Server/configuration issue or coding issue?

[amarh21]

Hi,

This is my first post in these forums so just tell me if I do or say anything wrong :)

I was going along developing my site in Aptana Studio 3 and I was previewing the pages. On the register page of my site there is a snippet of PHP code before the <!DOCTYPE> declaration of the page. For some reason, just a little bit of that code displays when previewing, but none of the actual page content appears. This is the snippet is:

<?php

require_once("/include/membersite_config.php");

if(isset($_POST['submitted']))
{
 if($fgmembersite->RegisterUser())
 {
  $fgmembersite->RedirectToURL("thank-you.html");
 }
}
?>

And this is what appears when previewing through firefox:

RegisterUser()) { $fgmembersite->RedirectToURL("thank-you.html"); } } ?> 

Just that and a white background.

Any Ideas why? Is it a problem the PHP server being configured incorrectly? Or a problem with the code?

Kind Regards,
Amar

[penders]

Hi Amar, welcome to WebmasterWorld...

Your page isn't being processed by PHP, hence the strange output. Either your PHP server isn't running or there is something else from preventing your page from being parsed. Does it have a .php extension?

[londrum]

if you look at what code is included in the preview, it seems to begin straight after the

if($fgmembersite->

bit

for some reason everything before that is not being processed -- including the opening

<?php

tag

do you have comments in the code? maybe it's seeing the -> as the end of a comment, and doesn't recognise what comes after as php because the

<?php

tag has become part of the comment

[Hitman3266]

maybe you dont have short open tags enabled?

[amarh21]

I'll check my setup of PHP on my server and try again. I'll get back to you when i'm done.

It's good to know that it probably isn't a coding issue.

Amar