unexported method can be run inside of local package but not outside

prints passed in value twice

* // WARNING: this will not work since the ... is not on the last parameter in function signature // throws error: syntax error: cannot use ... with n

validateEmail validates email re returns error that is safe to share with the user

validateEmail validates email re returns error that is safe to share with the user

validateEmail validates email re returns error that is safe to share with the user

validatePassword checks level of entropy of password

validateUsername checks username only has alphanumeric characters and if sufficient length, errors are safe to share with user

validateUsername checks username only has alphanumeric characters and if sufficient length, errors are safe to share with user

validateUsername checks username only has alphanumeric characters and if sufficient length, errors are safe to share with user

CanCashPr converts Canadian price to cash price (no 1 cent coins)

ChPswdGETHandler displays for to make password change

even if user is logged in, we ask for the password again incase user was away from keyboard but still logged in

EmailExists checks if email address exists in db

EmailExists checks if email address exists in db

Len is the number of elements in the collection.

Swap swaps the elements with indexes i and j.

needs to be capitalized to run outside of package

Less reports whether the element with index i should sort before the element with index j.

TestHello checks if "Hello World" is returned

check session for logged in done with middleware Auth()

accCreateHandler creates new user in database

accEditHandler render edit profile page

accEditVefHandler render edit profile page

accEmailVerHandler serves form for registring new users

route: /account/forgotpw renders form for recovering account via email

route: /account/forgotpw/validate checks if email exists for this account and send email if exists (do not want to send unsolicited emails)

route: /account/forgotpw/verify verify u.verPassword and update db

route: /account/forgotpw/change render form to change password and passes auth info into the path in the form's action

accLoginHandler serves form for users to login with

accLoginVerHandler authenticates user login

accNewHandler serves form for registring new users

accProfileHandler renders Profile page

pass by copy

askGetHandler displays field to ask chatGPT questions

askPostHandler asks chatGPT question from user and serves response

auth middleware

auth middleware checks if logged in by looking at session

auth middleware checks if logged in by looking at session

auth middleware checks if logged in by looking at session

* c.BindJSON(&newGohper) -binds JSON to struct pointer -we handle any errors */

* A Decoder reads and decodes JSON values from an input stream. NewDecoder returns a new decoder that reads from r. The decoder introduces its own buf

receives pointer (memory address) of original struct

creates copy of type and passes it to the function, not the original