Final version of Shirts4Mike before PHP w/ MYSQL course doesn't work out of the box, ROOT_PATH paths unresolveable and causes exceptions

I will take a look later today and see if I can replicate the issue.

I found The same Issue y change the port in the the database.php file for 3306 to conect to My SQL and it get contetion all ready with the data base but when I try to review the index.php I get a page with 3 errors something like this

Warning: include(D:/XAMPP/htdocs/inc/products.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\XAMPP\htdocs\shirts4mike\index.php on line 4

Warning: include(): Failed opening 'D:/XAMPP/htdocs/inc/products.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;D:\XAMPP\php\PEAR') in D:\XAMPP\htdocs\shirts4mike\index.php on line 4

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_products_recent() in D:\XAMPP\htdocs\shirts4mike\index.php on line 5

I see before this error in a Mac and I figured out how to fix but in a PC I get a littel bit lost Kevin Lozandier if I found somethin in the day I let you know... Randy any advice??

Randy Hoyt, where are thou? :P

I almost finish the course but the site still no working!! I was thinking was something related with the version of XAMMP I changed the version but still nothing

Andrew Chalkley : Any ideas on help?

HI Kevin Lozandier,

I don't know what the issue is personally as I don't use XAMPP that much. Hampton Paulk has taken over from Randy Hoyt on the PHP material and has access to a Windows box in Orlando, so we'll see if he can replicate your issue or help.

Thanks for your patience.
Andrew

I cannot get any of the downloadable code to work in this project. One big programming error I noticed on several pages was the use of double quotes inside of double quotes.

For instance, in "header.php", each <li> line is coded incorrectly. Each <li> has php code in it's class value. The value is encased in DOUBLE QUOTES, and inside those double quotes, there is PHP code, echoing strings that are ALSO encased in DOUBLE QUOTES. This error appears many times throughout the project site. So I attempted to find each instance and fix it.

Unfortunately, after going through all the code in the site to fix all these errors, the site still does not work at all. :/

Also, it seems this error appears in each downloadable code .zip throughout the "Simple PHP Function" track AND the "Using PHP with MySQL" track.

Hampton Paulk: Any update?

Howdy Kevin Lozandier, I can reproduce your issue when doing a scratch install with the demo files you mentioned. So that is a good start.

The current way that the file structure is set up it is expecting you to be working from localhost/ or any hostname that is a root. What I mean to say here is you will have an issue if you try to run the site from localhost/shirts4mike/.

The simple solution, and one you need to know for the future, is how to set up virtual hosts on apache.

here are two external links to get you down the road to success. If you need more help please let me know and I will be happy to assist.

Adding a Virtual Host in XAMPP

I tried this on Windows 8, and modifying the hosts file was a bit more challenging, but here is a link to dealing with that.

Modifying Hosts File on Windows 8

I went with the "run as administrator" option