Php...

[Joe]

Ok, so I finally got a PHP supporting host, now I want to install a news script but I cant becuase PHP is to much for my little brain...

Basically I upload the files, change the config.php and CHMOD settings like it says but when I want to include it in my page, I cant, I want to include it on my Index.html page but I needs to be Index.php to have the news script on, if that made any sense how do I make this work?



Probibly a simple answer but I cant do it!

Thanks,
Joe.

[jonbalza]

Try renaming your index.htm file to index.php. You may have to set your default page to then be index.php, but, chances are your host has multiple defaults set up, and the .php one is already supported.

If the file is named .htm, the server won't know to look for any special php code. If renaming doesn't work, you'll have to show us the code you are using to insert the script into your page.

[Joe]

Already tried renaming and it didnt work

Heres the code It says place on my page...

<?PHP
$static = TRUE;
include("cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

Joe.

[jonbalza]

Are you getting any errors on the page that is calling that include? or does it just not show up at all?

[Joe]

No errors on the page, its just blank. (apart from the interface images)

Joe.

[jonbalza]

Then that's going to make troubleshooting kind of hard. It could be any one of a billion things. Here's a short list to check:

Are you sure you CHMOD-ed ALL the files in the cutenews directory to 777?
Are you sure that's the correct file you are trying to include?
Did you try it without the $static = TRUE line?
Are there any news items to show?
Did you upload everything to the server?

[Joe]

Originally Posted by jonbalza

Are you sure you CHMOD-ed ALL the files in the cutenews directory to 777?

Only the ones it told me to.

Originally Posted by jonbalza

Are you sure that's the correct file you are trying to include?

Yes, thats the code it tells you to put.

Originally Posted by jonbalza

Did you try it without the $static = TRUE line?

Yep.

Originally Posted by jonbalza

Are there any news items to show?

Yes.

Originally Posted by jonbalza

Did you upload everything to the server?

Yes.

Wonder why it is not working...

Joe.

[jonbalza]

Without seeing ALL of your code, I'm pretty much stumped then. Anyone else?

[Joe]

All of the code for the Index.html page or for the whole of cutenews?

Joe.

[Man1c M0g]

Hmmmmm. Its just a hunch, but try replacing your code in index.php with the following:

<?PHP
$static = TRUE;
include("http://yourdomain.com/cutenews/show_news.php");
?>

[Joe]

Will try that but looking at the readme file it says that that is the wrong way to do it, guess I'll look for another news script install that and see if it works.

How do I create a .PHP file, everytime I save my index.html file as a .PHP file in Dreamweaver then upload it, it dosent work.

Joe.

[malboroman]

WHen you upload your index.php, have you also removed your index.html??? If the browser sees two standard pages it might go AWOL...

If you want to use an include it definetly needs to be renamed to index.php.. You can't use PHP in a html file...

[Joe]

Finally I got it working...

And like I said it was something so simple, I was making the wrong page into a .PHP file!

Anyway now that I have done that I just have to stop the horizontal scroll bar in the IFRAME, any ideas?

Thanks for the help everyone!

Joe.

[jonbalza]

So my very first post was right? Sweet! I thought I was going crazy.

As the the scroll bar, set the table width inside the iFrame to 388, not 408. That should get rid of the scroll bar.

[Joe]

Yep your first post was right I was just to stupid to notice

Fixed the scrollbar now aswell via the cutenews admin panel settings, Thanks for all your help everyone!

Joe.