Renegade — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:24:49 +0000

lol random missing php.ini files.

Khanny — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 05:00:25 +0000

cheers, I found the problem after trying another script that had previously worked. It seems my php.ini file had been deleted somehow. Reinstalled PHP and all works fine now.

Suzanne — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:52:20 +0000

It may be $_POST['response'] as well, btw.

Cheese solves a lot of problems...

Ok... I see now

christodd — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:31:40 +0000

Disregard my last post... it uses mySQL. SO ... you have one of 2 problems.

First, that script says the same thing in two situations :
#1 - it doesn't get the $submit and $response variables. Some versions of PHP require that you use the $HTTP_POST_VARS['submit'] and $HTTP_POST_VARS['response'] variables at the top of the script. (or use $HTTP_GET_VARS if you're voting in the URL).

You can see if this is a problem by changing the text around a little bit in vote.php - the first time you see 'Error!', change it to 'I like cheese'. Then do it again. If you're page likes cheese, then it's a problem with the variable submission.

#2 - if you're page doesn't like cheese, then it's a problem lower down in the SQL query. You may not have the SQL settings correct, maybe you haven't created the tables, or maybe the username and password you are using isn't allowed to do "UPDATE" queries. Check your config.php file for the settings, and your SQL server for the table and database names.

Hope that helps.

-Chris
Bite Size Inc - Telework Consultants

Just a guess

christodd — Sat, 11 Oct 2003 02:24:14 +0000

This is just a guess, but I'd assume that the file that it's writing the results to isn't writable by the webuser.

Make sure you are pointing to a world-writable directory in the config file, or if it uses a particular file, that you make it world-writable.

-Chris
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