Topic 3B

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why does the counter increase 2 at a time ie 2, 4,6,8 etc
when I test it in the designer's debug function, but when I test it using localhost it works correctly ie 1,2,3,4 etc?

no the text is not written to the text file

where are the variable $firstname etc actually assigned?

the <br><b> etc is actually written but not the variable text

I have completed the hit counter part of this task and it works fine, but I'm not clear about this line:
$currenthits = fread($fp, 20);

How do you know how many bytes to put done here. I can see that with this script that the number of hits is the only content of the file, but with a more complex file, how do you ascertain what the bytes should be?

How many bytes are required is not really an issue = you can use 1024 and that would be good enough for most of what you do.

If you really want to know, use

$size=filesize("./hits.txt";

If you echo $size you'll get 2, so you can use 2 if you want to.

I was right

the masterskill book did not give us the code to assign the variable
once I got this in it worked fine

I am still having trouble with 3B-2 which currently only displays foreward slashes

Angus you're a bit vague here... post your code and the error you receive to make things easier

Hi Mac

well it seems I do not know the difference between
$ and S ie one of the variables was not declaired correctly

so now I see the content of the studentPHP folder

when I selct a file this opens fine, and I can see the content.

if I select the Test folder
I get the standard page cannot be found

If I change the http://localhost/studentPHP/dir=./Network

to http://localhost/studentPHP/Network

then I get
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /studentPHP/Network/ on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

the above did not display as I had hoped it only shows the localhost

should actually read
if I change the content of the address bar "from http://localhost/studentPHP/dir=./Network";

"to http://localhost/studentPHP/Network/";

if this does not work then just place the cursor over the blue printed localhost and see the actual content in the bottom left of the screen