Hello all,

I've recently installed apache 2.0.50, mysql 4.1.11, php 5.0.4 and phpmyadmin 2.6.2 on my PC and it's doing strange things. Whilst php seems to work it doesn't like variables such as $PHP_SELF (or $_SERVER[PHP_SELF]) and gives the error about an undefined variable. When creating a new table within phpmyadmin it doesn't always display all the tables and gives html code instead. It also doesn't display all the menu options of a drop-down menu - when looking at the source code there's corruption and huge chunks of it missing. Running the file on another PC is fine.

I've checked the config files against what various web sites give and they appear to be ok.

Please help!

thanks,

Clive.

Hello Clive73,

If you can post a snippet of your code which includes the bits where you used the $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] variable, that will help us figure this out.

Is this on a Windows XP PC? Which config files are you talking about when you say "config" files?

Really, you're saying a lot but nothing useful enough to suggest anything...

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Sorry, you're right, should have put more.

Am running XP professional. The config files I've checked are php.ini (which needed a few settings changed, in relation to the password), and httpd.conf. All the other config files I could find appeared to match what I'd read on various sites.

The PHP_SELF line is:

<form action="<? $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>">

However, I've also tried:

<form action="<? echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>">
<form action="<? echo $_SERVER[PHP_SELF] ?>">
<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>">

None of which seemed to work.

Not sure if this could be a problem but after having installed phpmyadmin it wouldn't connect to the database; throwing up the error:

#1251 - Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

Checking on the site, I'm running versions above those that could cause this error and everntually fixed it by entering a command about an old password style at the mysql command line (sorry, can't remember the exact syntex). After that could access the database fine. Before this point I hadn't really tried playing with php so can't say if PHP_SELF was working before then.

Hope this makes things a little clearer.

Thanks,

Clive.

About : Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client, we already discussed this in the past.

About : PHP_SELF

I really don't know what could be wrong but I suppose you could find out by inserting this line somewhere in your script just to see if you can find the array ($_SERVER):

<?php echo "<pre>"; print_r( $_SERVER ); echo "</pre>";?>

Also, what is the setting for this in your php.ini file:

short_open_tag = Off

It should be "on" if you want the example you gave in your last reply to really work.

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Hello....

short_open_tag is already set to on.

And inserting the $_SERVER line returns:


Went back to an older version of php as the newer version had corruption in a config file (yet to reinstall it) but it makes no difference to presenting the information.

Does this make it any clearer? Thinking of simply removing everything (instead of just parts) and reinstalling from freshly downloaded files. Worth a try?

Thanks.