[Resolved] Quirky PHP error

ssollow

We've had a simple PHP/MySQL calendar running for about two months now and have had no problems with it. Until today, and it's very quirky.

A user is getting a page of jibberish, much as one would get if the page loaded and PHP weren't installed (I get if try to view the page locally, for instance, since PHP is only on the remote server). If she clicks from our .js scripted menu, the error crops up. If she clicks from the .js scripted footer menu, the error doesn't.

The OS is WinNT with Internet Explorer. I haven't seen any mention of a similiar problem and so... have thrown this out for help. She also gets the same error with Win2000 and IE... which is what I'm running as well, and I get no errors at all.

Thanks,

Steph

rehfeld

so you havent actually experienced this problem, just a visitor to your website?

what exactly is "jibberish"

html code?
php code?

can you post a sample?

ssollow

I haven't seen the problem myself exactly, no. If I were to view the same page on my local machine with no MySQL and no PHP installed, I do, but live on the server, no. "Jibberish" was her word... what shows is the straight HTML (not PHP generated) as it should (header, menus, text) and then the PHP code that would otherwise display the HTML laying out the table. Something like this:

"; exit; } $query = "select * from tblEvents"; $result = mysql_db_query ("gsdatabase", $query); if ($result){ echo "

"; switch(intval($_REQUEST['order'])) { case 1: default: $order = 'EDate'; break; case 2: $order = 'EName'; break; case 3: $order = 'ELevel'; break; case 4: $order = 'EType'; break; } if (intval

and so forth (these aren't consecutive snippets, I just cut and pasted at random) ... I'm beginning to think, after further thought and testing that it's not a PHP error at all... Here's the URL

www.gsspanishtrails.org

Clicking Events Calendar from the left menu creates a corrupted page for this person ... the menu is the result of two .js scripts working together...

Clicking Events Calendar from the bottom of the page - the footer - doesn't produce the results... that is single .js file with simple document.write statments in it...

So... I'm thinking that it's a javascript and IE permissions set issue not PHP...

However, other PHP pages launched from the same menu, using
the same database, work fine for her... so, I'm not certain the javascript is the problem either. And, apparantly if she links to the page directly by typing in the whole path in the URL, it works fine.

Steph

Roger_Ramjet

Tell her to clear her browser cache, I'll bet that clears it.

ssollow

That's what I thought, too. She tried it, but it didn't. I figured that was what it was, that she visited once while there was an error in my coding and the browser wouldn't forget it, since the date on the sample she sent me was 1/18 and the last update, and currently displayed date, was 1/26...

Thanks :-)

Steph

ssollow

The answer is strange, but I think I've resolved it and want to share that resolution so if someone else somewhere gets the same thing... they'll find an answer. 🙂

Our domain is a virtual domain, by which I mean underlying it
is the hosting company's domain and our directory under it.
And if one types in one of these URLs: www.empirenet.com/stgsc or www.cyberg8t.com/stgsc, the database doesn't work (our host has gobbled up other hosting companies and so both URLs otherwise work since they are pointing to the same physical location).

So, of course, I'll add something that redirects folks using that URL to the real URL and hopefully that will stop the problem from being revealed. (though if I can tell the PHP interpeter or the database that the other URLs are okay, too, that might be a better, browser friendly solution).

Thanks,

Steph