@modi123_1 I'm sorry I did notice the dates but I still looked to see if someone answered their questions I have forums post that I have on other boards I still check to see if I got an answer. I thought someone would benefit from it since I had the exact same error they did until I figured it out.

Thanks for the this part in your tutorial. I came across a couple of bugs I been trying to figure out and remove but so far no luck. I just have the stock code you have in the post I did not see any reason to make this post any longer with the exact same code.

1st when you lock a post the admin tool links disappear. don't we need some way to unlock a post?
2nd when you navigate to the post in your browser window e.g. http://mafiagame.ric...m_edit.php?id=1
you can still edit the post even if it was locked. would we need some way to check to see if we arrived to the post using the edit post button?

Thanks again for the great tutorials

HappyJackie, on 09 December 2010 - 09:47 PM, said:

did you require("safe.php); ?
i was having the same problem until i realized it was using variables from safe.php

Hello everything seems to be working fine no errors but for some reason it wont update the lastactive field in the database.

Thanks a lot for the third installment of your tutorial!!!!! awesome.

it seems i been getting a lot of functions lately. i thought i share them with you.

<?php
/**
 * @author Phantom Coder
 * @copyright 2010-2012
 */
 
function connect() {
	 // localhost is common on most hosts.
	 $mysql_server = "localhost";
	 //  this is the name of your username of the server.
	$mysql_user = "dbuser";
	 // the password connected to the username. MAKE IT COMPLEX.
	$mysql_password = "P@ssw0rd";
	 // the database name of where to connect to and where the information will be help.
	$mysql_database = "dbname";
	$connection = mysql_connect("$mysql_server","$mysql_user","$mysql_password") or die ("Unable to establish a DB connection");
	$db = mysql_select_db("$mysql_database") or die ("Unable to establish a DB connection");
 }

 // This function is going to help us filter out bad email from the good one and it makes sure the email enter is in the format of as@as.com
 function checkEmail($str) {
	return preg_match("/^[\.A-z0-9_\-\+]+[@][A-z0-9_\-]+([.][A-z0-9_\-]+)+[A-z]{1,4}$/", $str);
}

// this is a send email function that will help us send email to the registered users.
function send_mail($from,$to,$subject,$body) {
	$headers = '';
	$headers .= "From: $from\n";
	$headers .= "Reply-to: $from\n";
	$headers .= "Return-Path: $from\n";
	$headers .= "Message-ID: <" . md5(uniqid(time())) . "@" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . ">\n";
	$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
	$headers .= "Date: " . date('r', time()) . "\n";

	mail($to,$subject,$body,$headers);
}

 // sanitizes the input from the users in our forms
function protect($string) {
    return mysql_real_escape_string(strip_tags(addslashes($string)));
}

//error output for status messages
function outputerror($string) {
	echo "<div id=\"outputerror\">" . $string . "</div>";
}

//normal output for status messages
function outputnormal($string) {
    echo "<div id=\"outputnormal\">" . $string . "</div>";
}

// keeps the copright date current
function copyrightdate() {
     $time = time ();
     $year= date("Y",$time);
     echo $year;
}

// Logs out the users.
function logout() {
	// if already logged in.
	if(isset($_SESSION['user_id'])) {
		unset($_SESSION['user_id']);
		session_destroy(); 
		outputnormal("You have been logged out.");
	}
}

?>

I hope you find them useful as I am. I'm going on to part 4 NOW!!!!!