Blank php page

vantheman · December 6, 2008

Hello,

I'm experiencing a problem with a php page on a website. The page is coming up blank & I've searched and searched for the problemn but can't seem to find the cause. Here's the code:

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<?php

require_once('/includes/getid3/getid3.php');

require_once('/includes/code/functions.php');

$DAYS_TO_DOWNLOAD = 1;

$CanRate = 1;

$CanDownload = 1;

$dtret = GetUsersFirstTimeRated('2008_01_14');

if ($dtret != "") {

#User has rated before

$CanRate = 0;

$days = (strtotime(date("m/d/Y H:i:s")) - strtotime($dtret)) / (60 * 60 * 24);

if ($days >= $DAYS_TO_DOWNLOAD) {

$CanDownload = 0;

}

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Weeks Available</title>

<!--

body {

background-color: #FF0000;

background-image: url(/includes/images/bg_temp.jpg);

}

.style4 {font-size: large}

a:link {

color: #FF0000;

}

a:visited {

color: #FF0000;

}

a:hover {

color: #CCCCCC;

}

.style5 {font-size: medium}

.style6 {color: #FFFFFF}

.class1 A:link {color: #FFFFFF}

.class1 A:visited {color: #FFFFFF}

.class1 A:active {color: #FFFFFF}

.class1 A:hover {text-decoration: underline; color: red;}

-->

</style></head>

<body>

<tr>

<div align="right"><span class="style5"><span class="class1"><a href="SearchFiles.php">Search for Artist</a></span></span> </div>

<BR>

<?php

#Get list of folders starting with 2(weekly folders)

@$d = dir(".");

if ($d) {

while($entry=$d->read()) {

if ($entry[0] == "2") {

$items[] = $entry;

}

$d->close();

sort($items);

}

$i = sizeof($items)-1;

while ($i >= 0) {

$dirname = $items[$i];

print "<a href='DisplayFiles.php?wk=" . $dirname . "'>" . GetWeekFromDirectory($dirname) . "</a><br><BR>\n";

$i--;

}

# for($i=0; $i<sizeof($items); $i++) {

# $dirname = $items[$i];

# print "<a href='DisplayFiles.php?wk=" . $dirname . "'>" . GetWeekFromDirectory($dirname) . "</a><br><BR>\n";

#

# }

?>

</span></div></td>

</tr>

</table>

<?php

echo "<BR> $CanRate : $CanDownload";

?>

</body>

</html>

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Can anyone help please?

Thanks in advance

Van

PFMaBiSmAd · December 6, 2008

Add the following two lines immediately after your first opening <?php tag to get php to help you -

ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Do your actually have a folder in the root of the current hard disk called includes? That is what the leading slash / in a file system path in a require/include statement means. This does not have the same meaning as a leading slash / in a URL.

vantheman · December 6, 2008

Yes the is an "include" folder at the root.

I inserted the code that you gave me, uploaded and here's what is displaying:

Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/includes/getid3/getid3.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs/secure/DisplayWeeksTest.php on line 4

Warning: main(/includes/getid3/getid3.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs/secure/DisplayWeeksTest.php on line 4

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/includes/getid3/getid3.php' (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs/secure/DisplayWeeksTest.php on line 4

Thanks for your quick response.

mrMarcus · December 6, 2008

for the third error, beginning an included/required path with '/' dictates to the server that it's an absolute path back to the root of the filesystem .. the root to your file system is: /var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs/ .. includes is considered in your webserver directory, so to call for that you would have to use a relative path as follows:

require_once('./includes/filename.php');

you can by all means use absolute paths when including files, they just tend to be longer and make switching servers a pain since you might have to update all your absolute paths .. an absolute path in this case would be:

require_once('/var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs/secure/includes/filename.php');

that's the 3rd error anyways .. i believe.

vantheman · December 6, 2008

I forgot to point out that, the php file with the code, resides inside the "secure" folder. The "includes" folder that this php file calls, resides 1 level up, inside the httpdocs folder. With that being said, how should the relative statement be typed?

mrMarcus · December 6, 2008

I forgot to point out that, the php file with the code, resides inside the "secure" folder. The "includes" folder that this php file calls, resides 1 level up, inside the httpdocs folder. With that being said, how should the relative statement be typed?

usually the parent directory in reference to a webserver structure is something along the lines of 'public_html', or 'htdocs'. i see you have 'htdocs', so do your

require_once('./includes/filename.php');

the absolute path would be

require_once('/var/www/vhosts/nervedjsemf.com/httpdocs/includes/filename.php');

basically, htdocs in your case is the directory in which the physical aspect of your site resides. it does not need to be referenced to in relative paths.

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