Error message help

[Chris Dunning]

Check out this page here:

http://wiki.oscommerce.com/WarnFatalOpen

This offers some great information in case someone forgot a filename define. However, I think it would be more helpful to add in an explanation of what that error message means. I think it's rather obvious, but many people don't understand it (or don't try to). In the forums today, someone posted this error message:

 

Warning: Failed opening 'includes/boxes/textsurvey.php' for inclusion (include_path='./:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/jnr1/barginhut-www/store/includes/column_left.php on line 27

 

So, I would explain it like this:

 

in /home/jnr1/barginhut-www/store/includes/column_left.php on line 27

 

This part of the message tells you where the error can be found. In this example, the problem is in column_left.php on line 27.

 

Failed opening 'includes/boxes/textsurvey.php' for inclusion

 

This part of the message tells you what the error is. In this example, osCommerce is trying to find a file called textsurvey.php in the directory includes/boxes/. This file is either not where it should be or is not the same filename.

 

Solution:

Make sure the file exists. If it's not there, upload it.

Make sure the filename matches exactly. Case matters - textsurvey.php, TextSurvey.php, TEXTSURVEY.PHP, text_survey.php - each of these is a different filename. If the filename doesn't match, either rename the file or edit column_left.php to point to the correct filename. If the line in question looks something like this:

include (DIR_WS_BOXES . FILENAME_TEXTSURVEY);

then you need to open up filenames.php and look for a line like this:

define ('FILENAME_TEXTSURVEY', 'textsurvey.php');

This is where you can change the filename being called.