unconfigured php

SOYBOY

or rather i'm not entirely sure of the problem at all. i'm running spidercount http://www.john117.com/code/script.php?id=1 and i've tried countless other counters and i have this prevailing problem where my counter will not go BEYOND the 1st hit, and if it does it either goes back to 0 or stays there or messes up or somethign, but i installed the counter the exact same style and it worked on my other php server and i have no idea why it worked and my other server won't. i'm not using php cgi so i have no idea why it's doing this. hehe please help. thanks

oh btw my site that doesnt work is http://ragthree.com

tsinka

Hi,

maybe a permission problem or somethink like that.
Do you get any errors if you put

ini_set("error_reporting",E_ALL);

on top of your script(s) ?

Thomas

SOYBOY

let me see

SOYBOY

i got

Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /home/liberi/public_html/ragnarok/counter.php on line 20

i may have done it wrong

tsinka

Hi,

you need to specify the number of bytes you want to read (I think the filesize in this case) when using fread. So check if something wrong with the code that sets that variable.

Thomas

SOYBOY

wow i'm sorry i'm realyl slow with this kinda thing, can you tell me how to specify the number of bytes to run it? i'm really bad with php

tsinka

Hi,

I think it's the line

$count = fread($fp_count, filesize($file));

Since filesize($file) is 0 I think that the file count.txt is missing ($file = "count.txt"😉. Just create one with e.g. just a 0 in it.

Additionally, create the file called ips.txt (it can be empty, just needs to exist).

The code needs some improvement. It might be better to change the code so that it checks if the files exist and creates them if not.

Thomas

SOYBOY

oh yeah, well i already had count.txt and ips.txt created and it usually already had the number in it. and it still will only count only one hit though 🙁 and the counter works on my other server so i'm confused and not sure if its the script thats the problem

tsinka

Hi,

please post your version of the counter.php script. Line 20 is a comment in the original script.

Thomas

SOYBOY

http://www.ragthree.com/misc/Counter.zip

tsinka

Hi,

that script works on my server.
What do you get if you add this line in front of the fread line:

echo "file size: ".filesize($count)."<br>\n"

Thomas

SOYBOY

may i ask what the fread line is and how this fixes it? out of curiosity i dont doubt you but you know i just want to know what was wrong

tsinka

This is part of the code in counter.php

// get the current hit count
$fp_count = fopen($file, "r");
$count = fread($fp_count, filesize($file));
fclose($fp_count);

The error message you posted
Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0. in /home/liberi/public_html/ragnarok/counter.php on line 20

meant that the second parameter of fread was 0. So I assume that the file count.txt was empty. I think it that it existet at all because fopen was successful.

I tried the counter.php script with a count.txt file which just contained a 0 and the counter worked without any problems on my server.

While writing this I testet the code with an empty count.txt file and the counter didn't work.
Hmm ... seems like the counter script doesn't like any line feeds in the count.txt file. So to initialize the count.txt file execute the following command on the shell:

echo -n 0 > count.txt

Then set the permissions of that file so that the web server can write to it.

That counter.php script definitively needs some tweaking...

Thomas

SOYBOY

oh man, this just isnt working 🙁 , so i put that at the end of my script

but that didnt really work either. and then i tried other scripts and they all give me thes same problem. exactly. nothing past 1. do you have aim or something? i just dont understand and i might be readin you wrong

{
	// get a digit from the hit count
	$digit = substr("$count", $i, 1);

// print the image for that digit
echo "<img src=images/digits/$digit.$imgExtension>";
}

echo -n 0 > count.txt 

?>

tsinka

Sorry,

I wasn't clear enough about the echo ...

Leave the code as it is in the counter.php script and execute that echo line on a shell (telnet/ssh to the server and change to the directory where count.txt is).

Alternatively create a PHP script that does something like

<?PHP
system("echo -n 0 > count.txt");
?>

Place it in the directory where count.txt is and execute it once.

Thomas

SOYBOY

oh god i feel so guilty a'bout having you helping me this long but you cant fathom how grateful i am. but there are still two questons i have. i have access to my cpanel but i've never used it to actually edit the shell in 🙁 and i dont know if i can do that in phpmyadmin either. also whe nyou say directory you mean something like this /home/liberi/public_html/ragnarok/count.txt right?

tsinka

Yes,

that directory. Did you try to create a PHP script that just executes that command with e.g. the system or passthru command ?

Thomas

SOYBOY

not yet, is the shell command mandatory before i do that?

tsinka

I tried to use that counter and found out that the file count.txt had to contain at least a 0. I then created the file with an editor. After that the script contained a 0 with a line feed.

The counter doesn't work properly if that file contains anything else than that digits (like e.g. \r or \r\n).

Try the file I attached to this post (zipped, don't edit the file)

I wonder if there are better counter scripts out there ... no, I'm pretty sure 😉

Thomas

SOYBOY

hmm, man i cant believe it, it iddnt work. again. i think the problem has to do with my php settings or something because every counter i install has teh same problem. do you have aim so we can talk about this quicker ha? if for privacy reasons i understand completely. i cant believe all this for to understand this stupid php glitch.