[RESOLVED] include vs require

jrough

how come I get only a warning when I use include("settings.php") and a fatal error when I use require("settings.php") ?

fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'settings.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\tools\myfolder\admin\addUser.php on line 3
I don't understand this the settings.php file is in the same directory as the php script file I"m working on.

I don't have permissions to change the include_path in apache.tnx,

dagon

jrough;10962256 wrote:
how come I get only a warning when I use include("settings.php") and a fatal error when I use require("settings.php") ?

that is the essential difference between the two functions.

require() is identical to include() except upon failure it will also produce a fatal E_COMPILE_ERROR level error. In other words, it will halt the script whereas include() only emits a warning (E_WARNING) which allows the script to continue.

jrough

then something else is wrong. I have this addUser form but what keeps happening is the stuff between the php tags, <?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>, gets echoed to the url like this <?%20echo%20$PHP_SELF;?>

What I want it to do is process the form:

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post" name="addUserForm" >
		<input name="Username" type="text" value="username" size="30" maxlength="30" ><br>
		<input name="Password" type="text" value="password" size="30" maxlength="30" ><br>
		<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Add" >
	</form>

then if it gets posted continue with the code at the top of the page:

require("settings.php");
if(isset($_POST['submit']))

{.......................
thanks,

dagon

that would indicate the page with the form is not parsing the php, is its file extension .php? if you view source do you see the php or the value for $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?

jrough

Yes the page extension is php. When I view source I only see the form which is as it should be since it isn't posted yet. But now it is doing something else. It is saying 403 forbidden, you don't have permission to access this page. But that is because the stuff is echoed to the url?
tnx,

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> 
<html><head> 
<title>403 Forbidden</title> 
</head><body> 
<h1>Forbidden</h1> 
<p>You don't have permission to access /directory/mydirectory/&lt;
on this server.</p> 
</body></html>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 

<head> 
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 
	<title>Add User</title> 
	<link href="../css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" /> 
</head> 

<body> 
<div id="wrapper"> 
	<div class="cent"><h1>Add User</h1></div> 
	<div class="cent"></div> 
	<form action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post" name="addUserForm"> 
		<input name="Username" type="text" value="username" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br /> 
		<input name="Password" type="text" value="password" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br /> 
		<input name="Submit" type="submit" value="Add" /> 
	</form> 
</div> 
</body> 
</html>

dagon

"/directory/mydirectory/" is that really your path ?

jrough

well I was trying to use some precaution about naming my path but there shouldn't be any problem with the path.
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\tools\inventory and the addUser.php page is in this directory. It does go down two directories deep.

dagon

but there is no "/directory/mydirectory/" in "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\tools\inventory"

shouldn't it be "\tools\inventory" ?

jrough

this is weird, now I clicked the addUser.php form again a few more times and I'm getting the original message I asked you about. There could be a path issue. Our MySQL server db files were moved to another drive because the server was full. Could this be the problem? I can access the files with mysql workbench. How could I determine if the move was the cause of this problem? I have an application in that directory and a user is using the application so I would think it is okay.

jrough

dagon;10962266 wrote:
but there is no "/directory/mydirectory/" in "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\tools\inventory"

shouldn't it be "\tools\inventory" ?

You are right. I moved this file into the inventory directory from the admin directory, I have it in both places, BUT the same things happens from the inventory directory.

It echos this still:
http://10.237.82.232/tools/inventory/%3C?%20echo%20$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?%3E

How can I fix it?

jrough

dagon;10962266 wrote:
but there is no "/directory/mydirectory/" in "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\tools\inventory"

shouldn't it be "\tools\inventory" ?

Okay, I think you solved my issue :eek: thanks,