Comments on: Creating a PHP CMS – Part 7

By: civilrebel

civilrebel — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 07:20:14 +0000

Hi, I downloaded tour files and made everything work with my database. Everything works, I can login, update my pages, etc. However, creating a new page causes a connection error:

Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() [function.mysql-real-escape-string]: A link to the server could not be established

Now, on the new.php, you have a submit button and are calling the functions.php, however, no php function with an INSERT INTO statement is defined to add an additional row to our SQL table, within the files new.php and functions.php. Is it possible that this is why it does not work? I just got everything from your link. Overall, great tutorial. Tks for this. I'd appreciate your reply.

By: imran

imran — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:34:41 +0000

good tutorial for beginners.......keep it up dear...........

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:27:11 +0000

Well, since it's using a Unix timestamp, January 1st, 1970 is the same thing as 0. On your site the dates appear to be corrected, so I assume that you solved your problem?

By: ratbum

ratbum — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:26:15 +0000

All my dates are 1st Jan 1970.

I guess that my current date function is not working for whatever reason. Any suggestion as to why this might be happening?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:17:30 +0000

Just out of curiosity, would it be better to include CheckUser() within the major functions that have access to your DB? That way even if someone messed with the webpages/HTML/created their own interface, the functions just wouldn't load for them?

I don't know if that would work in practice though.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:42:20 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks for this tutorial, it wasn't exactly what I was looking for (Was just after a small blog.include) but after following it, I have an idea now of how CMS work and it's given me ideas for how to make a simple blog include that I didn't have before.

Are there any chances of you doing a security article? I see mentions of things like htmlentities but don't know where I should be using them so an article as useful as this has been would be excellent.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:09:36 +0000

Hello,

Thnx for this good tutorial but i have one question

how can i change the content of /admin/update.php?id=1 or a other id because you can't go back to the admin page

By: Atlante Avila

Atlante Avila — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:19:49 +0000

yep, it's there and still get the error message.

By: Eric Bannatyne

Eric Bannatyne — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 23:16:09 +0000

Check the source file of admin/create.php. If I remember correctly, the file should include functions.php. Make sure that that file exists and that it contains the function checkmember().

By: Atlante Avila

Atlante Avila — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:40:47 +0000

Hi, I've downloaded your final source code and installed it, but I get the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function checkmember() in /home/thecatho/public_html/cms/admin/create.php on line 7

I checked the functions file and it's there but I'm not sure if this is a php compatibility issue or not. Any ideas?