1 Topic by Joey (edited by JoeWesthead 2004-01-08 18:30)

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Topic: Problem with extern.php

I just looked at extern.php and put it onto my webpage, but got the following error:

Warning: Failed opening 'http://joey.gtrx.net/site/forums/extern … tion=stats' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in C:\FoxServ\www\site\index.php on line 236

The URL for extern.php and the URL for index.php are fine, I think the problem is with "include_path='.;c:\php4\pear'" - It looks weird to me sad

I'm no PHP programmer, so I'm not sure what this is all about.

Any help?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Ah, maybe the ".;" shouldn't be there..

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Still wouldn't know where to change that though..

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Well, since what you are including is an URL, the include path is ignored. I really don't know what could be wrong. Check your php.info and see if allow_url_fopen is enabled.

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5 Reply by Joey (edited by JoeWesthead 2004-01-08 21:04)

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Directive           | Local Value |  Master Value 
allow_url_fopen         1                     1

Does that mean it should be ok?

How much has extern.php been tested?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

The problem has nothing to do with extern.php. The problem is that, for some reason, PHP cannot find the URL from where you are including it.

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Re: Problem with extern.php

What do you suggest?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

I just found this:

The Windows versions of PHP earlier than PHP 4.3 did not support remote file accessing for the following functions: include(), include_once(), require(), require_once(), and the imagecreatefromXXX functions in the Reference XLI, Image functions extension.

Are you running a version of PHP prior to 4.3.0?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Ah that'd be it - 4.2.2.

Never had a problem before. I'd best get downloading smile

Kennel, is there anything he can't solve?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Good call!

I've updated to PHP 4.3.4 and it works swimmingly big_smile

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Nice to hear :)

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Re: Problem with extern.php

I've come back to the PC after a weekend away, and the problem has started again. I checked and PHP is still on 4.3.4, and I did a clean insall of Pun, same error :x

Error wrote:

Warning: main(http://<snip>/site/forums/extern.php?action=stats): failed to open stream: Bad file descriptor in c:\apache\htdocs\site\index.php on line 63

Warning: main(): Failed opening '<snip>/site/forums/extern.php?action=stats' for inclusion (include_path='.;c:\php4\pear') in c:\apache\htdocs\site\index.php on line 63

Where <snip> is my URL..

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Re: Problem with extern.php

And allow_url_fopen is still enabled?

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Yup sad

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Ah - think I have found the problem. As we discussed in IRC, I am now using DirectUpdate to mask my IP address.

I opened up the PHP file, and changed:

<?php include('http://joey.gtrx.net/site/forums/extern.php?action=stats'); ?>

to:

<?php include('http://localhost/site/forums/extern.php?action=stats'); ?>

and it works ok. Not sure what will happen when the site goes live to the public though.

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Re: Problem with extern.php

localhost should be fine as long as your forums are hosted on the same server as your front page.

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Cool. Any thoughts as to why it may not have worked?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

And maybe this could go into the FAAQ for next time..

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Yes, maybe it should.

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Here you can read about your problem, http://se.php.net/include/

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Om man har version 4.2.2 finns det inget att göra åt detta då?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

Svinpäls Nr1 wrote:

Om man har version 4.2.2 finns det inget att göra åt detta då?

Sure, just include it with a relative path instead of the URL.

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Re: Problem with extern.php

I have tried both absolut and relative paths but get an error anyway sad

Warning: Failed opening 'punbb_1_1_2/extern.php?action=active' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php/PEAR') in /customers/svinpalsarna.com/svinpalsarna.com/httpd.www/kontakt.php on line 415

or like this:

Warning: Unable to access /customers/svinpalsarna.com/svinpalsarna.com/httpd.www/punbb_1_1_2/extern.php?action=active in /customers/svinpalsarna.com/svinpalsarna.com/httpd.www/kontakt.php on line 415

Warning: Failed opening '/customers/svinpalsarna.com/svinpalsarna.com/httpd.www/punbb_1_1_2/extern.php?action=active' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php/PEAR') in /customers/svinpalsarna.com/svinpalsarna.com/httpd.www/kontakt.php on line 415

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Re: Problem with extern.php

From what directory are you including it and with what include command?

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Re: Problem with extern.php

I try to include it from the webroot from my page kontakt.php with the command:

include(punbb_1_1_2/extern.php?action=active');

also tried:

include('/customers/svinpalsarna.com/svinpalsarna.com/httpd.www/punbb_1_1_2/extern.php?action=active');