Problems with PHP on &quot;Apache&quot;

Problems with PHP on "Apache"

Anon

Hi,
I’m working through a course on PHP which necessitates Apache to be installed on my Windows 98 system.
The server has been working fine until I ran the following PHP script. The server chugged away & eventually stopped without displaying anything. I have successfully run the same script through my CGI bin with my ISP.

What I’ am slightly concerned about is that following this I was unable to correctly shut down “Apache” & have been presented with the following message

[Tue Oct 02 12:03:03 2001] [warn] pid file c:/program files/apache group/apache/
logs/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
Apache/1.3.12 (Win32) running...

On looking in this file I found the following number/code -1635265

Any ideas as to why this should have happened & what I should now do about the pid file?

Thank you for any assistance.

J.A.DWYER

<HEAD>
<TITLE>All-In-One Feedback Form</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

$form_block = "

<P><strong>Your E-Mail Address:</strong><br>
<INPUT type=\"text\" NAME=\"sender_email\" VALUE=\"$sender_email\" SIZE=30></p>

<P><strong>Message:</strong><br>
<TEXTAREA NAME=\"message\" COLS=30 ROWS=5 WRAP=virtual>$message</TEXTAREA></p>

</FORM>

if ($op != "ds") {

// they need to see the form
echo "$form_block";

} else if ($op == "ds") {

if ($sender_name == "") {
	$name_err = "<font color=red>Please enter your name!</font><br>";
	$send = "no";
} 

if ($sender_email == "") {
	$email_err = "<font color=red>Please enter your e-mail address!</font><br>";
	$send = "no";
} 

if ($message == "") {
	$message_err = "<font color=red>Please enter a message!</font><br>";
	$send = "no";
} 

if ($send != "no") {

	// it's ok to send!
	$msg = "E-MAIL SENT FROM WWW SITE\n";
	$msg .= "Sender's Name:    $sender_name\n";
	$msg .= "Sender's E-Mail:  $sender_email\n";
	$msg .= "Message:          $message\n\n";

            $to = "jdwyer@jdwyer.plus.com";
	$subject = "All-in-One Web Site Feedback";
	$mailheaders = "From: My Web Site <> \n";
	$mailheaders .= "Reply-To: $sender_email\n\n";

	mail($to, $subject, $msg, $mailheaders);
	echo "<P>Mail has been sent!</p>";

} else if ($send == "no") {

	echo "$name_err";
	echo "$email_err";
	echo "$message_err";
	echo "$form_block";  

}

}

</BODY>

I have set the php.ini file - SMTP to “localhost” & sendmail_form to my email address

toma42

Ack...dude, use heredocs if you're going to do stuff like this:

$form_block = "
<FORM METHOD=\"post\" ACTION=\"$PHP_SELF\">
<P><strong>Your Name:</strong><br>
<INPUT type=\"text\" NAME=\"sender_name\" VALUE=\"$sender_name\" SIZE=30></p>
<P><strong>Your E-Mail Address:</strong><br>
<INPUT type=\"text\" NAME=\"sender_email\" VALUE=\"$sender_email\" SIZE=30></p>
<P><strong>Message:</strong><br>
<TEXTAREA NAME=\"message\" COLS=30 ROWS=5 WRAP=virtual>$message</TEXTAREA></p>
<INPUT type=\"hidden\" name=\"op\" value=\"ds\">
<P><INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" NAME=\"submit\" VALUE=\"Send This Form\"></p>
</FORM>
";

can be simplified by using
$form_block = <<<EOF

<some "html">'stuff here $too'
EOF;

However, you should really use templates instead of embedding php in html.

amcgrath

Agree with ya Tom, plus, I don't know if it matters but since you're checking all the fields for values, why not use
if (!$sender_name || !$sender_email || !$message) {
$err = "you left something blank."
Other than that, are you sure mail is working? And, just for the heck of it, run it without the $mailheaders and see what happens.