Hi, I just bought a php script that uses mysql. There have been a few bumps, but I've basically got everything installed and functioning. This is the problem: I noticed that people who registered for my site were getting forwarded to a demo site when they clicked the link in their email to confirm the site registration. I went into the database dump file and edited the piece of data that sent people to the wrong site. I (this was probably a mistake) deleted the mysql database and created a new one, and dumped the corrected file into it. Now when I try to log in to admin, I get a message that my license is invalid. I did verify with the person I purchased the software from that my license is active and all. I'd really appreciate any help, and if necessary I'm willing to hire a freelancer to fix this. If I do that, I'd like that person to teach me how to change the database in the future without making this happen again. Also, I'm sure that the company that makes the software will be willing to confirm my license is valid. They just don't seem to be setup to provide support for tech issues. Thanks! Leah
Why did you delete the database and create a new one if you just needed to change a value in a column of the existing database? Maybe i'm misinterpretting your question. I assume that this url was just a plain text value in your running database? As for the licence, can you get it reissued? If the seller knows that you did indeed pay for the product i'm sure they would oblige if the licence has been corrupted.
It was a bad idea to delete the whole database. I didn't immediately see the way to fix it, and I figured that it was simpler to just start anew. I now see the error of my ways Yes, probably the guy I bought it from will eventually reset it. However, I got this script very cheap from him and he doesn't seem to market it/work on it anymore. Everytime I send him an email, it takes him a week to respond. He told me before that my server will only call his server once to check the validity of the license, and I'm guessing that if I can get the server to just reauthenticate then it will work. I don't know if my guess is right, I'm extremely new at this. I can see when I login to my account on the site I bought the software from that my license is still valid. Thanks