Configuration File

[ken]

I am trying to install the ex1 example on my computer but I have problem setting the working directories in the configuration file.  Can somebody help?

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Ken

[Larry]

Sure thing, Ken. How about providing us with some information as to how your system is setup? Like the folders and URLs you'd be using?

[ken]

Thanks Larry for that fast answer.

 

I am working in windows environment.  Apache was installed with WAMP.  So my setting are as follow:

 

Root directory: " c:\wamp\www\ecom1".

 

I set the configuration file like this:

 

define('BASE_URI', 'C:\wamp\www\ecom1');

define('BASE_URL', 'localhost/ecom1/');

define('PDFS_DIR', BASE_URI . 'includes/pdfs');

define('MYSQL', BASE_URI . 'mysql.inc.php');

 

I copied all the downloaded files in the root directory (C:\wamp\www\ecom1) and  moved the pdf directory and the mysql.inc.php file in the includes directory.

 

When I launch the application from the browser with the address : http://localhost/ecom1, I got a blank page.

[Necuima]

Hi Ken,

 

I am not familiar with wamp but have xampp on my development PC. My understanding is that when you key in http://localhost/ecom1 the browser looks for either index.html or index.php within the ecom1 directory. I wonder if the problem is the absence of either of these?

 

Cheers.

[laurent vignaux]

Hello Ken,

 

if you follow the book, all your pages are in folder "html" so

perhaps you must do that  for BASE_URL

 

/ecom (mysqli.inc.php ) -> /html ( /includes(config.inc.php, etc…) , pages.php, etc…) 

define('BASE_URI', 'C:\wamp\www\ecom1');
define('BASE_URL', 'localhost/ecom1/'); <-----    http://localhost/ecom1/html/

define('PDFS_DIR', BASE_URI . 'includes/pdfs');
define('MYSQL', BASE_URI . 'mysql.inc.php');


i work on mac with MAMP and it's fine : (

define('BASE_URI', '/Applications/Mamp/htdocs/ecom1/');
define('BASE_URL', 'http://localhost:8888/ecom1/html/');
define('MYSQL', BASE_URI.'/mysql.inc.php'); 

 

cordialy

[Ardian]

Hi Larry 

I want to thankyou about this great book I bought it in amazon I am glad for, it is worth it. Wish you the Best 

I put the file of the EX2 in the html but need help at the configuration file : I am facing some problem this is for testing in localhost than I am going to put in my hosting domain maybe I am gonna need a little bit more help :

 

Problem:

 

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'BASE_URL' (T_STRING) in C:\xampp\htdocs\ex2\html\includes\config.inc.php on line 38

 

// Determine location of files and the URL of the site:

define('BASE_URI', 'C:\xampp\htdocs\ex2\html\');

define('BASE_URL', 'http://localhost/ex2/html/');                     -------------"   LINE 38  "

define('MYSQL', BASE_URI . 'mysql.inc.php');

 

 

What should I change here ?

 

// Set the database access information as constants:

DEFINE ('DB_USER', 'root');

DEFINE ('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');

DEFINE ('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

DEFINE ('DB_NAME', 'ecommerce2');

 

// Make the connection:

$dbc = mysqli_connect (DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD, DB_NAME);

 

// Set the character set:

 

mysqli_set_charset($dbc, 'utf8');

[Larry]

Thanks for the nice words. I appreciate it. I don't see an obvious parse error on that line. Are you sure this is the right script/code? In any case, this is just a general parse error due to invalid syntax. If your text editor or IDE has syntax highlighting, it should help point out where the problem starts.