OpenGL SOIL - Failure to Load Texture - c++

Question

I'm following this tutorial step by step and I even copy-pasted the entire code but it still fails to load the texture. Here's my code, the parts that concern the question:
GLuint texture;
glGenTextures(1, &texture);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture); // All upcoming GL_TEXTURE_2D operations now have effect on this texture object
// Set the texture wrapping parameters
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_REPEAT); // Set texture wrapping to GL_REPEAT (usually basic wrapping method)
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_REPEAT);
// Set texture filtering parameters
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_LINEAR);
// Load image, create texture and generate mipmaps
int width, height;
unsigned char* image = SOIL_load_image("container.jpg", &width, &height, 0, SOIL_LOAD_RGB);
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGB, width, height, 0, GL_RGB, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, image);
glGenerateMipmap(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
SOIL_free_image_data(image);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0); // Unbind texture when done, so we won't accidentily mess up our texture.
And here are my shaders:
#version 330 core
in vec3 ourColor;
in vec2 TexCoord;
out vec4 color;
uniform sampler2D ourTexture;
void main()
{
color = texture(ourTexture, TexCoord);
}
And
#version 330 core
layout (location = 0) in vec3 position;
layout (location = 1) in vec3 color;
layout (location = 2) in vec2 texCoord;
out vec3 ourColor;
out vec2 TexCoord;
void main()
{
gl_Position = vec4(position, 1.0f);
ourColor = color;
TexCoord = texCoord;
}
I'm using SOIL to load image data. Is it too outdated? What should I do?

Answer 1

The tutorial code you are following seems to be wrong since it does not call glActiveTexture nor glUniform. See the game loop code of the other file at end of the tutorial.
Maybe you are missing something like this:
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
glUniform1i(glGetUniformLocation(ourShader.Program, "ourTexture"), 0);