Here vs. There...

dalecosp

Here's a function to print 'unexpired' content...

function PrintCurrentArticles($HowMany) {

$HowMany++;

for($n=1; $n<$HowMany; $n++) {

$File=("/www/articles/article"."$n".".txt");

$Open=fopen($File, "r");

if ($Open) {
$Content = fread($Open, 1000);
$ExpireDate=substr($Content, -17, -2);
$ExpireSeconds=strtotime($ExpireDate);
$Now = time();

if ($Now > $ExpireSeconds) { $n++;
fclose($Open); }
else { echo $Content;
echo " ";
fclose($Open);
$Content=""; }
} # end of 'if open'
else {echo ' Unable to include $File at present. '; }
} # end loop --- for
} #end function

...which works on one box and not another. I can't find
any reason why....

working box: apache 1.3.27/mod_php4.2.3
non-working box: apache 1.3.26/php 4.1.1

I'm upgrading the older box today, mostly to get this working,
(but why tempt the haxorz, anyhow?) but I'm wondering if it's
gonna help with this issue....

Anyone see anything version-specific about this code?

TIA,
Dalecosp

Hmmmm.... me wonder why I used $n in TWO places...

bbaassiri

doesn't seem to be anything about ur code that is version specific

do they files reside in the exact same place

Weedpacket

What does the broken one do instead of working?

dalecosp

Originally posted by Weedpacket
What does the broken one do instead of working?

Good question, sorry I left that out of the original post. The answer is: nothing...there is no output and no error message. My next step will be to verify the content of some of the $vars.

Thanks, gentlemen...

dalecosp

As so often in debugging, a comedy of errors.

What is really came down to was

fread($Open, 1000);

The content of the "working" site consisted mainly of small "teaser" type articles, which those at "non-working" site were somewhat larger. So the $ExpireDate was being taken from the "middle" of the article, rather than the date tagged at the end. With a bad value for $ExpireDate, no content was being 'echoed.' Changing the "fread" value to 4000 has solved it for time being.

Thanks to all who gave time to this. PHP Builder is becoming a great place to browse...I am committed to Open Source where and whenever possible, and you are demonstrating that the PHP community is a trusted and compassionate group of individuals working together for the common good.....

dalecosp