Server Problems

nkyoung1

Hello,

I have a site that's on http://www.kirkyoung.net/WWWQuizMaker/ and it works fine. When it's on http://www.usj.tn.org/WWWQuizMaker/ it loads half the script but it won't process when the submit button is pressed.

I have attached the script and all files involved in a .zip file. I can't understand why it won't work because it's not a MySQL script, it's a basic form submission and processing script which does not require any writing permissions to the server.

Thanks,

Kirk

nkyoung1

Any thoughts/clues on what the problem is?

khaine

When you say won't process what does it do?

When I hit the submit button it refreshes the current screen but loses all the checkboxes. Is that correct?

😕

Mark.

rklapwijk

Or on both server the register_globals on?
on serve may require $HTTP_POST_VARS["action"], while the other just need $_SERVER["action"] or $action.

I guess thats the problem when it just "reloads" the page. It doesn't recognizes that it should "do" something.

nkyoung1

What do I change? Is there an error in the coding? Should I add something? Can you guide me through this becuase I'm new to PHP.

rklapwijk

In the index.php on line 87 there's this code:

if (isset($_SESSION['wordlist']);
the purpose of this code is, to see if there's a session, if so, it shows the links at the bottom. The session is set when you press the button, when there's no session, no links.

There's where it goes wrong.

The first server creates a session when you press the button, so it works fine.

On the second server, it doesn't make a session. I'll explain later how this could be. So no session is mabe it thinks nothing has happend so it shows you the same screen without the 2 links.

There are several things why no session has been made.
- has been disabled in the configuration settings (php,ini)
- register_globals (option in php.ini) has been turned off, so $_SESSION['wordlist'] doesn't work, should be $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["wordlist"]
- problems with the server

so it can be loads of things. I suggest you to try to change $_SESSION['wordlist'] to $HTTP_SESSION_VARS["wordlist"].
If that doesn't work ask the server admin if one of these things are turned off.

hope this helps you