UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting Couple PHP questions...

My host told me to put


in my header to access php4. Now would it look something like this?


because I tried putting #!/usr/bin/php4 at the beggining of the document but it just printed it.

Another question...


I was reading a book and they had some code to work with session_register. But I tried that but it didn't work.

Here's the code:


This is the error I get:



Thanks in advance.

the shebang should go at the beggining, just like perl, so
#!/usr/bin/php4
echo "whatever";
?>

as to your other problem.

odd, it doesn't seem to have session support enabled, and you seem to be using version 4 as well (wasn't in php3). I'd contact your host about that.

Well, I am sure it didnt work because I didn't have the right locaton of where php4 is. It says unless you call the php4 you will be using php3.

Should the shebang line be shown.

http://www.stonecrick.com/main.php

No, and if they had it set up in a semi-intelligent way, you shouldn't need it. Try without.

Well, for some retarded reason they have PHP 3.0.9 still on the server and its hooked up with apache. So if I try a php file it will use 3.0.9 instead of 4.something. I think that are messed up but hey.

The only reason I want 4.something is because it can use the session_register and some other variables I would just love to use. And thats the only way I can use php4 is with the shebang line they said.

I get the suspiscion they haven't actually installed that function O_o I suggest you have a word with your host and ask them to re-install it.

and I used to have a host that ran a really weird implementation of php, also had to have the shebang.

Thanks alot Sally. I will do that.

To sort having to put the full path to PHP ask them to enable short tags within php.ini

it looks like below


This will mean you don't have to put the path to php.

But I have to call it because it is not installed into the Apache thing. So you need a shebang line they said.

[ July 21, 2001 11:10 PM: Message edited by: Tech-Ni-Kal ]

Well, the way f2s does it (yes, yes.. f2s), is they do that exact same thing. Though it's #!/usr/bin/php which is pretty close to the same thing. But that's if you want to run your php script outside of safe mode on f2s. You also have to rename the file extension to .cgi, not .php

Holy!!!! The Donut your are the best! That is exactly how to do it! And the script works!!

Agh, he beat me

See, .cgi files just run the script with whatever's in the shebang line. You can put PHP in there too

They installed php4 as a CGI binary. I didn't notice that. I also didn't know you could use .cgi to do php.