fields.ini appears to be ignored

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tonyf — Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:34 pm

Whatever I put in fields.ini appears to be ignored. I’ve had a look at the post at http://xataface.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3899#19539, but this doesn’t seem to be the problem.

I’m on Windows XP, running xataface 1.2.2

The basic access to the database is running fine, with default fieldnames etc, and styles working.

Here is my index.php :

<?php

// Include the Xataface API

require_once ‘./xataface/dataface-public-api.php’;

// Initialize Xataface framework

df_init(__FILE__, ‘./xataface’);

// first parameter is always the same (path to the current script)

// 2nd parameter is relative URL to xataface directory (used for CSS files and javascripts)

// Create a new application

$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();

// Display the application

$app->display()

?>

My file structure:

c:

–Program Files

—-Apache Software Foundation

——Apache2.2

——–htdocs

———-slides

————index.php

————conf.ini

————tables

————–mounts

—————-fields.ini

————–hangers

—————-fields.ini

—————-valuelists.ini

————xataface

etc

Here is contents of conf.ini:

[_database]

host=localhost

name=slides

user=root

password=curly

[_tables]

; A list of tables to include in your application’s menu

; These tables must already exist in your database

activities=Activities

collections=Collections

funding_bodies=Funders

hangers=Hangers

locations=Locations

mounts=Mounts

municipalities=Municipalities

photographers=Photographers

projections=Projections

projects=Projects

slides=Slides

Taking the table mounts for example, checking in phpmyadmin the table name is definitely all lower case. and the field Mount\_description definitely has a leading cap and no others, so here is the fields.ini file contents:

[Mount_description]

widget:label = “Description”

widget:description = “Enter a description of the mount, starting with the material”

But when the table mounts is displayed, the field Mount description has the label Mount description and not Description, and there is no sign of the widget description. This is true of other fileds.ini files for other tables such as hangers too.

It’s as if xataface cant find the tables directory, but I can’t see where I might have gone wrong.

Many thanks from a newbie to xataface

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Jean — Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:46 am

Tony,

I think you should use an absolute path.

Jean

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shannah — Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:48 pm

What version of PHP are you using. There is a bug in PHP 5.3.0 that affects the parse_ini_file function and prevents the ini files from being loaded properly. AFAIK this bug is fixed in PHP 5.3.1 (and 5.2.x works fine).

-Steve

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tonyf — Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:10 pm

I was using PHP 5.3. So I installed PHP 5.3.1, but that caused my Apache 2.2 server to crash, So I upgraded to Apache 2.2.14 but this didn’t help.

I’ll keep muddling along and see if I can get apache up again with a PHP version other than 5.3.

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tonyf — Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:16 pm

Finally got PHP 5.3.1 working with Apache. I’m not really clear what the problem was with installation, but anyway the problem I was having with xataface not seeing the fields.ini files has been fixed by upgrading from PHP 5.3 to 5.3.1 as was suggested by Steve - thanks for the info.

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shannah — Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:37 am

Thanks for confirming that that fixed the problem Tony. Good to know.