Output differs between browser and console

**Alvaro G. Vicario** · Jul 5 '07, 06:05 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

*** google@thefifth imperium.com escribió/wrote (Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:21:35
-0700):

I'm running PHP v4.4.0 on a Windows 2000 Server (SP4) running IIS
v5. A simple script I'm using is generating ODBC errors (not finding
my tables) when I run the script through a web browser connected to
the IIS server.
>
If I then run the unchanged script locally, from a Windows console
window, the PHP script connects to the database and I can dump the
table listing and access a particular table fine - I see the database
contents scrolling by.

Are you using a system-wide DSN or a user DSN? When you run a script from
the command line it uses your user credentials, but when you run it through
a web server it uses the credentials of whatever user the web server runs
as (typically "LocalSyste m").

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**google@thefifthimperium.com** · Jul 5 '07, 07:05 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

On Jul 5, 1:56 pm, "Alvaro G. Vicario"
<webmas...@NOSP AMdemogracia.co mwrote:

Are you using a system-wide DSN or a user DSN? When you run a script from
the command line it uses your user credentials, but when you run it through
a web server it uses the credentials of whatever user the web server runs
as (typically "LocalSyste m").

Thanks, I ought to have included that in my original message.

The connection is being made through a system-wide DSN.

-JPB

**Richard** · Jul 5 '07, 08:05 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

<google@thefift himperium.comwr ote in message
news:1183656095 .915164.158440@ k79g2000hse.goo glegroups.com.. .

This may be covered already, but I've yet to hit upon the search
terms to find it...
>
I'm running PHP v4.4.0 on a Windows 2000 Server (SP4) running IIS
v5. A simple script I'm using is generating ODBC errors (not finding
my tables) when I run the script through a web browser connected to
the IIS server.
>
If I then run the unchanged script locally, from a Windows console
window, the PHP script connects to the database and I can dump the
table listing and access a particular table fine - I see the database
contents scrolling by.
>
Could this be a problem with the ODBC driver? An IIS issue? A PHP
issue?
>
What blindingly obvious thing am I not seeing in my configuration?
>
Thanks.
>
Joe

Do you get any error messages?
Can you trim your script down to only the failing part?

Richard.

**google@thefifthimperium.com** · Jul 5 '07, 09:15 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

On Jul 5, 4:00 pm, "Richard" <root@localhost wrote:

Do you get any error messages?
Can you trim your script down to only the failing part?

As stated in the original, I'm getting what appears to be a general
'can't find tables' error:

PHP Warning: odbc_exec(): SQL error: [SmartWare Software][SmartWare
ODBC Driver][ISAM]Table access error, SQL state S0000 in SQLExecDirect
in D:\path\CustVie w\sw265test.php on line 52
PHP Warning: odbc_fetch_row( ): supplied argument is not a valid ODBC
result resource in D:\path\sw265te st.php on line 57

The ODBC driver is for an ANGOSS Smartware database, SWODBC32.DLL
V4.60.00.2127

The script code is pretty simple:

44 $conn = odbc_connect($d bhost, $dbuser, $dbpw);
45 $result = odbc_tables($co nn);
46 odbc_result_all ( $result );

//This returns No Results, but no error, either
// commented out lines here

51 $sql = "SELECT * FROM $dbname";
52 $result2 = odbc_exec( $conn, $sql );

// commented out lines here

57 while (odbc_fetch_row ($result2)) {
echo odbc_result_all ( $result2 );
}

-JPB

**Charles Polisher** · Jul 5 '07, 11:25 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

google@thefifth imperium.com wrote:
<snip>

The script code is pretty simple:
>
44 $conn = odbc_connect($d bhost, $dbuser, $dbpw);
45 $result = odbc_tables($co nn);
46 odbc_result_all ( $result );
>
//This returns No Results, but no error, either
// commented out lines here
>
51 $sql = "SELECT * FROM $dbname";
52 $result2 = odbc_exec( $conn, $sql );
>
// commented out lines here
>
57 while (odbc_fetch_row ($result2)) {
echo odbc_result_all ( $result2 );
}

should the SQL read "SELECT * FROM $dbname.$tablen ame" ?

**Jerry Stuckle** · Jul 5 '07, 11:25 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

google@thefifth imperium.com wrote:

On Jul 5, 4:00 pm, "Richard" <root@localhost wrote:

>Do you get any error messages?
>Can you trim your script down to only the failing part?

>
As stated in the original, I'm getting what appears to be a general
'can't find tables' error:
>
PHP Warning: odbc_exec(): SQL error: [SmartWare Software][SmartWare
ODBC Driver][ISAM]Table access error, SQL state S0000 in SQLExecDirect
in D:\path\CustVie w\sw265test.php on line 52
PHP Warning: odbc_fetch_row( ): supplied argument is not a valid ODBC
result resource in D:\path\sw265te st.php on line 57
>
The ODBC driver is for an ANGOSS Smartware database, SWODBC32.DLL
V4.60.00.2127
>
The script code is pretty simple:
>
44 $conn = odbc_connect($d bhost, $dbuser, $dbpw);
45 $result = odbc_tables($co nn);
46 odbc_result_all ( $result );
>
//This returns No Results, but no error, either
// commented out lines here
>
51 $sql = "SELECT * FROM $dbname";
52 $result2 = odbc_exec( $conn, $sql );
>
// commented out lines here
>
57 while (odbc_fetch_row ($result2)) {
echo odbc_result_all ( $result2 );
}
>
>
-JPB
>

Maybe a stupid question - but does your web host have authority to open
the database files?

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**Richard** · Jul 6 '07, 01:35 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

<google@thefift himperium.comwr ote in message
news:1183669986 .293136.258410@ 57g2000hsv.goog legroups.com...

On Jul 5, 4:00 pm, "Richard" <root@localhost wrote:

>Do you get any error messages?
>Can you trim your script down to only the failing part?

>
As stated in the original, I'm getting what appears to be a general
'can't find tables' error:
>
PHP Warning: odbc_exec(): SQL error: [SmartWare Software][SmartWare
ODBC Driver][ISAM]Table access error, SQL state S0000 in SQLExecDirect
in D:\path\CustVie w\sw265test.php on line 52
PHP Warning: odbc_fetch_row( ): supplied argument is not a valid ODBC
result resource in D:\path\sw265te st.php on line 57
>
The ODBC driver is for an ANGOSS Smartware database, SWODBC32.DLL
V4.60.00.2127
>
The script code is pretty simple:
>
44 $conn = odbc_connect($d bhost, $dbuser, $dbpw);
45 $result = odbc_tables($co nn);
46 odbc_result_all ( $result );
>
//This returns No Results, but no error, either
// commented out lines here
>
51 $sql = "SELECT * FROM $dbname";
52 $result2 = odbc_exec( $conn, $sql );
>
// commented out lines here
>
57 while (odbc_fetch_row ($result2)) {
echo odbc_result_all ( $result2 );
}
>
>
-JPB

Hi JPB,
I read the "Table access error" as: there is something wrong with accessing
the table you specify, not necesarily that the table doesnt exist... could
also be a permissions problem, or a lot of other things.

As stated by someone else in this thread:
On line 51 it says dbname, but this is of course tablename I hope?

Does the webserver have permission to access the database? Do you need to
specify the allowed hosts anywhere (as in MySQL)? Maybe the hostname is
reported differently when running from the IIS. Or not at all.
Can you turn on error logging for the ODBC so you can see whats going on?
What does ANGOSS docs say about this specific error?

Good luck,
Richard.

**google@thefifthimperium.com** · Jul 6 '07, 09:25 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

On Jul 6, 9:29 am, "Richard" <root@localhost wrote:

Hi JPB,
I read the "Table access error" as: there is something wrong with accessing
the table you specify, not necesarily that the table doesnt exist... could
also be a permissions problem, or a lot of other things.

The driver in question has always struck me as being a bit on the
primitive side. From what I can discern, access control is only due to
file read/write file system settings (in this case Windows 2000).

As stated by someone else in this thread:
On line 51 it says dbname, but this is of course tablename I hope?

Funny that you spotted that... it was, indeed a table name reference.

One of the things that's always bugged me about ANGOSS and SmartWare
is that they do not use the terms 'database' and 'table' in an
industry-standard manner.

To them, a single table resides in a single file (along with seperate
key and view files, which they then call a 'database'. In their
usage, a 'table' is part of a custom view - a linked table, usually
with a one-to-many relationship which is then rendered in a literally
tabular fashion.

In terms of their ODBC driver, they treat a single directory
containing many 'databases' as other servers would treat a database
and a many tables within that database.

Sometimes I mix & match my usage of the terminology. Sloppy, I
admit.

Does the webserver have permission to access the database? Do you need to
specify the allowed hosts anywhere (as in MySQL)? Maybe the hostname is
reported differently when running from the IIS. Or not at all.

As far as I can tell, the server, running as LocalSystem, has read/
write access to the the database directory.

Can you turn on error logging for the ODBC so you can see whats going on?

Tried that... I never managed to generate a log file. I may have
simply misplaced it, but I thought I set the paths correctly.

What does ANGOSS docs say about this specific error?

The docs I have are kinda thin on the errors - especially ODBC-
related ones.

Good luck,
Richard

Thanks for the wishes and the questions.

-Joe

**google@thefifthimperium.com** · Jul 6 '07, 09:25 PM

Re: Output differs between browser and console

On Jul 5, 7:18 pm, Charles Polisher <cpol...@nonesu ch.comwrote:

should the SQL read "SELECT * FROM $dbname.$tablen ame"

I'll give it a whirl, but the query, given the tablename, returned
results in a console session.

-Joe

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