Undefined variable 1

[akelabanda]

Hi there

I've setup a readymade website on my Win XP. It's running Apache 2.2 and PHP5.

When I run index.php, there is an error displayed

Notice: Undefined variable: auto_filename in F:\

http://wwwroot\ecommerce\index.php

on line 154

index.php has the following line
<? include("includes/vars.inc") ?>

includes/vars.inc contains php variable
$auto_filename = 'auto.txt';

After looking at a couple of answers, I've also set
register_globals = On in php.ini

Can you please help ?

Thanks
Rajeev

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[jpadie]

first, set register globals to off. read the manual on the security implications of this.

next, check that vars.inc is enclosed within the normal <?php ... ?> tags. include() will not evaluate the code unless it is within tags.

you, of course, must put the include command above the lines in which you use the variables that are set within.

you also have not provided us with line 154 and its surrounding code so we can't tell if anything is amiss.

 

[akelabanda]

That worked. The include was between <? ?> and not <?php ?>

Thanks jpadie.

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[jpadie]

the newer installs of php seem to come with allow short tags turned off in php.ini. i assume this is for xml compatibility.