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PHP Phorums **** again. please help.

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  • 07-10-2001 1:59am
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    yngwie^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    okay this is like the millionth time i've set-up my Phorum and it just wont work. it always displays errors. here is what it says now:
    Fatal error: input in flex scanner failed in /web/sites/254/fionn/www.mcmullet.f2s.com/phorum on line 1

    what do i have to do now? what is wrong? i am still very new to PHP and it takes much more time than HTML or Java to learn.


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    DS
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    It's really not that complicated, just get yourself a book or check out the amazing http://www.php.net/manual


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    decob
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭decob


    or even give us the first couple of lines from the file that is throwing up the error...


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    yngwie^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭yngwie^


    but i dont see any file name mentioned in the error message. http://www.mcmullet.f2s.com/phorum/ is a directory not a file but i get the same error message when i go to http://www.mcmullet.f2s.com/phorum/index.php


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    moist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭moist


    There is a problem with your php code.

    According to http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/220/fid/5

    <quote>
    The "input in flex scanner failed" error is generated when a call to:

    require($path)

    is made with $path specifying a directory and not a file. Or the target
    file can not be found.
    </quote>

    That took like 5 seconds of googling....
    Come onn man, learn to fish!!


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    yngwie^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭yngwie^


    oh okay
    so do folders in a web tree count as directories?


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    moist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭moist


    Yes, folder == directory.
    i.e. its not a text/image/php-code/etc file,
    its a directory containing other files/directories.


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    DS
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    Basically, you've gone wrong somewhere in configuring a path for the script to use.


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    yngwie^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭yngwie^


    oh well. i have a new board that you can all see by clicking the signature. you can also tell me what you think of my site. MYSQL is the main worry i have now. it's so confusing. and so is PHP.


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    DS
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    What are you worrying about MySQL for?
    btw you should've gotten an iB3 beta. It's dead good.


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    #11
    yngwie^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭yngwie^


    can i upgrade without affecting any of my posts of settings?


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    DS
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    Yup :)


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    joev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭joev


    Originally posted by yngwie^
    but i dont see any file name mentioned in the error message. http://www.mcmullet.f2s.com/phorum/ is a directory not a file but i get the same error message when i go to http://www.mcmullet.f2s.com/phorum/index.php

    The error message is actually *telling* you what is wrong.

    Your PHP.INI file has an include_path parameter which tells php where it can include files from.

    In this case, the path to the file in the require() is not in the include_path, or, the file does not exist.

    Either, modify your php.ini to include this directory, or modify the include path in your app before you include/require files. (hint: check docs on INCLUDE_PATH)

    The former is obviously better if you're relatively new to php as it saves you having to hack the hell outta phorum.

    joev.


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