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    obscure bug related to size of script file?

    hi

    i am having a problem with a php script i am trying to write.
    the problem is that the ouput from the script (the html) was
    sometimes being truncated, but sometimes it would work
    as expected.

    i managed to narrow the problem down (believe it or not) to
    the difference between a sinle character anywhere in the script.

    by this i mean, for example, when the php script was at 10,589 bytes
    it worked perfectly. if i took one character out from anywhere in
    the in the script (and i mean anywhere, changed a printf to a print,
    or took a character from a php comment, or took a char from some
    html outside the php scriplets, or changed a number from say 100 to 99)
    it would fail!!!! and by fail i mean the result that was being received
    by my browser was truncated about half way down the page (in the
    middle of some html from the script!).

    i am totally totally blown away by this obscure bug. has anyone
    seen anything like it? maybe it is fixed in later versions of php?

    the stuff i am running is:

    PHP 4.3.3 (cgi) (built: Sep 1 2003 04:45:21)
    Copyright (c) 1997-2003 The PHP Group
    Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Zend Technologies

    RedHat Linux 7.x OS

    Apache/1.3.27 Server


    thanks

    Ryan


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    • Ryan
      #2
      Re: obscure bug related to size of script file?

      Ok, so i finally figured it out...

      turns out it was a bug in the ftp client i was using to upload
      that was truncating the script!!! must have been the sequence
      of chars in the script not being escaped properly or something..

      lol, what a pain!

      Ryan

      "Ryan" <ryan@someplace .com> wrote in message
      news:3fb6faeb@n ews.comindico.c om.au...[color=blue]
      > hi
      >
      > i am having a problem with a php script i am trying to write.
      > the problem is that the ouput from the script (the html) was
      > sometimes being truncated, but sometimes it would work
      > as expected.
      >
      > i managed to narrow the problem down (believe it or not) to
      > the difference between a sinle character anywhere in the script.
      >
      > by this i mean, for example, when the php script was at 10,589 bytes
      > it worked perfectly. if i took one character out from anywhere in
      > the in the script (and i mean anywhere, changed a printf to a print,
      > or took a character from a php comment, or took a char from some
      > html outside the php scriplets, or changed a number from say 100 to 99)
      > it would fail!!!! and by fail i mean the result that was being received
      > by my browser was truncated about half way down the page (in the
      > middle of some html from the script!).
      >
      > i am totally totally blown away by this obscure bug. has anyone
      > seen anything like it? maybe it is fixed in later versions of php?
      >
      > the stuff i am running is:
      >
      > PHP 4.3.3 (cgi) (built: Sep 1 2003 04:45:21)
      > Copyright (c) 1997-2003 The PHP Group
      > Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Zend Technologies
      >
      > RedHat Linux 7.x OS
      >
      > Apache/1.3.27 Server
      >
      >
      > thanks
      >
      > Ryan
      >
      >[/color]


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