probably stupid problem

[Snah]

hi,

i installed php on my XP Prof. PC (including IIS, Mysql)

a basic command like $PHPLIB_DIR = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .
'/phplib';

is not working in php

what's wrong ?

[Pedro Graca]

Snah wrote:

i installed php on my XP Prof. PC (including IIS, Mysql)

a basic command like $PHPLIB_DIR = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .
'/phplib';

is not working in php

what's wrong ?

*HOW* is it not working?
What does the basic command do? and what did you expect it to do?

Is there an error message? A warning? A notice?
[ enable notices by issuing ]

<?php ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL); ?>

[ at the top of your scripts or, perhaps ]
[ better, by reconfiguring php.ini ]

I remember a long time ago when I had PHP working under IIS. Some
$_SERVER indexes available for Apache are not available for IIS (and
vice-versa); I don't remember which.
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[Snah]

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Snah wrote:

i installed php on my XP Prof. PC (including IIS, Mysql)

a basic command like $PHPLIB_DIR = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] .. '/phplib';

is not working in php

what's wrong ?

*HOW* is it not working?
What does the basic command do? and what did you expect it to do?

Is there an error message? A warning? A notice?
[ enable notices by issuing ]

<?php ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL); ?>

[ at the top of your scripts or, perhaps ]
[ better, by reconfiguring php.ini ]

I remember a long time ago when I had PHP working under IIS. Some
$_SERVER indexes available for Apache are not available for IIS (and
vice-versa); I don't remember which.
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--= Content-Type: text/plain =--
--= Size below 10001 bytes =--

Your right that's the problem, in the meantime i discovered the phpinfo()
function call. This allows me easily to compare the different platforms.
Thanks for your tip

[Pedro Graca]

Snah wrote:

Your right that's the problem, in the meantime i discovered the phpinfo()
function call. This allows me easily to compare the different platforms.
Thanks for your tip

You can print all the variables in $_SERVER with

<?php
echo '<pre>';
print_r($_SERVER);
echo '</pre>';
?>

for both servers, and print/compare the output.
It's easier than the output of phpinfo() :)
I also remember I ended up doing something like:

<?php // config.inc.php
if (stristr(php_sapi_name(), 'apache') {
$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$OTHER_VARS = $_SERVER['OTHER_VARS'];
} else { // IIS
$DOCUMENT_ROOT = $_SERVER['ROOT_DIRECTORY']; // probably wrong
$OTHER_VARS = $_SERVER['EXTRA_VARS'];
}
?>

and then require that file (which had more things in it) and using

$DOCUMENT_ROOT (instead of $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'])

for scripts running on apache or IIS.
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