Fatal error: input in flex scanner

Anon

Anyone ever run into this? I've got one php script that builds my content pages. Each article has several pages. For the first page, everything is ok. When I try to click on the link that I've generated it registers the following: Fatal error: input in flex scanner failed in /usr/local/lib/php on line 1

In essence, I would like to loop through the same article_builder.php page to build each page. In order to pass the url for the next page, I use the ? operator and http_get_vars to recieve.

Is it not legal to continually loop through the same script to build consecutive pages using http_get_vars to pass the variable? Should I use a session instead?

Anon

Looping is perfectly legal. But why are you using http_get_vars? The variables should just "show up" in php. I.e. if you submit a form to a page in PHP with an input field like so:

then the page you call should have a var named test set to hooray just like you put this line at the top of the file:

$test="hooray";

Anon

It is always better to do it as a form, as Scott suggested.
You dont get unwanted results from browsers "guessing" the URL. I once wrote a script with the URL/variables administration.php?do=delete. You migth guess what happend if someone hits return to fast...

But i still have to say...
The URL can contain variables just like forms and cookies.

admin.php?tests=hooray would send the var $test containing the value hooray and is called just as $test.

Anon

This error would appear to be a file open error. I had a variable inside an include statement that would work out the first time through but not the second. There was an error in my logic (hard to believe at 1:30am 🙂 that prevented the variable inside the include from pointing to a valid file. It's a strange error though. Normally you get the "Couldn't open file for inclusion.." deal. Thanks for everyones help.

Anon

ditto - its 12:39am and I just did the same thing... thanks for the help

daath

Not many people use it, but you can turn register globals off, so variables HAS to be referred by $HTTP(etc) vars...
Some people actually consider it nice to use the $HTTP(etc) vars, so you know where they are from!
I don't 😉

(No reality in my mail)