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O M G!!!!!

Mr. Stern:
I do apologize.
I forgot to thank you for recommending the Ultimate-Member plugin, so thank you for your most gracious input.

It appears to have terrible one-star reviews.

Yes.
Thank you again, Davood, for all your most gracious wisdom and input.

Your “custom” thingy is lookin’ better all the time. Your comment on “bloat” is jerkin’ my chain. The simpler the better, even if I have to pay for it.

I’ll continue workin’ in that direction and maybe contact a few local folks as well.

Thanks again, and best wishes in all your endeavors!

Speaking of helping others, you might check out this site—my site. You may know someone, as well as yourself, who might be interested:

I’ve been lookin’ into the mp3 and video access thingy. Right now, Amazon S3 seems to make the most sense. It seems to be the easiest and most cost-effective solution to both the mp3 and the video question.

From what I understand so far, I can host the mp3 and video files on S3 and access them from the site, and present them ON the site, through links to the specific files. Apparently, there are plugins that allow me to upload mp3 and video files through the site and send them directly to S3. That would be ideal, as I could exercise control over mp3 and video size and such before they go to S3.

My major problem now is the membership thingy. I don’t need all the typical membership plugin functionality, where people become “members” so they can “access content” and all kinds of other stuff at different levels of membership and other such things on my site.

There IS no content—or anything else—for members to access on the site. There are no subscriptions, no newsletters, no so-called articles, no products, no ebooks—no nothin’ for “members” to access on the site. It’s just a database of information on people who are members.

I just need something that allows members to post a “profile” on the site, that they can edit and change whenever, for which they pay an annual “membership” fee. That’s it.

Then, I need to allow “non-members,” that is, the rest of us humble souls out here in the world, to search the profile information, using a filtered search, and view the profiles, on the site, that fit the search criteria. Like I said before: it’s basically like a product search on Amazon.

So, I don’t know. A standard, good, free membership plugin where members can post a profile for a membership fee may do the “profile” trick. Then, I’m guessing that the “search and presentation” thingy is a different issue that needs to be addressed separately.

Wow.
Everything you just said makes perfect sense….
Okay, so I need to change horses.
Thank you so much, Davood.
I’ll take your wisdom to heart.

Hey, Davood:
I appreciate all your most gracious help here; however, don’t burn a lot of daylight on this.

I can’t do custom plugins: No money for that, as I can’t build such programs myself. It’s gonna have to be stuff off the shelf that’s already out there.

Again, the basic problem I’m tryin’ to solve is this:
1. Users create profiles for a fee—like a membership thingy.
2. The rest of us non-members use a filtered search to find those profiles.

It’s something like Amazon or Indeed.com, where things gets posted, then, the rest of us can find those things using a filtered search. Searchin’ products; searchin’ profiles: same thing, basically.

I’m wonderin’ if a good existing membership plugin will provide all that, or would I need a good existing search plugin as well to search and display profiles?

To know things about the lives of the people who have profiles on the site.

I suppose I should look into vimeo and youtube.

Technical savvy? Well, I suppose that could be a problem, but the user will either have to have it or know someone who does, because the videos and mp3s are an important part of the profile.

Yeah. I thought I’d run into bandwidth and money problems with videos and mp3s at some point. I think I should maybe do some detailed research into the problems you present instead of continuing to wear you out with it.

However, aside from the problems presented by video and mp3 files, I still have to figure out what I need in order to collect profile information from the user, allow people to search that information, and then display that information to the searcher.

Do I need a membership plugin? Do I need a good multi-filter search form plugin to search the information? Do I need a good forms plugin to display the information? Or will a good membership plugin do all of that stuff?

The member user will create a profile by entering information, a photo, a short 2-3 minute video, and a 3-minute mp3 file in a “form” on a page.

The rest of us germs in the outside world can then use a filtered search to display that information, photo, video, and mp3 file.

It’s basically just a standard, searchable database.

The user setting up the profile must upload the photo/video/mp3 to the site with size, length, format, resolution, etc. restrictions that I control. So, I guess they have to reside on the server I’m on.

As for “user type,” I will assume “yes.” They will be the same.

Thanks for your help, Davood.

Yes. Thank you.
Basically what I mentioned in the post:
A photograph
A video
An mp3 file
Information about self
External links to sites
Contacts

That’s about it.

PROBLEM SOLVED.
Thanks again, Dion, for pointing me to the WAMP forum. That should have been the first place I looked.

DUH!

To solve the problem:
Start WAMP server.
Wait for the WAMP icon in the taskbar to turn green.
Left click on the icon.
Select PHP, php settings, upload_max_filesize,
Then change it.
This changes the setting in php.ini.

Lots of other stuff you can change here as well.
In all the time I’ve worked with WAMP, I never knew how to do this.
No longer any need to edit the php.ini file manually.
How ’bout that?

Thanks, Dion.
I’ll do that.

Hey, Dion:
Thanks again for taking a look at this.

I checked httpd.conf and didn’t see anything that looked obvious. Alas, I’m not much up to speed on what I’d be lookin’ for, but I know enough to dig.

I searched the httpd.conf file for “php” and “mod_php” and didn’t find anything that looked obvious. Same thing in the .htaccess files.

Am I restarting “Apache/PHP” after making changes?
Well, I don’t know. I don’t know how to do that by itself. However, whenever I Exit WAMP and restart it, I always wait for the little WAMP icon thingy in the taskbar to go from Red to Orange to Green, then I click on it to open the WAMP panel and select “Start All Services.”

Does that start “Apache/PHP”?

This has got me. It’s almost got to be a setting somewhere; however, when I set up this site, I just installed WAMP like I always have and done nothing to it except open the php.ini and change these values, like I always have. Strange.

I’m gonna reload all the core WAMP files and see if that does any good.

I appreciate any help anyone has to offer, here.

Yep.
That’s the one.
Done this many times over the years.
Always worked.
Don’t get it.
This is simple, chimpanzee stuff:

Open the php.ini file,
change upload_max_filesize to 20M,
change post_max_size to 25M,
memory_limit is already set to 128M,
save the file.
From there, everything I do fails.

Attempt song file upload through audio widget.
Warning:
“American BluesTrack01Various.mp3 exceeds the maximum upload size for this site.”
Song is 6.72M. WordPress says max upload size is 2M.

Log out of WP,
Log back in,
Attempt upload: Same message. WordPress says max upload size is 2M.

Close WAMP,
Reload WAMP,
Attempt upload: Same message. WordPress says max upload size is 2M.

Here’s the kicker:
Reopen php.ini,
The settings I changed are back to the default:
upload_max_filesize is 2M,
post_max_size is 8M.
Does this every time.

As I mentioned in the original post: Somehow, after I change and save the php.ini file, it always reverts back to the defaults when I exit and reload WAMP.

I’ve never seen this. Why does the php.ini file revert to defaults?

Thanks for your insights.