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Date:      Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:36:34 -0500
From:      Ryan Coleman <editor@d3photography.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        Fr?d?ric Perrin <fred@resel.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: why does this simple counter fail?
Message-ID:  <BE6D7321-0B4A-4762-9270-CC34E52ECBED@d3photography.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110325053630.GA6722@thought.org>
References:  <20110323164504.GA25317@thought.org> <kggr59xpv0c.fsf@pc-df-302.priv.enst-bretagne.fr> <20110324230049.GB31958@thought.org> <89898D0E-B4A9-41E9-B829-DF7CA8D3FF06@d3photography.com> <20110325053630.GA6722@thought.org>

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You're using a completely stock php.ini file.

Look for short tags. Turn that on.

<?php is long form... most scripts are using short tags.

I don't see why you need the file name in the file itself... just have a =
number there. Much faster on the CPU.

--
Ryan

On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Gary Kline wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:25:39PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> Gary, you missed the put... fput($fp, $file); means you're dropping =
the filename INTO the storage file.
>=20
>=20
> 	okay.  [maybe].  i think what the script does is create
> 	./countdir/$file ; in this case, ./countdir/index where i create
> 	the file named "index\n" and below it the integer count.  e.g.:
>=20
> 	in directory countdir, in file index is:
>=20
> 	index
> 	60311
>=20
> 	to track the hits for my homepage.   in defense of this crude
> 	hack with no error-checking is that i have used the same script
> 	in at least three other virtual thought.org websites.  =20
>=20
> 	i was wrong is saying that the script bombed; it just failed;
> 	the reason was that the initial tag had been "<?" rather than
> 	"<?php"
>=20
> 	gary
>=20
>=20
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 07:11:15PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Perrin wrote:
>>>> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> writes:
>>>>> 	Can any of you php hackers tell me why this simple self-hacked
>>>>> 	counter bomb?
>>>>=20
>>>> As others said, what does 'this simple counter bomb' means?
>>>>=20
>>>>> $fp =3D fopen($directory.$file, "r+");
>>>>> flock($fp, 1);
>>>>=20
>>>> You want an exclusive lock (LOCK_EX, which is 2 is you use some =
ancient
>>>> PHP), not a shared lock.
>>>>=20
>>>> When updating the file:
>>>> 	> fputs($fp, $count);
>>>> 	> fputs($fp, "\n");
>>>>> fputs($fp, $file);
>>>>=20
>>>> Why do you feel the need to store the filename inside the file =
itself?
>>>> You don't seem to need it after.
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>> 	$file is passed from the calling php file.  index.php is by-hand
>>> 	set to
>>>=20
>>> 	$file=3D'index';=20
>>>=20
>>> 	and so on. =20
>>>=20
>>> 	Because of my shoulder/typing woes, it was great that I got =
clued in
>>> 	above by Brad's thought that perhaos there were mis-matched "<?"=20=

>>> 	and "?>" tags.  A simply recursive grepping found out that it =
some=20
>>> 	places I had "<?" <cr> instead of "<?php"> <cr>.   Adding the =
"php"=20
>>> 	fixed everything. =20
>>>=20
>>> 	Finally, you're right; this really, really is ancient php.
>>> 	Somthing i found pre-2004 and hacked until it worked.  The
>>> 	counter is missings lots of features, but I'll fix that pretty
>>> 	soon.
>>>=20
>>> 	thanks to everybody ,
>>>=20
>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>> --=20
>>>> Fr=E9d=E9ric Perrin -- http://tar-jx.bz
>>>>=20
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>>>=20
>>> --=20
>>> Gary Kline  kline@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public =
Service Unix
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>>=20
>>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Gary Kline  kline@thought.org  http://www.thought.org  Public Service =
Unix
>           Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
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>=20
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