Questions about PHP script output files

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:25 pm

I\'ve painstakingly read all the readme files, and the online documentation. I then read the forum posts so I didn\'t post questions which had been answered rofl. Hopefully I haven\'t missed anything and my question is less painful to the guru

I\'ve set up the PHP files which downloaded with the radiotoolbox, I altered them and set up the server. Everything from my desktop appears to be working nicely, it says it is updating and scripting. I went to the web and typed in the file location for the catcher.php file, attempting to find the completed file with the song and title information. I received the message about adding ?debug=USERNAME. I did this and everything came out just fine. The files all exist and are writable.

I\'m at a loss now however, everything seems to be in place and working. Yet, i\'m not finding a completed file which I could include with a website for streaming data on this clients server. Normally I only build the site, this time I was asked to include the streaming data. I had no idea what I was getting into rofl. Any advice on steps I could take to remedy this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Post by **Jay** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:49 pm

when you go to a url in your browser go to the example.php file, not the catcher script. That is only there for radio toolbox communication with the website.

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:54 pm

I did go to the example file after the catcher file, it is blank on the screen and has:








Over and over in the page source code.

Post by **Jay** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:13 am

can you provide a link to your example file please.

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:12 pm

Thank you Jay for your time, and replies. Here are the links to all the catcher files on the website.
http://www.wetspotradio.com/catcher/

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:16 pm

Howdy Jay,
Just wondering if you had any advice about my catcher files, I have gone through and done them all again making sure I didn\'t miss anything.
I still can\'t get it to work, it\'s got to be some kind of scripting error that i\'ve made.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. ty

Post by **Jay** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:21 pm

when you uploaded them to your server did you use FTP? If so, did you upload them in ASCII mode?

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:42 pm

Yes on both, I used FTP and ASCII, did I do the wrong way? lol

Post by **Jay** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:03 pm

open up your includes.php file and tell me what you see in that file?

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:26 pm

In the includes.php file I see this:

<?php
include("includes.php");
?>
<HTML>
<TITLE>WetSpot Radio... LIVE!</TITLE>
<BODY>
Currently Playing <?php echo $current_song; ?> right now, it's totally cool! 
There are <?php echo $listeners; ?> out of <?php echo $max_listeners; ?> listening. 

The last <?php echo sizeof($lastsong); ?> songs I have played are: 
<?php
$i = 0;
while ($lastsong[$i])
{
echo $lastsong[$i];
echo " ";
$i++;
}
?>

Also, the strangest files have appeared in the directory where the catcher files are.
core(then numbers like 8766,8693,8631 etc) theya re very large files too... 27,824kb avg.

Post by **Jay** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:47 pm

yea your includes file should definately not look like that, empty out that file.

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:45 pm

It took time, patience and a lot of dirty words. Thank you for your help, it works wonderfully. I was going to ask how to incorporate it into the site on the index page but I believe I've read many people are using inline frames for the php code. In your opinion is this the best way? Thanks a million... IT WORKS!!

Post by **Jay** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 10:23 pm

nah if you want to include it in any page just do so by using php

Code: Select all

<?php include("path/to/includes.php"); ?>
<body>
blah blah
Some stat: <?php echo $var_in_includes; ?>
blah blah
</body>
etc

If you use FTP then just use the inline frames stuff.

aadriabrown · Post by **aadriabrown** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:28 pm

Ok so i'm a dork.. I dunno I put the php script <?php blah blah at the top like I was supposed to, but I copied the PHP stat script from the example file. It shows up just fine in any page but it isn't producing a stat... it just sits there and looks pretty.

I used this in the middle of the page

<TABLE align="center" width="95%">
<TR><TD bgcolor="888888">
Current Song: <?php echo $current_song; ?> 
Listeners: <?php echo $listeners; ?>/<?php echo $max_listeners; ?><TD><TR>
</TABLE>

The link to the site is.. http://www.wetspotradio.com

Thanks again

Post by **Jay** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:44 pm

rename your main page from index.html to index.php

all php scripts must have this extension in most standard installations of php.

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