Something flaky is happening when I include my header???

[dmacman1962]

Hi all,

Something strange (that I cannot see how this is even REMOTELY related) is happening on these pages. I was trying to write some code to randomly choose 5 images from my database and display them and if I do NOT include the header for the page (which has NOTHING to do with the random code) I get no images from the database.

If I DO include the header, I get 5 random images ????????????????? HOW!!!???

Here is the page without the header included...

http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/rotater.php

Here is the page with the header...

http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/rotater2.php

What I am trying to do is write some code to choose a random image from the database and display it.

In reality, I have 5 images in a filmstrip in the header...

http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/index.php

and I am going to try to get the 1, 3 and 5th be people shots, and 2 and 4 be places. I know I can add a field and set it to either 0 or 1 and use that to limit it to a person or place. I am not sure how to do that, but I am sure the answer is here on the forum somewhere.

Just thought this 'header include' issue was a weirdo thing and I cannot see any relation.

Thanks in advance.

Don

[jsim]

In the rotater.php you got the img tags

<img src=Images/>

and in rotater2.php -

<img src="../Images/Film_Strip.jpg" alt="Film Strip" width="610" height="100" />

Something wrong in the scripts, but it's hard to help you without seing source

[dmacman1962]

Here is the code for both (its the same code on both files).

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT * from Scrapbook ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql,$conn)){
echo $row['Name'] . '<br>';
    $image = 'Images/'.$row['Image'];
	echo "<img src=".$image."><br>";
    //echo '<tr><td>'.$image.'</td><td>'.$image.'</td><td>'.$image.'</td></tr>';
} 

The rotater.php file has this for the images...

<img src=Images/>/QUOTE] <--- no images source??

Thanks,

Don

[justsomeone]

I wonder if caching or something on your client is confusing matters.

When I look at your first link, I see 5 broken images, each image source is "Images/" so it looks like the filename isn't being successfully returned form the database.

When I look at the second link (with the header), I see a bunch of warnings...

Warning: main(../includes/header_Scripts_Sub.shtm): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/freetoch/public_html/includes/headerSub.php on line 1

Warning: main(../includes/header_Scripts_Sub.shtm): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/freetoch/public_html/includes/headerSub.php on line 1

Warning: main(): Failed opening '../includes/header_Scripts_Sub.shtm' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/freetoch/public_html/includes/headerSub.php on line 1

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/freetoch/public_html/rotater2.php on line 55

This last error would explain why the same 5 broken images don't appear. Something bad has happened to your sql query. Could this have been caused by one of the earlier includes failing? Maybe the database connection is now mssing?

[dmacman1962]

sorry, justsomeone, I was trying different approaches when you hit the page.

That mysql query error was fixed, I had an incorrect field name.

Try those pages again. The one 'rotater2.php' with the warnings, works OK. That is the page that 'magically' works IF the header is included.

The other, does not work ...

<img src=Images/>/QUOTE] <--- no images source??

If the header is NOT included.

Thanks,

Don

[justsomeone]

It looks like something in your header is breaking stuff. You should post the contents of the header here if you'd like someone to help diagnose...

[dmacman1962]

Here is the code for the headerSub.php (no real PHP code in it)...

<? include ('../includes/header_Scripts_Sub.shtm'); ?>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#Menus {
	position:absolute;
	width:557px;
	height:50px;
	z-index:7;
	left: 14px;
	top: 100px;
}
.style3 {color: #295286}
-->
</style>
<STYLE type="text/css">
  BODY {MARGIN: 0px}
.myclass {PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 9px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 10px
}
</STYLE>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../includes/menu_data2_Sub.js"></script>
<DIV id=background style="Z-INDEX: 5; position:absolute; left:0px; height:33px; top: 105px; width: 780px; background:#295286">
</div>
<DIV id=Search style="Z-INDEX: 6; position:absolute; left:0px; height:33px; top: 105px; width: 780px;">
<table align="right"><tr><td>
  <form method="GET" action="../search/searchSub.php">
      <input name="q" type="text" size=20>
      <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search">
</form></td></tr></table>
</div>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="781" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td width="141" height="94" valign="top" align="center"><img src="../Images/FTCM logo_Blue_small.gif" width="170" height="105" /></td>
    <td width="661" valign="middle"><img src="../Images/Film_Strip.jpg" alt="Film Strip" width="610" height="100" /></td>
  </tr>
</table>

and for the 'header_Scripts_Sub.shtm' ...

<STYLE type="text/css">
  BODY {MARGIN: 0px}
.myclass {PADDING-RIGHT: 2px; PADDING-LEFT: 2px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 2px; PADDING-TOP: 2px
}
</STYLE>
 <SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="" type=text/JavaScript>
<!--
function MM_reloadPage(init) {  //reloads the window if Nav4 resized
  if (init==true) with (navigator) {if ((appName=="Netscape")&&(parseInt(appVersion)==4)) {
    document.MM_pgW=innerWidth; document.MM_pgH=innerHeight; onresize=MM_reloadPage; }}
  else if (innerWidth!=document.MM_pgW || innerHeight!=document.MM_pgH) location.reload();
}
MM_reloadPage(true);
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</script>
<link href="font.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="../includes/milonic_src.js"></script>
<script	type="text/javascript">
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=../includes/mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");		
  else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=../includes/mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>"); 
</script>

thanks fo helping out,

Don