Chapter 18 Registration Issue

[jayLim]

Hello!

 

I can't understand why I get this when testing out the registration form in Chapter 18: 

 

An error ocurred in script '/path/to/html/register.php' on line 9: require(/path /to/mysqli_connect.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Date/Time: 3-9-2014 18:32:41

Array(    [_GET] => Array        (        )    [_POST] => Array        (            [first_name] =>             [last_name] =>             [email] =>             [password1] =>             [password2] =>             [submit] => Register        )    [_COOKIE] => Array        (            [SQLiteManager_currentLangue] => 2            [PHPSESSID] => efb1be7b8cd02e45109c9bac0e78854a        )    [_FILES] => Array        (        )    [_SERVER] => Array        (            [HTTP_HOST] => localhost:8888            [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0            [HTTP_ACCEPT] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8            [HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-US,en;q=0.5            [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip, deflate            [HTTP_REFERER] => http://localhost:8888/html/register.php            [HTTP_COOKIE] => SQLiteManager_currentLangue=2; PHPSESSID=efb1be7b8cd02e45109c9bac0e78854a            [HTTP_CONNECTION] => keep-alive            [CONTENT_TYPE] => application/x-www-form-urlencoded            [CONTENT_LENGTH] => 67            [PATH] => /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin            [SERVER_SIGNATURE] =>             [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache/2.2.25 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.25 OpenSSL/0.9.8y DAV/2 PHP/5.5.3            [SERVER_NAME] => localhost            [SERVER_ADDR] => ::1            [SERVER_PORT] => 8888            [REMOTE_ADDR] => ::1            [DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/ch18_exercise            [SERVER_ADMIN] => you@example.com            [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/ch18_exercise/html/register.php            [REMOTE_PORT] => 51723            [GATEWAY_INTERFACE] => CGI/1.1            [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.1            [REQUEST_METHOD] => POST            [QUERY_STRING] =>             [REQUEST_URI] => /html/register.php            [SCRIPT_NAME] => /html/register.php            [PHP_SELF] => /html/register.php            [REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT] => 1394404361.57            [REQUEST_TIME] => 1394404361            [argv] => Array                (                )            [argc] => 0        )    [page_title] => Register    [_SESSION] => Array        (        ))

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/path/jlim/to/mysqli_connect.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/lib/php') in /path/to/html/register.php on line 9

 

Thanks

[Larry]

You can't use 'path/to' in your code unless you actually have "path" and "to" folders on your system, which is unlikely. As I write i the book, you'll want to change "path/to" to the actual path to that file. 

[jayLim]

Yes of course, I rewrote the original location of the files just to abbreviate the error message. This is what I really get:

 

An error ocurred in script '/Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/ch18_exercise/html/register.php' on line 9: require(/Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/mysqli_connect.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Date/Time: 3-10-2014 22:05:33

Array(    [_GET] => Array        (        )    [_POST] => Array        (            [first_name] =>             [last_name] =>             [email] =>             [password1] =>             [password2] =>             [submit] => Register        )

...

 

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/mysqli_connect.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.5.3/lib/php') in /Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/ch18_exercise/html/register.php on line 9

 

 

It's really strange, shouldn't be happening?!

 

J.

[jayLim]

Well, I think I kind of found the solution, in the database connection instead of require(MYSQL); I wrote require('../mysqli_connect.php');

Any comments? I mean the first method should work anyways.

 

J.

[Larry]

Either approach will work if you're using the right value. It sounds like the absolute path would be /Users/jlim/Website/phpmysql4_scripts/ch18_exercise/mysqli_connect.php. 

[jayLim]

Ok, I didn't type the right path, it's working now, thank you!