Why does it give problems in php5 ?

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Ok here's the problem..

A script that shows a shop of magazines.
all content is grabbed from a magazine provider by feeds.

But we noticed that some function isnt working because their server has php5.
For this to work Register_globals must be ON and its ON. Smile

the error it shows is :

Notice: Undefined index: categorie in index2.php on line 2
Notice: Undefined index: feedid in index2.php on line 3

And on these lines there is :

$categorie = $_GET['categorie'];
$feedid = $_GET['feedid'];

At the bottom the default feed is set like here:

Code:




<?php


$getfeed = "http://www.xxxxx.com&feedid=" . $feedid;


include ($getfeed); 


?>

The categorie uses switch ($categorie) to show the content...bla...bla

and thats all the php to be found in the script..

anyone have a great idea why the content isnt showing?
Its deffinately a php5 thing,i tried it on my server (not php5) and all works perfectly.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:52 am

Is allow-fopen-url enabled? [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

The notice errors indicate it is not reading a $_GET value. So where are these variables being generated?
For security reasons, you should probably intval() those variables.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 12:29 pm

yes its ON

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:06 pm

May need to use something like file_get_contents to see if its reading anything [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 3:25 pm

well that doesnt help much...
i tried even if(!($myFile=fopen("http..bla..bla","r")))
{

and the results are dumped as pure htm like..

Code:

"; $start_position=strpos($myLine, $start); $end_position=strpos($myLine, $end)+strlen($end); $length=$end_position-$start_position; $myLine=substr($myLine, $start_position, $length); // Display HTML echo $myLine; ?>

the above code is correct and not stripped....
btw...the above stuff was to try but isnt part of the code ...

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:16 pm

Can you echo the $getfeed variable and see its output?

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:29 am

that also doesnt work....
it just echo's out the full feed url..

an overview.....

like i said....
it uses very litle php in the file..
i forgot to mention that it uses switch to move between urls (feeds) and show different content pages..

in the working version (older) i only has this :

if (empty($_GET["feedid"])) { $_GET["feedid"] = "xxxxxlongfeed id numberxxxxxx"; }
include ("http://xxxx&feedid=" . $_GET["feedid"] . "");

but because the urls of the page ended up like this:

index.php?feedid=VIP3C2C5C25E5FCR3D3D27PM2FHB202745HFJFNJNRT895RHBFJFRIRFJKFDNOILV5BG28PLP20

they decided to use a different approach .
So thats where the switch came in....

like...

switch ($categorie)

case 'movies':
$feedid = 'very long feed number here';
break;

etc and list goes on and at the bottom the default feed is set..

$getfeed = "http://etc...etc..&feedid=" . $feedid;
include ($getfeed);

and the first real php is on top of page with:

$categorie = $_GET['categorie'];
$feedid = $_GET['feedid'];

thats all the php in the file..

and for some reason this results in this :

Notice: Undefined index: categorie in index2.php on line 2
Notice: Undefined index: feedid in index2.php on line 3

(index2.php is the test file)

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:34 am

I am running PHP 5, if you want me to test the file, let me know. I don't see anything currently wrong with that methodology, but obviously it is not reading those variables correctly

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:03 am

sure....can you pm me a mail address ?

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:15 pm

any luck evader......

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:17 am

c'mon peeps.....
anyone having luck with this?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 7:56 am

Hit, I sent you an e-mail, and checked out the site, It seems to be including it in the site. I cannot reproduce the problem sorry.

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:03 am

yes i replied with additional info about the server enviroment etc..
you didnt received it?

can you put it online and pm me the link?

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:41 pm

I seem to be running it just fine. I will link you to where I have it, and please send me the link to where you are testing it so we can compare what it should be doing

Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:27 pm

Both hitwalker and evaders, I have sent you both pms pointing you to my test site, and if that is the full code on hitwalkers site, It seems to be working.

Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:13 pm

Yea seems fine to me. I'm waiting to see if we can test it on hitwalker's server directly