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[mellinger]

Help, I'm having problems with a php script called inlink that I'm trying to get working. I mean I've got it working, but I'm having problems at adding a banner ad at the top of my template pages: Here is the problem: Well, When I go to http://www.free-screen-saver.com/inl...ottemplate.php which is a template file I get all the code I need, but when I go to the script that reads the template at http://www.free-screen-saver.com/inlink the ssi's won't execute and I don't understand why...Here is the code to the http://www.free-screen-saver.com/inlink/index.php file. Sorry to do this, but I think it's neccessary to see what I need to change to get it to work:

 <?php
//Read in config file
$configfile = "admin/setup.php";
require($configfile);

if (!$inlinkvisit) {
  setcookie("inlinkvisit", "1");
  $cookieset = "1";
}
if ($action == "logout") {
setcookie("ilkadp" , "");
}
// rate a link
if ($action == "rate") {
// check if already voted
$voteda = explode(" ", $voted);
for ($votedan = 0; $votedan < count($voteda); ++$votedan) {
if ($voteda[$votedan] == $id) {
$novote = "1";
}
}  //end checking
if ($novote != "1") {
setcookie("voted", $voted . " $id");
}

if ($novote != "1") {
  $query = mysql_query("select * from links where linkid='$id'");
  if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query)) {
    $rating = $row["rating"];
    $votes = $row["votes"];
    }
  $totalrate = ($rating * $votes) + $rate;
  $votes++;
  $rating = $totalrate / $votes;
  mysql_query("update links set rating='$rating', votes='$votes' where linkid='$id'");
  } 
}

if (($cat == "") || ($cat == "0")) {
$fd = fopen($ROOTTEMP, "r");
$temp = fread($fd, filesize($ROOTTEMP));
fclose($fd);
} elseif (file_exists("$FILEDIR$cat.txt")) {
$fd = fopen("$FILEDIR$cat.txt", "r");
$temp = fread($fd, filesize("$FILEDIR$cat.txt"));
fclose($fd);
} else {
$fd = fopen($MAINTEMP, "r");
$temp = fread($fd, filesize($MAINTEMP));
fclose($fd);
}

//counter
$stat = mysql_query("select * from stats where id='1'");
if ($statrow = mysql_fetch_array($stat)) {
  $last_visited = $statrow["date"];
  }
if ($cookieset == "1") {
  mysql_query("update stats set hits=hits+1");
  mysql_query("update stats set hitstoday=hitstoday+1");
  }
if ($last_visited != date("ymd")) {
  mysql_query("update stats set hitstoday='1'");
  }
// define variables
$catq = "select * from cat where sub='$cat' order by name";
$linkq = "select * from links where catid='$cat' order by $order";



require($STATIC);
require($FUNCTIONS);

navbar();
getstats();
pagenav();
printcat();
printlink();
image($V);

//insert header footer

if (ereg("<%INSERT_HEADER%>", $temp)) {
$fd = fopen($HEADER, "r");
$header = fread($fd, filesize($HEADER));
fclose($fd);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_HEADER%>", $header, $temp);
}
if (ereg("<%INSERT_FOOTER%>", $temp)) {
$fd = fopen($FOOTER, "r");
$footer = fread($fd, filesize($FOOTER));
fclose($fd);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_FOOTER%>", $footer, $temp);
}

$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_NAVBAR_HERE%>", $navbar, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_SEARCH_FORM%>", $search, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_RESULT_CATS%>", $cats, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_RESULT_LINKS%>", $links, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_RESULT_NAV%>", $nav, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_FOOTER_LINKS%>", $botlinks, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_VERSION%>", $img, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_TOTAL_LINKS%>", $total_links, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_TOTAL_CATS%>", $total_cats, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_HITS_TODAY%>", $hits_today, $temp);
$temp = ereg_replace("<%INSERT_HITS_TOTAL%>", $hits_total, $temp);
//output HTML

print $temp;
?>

Sorry again about posting the code and all, but I felt it was necessary. Oh yeah, I got the script from http://www.intechnic.com/inlink if you want to see what I'm working with.

Sincerly,

Michael Mellinger

[Skunk]

The problem is that you are trying to combine SSIs with PHP - and that doesn't work. Instead I suggest using the PHP include() function in place of your SSI calls. Simply rename the page with the SSIs to something.php, then replace all SSI calls with this:

<?php
include("path/to/include.php");
?>

This will work for other files that you would normally include via SSIs such as text files / html files - however it won't work for CGI scripts that you include with SSI. A workaround for using the output of CGI scripts is to use include and specify a full URL to the script (complete with the http:// bit) - that should include the output of the script, provided your server has support for including external URLs turned on.

[mellinger]

I have that already included it the template file (it's near the top) and it still doesn't include it when it reads it. I know there are ssi's further down that page, but I never got around to changing those.