Users Click Around Site & Scripts are Not Closing

[MrCaltweet]

Basically I've been getting tons of 500 Errors on my site and after going back and forth with my Host admin i've narrowed the culprit down to sloppy coding from a programmer I hired.

Here is what the server admin said:

"This has something to do with the coding on the site. For some reason, as you click around on the site, it is not closing out the scripts correctly. When I was doing a simply search for events in Houston, the following processes were all created:

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What could cause the scripts NOT to close? a simple ?> not being in place or what?

Thnx for any help.

[edited by: coopster at 10:07 pm (utc) on Mar 22, 2010]
[edit reason] removed personal/specific domain name [/edit]

[dunnma]

I don't think you can "forget" to close a script. It would error out.

I looked at your visible code and I cannot see an event.php. This would lead me to believe that it is being included on the backside by find_event.php. Every time you enter a letter into the search box it calls find_event.php which in turn could be calling event.php

You should try to do a search for "event.php" in all of your files to see which one is including it and work backwards from there.

You might want to switch over to a better Javascript framework like jQuery.

Hope that helps.

[MrCaltweet]

event.php is the page that includes the actual event and how would i do a search taht shows what files are including it?..is that on any coding program? I just use dphp or sometimes dreamweaver. Somebody else coded this part so its sort of confusing..

[edited by: coopster at 10:06 pm (utc) on Mar 22, 2010]
[edit reason] no personal urls please [/edit]

[dunnma]

If you have access to the server you can use grep.

If not you can download all of the files and then do a global search in Dreamweaver.

This looks like your programmer might be using mod_rewrite or something as 9k1 is getting translated into something like event.php?event=9k1.

Is that list above all of your 500 errors?

[MrCaltweet]

no that list was grabbed from using a "top" command from root...it just says Internal 500 Error when it shows the errors

[Readie]

As a thought... Perhaps you have file_one.php with an include for file_two.php, and file_two.php has an include for file_one.php.

If you have any files that only need to be called once, try changing to
include_once 'some_file.php';
for them - see if that does anything.

[MrCaltweet]

so lets say i do..have includes in both..just change them to include_once your saying?f or take it out of one and put include_once in the one i leave it in...just trying to be clear.

thanks

[Readie]

Any instance of

include 'some_file.php';

Where the included file is only needed to be included once can be changed to

include_once 'some_file.php';

The same goes for require and require_once

This will prevent any other inclusion of the included file for that page load.