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  • Seth Warner
    Seth Warner
    5,348 Points

    Okay so up until I added the defining config file I was fine.

    Posted November 27, 2015 12:25am by Seth Warner
    Seth Warner
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  • adrien kovanic
    adrien kovanic
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    Hi I have an error 500 when trying to load the index.php page

    Posted November 4, 2015 7:49pm by adrien kovanic
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  • Leigh Maher
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    How does the database.php know to get the values we defined in the config file?

    Posted July 13, 2015 1:09pm by Leigh Maher
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  • Alan Guevara
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    Do we have to include config.php file into database.php?

    Posted June 10, 2015 9:37pm by Alan Guevara
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  • Sean Lum
    Sean Lum
    11,949 Points

    Does the act of defining constants create a global level security vulnerability?

    Posted April 12, 2015 4:57pm by Sean Lum
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  • Johnatan Guzman
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    It doesnt show single shirts page anymore

    Posted January 26, 2015 12:30pm by Johnatan Guzman
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  • SERGIO RODRIGUEZ
    SERGIO RODRIGUEZ
    17,532 Points

    Why is Randy using require instead of require_once?

    Posted January 2, 2015 11:26pm by SERGIO RODRIGUEZ
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  • Chi Lee
    Chi Lee
    3,431 Points

    Why is there no closing php tag in database.php?

    Posted November 23, 2014 1:16am by Chi Lee
    Chi Lee
    3,431 Points
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  • Joey L.
    Joey L.
    4,601 Points

    Randy included the PDO() object creation and database connection code in the same place as it initially was. Why?

    Posted November 10, 2014 9:23pm by Joey L.
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  • Harry Nikolov
    Harry Nikolov
    6,131 Points

    Why is this message also displayed when I test the error code?

    Posted October 26, 2014 9:11am by Harry Nikolov
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  • trishadring
    trishadring
    4,599 Points

    Something went wrong. Its not even giving me an error message that it can't connect to the database

    Posted October 12, 2014 9:55pm by trishadring
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  • Adam Zuckerberg
    Adam Zuckerberg
    22,248 Points

    Which type of connection do we use: MySQL, MySQLi or PDO?

    Posted May 28, 2014 5:03pm by Adam Zuckerberg
    Adam Zuckerberg
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  • Syed Mahbub
    Syed Mahbub
    8,780 Points

    Setting up Inc files for DB Credentials

    Posted April 20, 2014 8:23am by Syed Mahbub
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  • carlosjimenez
    carlosjimenez
    5,504 Points

    ROOT_PATH . NOT WORKING

    Posted March 17, 2014 7:34pm by carlosjimenez
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