Problems with ini_set

wapiti1010

I am a fairly New to PHP and I am trying to get a site running on Apache 2.2 using PHP5. on a windows box.

when I start apache, I can see my initial index.php just fine(located in the root directory). when I link to other pages where the .php file is also in the root, they come up fine, however when I click on a link on my page that is supposed to take me to a sub directory of my root and display the index.php there, I get a Blank IE window. and this error in the access log:

12:24:24 -0600] "GET /about/index.php HTTP/1.1" 500 39

Where about is a sub dir of my root and index.php is the page that I want to display upon clicking.

so at the top of the /about/index.php I have this:
<? ini_set("include_path"; "../"); ?>
<?php require("ssi/top.inc"); ?>
<?php $CurSection="about"; ?>

Am I doing something wrong here?

wapiti1010

I think it might be important to note this error in the error log as well:

PHP Fatal error: require() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'ssi/top.inc' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Program Files\Apache\Apache2.2\htdocs\WWW\about\index.php on line 2, referer: http://mysite.com/index.php

bradgrafelman

You've got several problems/issues. To start out with, this code:

<? ini_set("include_path"; "../"); ?>

has a parse error in it. The fact that you aren't getting a parse error on that line, however, suggests that the short tags directive has been disabled (as it should be). You should always use the full "<?php" opening tag.

The parse error itself is the semicolon between the two arguments. Semicolons are used to terminate statements; to separate function parameters/arguments, you use a comma.

The next problem is why you're trying to modify the include_path at all. Where is the "ssi" folder located? If it's in the root of your site, why aren't you simply using "../ssi/top.inc" as the path in the about/index.php file?

wapiti1010

first of all thank you for your help,

ok so I add the php tag,

then change the ; to a ,

and the page is displaying! yeah..but it is displaying out of format...

for instance on this page I have another header file called about.inc

linked to it here:
<?php require("ssi/nav/about.inc"); ?>

but on my webpage I have this

height="20" border="0"/>
buttonwidth)) { ?> width="180" height="20" border="0"/>

I don't know the answer to your question, I was not the original writer of the site.

thank you!

bradgrafelman

Check your include files to see if they contain '<?' instead of '<?php' as well.

wapiti1010

this particular inc file does already have the correct tags

so I have attached a screenshot of what I am seeing. the Comapny History is a button link to another page. it is displayed using the about.inc file that I mentioned before.

<?php

/ AddSection ID, URL, Nav|width, Label|height, Image|width /

BuildHeader();

the code that displayse it from the about.inc file....

wapiti1010

One thing that I did notice is that when I view source in the browser, some of the tagging is getting all mixed up where it is trying to display those buttons, here is the source:

<td bgcolor="#DF7E23" height="137"> height="20" border="0"/></a></div><div><a href="/products/pc.php"><img src="/i/sidenav/site1.gif"<? if (!empty($Section->buttonwidth)) { ?> width="240" height="20" border="0"/></a></div><div><a href="/products/site1a.php"><img src="/i/sidenav/site1b.gif"<? if (!empty($Section->buttonwidth)) { ?> width="240" height="20" border="0"/></a></div><div><a href="/products/site1c.php"><img src="/i/sidenav/site1d.gif"<? if (!empty($Section->buttonwidth)) { ?> width="240" height="20" border="0"/></a></div><div><a href="/products/cmp.php"><img src="/i/sidenav/site1e.gif"<? if (!empty($Section->buttonwidth)) { ?> width="240" height="20" border="0"/></a></div><div><a href="/products/site1f.php"><img src="/i/sidenav/site1g.gif"<? if (!empty($Section->buttonwidth)) { ?> width="240" height="20" border="0"/></a></div>

I am very new to PHP and I really am not sure what would cause this? could it be the PHP version?

bradgrafelman

It's not the version, per sé, but rather how it was configured.

Most PHP installations nowadays have the short tags directive disabled. This means that the tags "<?" and "<?=(expression);?>" are no longer evaluated by PHP. Instead, you should always use the full "<?php" opening tag.

wapiti1010

so in the top.inc I found a <? that didn't have php by it.

however when I add php behind the <? the pages that include my top.inc no longer display and the access log logs a 500 error

raviime

check your short open tag.means change php tag <? ?> to <?php ?> .