Author Topic: PHP website displays on web server but only text shows on local testing server (Read 2750 times)

mikeskinner · « **on:** February 16, 2010, 12:58:16 PM »

Hi, I am not a PHP programmer.

I took on a new client with a simple PHP site, without any databases.
The site is up and running on the web.
I would like to get it running on my local machine for further development.
I have latest version of WAMP installed, running Apache version 2.2.11 and PHP version 5.3.0
I created a directory in the WAMP "www" project directory and it shows up there like it's supposed to when I browse to "localhost"

Problem:

The home page of website displays text but no, images, styles, footer, header, nav links, etc.

Here is the code for the home page:

<?

define("NAV","home");

require_once('local/local.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>TITLE</title>
    <meta name="keywords" content="">
    <meta name="Description" content="">

<? include("common/dochead.php"); ?>

    </head>

<body onLoad="<? include('common/preloads.php'); ?>">

<? include("common/sign.php"); ?>

<h1>Welcome</h1>

<p>This is the content area. This is the content area. This is the content area. </p>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div></div>

<? include("common/footer.php"); ?>

</body>
</html>

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have spent many hours on this.

Regards

premiso · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2010, 01:02:09 PM »

Chances are your php.ini on your local server does not have short_open_tags enabled. Hence you cannot use <? when that is disabled. To fix it, either fix your code to use <?php instead of <? (which is the recommended method) or modify your php.ini file and change the short_open_tags to be enabled. (May require an Apache restart).

mikeskinner · « **Reply #2 on:** February 16, 2010, 01:34:26 PM »

Well that just goes to show that knowledge is power. Thanks for the quick response and for pointing me in the right direction. I accessed the PHP settings through the WAMP system tray icon and put a check mark next to "short open tag", and that took care of it. What a bunch of time I wasted. Wish i had posted here to start with

Best Wishes

mikeskinner · « **Reply #3 on:** February 16, 2010, 01:54:56 PM »

So this is a followup question. Now the site displays properly, however when I click the links, the browser pulls the pages from the web server and not the local server. If i manually type in the pages I want to view, they show now problem via local server . Ie : http://localhost/site/page2.php. It looks like the nav links are pointing to absolute URL's as apposed to relative.

When I look in the php nav fil , here is a snippet of what is see:

<a href="teachers.php" onMous

How would I change the nav to root relative links and why were they set up this way in the first place? Any ideas?

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