[FX.php List] This was supposed to be easy

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Steve,

Thanks very much for your assistance.

I'm a couple of hours downstream from my original panic state and 
have learned tons:

You're right about the display_errors and error_reporting.  I just 
finished editing the phpini to get that under control.

More significant, though, was the need to turn on "Short Tags" in PHP 
5.  My code started out in PHP 4 and I haven't tidied up the short 
tags.  What a surprise to see your php code splattered around the web 
page. ;-)

Regarding the Intel machine, I think I found an offer on the FMO site 
for a $49 upgrade to FMSA8 to gain Intel compatibility.  Too bad that 
info isn't offered up where it is needed...in the Read Me of the 8.04 
update file that fails.

I'm now in the middle of doctoring my code to account for being local 
and without internet connection.  Can't send those confirmation 
emails out w/o a connection, can we?

Never a dull moment.

I'm good to go, I believe.

Jonathan



At 7:45 AM +0000 12/5/07, Steve Winter wrote:
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>The missing index would make it sound to me like the error reporting level
>on the new install is more 'talkative' than on your current server.
>
>There are various levels of error reporting which you can set in the php.ini
>file, it sounds like the new install on the PowerBook is set to report
>everything, so it's giving you the notices about undefined indexes...
>
>These will occur if you do something like
>   if($myVar) echo "It's true";
>There are two ways to get round this, go through the list of errors and
>trouble shoot each one, in the above example it would become;
>   If(isset($myVar)) echo "It's true";
>
>The (quicker) alternative is just turn of error reporting of warnings, open
>php.ini in your favourite test editor and search for error reporting and set
>it to
>   error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
>which says 'show all errors except notices'. If that still shows errors, but
>the system is working, you could just turn off all error reporting for the
>day, look further down the php.ini file and you'll see
>   display_errors = On
>change that to
>   display_errors = Off
>and no errors will be displayed on screen (just don't forget you've done
>this, as it will make any future debugging you try to do on the machine much
>more difficult)
>
>Good luck...
>
>Cheers
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schwartz
>Sent: 05 December 2007 07:13
>To: FX.php Discussion List
>Subject: [FX.php List] This was supposed to be easy
>
>Hmmmm...this was supposed to be the *least* of my worries.  Now, it's
>a show-stopper.
>
>For one of my student/sports registration projects, I agreed
>(volunteered) to  suspend the regular web based system during their
>face-to-face events and and instead, run the solution completely
>locally using a small ethernet network.  The primary reason is that
>there is no internet access at the site. We wanted to be able to use
>the db of folks who had already registered, plus register walkins.
>One the session was over, I would put the db back online.
>
>The existing system is running on OS X Tiger Server with php 5 and
>FMSA 8.04 on g4 mac minis.
>
>I thought that I would just run the solution on my MacBookPro. The
>event is tomorrow night. I started installing FMSA 8.0 on the
>MacBookPro and that's where the fun began.  While the 8.02 installed
>from the CD, the 8.0v4 updates to both server and Web Engine would
>not install, citing that they were not compatible with Intel.   Ooops.
>
>So, I decided to repeat the same thing on my older PowerBookG4.
>Everything installed...but I've never seen so many php errors once I
>launched the solution. Missing index?
>
>I'm starting to sweat at this point.
>
>I've now "borrowed the kid's G4 Tower, wiped it, and am starting from
>scratch installing OS X server and essentially replicating the
>machine that now serves the solution online.
>
>Should I have not assumed that I could run the solution from a
>regular OS X Tiger Intel laptop with FMSA 8.04 installed and using
>the built in Personal Web Publishing native to OS X?
>
>Jonathan
>
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