Re: phpweater.php issues

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"norman van wijnen" <n.v...@ho...> writes:

> Hi ,

Hi Norman. I've send a copy of this reply to the PhpWeather
mailinglist at php...@li....  I suggest that
you join the list so that we can troble-shoot your problem there.  The
list is SPAM protected, so you have to join before sending mails to
it.  You can join there:

  https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpweather-devel

> at first I wanna thank you for that great software you made.
>
> It's only that I have a problem with it.
>
> I'am running the software on a Sun Solaris server OS version 9 and
> everything seems to works fine after install.

Great, it's nice to know that things also work there!

> After making a defaults.php file the software has to be in dutch but
> nothing happens.
>
> So I think that in a way the defaults.php file could not read from
> the install directory.

Hmm, if I remember correctly, then this is the second report about
this... very strange.

> reading in your log files I found a way (i thought) to code the path
> to the install directory by edit the phpweather.php file.
>
> I put this line in it:
>
> define('PHPWEATHER_BASE_DIR',
>        gcwd() . '/u01/documents/wheater/phpweather-2.1.2');
>
> and I removed the original line.

Could you try and see what dirname(__FILE__) return when put into a
PHP script in the PhpWeather installation program. It is supposed to
return the path to the installation directory of PhpWeather.

If it doesn't return the right path, then try with
realpath(dirname(__FILE__)). The realpath() function resolves symbolic
links and '/../' constructs.

In short, just make a file with

<?php
echo dirname(__FILE__) . "\n";
echo realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . "\n";
?>

and then mail us the result as seen in the source in your browser.

> It returns the following error:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function: gcwd() in
> /u01/documents/wheater/phpweather-2.1.2/phpweather.php on line 12

There's no gcwd() function in PHP as far as I know, and PhpWeather
doesn't define one, so it's only natural that PHP complains. What
should the gcwd() function do?

> Can you tell me if there is a way to let the software get use of the
> defaults.php file?

It's supposed to be really easy (copy defaults-dist.php to
defaults.php and change what you want) but something strange is giving
us trouble...

> Regards
>
> Norman
> (the netherlands)

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