Week 006 — Root Cause, Login, and a Git Branch That Lied
The avatar image bug gets a proper post-mortem, login goes from nothing to mostly working in a week, and a git branch mysteriously loses changes.
The avatar image bug gets a proper post-mortem, login goes from nothing to mostly working in a week, and a git branch mysteriously loses changes.
The fetch/FormData image problem finally gives way, the site gets a header, and the focus shifts entirely to something new — users.
Less than a month in and already restructuring. The $_FILES problem forces a rethink of how item saves work, leading to a cleaner fetch()-based approach.
A silently failing delete function leads to a fundamental lesson about PHP variable scope that would stick for the rest of the project.
The first feature lands — items can be created and images uploaded. A UUID utility gets born, and the QR code question appears for the first time.