help with php calling, first time ever and completely lost.

dvdsecretz

hey guys

hope someone can help. i am very new to php and have no experience whatsoever. i am stuck and lost on php calling, searched on here for help but what i found i couldnt understand much.

i have a phpbb2 forum community and have just installed a php poll script, the test works great but when i try and call php on my main forum index page it just doesnt appear.

when i create a new poll, it tells me to use the following code:

<?php
include("poll.php"); run_poll("1029507284", $HTTP_POST_VARS, "");
?>

using the above there are no changes to the page.

include("poll.php"); < in this bit i have tried several server paths but i am unsure how they work

my poll.php is stored in > /public_html/add/poll/ < thats the path thats shown on my ftp when i am uploading poll files

after trying the path /public_html/add/poll/poll.php still nothing appears

can anyone help? where am i going wrong?

thanks in advance

DvD

undertow

The problem might be the leading slash. Is your public_html folder really at the root of the filesystem or just the root of the web server? If it's the former, then you need to use a different style of path, like a relative path using ".." (which goes up a directory level) and no leading slash.

dvdsecretz

Originally posted by undertow

The problem might be the leading slash. Is your public_html folder really at the root of the filesystem or just the root of the web server? If it's the former, then you need to use a different style of path, like a relative path using ".." (which goes up a directory level) and no leading slash.

thanks for the reply m8

this is the path thats shown on my ftp:

/public_html/add/poll/poll.php

but through a browser the path would be:

http://www.calliopetest.hmdns.net/~dvdmain7/add/poll/poll.php

do you have any idea what i should use, this is confusing the world out of me. i been at it over 4hours now 😕

thanks m8

DvD ;o)

dvdsecretz

any ideas guys?

Billster2K

I may be just quoting on a typo and please note that I have NO php experience, but with path issues, it really isn't.

You posted that you have a directory "add" which you didn't post that you used it in the URL ?

The public_html dir is YOUR root for YOUR web.

So, when you call it, you should include all sub-dirs after your tilda userid...IE:

http://www.calliopetest.hmdns.net/~...d/add/poll/poll.php

Notice, I have put he add in..

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Bill

Billster2K

I now see after my posting, that it doesn't like the word

a d d

For some reason...

Please disregard my previous message.

AHH...I just had to turn the Automatically parse URLs OFF 🙂

Cheers, Bill

undertow

Actually, I don't think either of those paths are what your looking for. When you're using include(), you give the path of the file on your computer, not the HTTP or FTP path.

On Windows, the path might look something like this: c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\add\poll\poll.php (I left the public_html out because I'm not sure if it's a real directory or if it's just an alias on your FTP site.

On Linux, the path might look something like this: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/add/poll/php.php (same as above for why I didn't say public_html).

If you really understand your directory structure on your computer as opposed to the HTTP/FTP directory structure, you can use relative paths such as "../add/poll/poll.php" (do not actually use that I just made it up). Otherwise, just use the exact location on your computer like in my first two examples.

Originally posted by dvdsecretz

thanks for the reply m8

this is the path thats shown on my ftp:

/public_html/add/poll/poll.php

but through a browser the path would be:

http://www.calliopetest.hmdns.net/~dvdmain7/add/poll/poll.php

--

do you have any idea what i should use, this is confusing the world out of me. i been at it over 4hours now 😕

thanks m8

DvD ;o)

dvdsecretz

thats ok man, thanks for the help anyway

this thing is ding my head in, just dun wanna work 🙁

Billster2K

Well, I'm sure he is on a linux/unix box, as he is quoting public_html which is the html root for a user on a system.
The public_html directory exists in the users home directory and is concidered the root for their web presence.
When you call it:
http://www.webserver.com/~userid

So, suppose his userid id BILL and his home directory is in /home/users5/BILL, then the absolute path would be:

/home/users5/BILL/public_html/add/poll/poll.php

when called in the browser:
http://www.webserver.com/~BILL/add/poll/poll.php

BUT, I can't comment on how the code is calling what in the filesystem...yet 😉

Cheers, Bill

siwis

if an include() is failing, get it to shout the error message back to screen with an echo. That way you'll be shoiwn the abs path for the script anyway, from where it should be possible to work out th abs path for your poll.

Is it not possible to drop the poll script into the same folder as your BBS?