php installation help, => breaking out of php execution

helz

Hi, just recently installed php, or trying too. it seems to be up now, but for some reason when it gets through the code to a foreach loop it breaks out of php when it reaches the => symbol and then outputs all the code as text to the screen.

Are there any reasons for doing this?

running with:
php 5.1.6
iis 5.1

devinemke

do a simple test:

<?php
$array = array(1,2,3,4,5);

foreach ($array as $key => $value)
{
	echo $key . ' = ' . $value . '<br>';
}
?>

Drakla

Slap a bit of code about, love. Would help with the debugging of the bad thing.

helz

hmm let me put it another way. it'll execute the code but when it gets to:
$key => $value, it treats => as ?>
so on the screen it displays:
$value) { //all the code here, including comments }

there are no error warnings on the screen, nor is there anything in the error_log.
I think its a bad setup tbh, hate it when you try to install it all and forget the bits (followed the instructions). i keep getting inetinfo crashes when restarting iis.
information i found on google pointed to not having c:\php in the PATH environment variable, but it is already there.

Houdini

Show the code you have and perhaps someone can offer more help, right now with no real code to look over and see where a possible problem is it would be impossible for someone to help you solve the problems you are having.

helz

ive attached the code and a screenshot of what is being displayed on the screen.
The problem is on line 35, i.e:

foreach($colourchunk as $name => $value) {

after it reaches the => it then outputs the rest of the code as text to the screen as seen in the screenshot.

ClarkF1

It worked for me.......must be some server setting

I got loads of other error messages, the main one being that str_split is already defined and can't be redefined which will be a problem for those using this script with PHP 5

I renamed the function and then got this:

Fatal error: Cannot use assign-op operators with overloaded objects nor string offsets in D:\Server\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 69

helz

yes the code is fine, works on my main website, just this iis seems to be giving me a little bother.
hmm, its been a while since ive used the code, and yeh i got the str_split because my actual domain is hosted using php 4.something

but definately server issue, just seems a little strange. I used the php.ini-recommended file and the only things ive changed are the doc_root / extensions and php pathing.
seems a little weird that php would cause it though

MarkR

My best guess is that your server is not executing PHP code at all, but the web browser has ignored the code up to that point as malformed HTML.

But anything could be happening. Does a trivial PHP page run in the web server?

Mark

Drakla

Mark R is right - save the file as .html and you'll get the same output. The fact that short opening tags are being used might be the problem - change <? to <?php and try it all again.