[FX.php List] PHP.ini question

Dale Bengston dbengston at preservationstudio.com
Thu Nov 1 15:36:08 MDT 2007 

Different *installations* of PHP can have different options compiled  
in as well. Your PHP code may be referencing a function that is not  
compiled in the live server's version. This happened to me during  
development on a Mac, where I was using some of the mb_ string  
functions and the money_format() function only to find that my  
client's Windows install of PHP didn't include support for those.

Dale

PS If you include phpinfo() on a page, the Configure Command section  
will provide all the gory details of what modules are compiled in your  
respective versions of PHP.

On Nov 1, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Steve Winter wrote:

> Okay,
>
> So you may in fact be on to something with it being a php.ini issue...
> what's the function that's causing the issue...? are there any  
> uncommon
> looking methods being used within that function...? I don't recall  
> which
> version are on which box that you're working with, it may be that  
> there's a
> function in there which isn't supported yet/any longer, on the  
> version of
> php on the production box...
>
> Send us the code of the function that's breaking things and we'll  
> see if we
> can spot anything...
>
> 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 John Funk
> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2007 9:18 p.m.
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] PHP.ini question
>
> Steve,
> I discovered that my problem is NOT the required_once function but  
> rather
> the include file it's self. I have isolated the problem to one  
> function
> inside the include file, When I take that out, things start to work.
> Like I said before, I inherited this web site so I need to do some  
> code
> sloothing. But still what could be the difference between the  
> servers that
> might cause this.
> John
>
> On 11/1/07 12:54 PM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> And what happens when you try to load
>>   http://servername/includes/wi_form_lib.php
>> Does the php page get loaded...? (make sure there's at least an echo
>> 'hello'; or something right at the top of the file so that you can  
>> tell if
>> it's been loaded...
>>
>> This all seems really strange... it shouldn't be this hard...!!
>>
>> 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 John Funk
>> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2007 5:35 p.m.
>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] PHP.ini question
>>
>> Steve, thanks for the explanation.
>> Removal of the "/" does not work.
>> The initial file, index.php is in the root directory and the
> wi_form_lib.php
>> is in the includes directory (one level above root)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/1/07 11:39 AM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> That's because of the fundamental difference between require and  
>>> include,
>>> the include is presumably still failing, however because it's only  
>>> an
>>> include the rest of the script will run... require says exactly  
>>> that,
> it's
>>> required so if it can't be found, stop...!
>>>
>>> Have you tried
>>>  require_once("includes/wi_form_lib.php");
>>>
>>> (note the removal of the initial /)
>>>
>>> Can you tell us more about the structure of the files..? what is  
>>> the name
>> of
>>> the file that is trying to include wi_form_lib.php...? and where  
>>> is that
>>> file actually located relative to the file that's doing the  
>>> calling...??
>>>
>>> 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 John Funk
>>> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2007 4:25 p.m.
>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] PHP.ini question
>>>
>>> Steve,
>>> When I replace:
>>> require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] ."/includes/wi_form_lib.php"
>>> With
>>> require_once("/includes/wi_form_lib.php"
>>>
>>> It still stops but I did find out that it is the require_once that  
>>> is not
>>> working because include_once DOES NOT stop the script.
>>> I am checking the two PHP.ini files.
>>> Any more ideas?
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/1/07 7:56 AM, "John Funk" <csinfo at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Steve,
>>>> At one time or another yesterday I tried echoing the path and it  
>>>> did
>>> return
>>>> the machine path (not URL) it seems ok but I will try the relative
> method
>>>> and let you know.
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/1/07 7:36 AM, "Steve Winter" <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>
>>>>> What do you see if you try;
>>>>>
>>>>> echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'<br />';
>>>>>
>>>>> Is the returned path correct...??
>>>>>
>>>>> Have you just tried calling the include without that...? I tend  
>>>>> to use
>>>>> relative references for includes, so in my instance I would have  
>>>>> just
>>> put;
>>>>>
>>>>> <?php require_once("includes/wi_form_lib.php"); ?>
>>>>>
>>>>> Assuming that the file doing the calling is in the root, and
>>> wi_form_lib.php
>>>>> is in a sub folder of that called includes...
>>>>>
>>>>> Try those, see if you can get as far as getting wi_form_lib.php to
>>> load...
>>>>> stick an echo 'I loaded<br />'; as the first line so that you  
>>>>> know that
>>> it
>>>>> is...
>>>>>
>>>>> Once you get that loading, then you can look to replicate the same
> tests
>>> in
>>>>> that file to determine what (if anything) is going wrong with  
>>>>> including
>>> the
>>>>> FX.php files...
>>>>>
>>>>> Let us know how you get on...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>>>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of John  
>>>>> Funk
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:20 p.m.
>>>>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>>>>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] PHP.ini question
>>>>>
>>>>> We set up the test server before we knew about the environment  
>>>>> at the
>>>>> production ISP. The ISP's machine is shared by multiple sites,  
>>>>> some PHP
>>> so
>>>>> the version cannot be changed.
>>>>> Here is the code that is casueing problems:
>>>>> <?php require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .
>>> "/includes/wi_form_lib.php");
>>>>> ?>
>>>>>
>>>>> wi_form_lib.php is a script that does the form processing for
> FileMaker.
>>> And
>>>>> wi_form_lib.php calls FX.php.
>>>>> (I inherited this project so some of this was out of my control.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/1/07 1:55 AM, "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" <ggt667 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And why are you running different versions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A real test environment should always be identical to the  
>>>>>> production
>>>>>> environment
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ggt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/1/07, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>  
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm putting my money on paths. Can you post the code that  
>>>>>>> produces
>>>>>>> different results on the different servers?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Dale
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:41 PM, John Funk wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This may not be the place but I need to find out why on my  
>>>>>>>> Apache
>> test
>>>>>>>> server (Mac OS), can I use the PHP function (Require_Once) /
>>>>>>>> (Include_once)
>>>>>>>> just fine but on my production s Apache server (Unix) the PHP  
>>>>>>>> script
>>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>>> stalls right at the first occurance of this function.
>>>>>>>> My server guy told me to compare PHP.ini files to see what is
>>>>>>>> different.
>>>>>>>> The PHP versions are 4.1.2 (test server) and 4.2.1  
>>>>>>>> (Production).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Any more ideas out there?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>> John Funk
>>>>>>>>
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