Fresh INstall but Old PHP files that USED to work .. NOW DONT

Chadian22

I had a foxserv installation before and all my PHP files worked. Foxserv was 4.2.2 for PHP and my current is 4.3.11 I noticed now when i went to do my own PHp/apache stuff, that i had some problems. I had to change my includes from include("/includes/blog.php") to include("includes/blog.php") .. But now im also getting all this constant stuff and I'm tempted to downgrade but I'd prefer not to. Any help would be great, cause I've had apache problems before, and now i've got PHp problems, I cant seem to escape. nooooooooo

tekky

how about a copy and paste of an error and its related php file? preferably using the propper

 tags

Chadian22

http://chadian22.no-ip.com/ << errors .
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/Transitional.dtd">
<?
include("includes/randomquote.php");
include("includes/googlebot.php");
include("includes/themes.php");
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<?
$link = $GET['link'];
$id = $GET['id'];
if (!isset($link)){
$link = "blog";
}
mysql_connect("localhost","root","************");
mysql_select_db("blog");
if ( (isset($id)) && ( ($link == "blog") OR ($link=="articles") ) ) {
$query = "select title from $link where id = $id" ;
$result = mysql_query($query);
$title = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$title = $title['title'];
$title = str_replace("<i>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("</i>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("<b>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("</b>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("<u>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("</u>", "",$title);

}
elseif((isset($id)) & ($link == "mailto")){
$query = "select title from blog where id = $id" ;
$result = mysql_query($query);
$title = mysql_fetch_array($result);
$title = $title['title'];
$title = str_replace("<i>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("</i>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("<b>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("</b>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("<u>", "",$title);
$title = str_replace("</u>", "",$title);
}
?>
<TITLE>CHADian : Coming to You from Nowhere <? print " ["."$link";
if (isset($title)){print " - $title";}
?>]
</TITLE>
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="chadian22, leduc, chadian, canadian, canada, chadian22@hotmail.com">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="Chadian - useless links, posts, gallery pictures and much more">
<LINK href="<? print $css ; ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

<script type="text/javascript">
function theme(choice)
{
popup=window.open('/themes/index.php?theme='+choice+'','popup','width=200,height=50');
if (window.focus) {popup.focus()}

}
</script>

</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?
include("includes/randomquote.php");
?>
<div class="container">
<div class="header">
<? echo $headerpic; ?>
</div>
<? include("includes/menu.php"); ?>
<div class="inhalt">
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="inhaltclear">
<div style="width:auto; padding-top:4px; padding-bottom:4px;padding-left:2px;padding-right:2px;border: 2px solid #488AC7;background-color:#98AFC7;color:white;">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- hide this script tag's contents from old browsers

today = new Date();

BigDay = new Date("May 19, 2005")
msPerDay = 24 60 60 1000 ;
timeLeft = (BigDay.getTime() - today.getTime());
e_daysLeft = timeLeft / msPerDay;
daysLeft = Math.floor(e_daysLeft);
e_hrsLeft = (e_daysLeft - daysLeft)24;
hrsLeft = Math.floor(e_hrsLeft);
minsLeft = Math.floor((e_hrsLeft - hrsLeft)*60);
document.write("There are only <b>" + daysLeft + " days </b> Until <b><a href=\"http://www.greenday.com\">Green Day</a> in concert at Rexall</b><P>");

// -- done hiding from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT"><!-- hide this script tag's contents from old browsers

today = new Date();

BigDay = new Date("May 27, 2005")
msPerDay = 24 60 60 1000 ;
timeLeft = (BigDay.getTime() - today.getTime());
e_daysLeft = timeLeft / msPerDay;
daysLeft = Math.floor(e_daysLeft);
e_hrsLeft = (e_daysLeft - daysLeft)24;
hrsLeft = Math.floor(e_hrsLeft);
minsLeft = Math.floor((e_hrsLeft - hrsLeft)*60);
document.write("There are only <b>" + daysLeft + " days</b> Until <b><a href=\"http://www.ycgeneration.com\">the YC</a></b><P>");

// -- done hiding from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>
</div>
<? include("includes/links.php"); ?>
</div>
</div>
<? include("includes/footer.php"); ?>
</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Chadian22

the errors go in to the includes as well, but the errors are related to the same thing with variables or something even on the main index page

tekky

your error is coming from you not CHECKING for valid input before trying to use said input

if you look at this...
here...

you will notice that 2 of the errors are now gone.... because I supplied the needed input to fix it...

start using ISSET($_GET['varname']) before trying to use the variable.... it will fix those problems before they start....

Chadian22

oh ok .. i was using a mix of that isset and .. if ($var != "") { } or if ($var != NULL){ } ...

Chadian22

It turns out that yes, you have to define your variables or check if they exist or w/e like mentioned previously, but this isn't required, it is only a notice .. meaning you can turn this off and most of the pages you will still work, just go start > run php.ini and edit it to do ALL WARNINGS as stated in the example of the php.ini , notices just show you the picky things with your code.

tekky

Originally posted by Chadian22
....notices just show you the picky things with your code.

yah but ideally you should write your code to have NO warnings or errors... we dont want to give the youngin's the impression that its proper to do that by any means.

Chadian22

lol i guess. But my page http://chadian22.no-ip.com/ had some things about variables not being defined .. and its not that big of a deal, everything still functions great and i dont really feel like defining every variable, just cause the project is done, but yeah, if you're just started a project, thats a good habit to get into.