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  1. Hi Larry,

     

    First of all this Effortless E-Commerce has been very helpful in my understanding of build e-commerce sites. I truly feel it is the best resource out there on the subject. I am new to PHP and MySQL, and your books have helped me learn in a short period of time.

     

    My question has to do with .htaccess and mod_rewrite. I am using Yahoo Small Business as a host (for now), but they do not allow .htaccess. I know it would be easier for me to change hosting services, but I cannot at the moment, so I need to find a way around this problem.

     

    You stated on page 175 under the Tips sidebar that 'If you can’t use mod_rewrite on your server, just skip this section and change every URL in the HTML files accordingly.' Where exactly would I change these URLs? Is there an alternative to this similar to the alternatives for the stored procedures? Thank you in advance.

     

  2. This could be me being a total newbie, but when I was testing the registration and the reset password pages, I don't receive an email when testing both pages.

     

    I registered three email addresses and the validation email didn't arrive for any of them. Everything else works for me as it is supposed to, but it seems to be a problem with the mail function. To my novice eyes it looks correct.

     

    I won't bother to post all of the page code, except for the mail function from the registration.php page. Is there any reason why this function won't send a validation email?

     

     

     

    // Send a separate email?

    $body = "Thank you for registering at <whatever site>. Blah. Blah. Blah.\n\n";

    mail($_POST['email'], 'Registration Confirmation', $body, 'From: admin@example.com');

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