Command in php works but not if in a *.inc file?

[stockton]

If I issue the following from my logon.php the mail get sent correctly

    $mailstring = date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . " ".$erroruser." Logged on from ". $client;
    $headers = 'From: es-master@stockton.co.za' . "\r\n" .
        'Reply-To: alf.stockton@telkomsa.net' . "\r\n" .
        'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();
    mail("alf@stockton.co.za","Dinner Event",$mailstring,$headers);

but if I include it as

 
require_once('includes/error-handler.inc');

from the logon.php it does not work.

All variables are populated in both cases.

 

Please explain why this is happening.

[JasonLewis]

Usually if I want to make it a .inc I'd make it a .inc.php

Same with most extensions. For classes I use .class.php

[rlelek]

Usually if I want to make it a .inc I'd make it a .inc.php

Same with most extensions. For classes I use .class.php

 

Absolutely!

 

Also, it may be worth mentioning that you MUST enclose the PHP portions of your .inc fine with PHP tags.

Just because you require/include it, does not mean it is included in PHP.

Actually, I believe the default for requiring/including a file acts like it is importing (X)HTML.

 

Just be sure to include those tags!

Those simple things happen to the best of us sometimes...

 

Ryan

[stockton]

I do have <?php and ?> at the beginning and end of my error-handler.inc ?

[MadTechie]

.inc files will NOT be parsed unless you add the .inc as a php handler on the apache server.

if you have access to the system files on the server or using cPanel you can fix this.

if i have lost you then just rename the file to "error-handler.inc.php"

(infact i would do that in anycase)

[PFMaBiSmAd]

When including/requiring a file through the file system, the file name does not matter for the include/require to function (it does matter if you put sensitive information into the file, such as a database username/password, because if it does not end in .php, someone can browse to it and see the php code in the file.)

 

If this was being done through a URL/http request, the file extension would matter and control if the file was parsed or not by php before being included into the current script.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

it does not work.

 

Define: "it does not work". That could mean anything, such as a blank page because the require_once() failed because the path/file is incorrect and caused a fatal runtime error to your login no longer works because some white-space is preventing headers... What do you see in front of you when you do this?

[stockton]

I do not understand the ".inc files will NOT be parsed unless you add the .inc as a php handler on the apache server" as all other commands in the included file work fine. The included file contains a function which accepts a string as a parameter, builds a HTML page and also writes the string to a text file and then attempts to send an email, so saying it will not be parsed is going over my head and I do not understand.

It is just the mail() command that fails but if I include the same mail() call directly in the parent php it works fine.

BTW The "it does not work" means that the email is not sent.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The included file contains a function...

 

That is not what the code you posted shows. You must post actual code to get specific help with what it is or is not doing.

[stockton]

<?php
// Thanks to http://www.tonymarston.net/php-mysql/errorhandler.html
// set_error_handler('errorHandler');

function get_sql_error($sQuery, $hDb_conn, $sError, $bDebug)
{
   if(!$rQuery = @mysql_query($sQuery, $hDb_conn))
   {
       $sMssql_get_last_message = mysql_get_last_message();
       $sQuery_added  = "BEGIN TRY\n";
       $sQuery_added .= "\t".$sQuery."\n";
       $sQuery_added .= "END TRY\n";
       $sQuery_added .= "BEGIN CATCH\n";
       $sQuery_added .= "\tSELECT 'Error: '  + ERROR_MESSAGE()\n";
       $sQuery_added .= "END CATCH";
       $rRun2= @mysql_query($sQuery_added, $hDb_conn);
       $aReturn = @mysql_fetch_assoc($rRun2);
       if(empty($aReturn))
       {
           echo $sError.'. MYSQL returned: '.$sMysql_get_last_message.'.<br>Executed query: '.nl2br($sQuery);
       }
       elseif(isset($aReturn['computed']))
       {
           echo $sError.'. MYSQL returned: '.$aReturn['computed'].'.<br>Executed query: '.nl2br($sQuery);
       }
       return FALSE;
   }
   else
   {
       return $rQuery;
   }
}

function errorHandler ($errno, $errstr)
        {
// echo "<br>Entered errorHandler()<br>";
// echo $errno." ".$errstr;
        switch ($errno)
            {
            case E_USER_WARNING:
            case E_USER_NOTICE:
            case E_WARNING:
            case E_NOTICE:
            case E_CORE_WARNING:
            case E_COMPILE_WARNING:
                     break;
            case E_USER_ERROR:
            case E_ERROR:
            case E_PARSE:
            case E_CORE_ERROR:
            case E_COMPILE_ERROR:
                global $query;
                echo '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">';
                echo '<head>';
                echo '<title>Message</title>';
                echo '<style>';
                echo '<!--';
                echo '.normalcopy { font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 11px; color: Black; }';
                echo '.bottomlinks { color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight:
normal; text-decoration: none; }';
                echo '-->';
                echo '</style>';
                echo '</head>';
                echo '<body bgcolor="#ffffff">';

                $errorstring = "<align=center>" .date('Y-m-d H:i:s') ."";
//                $errstr .= " " . $erroruser;

                echo '<center>';
                echo '<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="748">';
                echo '<tr>';
                echo '<td align left = "" valign="top" height="73" class="normalcopy">';
                echo '<p align="center"><strong>'.$errstr.'</p>';
                echo '</td></align></tr>';
                echo '</table>';
                echo '</center>';

                $logfile = "errorlog.html";
                $client  = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
                $errorstring .= " ";
                $errorstring .= $errstr;
                $errorstring .= " on ";
                $errorstring .= $client;
                $errorstring .= " by ";
                $errorstring .= $erroruser;
                $errorstring .= "<br>";
                $Boodskap = "<br><align=left>" . date('Y-m-d H:i:s') . " " . $errstr;
                error_log($Boodskap, 3, $logfile);
    $headers = 'From: es-master@stockton.co.za' . "\r\n" .
        'Reply-To: alf.stockton@telkomsa.net' . "\r\n"; 
    mail("alf@stockton.co.za","Error log",$Boodskap,$headers);

            default:
                break;
            } // switch

//        get_sql_error($insert, $link, NULL, NULL);
//        echo "<a href=index.php><img src=images/Back.png>";
        echo "</BODY>";
        echo "</HTML>";
    } // errorHandler
?>