[SOLVED] URGENT: less than character causing chaos

[jb489]

Hi all,

 

I am having a slightly peculiar problem which I cant seem to find anything about on the net.

 

I have a project I am doing which consists of a bunch of php files.  The 'view' files. i.e: the one handling all html etc is giving me problems when I open it in either safari or mozilla.

 

The problem:

I am using less than characters in my php code in code snippets like:

 

for($i=0; $i<count(anarray); $i++)

 

and in the start of a php segment like:

 

<?php ?>

 

Now the browsers are taking the less than characters as some sort of echo function, because instead of performing the code, the code is being printed out to the browser instead, but only from one < to another.

 

I have attached a pic of what exactly is going on.  Has anyone every encountered this?  I will be most grateful as I am completely lost on what to do

 

Thanks.

 

 

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[lonewolf217]

its most likely a syntax error.  post your code ?

[GingerRobot]

You're problem is not urgent. It is no more urgent than any other topic here. If you want to have priority over other people, i suggest you pay for it.

[fooDigi]

it sounds like it is not parsing the document as php, and it thinks the < and > are html tags... just a thought... in the screen shot the file extension is .html.... do you have your web server set up to parse html pages as php?

[jb489]

Sorry, please excuse the urgent then...

 

I believe I have a web server which handles php

 

I went through the whole installation and changing of the php.ini file for debugging with zend installed and all.  and when i print out the php self, the php page does come up, so i belive thats right.

 

As for the code, shall i send all file?

 

the main segment is this:

 

<div id="leftcolumn">

<div  class="innertube"><b>Column Selection</b><br/><br/>

<input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_RiskStatus" checked="checked""/>Risk Status<br/>

<input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_UserName" checked="checked"/>User Name<br/>

<input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_MGAlias" checked="checked"/>MG Alias<br/>

<input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_FName" checked="checked"/>First Name<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_LName" checked="checked"/>Last Name<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_DoB" checked="checked"/>Date of Birth<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_Email" checked="checked"/>Email Address<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_HPhone" checked="checked"/>Home Phone<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_MPhone" checked="checked"/>Mobile Phone<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_City" checked="checked"/>City<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_PostCode" checked="checked"/>Post Code<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_CardNumber" checked="checked"/>Card Number<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_Password" checked="checked"/>Password<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_FlashID" checked="checked"/>Flash ID<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_CookieID" checked="checked"/>Cookie ID<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_SAnswer" checked="checked"/>Secret Answer<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_IP" checked="checked"/>IP<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_Signup" checked="checked"/>Sign-up time<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_SuccessfulDeposits" checked="checked"/>Sucessful Deposits<br/>

    <input type="checkbox" name="chkbx_LavinAccountStatus" checked="checked"/>Lavin Account Status<br/><br/>

    <input type="button" name="btn_setColumns" value="Set Columns" onclick="><?php refreshColumns()?>"></input>

</div>

 

</div>

 

<div id="rightcolumn">

<div class="innertube"><b>Search for: </b>

<br/><br/>

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

<textarea name="username" cols="20" rows="1">Enter user name here...</textarea><br/><br/>

    <input type="submit" value="Go SAM !!"/>

    </form>

</div>

</div>

</div>

 

<div id="footer">

  <h5>

    <div>

    <input type="image" src="images/buttonPrev.gif" value="<< Previous" alt="[Previous]" name="imgbtnPrevious" title="Move to previous page of results"/>

      <input type="image" src="images/buttonNext.gif" value="Next >>" alt="[Next]" name="imgbtnNext" title="Move to next page of results" />

    </div>

  </h5>

</div>

 

<?php

 

function initialize(){

try{

if(!$_POST){

 

$custconfig = new Configuration();

                $_SESSION["custconfig"] = $custconfig;

                goSAM("james");

}

else

{            

$custconfig = $_SESSION['custconfig'];

           

            if(isset($_POST["username"]))

{

                if($_POST["username"] != "Enter user name here...")

                    {

                    goSAM($_POST["username"]);

                    }

}

}

}

catch(Exception $e)

{

}

}

 

//Method which performs the SAM functionality

function goSAM($TypedUsername)

{

getTypedUser($TypedUsername);

getMatchesandSort();

}

 

//Method to find the details of user typed in to the text box

function getTypedUser($TypedUsername)

{

$custconfig = $_SESSION["custconfig"];

$DatabaseConnector = new DatabaseConnector();

$TemplateQuery = $custconfig->getSqlStatement("SingleUser");

$Query = str_replace("@username", $TypedUsername, $TemplateQuery);

$testData = $DatabaseConnector->getDataSet($custconfig->ConnectionString(), $Query);

$_SESSION["singleUserDatagrid"] = $testData;

}

---

 

AND HERE:

 

<body>

<div id="maincontainer">

 

<div id="topsection" class="headertube">

<img src="/images/header.gif" width="100%" height="100%" />

</div>

 

<div id="contentwrapper">

<div id="contentcolumn">

<div class="innertube">

<b>

<?php

if(isset($_SESSION["singleUserDatagrid"]))

{

print("Sam found:");

}

?>

</b>

<div>

<?php

if(isset($_SESSION["singleUserDatagrid"]))

{

print("<table width='500' class='sortable' border='5' cellpadding='5'>");

print("<tbody>");

  print("<tr align=center>");

 

  $singleUserGrid = $_SESSION["singleUserDatagrid"];

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["riskstatus"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["username"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["mgalias"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["firstname"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["lastname"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["dob"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["email"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["homephone"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["mobilephone"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["city"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["postcode"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["cardnumber"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["password"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["flashid"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["cookieid"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["secretanswer"]."</td>");

print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["ip"]."</td>");

print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["signuptime"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["successfuldeposits"]."</td>");

  print("<td width=20>".$singleUserGrid[0]["lavinaccountstatus"]."</td>");

  print("</tr>");

print("</tbody>");

print("</table>");

}

?>            

            </div>

 

 

 

 

 

[fooDigi]

did you save that second file with the file extension .php... in your screenshot it it Main.html

[jb489]

i changed everything back to php for now.  I am pretty new to php and not exactly sure of everything.  you can have a web page in .php right ?

[MatthewJ]

Haha... I am going to put URGENT in the title of every post I ever make just to see if I can get gr's head to explode

 

And unless you have you php install set to parse .html files as php files, it needs to have the extension .php