[RESOLVED] "switch" seems to break on php 5.2.2 install

schwim

Hi there guys,

I wrote a testimonial script, and I've used my previous php 5 install to develop it, but I just got my new desktop up and running and while trying my script on the new box, I noticed that none of the switch statements are working correctly.

php 5.2.2
Apache 2

Some of my switch statements reward me with a blank page, and other pages with switch statements simply provide the same action, regardless of what gets passed via URL.

I've got php errors on and E_ALL set at script level, but I'm not getting an error of any kind.

Could someone let me know how I might begin troubleshooting this?

thanks,
json

NogDog

Without seeing any code, my first guess is that your scripts were depending on register_globals being turned on; but since around PHP 4.1 or so, the default setting is to have register_globals turned off. When turned off, you must reference URL-supplied values (or form values submitted with the "get" method) via the $_GET array.

schwim

Hi there nogdog,

I've made sure to write the code to work with reg globals being off, and in all of my environments, it's turned off.

You can find one of the pages that I'm having a problem with here(text file).

You can find a screenie of the resulting page here. The picture shows that the header is included at the top, the footer is included at the bottom, and absolutely nothing is generated by testimonials.php(the code inside the switch statement).

Thanks for your help so far.

thanks,
json

schwim

Found it. Problem was with poor quality control at the sweatshop:

if(isset($_GET['action'])){

if($_GET['action']='front_end'){

echo("<script src=\"$sitepath/includes/FormManager.js\">
/****************************************************
* Form Dependency Manager- By Twey- http://www.twey.co.uk
* Visit Dynamic Drive for this script and more: http://www.dynamicdrive.com
****************************************************/
</script>

<script type=\"text/javascript\">
window.onload = function() {
setupDependencies('config_settings'); //name of form(s). Seperate each with a comma (ie: 'weboptions', 'myotherform' )
};
</script>
");

}

}

Note the

if($_GET['action']='front_end'){

On line two...

🙂
json