Hello group,

I am new to php. I have just bought a good book by Welling and Thomson and
was following the example codes.

In one of the examples, I am supposed to access _SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
However, when I am seeing its value in the debug stack, I am getting it to
be null! Even phpinfo() is showing that this particular variable does not
even exist, though there are other _SERVER[''] declarations.

I installed everything on my local computer using xampp and I am using Zend
IDE.

And I have searched through archives as well as google and not found any
useful advice.

Thanks!

Saurabh.

2008/8/29 Saurabh Agrawal <mailsaurabh@gmail.com>:

> In one of the examples, I am supposed to access _SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
> However, when I am seeing its value in the debug stack, I am getting it to
> be null! Even phpinfo() is showing that this particular variable does not
> even exist, though there are other _SERVER[''] declarations.

What's DocumentRoot set to in your Apache config? (httpd.conf) Check
any VirtualHost blocks you might have, too.

What's the result of print_r($_SERVER); ?

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>
>
> > In one of the examples, I am supposed to access _SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
> > However, when I am seeing its value in the debug stack, I am getting it
> to
> > be null! Even phpinfo() is showing that this particular variable does not
> > even exist, though there are other _SERVER[''] declarations.
>
> What's DocumentRoot set to in your Apache config? (httpd.conf) Check
> any VirtualHost blocks you might have, too.
>
> What's the result of print_r($_SERVER); ?
>


In httpd.conf,

DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs"

No VirtualHost blocks.

David, I just found a thing. I had been running this script within the Zend
IDE, looking at output in the IDE itself. Now that I see the output in
Firefox, I can see the variable in phpinfo(), as well as in the output of
print_r($_SERVER).

It must be something to do with Zend, then. Is that it?

Even the output of print_r contains the line
[DOCUMENT_ROOT]=>D:/xampp/htdocs in Firefox, but no such line in Zend!

Thanks for the !

Saurabh.

Does Zend use a separate instance of Apache or some other webserver ?

Stijn


Saurabh Agrawal wrote:
>>
>>> In one of the examples, I am supposed to access _SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].
>>> However, when I am seeing its value in the debug stack, I am getting it
>>>
>> to
>>
>>> be null! Even phpinfo() is showing that this particular variable does not
>>> even exist, though there are other _SERVER[''] declarations.
>>>
>> What's DocumentRoot set to in your Apache config? (httpd.conf) Check
>> any VirtualHost blocks you might have, too.
>>
>> What's the result of print_r($_SERVER); ?
>>
>>
>
>
> In httpd.conf,
>
> DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/htdocs"
>
> No VirtualHost blocks.
>
> David, I just found a thing. I had been running this script within the Zend
> IDE, looking at output in the IDE itself. Now that I see the output in
> Firefox, I can see the variable in phpinfo(), as well as in the output of
> print_r($_SERVER).
>
> It must be something to do with Zend, then. Is that it?
>
> Even the output of print_r contains the line
> [DOCUMENT_ROOT]=>D:/xampp/htdocs in Firefox, but no such line in Zend!
>
> Thanks for the !
>
> Saurabh.
>
>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:06 PM, metastable <listpit@metastable-services.net
> wrote:

> Does Zend use a separate instance of Apache or some other webserver ?
>
> Stijn
>
>
Actually I don't know the answer to this. How can I find that out?

AFAIK, while custom installation, it didn't ask for any such option.

Thanks!

Saurabh.

On 29 Aug 2008, at 12:47, Saurabh Agrawal wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:06 PM, metastable <listpit@metastable-services.net
>> wrote:
>
>> Does Zend use a separate instance of Apache or some other webserver ?
>>
>> Stijn
>>
>>
> Actually I don't know the answer to this. How can I find that out?
>
> AFAIK, while custom installation, it didn't ask for any such option.

Zend Studio does not install Apache at all. By default, when you run a
file from within the IDE it does so as a CLI script. This means there
will be no DOCUMENT_ROOT defined which is what you're seeing.

-Stut

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