Hi again folks. Thanks to those who helped in trying to find the cause of my problem this afternoon.
Sorry if the code in this message wraps, but I'm writing this through a tss connection and damned if I can figure out how to change the wrap point in outlook :o( The CMS logged a new error a couple of hours ago which I think might isolate part of the problem. The following is the error that was logged: ------ Parse error: parse error, expecting `$' in /u0/path_to_classes/classes/adodb/adodb.inc.php on line 2713 Unable to include database connection file ------ Line 2713 of adodb.inc.php is: if ($this->_fetch()) { The last line about being unable to include the database connection file is the error which is logged from my script, which (obviously) is thrown when the adodb.inc.php file can't be included. That this error is thrown and the monitor exits gracefully tells me that the monitor is working correctly. Below is the code from the file called by my crontab: #!/usr/local/bin/php <?php define('UTIL_PATH','/path/cmsutilDEV/monitor'); define('ARCHIVE_PATH','/path/cmsutilDEV/archive'); define('CMS_PATH','/path/cms-test.unbc.ca/'); define('WWW_PATH','/path/www2-test.unbc.ca/html'); define('WWW_SITE','http://www2-test.unbc.ca/'); define('LOCK_FILE','/path/cmsutilDEV/monitor/cms.monitor.lck'); define('DATE_STAMP',date('Y-m-d H:i:s')); define('TIME_STAMP',time()); chdir(UTIL_PATH); require_once UTIL_PATH.'/cms.monitor.inc.php'; $m = new CMS_monitor(); ?> The code in my script up to the point at which the problematic include file is called is: <?php class CMS_monitor { var $conn = null; var $db_open = false; var $errors = array(); function CMS_monitor() { if (file_exists(LOCK_FILE)) { $this->CMS_exit_monitor("User lock file exists"); } else { touch(LOCK_FILE) or $this->CMS_exit_monitor('err msg'); $f = fopen(LOCK_FILE,'w+') or $this->CMS_exit_monitor('err msg'); fwrite($f,DATE_STAMP) or $this->CMS_exit_monitor('err msg'); fclose($f) or $this->CMS_exit_monitor('err msg'); $this->CMS_db_connect() or $this->CMS_exit_monitor('Unable to connect to database'); } // rest of script omitted since it's not getting base the first conditional. So all that's happening is require_once is being called, but the parse error is coming in the required file, to which I have NEVER made changes. To me this might seem to indicate that it's something other than a bug in my code which is causing these errors, especially since if there really was a problem in the required file, this error would be thrown every minute. One other thing worth mentioning is that immediately before this error occurred there was no content scheduled for publishing. After this error occurred the monitor ran twice successfully (again with no content to be scheduled for publishing), then threw a parse error from one of my files. However the point at which the file is included (shortly after where the database error is thrown above) occurs before any external data is passed to a function, so I can't see how that could potentially trigger the error since the file is simply being included, and no external data is being used. So, there is no external data from any source being used before either of the above errors are thrown. Not sure if that helps narrow down the problem or not, but if it does any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Aside from these errors I'm just about ready to switch our site to the CMS, and while the errors aren't affecting the overall performance (some updates are delayed a minute or two by the errors occurring) I have to say it's making me nervous. Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers and TIA, Pablo -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php