Error message can you help?

padawan

This is the error message I get:

Warning: main(latestspend_all.inc.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/thehourlyhyip.com/latestspend.php on line 8

Warning: main(): Failed opening 'latestspend_all.inc.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/www/thehourlyhyip.com/latestspend.php on line 8

Here is the page it is in reference to:

<?
include "config.inc.php";
$dbconn = db_open();
if(!$dbconn) exit;
include "html.head.inc.php";
?>
<?
include "latestspend_all.inc.php";
?>
<?

db_close($dbconn);
?>

Can you tell me what's wrong?

AIS4U

padawan:

Well, I don't know what you have going on here, but usually include files do not have two extensions. They would NOT be called config.inc.php but just config.inc.

A header file that you were going to include would NOT be html.head.inc.php, but rather head.inc.

And the same with latestspend_all.inc.php. Dump the .php and just have latestspend_all.inc.

Other than that, I don't have any idea.

padawan

AIS4U wrote:
padawan:

Well, I don't know what you have going on here, but usually include files do not have two extensions. They would NOT be called config.inc.php but just config.inc.

A header file that you were going to include would NOT be html.head.inc.php, but rather head.inc.

And the same with latestspend_all.inc.php. Dump the .php and just have latestspend_all.inc.

Other than that, I don't have any idea.

I'll give it a try thanks for the info.

padawan

I know it is hard to tell what is going on but here is a copy of what all my pages look like:

database folder
images folder
admaccount.inc.php
admaccount.php
admrate.php
balance.php
bonus.php
config.inc.php
dbconnect.inc.php
earning.inc.php
earning.php
editplan1.php
editplan2.php
editplanex.php
estatus.php
faq.inc.php
faq.php
forgot.php
forum.php
function.inc.php
html.foot.inc.php
html.head.inc.php
index.php
latestspend.inc.php
latestspend.php
layout.inc.php
lib.js
login.inc.php
logout.php
massmsg.php
menu.inc.php
menu.php
menuleft.inc.php
month.clause.inc.php
month.input.inc.php

and the list goes on but as you can see I've highlighted some of the files that seem to be the same except for the .inc ending?

That is all I know other that it comes up with the "warning" message above

AIS4U

padawan:

Yes, I can see from the names of your files that you have a lot of them with more than one ending extension like .inc.php.

And, I am not saying that they won't work. It is just that I have never seen files like that used in PHP before.

I think there is a possibility that whoever wrote the program named the files that way so anyone using the program could see what was used to creat the files. By that I mean, you could have an inc file written in some other scripting language and the program creator just stuck on the .php extension to let a user know it is a php file.

The same for the header and footer files that are prefixed with html. I think that is just to let a user know that these file were created with html. However, when the inc files are called I am pretty sure they should be called with only the inc extension.

You can check out the PHP Manual here:http://www.php.net/docs.php

Or get some tutorials here: http://www.w3schools.com/

Weedpacket

AIS4U wrote:
It is just that I have never seen files like that used in PHP before.

It's still fairly common (it seems less common now, at least, it used to be more common). It's simply done so that files can be identified as (a) include files (and not pages themselves), and (b) someone breaches the site's security by requesting a file that ends with ".inc" doesn't just get served up with the PHP source code (much simpler than configuring the server to process .inc files as PHP also). The fact that it also identifies the include file as a PHP include file is a bonus point (c).

As for the original problem: where in that list is "latestspend_all.inc.php"? I see a "latestspend.php" and a "latestspend.inc.php", but I can't find a "latestspend_all.inc.php". Neither can PHP, which is why it says "No such file or directory in....".

padawan

Hey guys

Thanks for your help I see what you are saying. So I need a "latestspend_all.inc.php" created right? Sounds easy enough (If I knew PHP) LOL.

I will try and contact the person I got the Script from and see if they can help! I hoope they can.

Thanks again for your help