Blank Pages

[Anon]

Greetings.

I recently uploaded some E-Commerce scripts to my server for work, but when I tried to run them, every single script returned a blank page. I'm assuming it has to do with the config file every page is loading, and when i load the config file all i get is a blank page. What is wrong?

[Anon]

I suppose the include statements fail. Are the included files in the same directory ? Did you check the include_path PHP option ?

[Anon]

Well, for some reason, the include file keeps timing out whenever I try to load it by itself, so there must be a problem with it. I'll post the full source here, if any of you can help me, please do:

<?php
echo "beginning";
/ turn on verbose error reporting (15) to see all warnings and errors /
error_reporting(15);

/ define a generic object /
class object {};

/ setup the configuration object /
$CFG = new object;

$CFG->dbhost = "localhost";
$CFG->dbname = "hpg";
$CFG->dbuser = "hpg";
$CFG->dbpass = "stacbr";

$CFG->wwwroot = "hpg.ehnet.org/contacts";
$CFG->dirroot = "var/virtual/hpg.ehnet.org/html/contacts";
$CFG->templatedir = $CFG->dirroot . "/templates";
$CFG->libdir = $CFG->dirroot . "/lib";
$CFG->imagedir = $CFG->wwwroot . "/images";

$CFG->wordlist = $CFG->libdir . "/wordlist.txt";
$CFG->support = "[e-mail]";
echo "middle";
/ define database error handling behavior, since we are in development stages
we will turn on all the debugging messages to help us troubleshoot */
$DB_DEBUG = true;
$DB_DIE_ON_FAIL = true;

/ load up standard libraries /
require("/lib/stdlib.php");
require("/lib/dblib.php");
require("/lib/coolib.php");
require("/lib/cart.php");

/ setup some global variables /
$ME = qualified_me();

/ start up the sessions, to keep things clean and manageable we will just
use one array called SESSION to store our persistent variables. */
session_start();
session_register("SESSION");

/ initialize the SESSION variable if necessary /
if (! isset($SESSION)) {
$SESSION = array();
}

/ initialize the CART objct if necessary /
if (! isset($SESSION["cart"])) {
$SESSION["cart"] = new Cart;
}

/ connect to the database /
db_connect($CFG->dbhost, $CFG->dbname, $CFG->dbuser, $CFG->dbpass);
echo "end";
?>

The three echo statements were added by me to try to debug the script.

[Anon]

There are many included scripts :

require("/lib/stdlib.php");
require("/lib/dblib.php");
require("/lib/coolib.php");
require("/lib/cart.php");

Did you put them in the right directory ?

[Anon]

Yes, they are all in the right directory

[Anon]

Does anyone have any ideas at all, I am really desperate and I need this for work.

[Anon]

Do this:

create a php page with this in it:

<script language=php>
phpinfo();
</script>

I used the <script> tag because your php server may not be built with the <?php...?> on. Although most likely it is but who knows...I don't. 🙂

When you save this as filename.php try to get it with your browser. If nothing comes up then Im willing to bet your apache server is built inproperly. This is where I would start. If you've alreay checked to make sure the php server works right then I guess I just typed all this in vain eh? 🙂 But since we know so little about your setup I figured this would be the best place to start.

• Jim

[Anon]

I know for a fact that it works because I have used countless other scripts on this server.