index.php HTML Redirect -- Why?

Mel · October 1, 2013, 4:07pm

Here is my index.php for a website I took over. My reading tells me the index.php should be like a MVC controller (all the direction logic for the site). I changed the website name to protect my employer.

<html>
<head>
        <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=https://my.companywebsite.com/main/login.php">
        <title>Welcome to Content Management</title>
</head>

</html>

Why is it coded this way? Shouldn’t you use a require statement to invoke the login.php?

I am trying to set up a test environment on my laptop. How do I recode the URL to go to the login.php? I am thinking

        <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=main/login.php">

I tried coding the URL as main/login.php and my login.php formatting shows up all skewed. See attachment.

Topcoder · October 1, 2013, 4:39pm

It looks like it’s not running that page as PHP. That’s why the formatting looks skewed.

Mel · October 1, 2013, 4:58pm

I see that the index.php doesn’t have PHP tags. The login.php does have PHP tags
[php]

<? //--### //require_once ("../LIBS/secure.php"); //----- for Coporate pages -----// //Global variables include $PATHS, DB HOST, DB UID, DB PWD, DB SCHEMA //MySQL_LIB is various mysql functions if($from_CoPage==1){ //$from_CoPage used when login from Coporate pages include_once("../../LIBS/global_vars.inc"); include_once("../../LIBS/mysql_lib.php"); }else{ $from_CoPage=''; include_once("../LIBS/global_vars.inc"); include_once("../LIBS/mysql_lib.php"); } //--### ?> [/php]

How do I recode my index.php so I can get the login.php to look normal and work properly in my test environment?

Topcoder · October 1, 2013, 5:34pm

Looks like your index page is using short tags.

You might want to read up on that…

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.short-open-tag

Mel · October 1, 2013, 5:55pm

I understand the site is using short tags. Do you think the short tags is what is causing me issues in my test environment?

Topcoder · October 1, 2013, 6:31pm

It’s hard to tell you didn’t post the code to the login.php page.

Mel · October 1, 2013, 6:34pm

Here’s the code for the login.php. Thanks for all of your help.

[php]

<? //--### //require_once ("../LIBS/secure.php"); //----- for Coporate pages -----// //Global variables include $PATHS, DB HOST, DB UID, DB PWD, DB SCHEMA //MySQL_LIB is various mysql functions if($from_CoPage==1){ //$from_CoPage used when login from Coporate pages include_once("../../LIBS/global_vars.inc"); include_once("../../LIBS/mysql_lib.php"); }else{ $from_CoPage=''; include_once("../LIBS/global_vars.inc"); include_once("../LIBS/mysql_lib.php"); } //--### ?> <? echo "Welcome to ", $page_title ?> <?

//Unused Code
if($AID!=’’) {
$pn_id = $AID;
}
$pass_pnid = 0;
/*
if($log_ops==‘S’){
$SOL_URL = $SOLS_URL;
$PATH_IMG = $PATHS_IMG;
}else{
$SOL_URL = $SOLU_URL;
$PATH_IMG = $PATHU_IMG;
}
echo "PATH_IMG =$PATH_IMG PATHU_IMG=$PATHU_IMG SOLU_URL=$SOLU_URL
";
*/
?>

	<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0>
	<!--<TR>
		<TD><IMG SRC="< ? echo $PATH_IMG ?>/pixel_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=25 BORDER="0"></TD>
		
	</TR>--> 
	
	<TR><?/* Homeconstruction.gif */?>
		<TD><IMG SRC="<? echo $PATH_IMG ?>/construction1.gif" BORDER="0"></TD>
		
		<TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
		<TD ID="default">
		<FONT SIZE=2 FACE=ARIAL COLOR="#B0A986"><B>Member Login</B></FONT><BR>
		<IMG SRC="<? echo $PATH_IMG ?>/pixel_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=15 BORDER="0"><BR>
		<FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA COLOR=#1A4C8F>email address:</FONT><BR>
		<?
			if ($action1 == "login1") {
				print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"the_mail\" value=\"$the_mail\" size=\"28\"><BR>");
			}else{
                                    //Stripslashes will remove quotes
				$the_mail = stripslashes($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[SCKCookie]);
				print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"the_mail\" value=\"$the_mail\" size=\"28\"><BR>");
			}
		?>
		<IMG SRC="<? echo $PATH_IMG ?>/pixel_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=10 BORDER="0"><BR>
		<FONT SIZE=1 FACE=VERDANA COLOR=#1A4C8F>password:</FONT><BR>
		<input type="password" name="the_pass" size="28" onKeypress="checkkey(event);"><BR>
		<IMG SRC="<? echo $PATH_IMG ?>/pixel_clear.gif" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=5 BORDER="0"><BR>
		<TABLE BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=0 CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=200>
		<TR>
			<TD VALIGN=MIDDLE><a href="javascript:Login()"><img src="<? echo $PATH_IMG ?>/btn_login.gif" border="0" alt="submit"></a></TD>

		</TR>
		</TABLE>
		
		</TD>
	</TR>
	</TABLE>

[/php]

Topcoder · October 1, 2013, 7:06pm

Yeah, it’s not processing your short tags. Did you read that link I provided? Did you check your php.ini to make sure you have it turned on in your test environment?

Mel · October 1, 2013, 7:49pm

I read that you shouldn’t use the short_open_tag because it is used in a lot of other languages but remains here for backward compatibility.

I set my short_open_tag = On. It looks like it resolved the formatting issue I saw in the login.php.

Thanks for all of your help, I truly appreciate it.