Topic 3B

If you ge tthe standard page cannot be found error, then you can bet your life the path to the directory is not correct. I don't have the manual in front of me right now and I can't remember the exact path, but if it says for e.g.
/studentPHP/Network/
make sure you those directories exist.


http://localhost/studentPHP/dir=./Network cannot work.

Methinks this is a case of S and $ - typo somewhere.

Completed

Done:

- Counter: Created, no problems there; numbers display as they should when refreshing.

- Guestbook: Having problems here.. created the .php files and all seems fine. When I submit an entry to the guestbook and return to the guestbook entries, all I see is:

Eric Heller: I think it is fabulous!

:

:

:

:

:

And I keep generating more : with each guestbook entry I create. Trying to find out where I'm going wrong! *scratches eyeballs out*

Going on to Topic 3B-2 now.

Alice hi,

Check that you have declared your variables in the guestbook.php file.

Caio

Will do, thanks Wayne!

$fp = fopen("guest.txt", "a";
fwrite($fp, "<br><b>$firstname $lastname:</b> $comments<br>";
fclose($fp);

That's what I have in guestbook.php. The only things I've really been changing are the "./example.txt" .. to "example.txt" because they all reside in the one directory (can see it in my code above too) and won't work if I don't change them. I'm probably doing something majorly wrong..

Now.

Topic 3B-2.. *suicides*

(I'm allowed to be a drama queen today.)

The directory displays fine in the browser until I click on any item, and then I get a 404 error.



Going back to bed now, will start the day over in a while..

Task 3B-2 - done, and sorted. Yay!

Still working on the guestbook.

Alice,

Remember our old friend

$variable=$_POST['variable'];

Oh. Yah.

I want a new friend. This one is.. naughty.


Thanks Wayne!

Ok. Put in $firstname=$_POST['firstname']; etc etc and all displays fine now!

Thanks again for all the help! Appreciated!

Topic 3.. done. Phew!

Reminder that the $variable=$_POST['variable']; is specific to later verions of PHP. So on some servers with arlier versions of PHP you may get away with it. The reason is that register_globals in PHP5's config file is now set to off by default in php5 - a security feature.