[RESOLVED] No error, but broken script...

Alex-Grim

I am trying to write my first OOP script, and i know that it's messed up, but it's not giving me any errors, or any output. I have turned on the error_reporting to E_STRICT in my php.ini file and restarted apache, but it has made no difference...

bradgrafelman

If you turn on display_errors and set error_reporting to E_STRICT, you will only see error messages that have been added since E_STRICT was introduced.

If you want all error messages plus those error messages shown, you need an error_reporting level of E_ALL|E_STRICT . Restart Apache and check phpinfo() to verify that your changes are being reflected

If that doesn't show any errors, then we'll need to see some code samples.

Alex-Grim

Here's my code in the first file:

<?php
$br = "<br/><br/>";
$e = "<h1>ErRoR</h1>";
$myfile = "/includes/classes/MySql.php";

readfile($myfile) OR die("<h1>ErRoR! Content not available!</h1>");
include_once $myfile or die($e);
echo "Page Loaded, and MySql.php included. $br";
?>

dfffffffffggsdfgsdfgsdfg

And the result in the first error message, but i'm sure the path is right...

Alex-Grim

yeah, i turned on the display_errors and restarted apache, and i still get no errors, other than the ones i use in my script. I've also tried screwing up the code on purpose, and still, nothing.

bradgrafelman

If you do a phpinfo(), what values are given for display_errors and error_reporting?

Weedpacket

I'm not sure the path is right. That is an absolute filepath, and I doubt that you really do have a directory named "/includes" right alongside "/var" (or "/windows", as the case may be).

My guess is that you want a filepath relative to the current script's location. That would be "includes/classes/MySql.php". Or maybe you've confused file paths with URLs, and your site's document tree has a directory named "includes" hanging off its root. In which case the path would be $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/includes/classes/MySql.php".

Alex-Grim

display_errors	On	On
display_startup_errors	Off	Off
doc_root	no value	no value
docref_ext	no value	no value
docref_root	no value	no value
enable_dl	On	On
error_append_string	no value	no value
error_log	no value	no value
error_prepend_string	no value	no value
error_reporting	2048	2048

Alex-Grim

I could be completely overlooking something in the path (i've been up for 2 days working on a flash website, now this). Here's a screenshot of Gedit, you can see the path in the top, and the file name in the tab -- wel, you know what the hell you're looking at, duh 😃 (i keep forgetting i'm talking to OTHER LINUX/Unix users for a change).

===Edit===
I meant to add, AlexGrim is the root web folder, so the path is relative to that.
One thing i want to ask is, do i have to have my includes folder listed in my includes path (if there is such a thing, which i'm sure there is). This can't be the problem though, because it's saying the file cannot be found even by the readfile() method. I use readfile() for my other site (LinuxIntro.com) to load the content into the Index (only) page, and i don't have anything listed in my include path.

Alex-Grim

The funny thing is, the leading slash is the shorthand way of saying "webroot", and works for everything else in a website (css, html, javascript, etc), but that got past one error after removing it, thanx.

The next problem is that i'm still not loading the page, and now it stops executing after the readfile() method. Here's the modification i made to the code:

    if (file_exists($myfile))
	{
		echo "The file DOES exist. $br";
		include_once($myfile);
		echo "Page Loaded, and MySql.php included. $br";
	}

I get the first echo, and nothing else after that.

Alex-Grim

Disregard that last comment. The cause was that there were errors in the second file, so it couldn't load it 😃, but that brings me back to the reason i started this thread: why am i not getting any errors....

Weedpacket

Alex-Grim wrote:
The funny thing is, the leading slash is the shorthand way of saying "webroot"

No it's not; it's the root directory of the filesystem. Like I said; don't confuse file paths with URLs (though admittedly PHP makes it easy to do, because you can use (absolute) URLs pretty much every you can use a file path).

bradgrafelman

And if you're still not seeing errors, can you show us the error_reporting line in your php.ini file (make sure there's only one line!)?

Alex-Grim

What i meant was that browsers interpret a leading slash as "webroot", and i forgot that php is NOT a browser, it is ON the filesystem 😉

As far as the errors go, that was solved in another thread in this forum. Thanx

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10348765