Page hangs..

daveyc

Hey there all!

At the moment, i'm developing a small website. It's mainly static, but there are a few dynamic pages involved. I'm using phpBB as my forum and as my user database, so when someone is logged in on the forum, they're logged in to the entire site.

I have an overall header which seems to be hanging all the pages whenever I include it. It was working fine, then all of a sudden, it started. I don't think I changed anything, but here's the code anyway.. Just wondering if anyone had any insight into this..

<?php

session_start();
define('IN_PHPBB', true);
    $phpbb_root_path = './forum/';
    include($phpbb_root_path . 'extension.inc');
    include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.'.$phpEx);

//
// Start session management
//
$userdata = session_pagestart($user_ip, PAGE_INDEX);
init_userprefs($userdata);
//
// End session management
//

if($userdata['session_logged_in'])
{
$userstate = "Welcome back, ".$userdata['username'].". Not you? <a href=\"/forum/login.php?logout=true&amp;redirect=../login.php&amp;sid=".$userdata['session_id']."\">Click Here</a>";
}
else
{


$userstate = "You are not logged in. <a href=\"login.php\">Log in</a> / <a href=\"signup.php\">Sign up</a>";
}

?>

Also, is this the best way to do it, or am I missing any security issues etc?

Thanks,

Dave

NogDog

Nothing obvious to me. You might want to try making sure all error reporting is on while debugging this. See if sticking the following code at the start of that file provides any info:

<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

m3rls

I don't see anything obviously wrong with it either. As NogDog suggested, turn error reporting on. If the script isn't fatalling, then perhaps chuck an echo after the file includes and function calls and see which it's hanging on.

If you get absolutely no feedback, start putting exit()'s in place of the echo's and remove them one by one from the top down until you stop getting any output. PHP likes to display nothing to the user until the script has finished executing and if an included file is doing something stupid this could very well let you target the problem.

Good luck!