Re: PHP barfs with Win98/Oracle/Apache

Trussell David N wrote: > > > I have Apache 1.3.12 on Win98 SE and Personal Oracle 8.1.5. It works > fine > > > up to a point. I load PHPLIB's index.php3 and the "Per Session Data" > > > variable increments as expected. But when I click on the URL to "Load a > > > more complex example" PHP immediately aborts with an error in Kernel32 > > > consistantly. > > > > A couple things... 1) what version of php do you have loaded on your > machine? > > php4.0.1pl2 or 4.0.2dev? 2) update your Oracle client to 8.1.6 (you don't > > have to update all your software, just the client stuff - and it's a free > > download) 3) what is the phplib code supposed to do? I haven't seen this > > code, so post a snippet so we can see what it's trying to accomplish. > > My apologies for the sparse information. I'm using the latest download from > www.php4win.de (php4.0.2-dev cvs: 2000-08-16). I will see about updating > the client tonight. PHPLIB is a toolkit developed mainly for PHP3. I was > using it to test my database connections. It can be found at > phplib.netuse.de. Here is a snipped portion of the "offending" file: > > <?php > // I use auto_prepend= in my php3.ini file to have > // prepend.php3 in front of this file. If you don't > // want to use this feature you have to include it > // manually: > > // include("prepend.php3"); > > // You will have to set up your include_path= in > // php3.ini to make this work, though. > > // This is here to test the features of the Table class > include($_PHPLIB["libdir"] . "table.inc"); > > // We use the following features: > // sess for session variables > // auth for login checks, also required for user variables > // perm for permission checks > // user for user variables > page_open(array("sess" => "Example_Session", "auth" => > "Example_Auth", > "perm" => "Example_Perm", "user" => > "Example_User")); > > // page access requires that the user is authenticated and has "admin" > permission > $perm->check("admin"); > > // s is a per session variable, u is a per user variable. > > // If they've already been loaded in from the database, leave them alone > // Otherwise, set them to a value so we don't get PHP warnings later. > if(!isset($s)) { $s=0; }; > if(!isset($u)) { $u=0; }; > > $sess->register("s"); > $user->register("u"); > > ?> > <html> > <head> As the oci8 calls are new to php4, I recommend using the oci_* function calls directly. The phplib code may be using older oracle_* function calls which don't work with the oci8 extension. Just a note for safety :) -- Andy Hoffman Web Developer Bristol-Myers Squibb office: LVL G1.2607 email: andy.hoffman@bms.com phone: 609-252-5788