From: themarty at hotmail dot com
Operating system: Linux Redhat
PHP version: 4.3.0
PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function
Bug description: inconsistent errors
If a bug is a flaw in the code that will always result in a reproducable
error by a certain act, then this is not really bug. It's very annoying
nonetheless.
This is the problem:
Ever since we upgraded to 4.3.0 we are experiencing errors that we can't
explain.
Two errors are consistent in the fact that they are always the same, but
in consistent in the fact that they appear - seemingly - at random.
1. is with an online form. The form consists of 9 pages and i'm using
sessions to gather all the data before inserting it into a database. On
average 7 people a day fill in this form and on average once every two
weeks, there's one person who's data from the first two pages 'gets
lost'.
2. i've written a function that will email any 'problem with a query to
the database' to me and display an error on the webpage. Since i'm still
developping it, i get these emails fairly often. However, sometimes the
email is a big garble. I can understand any scepticism towards my
programming abilities, but i'll try to make a convincing case by the
following illustration:
this is the part were the email is being sent to me:
[php]
mail(
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
'Error in de Database',
$body."\n".$getvalues."\n".$postvalues."\n\n".$computer,
"From: Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>\nReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]");
[/php]
Whatever happens before and after, i hope you agree that IF the email gets
send to me, the subject should be 'Error in de Database'. It can't be
different. However, in those cases where the body of my email is a garble,
the subject contains fragments of what should be stored in the variable
$computer.
Also, another very (in my eyes convincing example) is that just 30 minutes
ago something strange happened (which triggered me into responding: That
Does It!! :)
I've created a message system for registered users. When inserting a
message into the database it inserts a timestamp generated by php (i have
my reasons for not using the DATETIME type column). The timestamp is
created by
[php]
date(YmdHis)
[/php]
After over 500 correct messages, today one gets inserted as
date(Ymdhis). Instead of 13 it got 01 for hours.
I hope this bug-report is helpfull and if anyone has experienced similar
problems, i would appreciate some feedback.
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