problem moving code from Unix to IIS

[lswan662]

I am having trouble with some php code that was working fine on a unix server but when I try to move it to a Windows 2003 server I am getting errors like "Use of undefined constant x - assumed 'x' in ...".

I am using PHP 5. Here is the code that deals with defining x:

$x = escapeshellarg( $_GET[x] );

What should I do? thanks.

[diafol]

What version of php are you using 5.2 or earlier? I think some versions of pHp have an issue with not escaping double quote marks properly. Have you tried using different values for the variable from shell?

[buddylee17]

Sounds like you need to put single quotes around the x:

$x = escapeshellarg( $_GET['x'] );

[lswan662]

Thanks for the quick reply. I am using php 5.2.6

As to your other question, this is probably not what you want to hear but I am a neophyte at php programming. I don't know very much. I am using some code obtained from someone else so I did not write it.

I am getting errors about undefined constants x, y, rotate and scale. I was getting errors about

Here is some more of the code.

CheckParameters();

$alltext = @file_get_contents( fixurl( stripslashes($_GET['url']) ) );
if ( $alltext === false ) {
	$cache->remove( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
	die();
}

$tempfile1 = tempnam( "/tmp", "resize-foo-ok-to-delete-" );
file_put_contents( $tempfile1, $alltext );

$x = escapeshellarg( $_GET[x] );
$y = escapeshellarg( $_GET[y] );
$mogrify = "mogrify";

if ( $_GET[rotate] ) {
	$rotate = "-rotate {$_GET[rotate]}\>";
}

if ( $_GET[scale] ) {
	$rc = system( "nice $mogrify -size {$_GET[scale]}% -resize {$x}x{$y} $rotate $tempfile1" );
} else {
#$rc = system( "nice $mogrify -size {$x}x{$y} -resize {$x}x{$y} +profile \"*\" $tempfile1" );
	$rc = system( "nice $mogrify -size {$x}x{$y} -resize '{$x}x{$y}>' $rotate $tempfile1" );
}

I am getting errors about undefined constants x, y, rotate and scale.

I was getting errors about the unix command REQUEST_URI till I followed the directions at http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/100-apache-compliant-request_uri-for-iis-and-windows/

I was thinking the undefinded variable error was also something related to transferring the code from Unix to Windows but I really don't know. To directly answer your last question - no I have not tried using different values for the variable from shell. I don't know how to do that. Sorry. Perhaps the expanded code I posted will give you another clue for me to try.

[diafol]

I'm no expert on UNIX vs. Windows servers, but it might be that UNIX is more forgiving that Windows as buddylee17 suggests single quoting your $_GET parameters:

So change to:

$x = escapeshellarg( $_GET['x'] );
$y = escapeshellarg( $_GET['y'] );
$mogrify = "mogrify";

if ( $_GET['rotate'] ) {
	$rotate = "-rotate {$_GET['rotate']}\>";
}

if ( $_GET['scale'] ) {
	$rc = system( "nice $mogrify -size {$_GET['scale']}% -resize {$x}x{$y} $rotate $tempfile1" );
} else {
#$rc = system( "nice $mogrify -size {$x}x{$y} -resize {$x}x{$y} +profile \"*\" $tempfile1" );
	$rc = system( "nice $mogrify -size {$x}x{$y} -resize '{$x}x{$y}>' $rotate $tempfile1" );
}

However, I've very little experience with shell arguments. Further quoting may help???! Perhaps replacing " with '.

[lswan662]

Thanks Buddylee. Adding the single quotes to the x and y variable fixed those error messages. However I'm still getting error messages on the rotate and scale variables. With or without the quotes, I get:
Undefined index: rotate

[buddylee17]

Is rotate in the querystring (the part of the url after the ?)?

Your querystring should be something like:
http://www.yoursite.com/page.php?x=1&y=2&rotate=left&scale=50

You are then pulling them out of the string and assigning them to a variable with $_GET. If the value is not in the querystring, you'll get an undefined index.

[almostbob]

rotate is likely to be a angle value, somewhere in range 0f either
-180 to +180
or
-pi to +pi
depending on world geometry polar or cartesian

[lswan662]

Thanks all for your helpful suggestions. Clearly I'm in over my head and so I will go back to a simpler script using the php command imagecopyresized.

Thanks again for responding to my questions.

Regards,
-Larry