Weird Bug

[nepzap2]

Dear all,

 

I updated my versions of php/MySQL and OS to Windows 7 Professional and weird "Warnings and Notices:" started popping up. E.g.

 

"Notice: Undefined index: page in C:\Server\htdocs\domain\index.php on line 25 "

 

Warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/New_York' for '-4.0/DST' instead in C:\Server\htdocs\domain\index.php on line 12 "

 

I don't know what is going on. Unless I enter these following functions (error_reporting(0);, session_start() with their parameters these warnings display. Can anyone offer any advice?

 

Any assistance is appreciated.

[ZulfadlyAshBurn]

updating your OS has nothing to do with those error but updating your PHP have something to do with those errors.

 

in your code on line 25 what is the code?

 

as for date() use date_default_timezone_set().

 

see function.date-default-timezone-set

[nepzap2]

Devotee,

 

Thank you for answering. The code is the following:

 

<?php
//error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);
//error_reporting(0);
//session_start();
include "functions/functions.php";
       // Testing News Functions //
include "functions/functionsAllSummerInterns.php";
include "functions/functionsNews.php";
include "includes/header.php";


ini_set('arg_separator.output', '&');


	/* 

	Below are the cases for each section of the website. Through the $_GET[''] Method we detect which section the user 
	clicks on and style the section accordingly.

	*/

	// Body Content Begins


	switch (htmlentities ($_GET['page'])){
                
                More Code
               
?>

 

 

[nepzap2]

line 25 reads

switch (htmlentities ($_GET['page'])){

[ManiacDan]

When you updated PHP the new installed version defaulted to showing errors.  Now you're seeing an error that was previously hidden.  That's not a bug in PHP, though it represents a bug in your code.  $_GET['page'] doesn't exist when you expect it to exist.  Fix that.

 

The date timezone thing can be safely ignored, but it won't hurt you to explicitly set the timezone.

 

-Dan

[nepzap2]

Thanks, I understand the logic. How would I define a variable that I'm passing via the $_GET method. For instance in this situation.

[xyph]

Check to see it exists before using it.

 

<?php 

if( isset($_GET['page']) ) {
switch ( htmlentities($_GET['page']) ) {
	// etc
}
}

?>

[nepzap2]

Thank you guys.

This helps.