th>

Product ID

</th>

<th>

quantity

</th>

<th>

Amount

</th>

</tr>

<?php

$line_item_counter = 1;

foreach ($shopping_cart->getItems() as $product_id)

{

echo render_shopping_cart_row($shopping_cart, $product_id, $line_item_counter);

$line_item_counter++;

}

function render_shopping_cart_row(ShoppingCart $shopping_cart , $product_id , $line_item_counter)

{

$quantity = $shopping_cart->GetItemQuantity($product_id);

$amount = $shopping_cart->GetItemCost($product_id);

$unit_cost = get_item_cost($product_id);

$output = "

<tr>

<td>

$product_id

</td>

<td>

$quantity

</td>

<td>

$$amount

</td>

</tr>";

return $output;

}

?>

</table>

<?php

set_shopping_cart($shopping_cart);

?>

</body>

</html>

Today I saw a job opening for a front end web developer and I know I am not skilled enough yet to apply. That said do you think it possible to create spec assignments to complete that would be practical exercises and help our portfolio? Something that required HTML, css, javascript,php, maybe a little photoshop, and whatever else in your minds eye would say this is a viable candidate for entry level web design? Or whatever criteria you can count on your fingers, you need to be able to do this, this, this. And if you can do this, it proves you know enough to seek employment. Thoughts