Problem with PHP Page

**Jerry Stuckle** · Apr 6 '06, 03:55 AM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

The Numerator wrote:[color=blue]
> I am having a problem with one of my PHP pages. Maybe its a simple
> coding error, or about something I don't know about $_GET, or something
> totally different. Could someone explain?
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <?
>
> $type = $_GET['type']
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "")
> {
> echo " ?><script>
> setTimeout("win dow.location.re place('http://www.example.com/')" ,0000)
> </script><?
>
> ";
> }
>
> ?><title>Stuff - <?
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "")
> {
> echo "Redirecting... ";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
> {
> echo "You Are Mighty";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
> {
> echo "Just Got Owned"
> }
>
> ?></title>
> <meta name="keywords" content="stuff, internet, aninote, <?
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
> {
> echo "You Are Mighty";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
> {
> echo "Just Got Owned"
> }
>
> ?>">
> <meta name="descripti on" content="This page links to personalized
> aninotes, in this case, <?
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
> {
> echo "You Are Mighty";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
> {
> echo "Just Got Owned"
> }
>
> ?>">
> <link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="../styles/default.css">
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <p>blah</p>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Thank you.
>[/color]

What happens when you try to load the page?

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**Steffen** · Apr 6 '06, 07:05 AM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<?

$type = $_GET['type'] ;

if ($_GET['type'] == "")
{
echo " ?><script>
setTimeout("win dow.location.re place('http://www.example.com/')" ,0000)
</script><?

";

}

?><title>Stuff - <?

if ($_GET['type'] == "")
{
echo "Redirecting... ";

}

elseif ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
{
echo "You Are Mighty";

}

elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
{

//Here
echo "Just Got Owned" ;

}

?></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="stuff, internet, aninote, <?

if ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
{
echo "You Are Mighty";

}

elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
{
//Here
echo "Just Got Owned" ;

}

?>">
<meta name="descripti on" content="This page links to personalized
aninotes, in this case, <?

if ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
{
echo "You Are Mighty";

}

elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
{

//Here
echo "Just Got Owned" ;

}

?>">
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="../styles/default.css">
</head>

<body>

<p>blah</p>

</body>
</html>

I think i have found your errors. I have commented them in the code.

**David Haynes** · Apr 6 '06, 01:15 PM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

The Numerator wrote:[color=blue]
> I am having a problem with one of my PHP pages. Maybe its a simple
> coding error, or about something I don't know about $_GET, or something
> totally different. Could someone explain?
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <html>
>
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
> <?
>
> $type = $_GET['type']
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "")
> {
> echo " ?><script>
> setTimeout("win dow.location.re place('http://www.example.com/')" ,0000)
> </script><?
>
> ";
> }
>
> ?><title>Stuff - <?
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "")
> {
> echo "Redirecting... ";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
> {
> echo "You Are Mighty";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
> {
> echo "Just Got Owned"
> }
>
> ?></title>
> <meta name="keywords" content="stuff, internet, aninote, <?
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
> {
> echo "You Are Mighty";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
> {
> echo "Just Got Owned"
> }
>
> ?>">
> <meta name="descripti on" content="This page links to personalized
> aninotes, in this case, <?
>
> if ($_GET['type'] == "youaremigh ty")
> {
> echo "You Are Mighty";
> }
>
> elseif ($_GET['type'] == "justgotown ed")
> {
> echo "Just Got Owned"
> }
>
> ?>">
> <link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="../styles/default.css">
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <p>blah</p>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>
> Thank you.
>[/color]

Spotting errors in code gets a lot easier if you try to do as much of
your processing as early as possible in the code. In the case of your
code here, it becomes much more readable if you do something like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<?php
if ($_GET['type'] == '') {
echo
"<script>setTim eout(\"window.l ocation.replace ('http://www.example.com/')\"
,0000)</script>";
exit;
}

switch($_GET['type']) {
case 'youaremighty':
$msg="You Are Mighty";
break;
case 'justgotowned':
$msg="Just Got Owned";
break;
}
?>
<title>Stuff - <?php echo $msg;?></title>
<meta name="keywords" content="stuff, internet, aninote, <?php echo
$msg;?>">
<meta name="descripti on" content="This page links to personalized
aninotes, in this case, <?php echo $msg;?>">
<link rel="stylesheet " type="text/css" href="../styles/default.css">
</head>

<body>

<p>blah</p>

</body>
</html>

Also, try not to rely on the shortkeys feature (i.e. <? and <?=) use the
long forms (<?php and <?php echo) if you want the code to be portable.

-david-

**The Numerator** · Apr 7 '06, 03:25 AM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

Thanks, I hope it helps... I thought that "<? /* code */?>" was the
same as "<?php /* code */ ?>". What's the difference?

**Andre Frashek** · Apr 7 '06, 08:25 AM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

The Numerator wrote:[color=blue]
> Thanks, I hope it helps... I thought that "<? /* code */?>" was the
> same as "<?php /* code */ ?>". What's the difference?
>[/color]

You can see the difference in your php-configuration file. There´s a
option called "short_open _tag =". If it´s set to On, then you can use
"<? /* code */?>". This is the setting which most webhosters (the one´s
I know) use. But the DEFAULT setting for this option is "Off". Then your
php code won´t be executed if you use anything else than "<?php /* code
*/ ?>.

So you should always use the long form to get the code portable.

**Tim Van Wassenhove** · Apr 7 '06, 10:35 AM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

On 2006-04-07, Andre Frashek <andre.frashek@ stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:[color=blue]
> The Numerator wrote:[color=green]
>> Thanks, I hope it helps... I thought that "<? /* code */?>" was the
>> same as "<?php /* code */ ?>". What's the difference?
>>[/color]
>
> You can see the difference in your php-configuration file. There´s a
> option called "short_open _tag =". If it´s set to On, then you can use
> "<? /* code */?>". This is the setting which most webhosters (the one´s
> I know) use. But the DEFAULT setting for this option is "Off". Then your
> php code won´t be executed if you use anything else than "<?php /* code
> */ ?>.
>
> So you should always use the long form to get the code portable.[/color]

The most annoying about short_open_tag = on is that you have to perform
workaround to get a simple line as: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Tim Van Wassenhove <http://timvw.madoka.be >

**The Numerator** · Apr 7 '06, 08:05 PM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

The only problem with the code that David gave me is that the title,
and the meta tags don't work. For example, the title is "Stuff -"
instead of "Stuff - Title", etc...

**David Haynes** · Apr 7 '06, 08:55 PM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

The Numerator wrote:[color=blue]
> The only problem with the code that David gave me is that the title,
> and the meta tags don't work. For example, the title is "Stuff -"
> instead of "Stuff - Title", etc...
>[/color]
This would happen if $_GET['type'] was not one of '', 'youaremight' or
'justgotowned'.

Try putting a default case into the switch. e.g.

case 'justgotowned':
$msg="Just Got Owned";
break;
default:
$msg="type is not legal";
break;
}

-david-

**The Numerator** · Apr 10 '06, 11:05 PM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

thenk i got it... i just forgot to define that variables before
actually using it, and instead of the js i used to replace the window,
i used the function "header".

**The Numerator** · Apr 10 '06, 11:05 PM

Re: Problem with PHP Page

no, i got it... i just forgot to define that variables before actually
using it, and instead of the js i used to replace the window, i used
the function "header".

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