anyone familiar with PHP switch, read this

im using the php switch function to layout some pages of a new website im working on (www.tlove2.com ) which will serve as the placement page for premium hosting members to sign up as well as login.. but the switch function works fine on my website source server, but when i move them to my own server it stops working. i figure this is a problem in the php.ini or apache config files but does anyone have any idea what line should be uncommented?

sry not sure if this goes in PHP or Configuring your Server, believed PHP forum was best as the topic is about the function itself

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The problem is with sessions, not with switch. If you can give us some code it will be easier to help

Code:

<?php switch($open) { default: include('home.txt'); 
break; case "1": include('test.txt'); 
break; case "2": include('http://www.tlove2.com/hosting/new.cgi'); 
break; case "3": include('http://www.tlove2.com/hosting/manager.cgi'); 
} ?>

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First of all if the $open varible is GET, you should check if your server has the registered vars enabled.

You can be sure about that by using this line in the beggining of your script :

Code:

<?php
$open = $_GET['page'];

Another thing that you should check is the path of the includes. Doing something like this may help :

Code:

<?php
include './home.txt';

As a bottom line, I would suggest to enable error displaying in order to help you (or me) to find what the error is.

Code:

<?php
  ini_set('display_errors', 1);

well im sure the paths are correct cus it works on website source server... here is my new php code:

Code:

<?php 
$open = $_GET['page'];
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
switch($open) { default: include('home.txt'); 
break; case "1": include('test.txt'); 
break; case "2": include('/hosting/new.cgi'); 
break; case "3": include('/hosting/manager.cgi'); 
} ?>

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The paths may not be correct, as there may be different include_path directive on each server.

Is this showing any errors?

not on the website no.. its still only showing the default page and the open pages like id 1 2 and 3 wont work..

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Oh. You must propably put the 'default' in the end of your code, like :

Code:

<?php 
$open = $_GET['page'];
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
switch($open) { 
 case "1": include('test.txt'); 
              break;
 case "2": include('/hosting/new.cgi'); 
              break; 
 case "3": include('/hosting/manager.cgi'); 
              break;
 default: include('home.txt'); 
            break;
} ?>

nope still opening default (which its supposed to) but no luck on the other pages

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Did you wrote it exactly as I wrote it above?

copy & pasted

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OOopps.

Make this change and it will work :

Code:

<?php
$open = $_GET['open'];

cool it loads the test.txt file now, but i get these errors on the other 2 pages

Warning: main(/hosting/manager.cgi) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\www\index.php on line 114

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening '/hosting/manager.cgi' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\www\index.php on line 114

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That's because you have different root paths in your servers.

Use something like :

include '../file.php';

or like :

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/file.php';

now it displays the CGI code instead of the actual page.

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You can't run a cgi script through php.

You should redirect the user to the cgi script instead of including the file.

this works fine on the WSS server tho, it opens the cgi file inside the layout and it works fine ?

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You can propably do this by changing your httpd.conf file, but I don't know how

here is url to non-working CGI included script

http://tlove2.com/index.php?open=3

and url to working cgi included script

http://meth0d.justinlove.net/001/index.php?open=3

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What operating systems does those servers have?

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