[SOLVED] PHP Stops Half Way Through

[Etherwood]

My php script is stopping half way through my script.

 

   // Validate Password
    if ($_POST['password'] != "") {
      $password = $_POST['password'];
    } else {
      $errors .= 'Please enter your a password.<br/>';
    }
echo 2;
   // Validate Name
    if ($_POST['name'] != "") {
      $name = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
      if ($name == "") {
        $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>';
      }
    } else {
      $errors .= 'Please enter your a name.<br/>';
    }
echo 3;

 

I added echo tags to see where it stops. It echos 2 but not 3.

 

Any suggestions?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You are likely getting a fatal runtime error at the filter_var() instruction. Are you developing and debugging php code on a system with error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors set to ON in you master php.ini so that php would display all the errors it detect? You would save a ton of time.

[Etherwood]

I know you can't see this but var_filter is used somewhere in the script before it gets to echo 2, so wouldn't it have stopped up there somewhere?

[Etherwood]

    // Validate Database
    if ($_POST['database'] != "") {
      $database = filter_var($_POST['database'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
      if ($database == "") {
        $errors .= 'Please enter a valid database name.<br/><br/>';
      }
    } else {
      $errors .= 'Please enter your a database name.<br/>';
    }
echo 1;
   // Validate Password
    if ($_POST['password'] != "") {
      $password = $_POST['password'];
    } else {
      $errors .= 'Please enter your a password.<br/>';
    }
echo 2;
   // Validate Name
    if ($_POST['name'] != "") {
      $name = filter_var($_POST['name'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
      if ($name == "") {
        $errors .= 'Please enter a valid name.<br/><br/>';
      }
    } else {
      $errors .= 'Please enter your a name.<br/>';
    }
echo 3;

 

With error reporting now set to on, it returns this:

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function filter_var() in /var/www/html/manager/createdb.php on line 37

[mikesta707]

what version of PHP do you have? do you have the filter extension installed on your server

[Etherwood]

I'm on the centos default build of 5.1.6, so I assume its not installed with this build?

[mikesta707]

nope, it was installed by default with versions after 5.2.

clicky

[Etherwood]

Balls

[Etherwood]

I've upgraded the centos repo to support a yum update. Ran the yum update to install 5.2.9, then enabled the error loggin again, restarted httpd. Loaded the same page, but this time its blank with no output at all.

 

Edit: PHP is working because I get output from phpinfo()

[mikesta707]

do you still have error reporting set to all?

[Etherwood]

error_reporting  =  E_ALL

display_errors = On

[Etherwood]

OK, Heres the latest...  I have removed both PHP and HTTPD, then reinstalled them.

It now loads my registration script but with a new error:

Notice: Undefined variable: errors in /var/www/html/manager/createdb.php on line 65

 

Line 65:

$errors .= "$email is <strong>NOT</strong> a valid email address.<br/><br/>";

 

Is 5.2 more strict than 5.1 or something?

[mikesta707]

you have to define the variable before you use the concatenation and assignment combo operator. something like

$errors = "";

 

should fix the problem if you add that before your code

[Etherwood]

Excellent stuff

 

Cheers