Problems With Refer Script

[Mike]

I've been trying to setup Dean Allen's excellent "Refer" script.
(http://www.textism.com/tools/refer/)

The instructions say to add this code to the bottom of whatever web pages
you want the refer script to track (after the closing </html> tag):

<?php include '<?php echo dirname($_SERVE R['SCRIPT_FILENAM E']) ?>/refer.php'
?>

Doing so results in the following error on any pages that have the
aforementioned code:

Parse error: parse error in /home/username/public_html/page.php on line 63

The offending line is always the line with the aforementioned PHP code. Does
anyone have any idea what might be causing this not to work? I installed the
refer script into the /refer directory in the web root of my server.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Blaine HIlton]

Re: Problems With Refer Script

The line is not correct:

<?php include '<?php echo dirname($_SERVE R['SCRIPT_FILENAM E'])
?>/refer.php'
?>

is not valid. You can not have a <?php and then another <?php. I'm
not sure what you are trying to do, but you probably need something
more like:

<?php
// Untested, use with caution
$location = dirname($_SERVE R['SCRIPT_FILENAM E'])>;
$location = "$location" .'/refer.php' ;
include "$location" ;
?>

You may want to try reading the manual also...

--
Blaine Hilton

http://www.webcalc.net/

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 06:17:14 GMT, "Mike" <nospam@nospam. com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>I've been trying to setup Dean Allen's excellent "Refer" script.
>(http://www.textism.com/tools/refer/)
>
>The instructions say to add this code to the bottom of whatever web pages
>you want the refer script to track (after the closing </html> tag):
>
><?php include '<?php echo dirname($_SERVE R['SCRIPT_FILENAM E']) ?>/refer.php'
>?>
>
>Doing so results in the following error on any pages that have the
>aforemention ed code:
>
> Parse error: parse error in /home/username/public_html/page.php on line 63
>
>The offending line is always the line with the aforementioned PHP code. Does
>anyone have any idea what might be causing this not to work? I installed the
>refer script into the /refer directory in the web root of my server.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>[/color]

[Martin Wallgren]

Re: Problems With Refer Script

> <?php[color=blue]
> // Untested, use with caution
> $location = dirname($_SERVE R['SCRIPT_FILENAM E'])>;
> $location = "$location" .'/refer.php' ;
> include "$location" ;
> ?>[/color]

A much shorter version that doesn't depend on temporary variables:
<?php include(dirname ($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAM E']) . '/refer.php'); ?>
---
Martin Wallgren