Little help

nodedenz

I was given this php script to alternate offers on my website to determine which offer was best. I can't get it to work. Anybody see anything wrong with this?

<?
$urls=array(
"http://www.affiliateurl1.com",
"http://www.affiliateurl2.com",
"http://www.affiliateurl3.com",
"http://www.affiliateurl4.com");
$url=$urls[array_rand($urls)];
$destination="Location:*$url";
header($destination);
?>

😕

NogDog

Change those asterisks to spaces.
Change the opening "<?" to "<?php" to maximize compatibility with any PHP configuration.

nodedenz

OK, done. Get this error message still,

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/garyd/public_html/index.php on line 8

NogDog

I get no parse errors with this code:

<?php
$urls = array(
"http://www.affiliateurl1.com",
"http://www.affiliateurl2.com",
"http://www.affiliateurl3.com",
"http://www.affiliateurl4.com");
$url = $urls[array_rand($urls)];
$destination = "Location: $url";
header($destination);
?>

nodedenz

I do. I try to load the page in both firefox and IE and I get the parse error. I've uploaded to my server, renamed the file index.php and continue to get the parse error
😕

NogDog

The browser does not matter if it's a PHP parse error, as that occurs on the server. Do you get that error if you copy and paste the code in last reply and run it? If so, then my suspicion would be that your editor is not saving the code as plain ASCII text.

nodedenz

When I rename it from a text file to a php file it switches the type to an application/x-http-d-php.
Can't change that as ASCII text is not an option.

NogDog

nodedenz;10900970 wrote:
When I rename it from a text file to a php file it switches the type to an application/x-http-d-php.
Can't change that as ASCII text is not an option.

I don't understand. What editor are you using? "application/x-http-d-php" sounds like a mime type, which really has nothing to do with what I'm concerned about, which is that your editor is saving it as Unicode or MSWord or some format that uses incompatible, non-printing characters that are messing up the source code file.