PRESTIGE TRADERS — MODERN PHP STAGING BUILD v0.3
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This is an upgrade candidate derived from prestige_portal_with_private_chat.zip.

WHAT IS WORKING IN THIS PACKAGE:
- Navy left navigation and responsive modern styling across existing PHP pages.
- Integrated typographic Prestige gold monogram (not a low-resolution sticker).
- New dashboard.php using REAL existing MySQL order records.
- Existing login, orders, reports, team chat and private chat carried forward.
- Security fix: factory users cannot alter an order's status through order.php.
- Buyer remains view-only in the existing order page.

WHAT IS NOT YET IMPLEMENTED:
- Per-style/color/size PO lines, quantity-based eight-stage production tracking.
- Append-only factory quantity submissions, reference artwork and shipping uploads.
- Production-grade user administration, completed QA and full security review.
- Dashboard shows actual PO counts and quantities, NOT stage-specific actual production output.

STAGING ONLY — DO NOT OVERWRITE THE LIVE PORTAL.
1. Make a verified backup of files and database.
2. Create a separate staging directory and a CLONED staging MySQL database.
3. Copy the package's app/, public/, sql/ and INSTALL.md to the staging directory.
4. Supply a new config.php for the CLONED database only; never reuse production credentials in shared files.
5. Set the staging web document root to the package's public/ directory.
6. Apply only the SQL migrations absent from the cloned schema. Do NOT rerun migrations blindly.
7. Verify admin, factory, buyer, order, chat and report functions on staging before any live deployment.
8. Protect staging with hosting-level authentication and keep it unindexed.

No changes have been made to GoDaddy hosting or the live domain.