Firefox vs Micro$oft Internet Explorer and PHP

cybersurfur

Hi everyone,

Ive been working with php and mysql for a couple of months now. And i've found that my scripts seem to work fine with Internet Explorer but dont seem to work propperly with Mozilla firefox.

In IE the pages will load the pictures by connecting to the database for the appropriate url and then displaying the picture. But in Firefox it wont display the pictures :mad: and simply leaves a space where the pictures supposed to be with an [x] symbol which usually means it cant find the particular picture.

Am i missing something?? Isnt php supported by Firefox? Ive checked on their site and they dont really mention it at all. Has anyone else had this problem?

sideslip

Firefox certainly does support PHP - in fact it doesn't ever see the PHP just the generated mark-up. FF, Opera and Safari to name but three, are all "standard compliant" browsers and follow the latest W3C recommendations reasonably well. IE isn't and doesn't - so it may be a case of a problem in your "generated" code.

Can you give us a link?

cybersurfur

a link to?

sideslip

A site where you can't view your images via FF.

cybersurfur

The sites actually on my hard drive.

The code that displays the pictures and information i want is as follows:

$results = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
extract($row);
	echo "<p><a href=\"getprod.php?prodid=" . $product_id . "\">";
	echo $product_title;
	echo "<br><a href=\"getprod.php?prodid=" . $product_id . "\"></a>";
	echo "<br><img src=\"$product_pic\">";
	echo "<br>$product_desc";
	echo "<br><b>£" . $product_price . "</b>";
}

?>

sideslip

Can you show us the code that actually appears in the browser as that will give more of a clue as to why you're having troubles.

cybersurfur

Sure, this is the code that appears in the browser:

<p><a href="getprod.php?prodid=1">creatorscap<br><a href="getprod.php?prodid=1"></a><br><img src="C:\wamp\www\website\cat\03.jpg">
<br>Our adjustable, 100% brushed cotton Cap is unstructured and an ideal way to beat the heat. Wear it anytime you want to keep the sun off or cover up a bad hair day. It features a sturdy low profile brim, sweatband, and adjustable closure, as well as Premium Printing for images that last.<br>
<b>£9.99</b>
<p><a href="getprod.php?prodid=2">tshirt<br><a href="getprod.php?prodid=2"></a><br><img src="C:\wamp\www\website\cat\01.jpg">
<br>Look cool without breakin’ the bank. Our durable, high-quality, 100% cotton Hanes Heavyweight is our Value T. It's what to wear when you want to go comfortably casual. Preshrunk, durable and guaranteed.<br>
<b>£9.99</b>
<p><a href="getprod.php?prodid=3">schoolbag<br><a href="getprod.php?prodid=3"></a><br><img src="C:\wamp\www\website\cat\02.jpg"><br>From school, to carrying your laptop, to a hip alternative diaper bag, our versatile, spacious messenger bag is practically all you need to get you through every stage of your life and look hip doing it.<br>
<b>£15.99</b></blockquote>

The url for the pictures seems to be right... dont know what might be the problem.

sideslip

Can you bring the image up in FF if you type the path to it directly in the address box?

Possible thing you could try to fix this- make sure that "for the originating web site only" tickbox isn't ticked in the Options > Content > Load images section.

cybersurfur

Ive checked the "for the originating web site only" is unticked but i can load the image in the browser by inputting the url manually.

Would the back slash in the url rather than a forward slash make a difference? I have noticed that in the database the image urls are defined as:C:\wamp\www\website\cat\01.jpg

madwormer2

If you're linking to your harddrive (C:\folder\folder\image.jpg) IE needs file:/// in front of it, to make it file:///C:\folder\folder\image.jpg

Don't ask me why.

sideslip

I don't run my own server so I've not tried it - certainly you'd expect stuff on an external site to have forward slashes rather than backslashes so that might well be the culprit.

Here's a link to a Firefox extension which will sort it all out for you hopefully: http://gemal.dk/mozilla/slashy.html

cybersurfur

ive installed slashy... but it doesnt seem to have worked.

really confused as to what may be causing the problem.

cybersurfur

hhhmmm firefox also seems to add file:/// to the start of the image when i requst only the image to be loaded in the browser. Perhaps if i add 'file:///' in the database it may work?

Worth a try?

cybersurfur

nope... didnt work

cybersurfur

aha..... when i right click on the missing image space and click 'view image' it seems to bring up the image fine.....

dont understand this.......

madwormer2

It's probably a security thing to prevent webpages from bringing up images from your hard-drive.

Try using relative paths instead.

cybersurfur

Can you provide a link to a tutorial or something on 'relative paths'?

laserlight

My take is that the src attribute of img requires a URI, but you provide a file path instead.

Place the image in your web directory, then use a relative URI, since that is what you would use on a production website. If you insist on an absolute URI, use http://localhost

EPJS

<a href="getprod.php?prodid=1">creatorscap<br><a href="getprod.php?prodid=1"></a><br><img src="C:\wamp\www\website\cat\03.jpg">

Look what I made red, that could be why

You never closed the first anchor and went right into a second anchor, that might be cauing code conflict

cybersurfur

But this is automated-generated code.

Even once corrected

<a href="getprod.php?prodid=1">creatorscap</a><br><a href="getprod.php?prodid=1"></a><br><img src="C:\wamp\www\website\cat\03.jpg">

The problem still exists...