PHP - [error] A News Viewing Script

Hi all,

This is probably a very basic question, but it's the first time I've had to deal with it and I can't find a direct answer anywhere online.

I have blocked direct access to a file that a user has uploaded in the Apache configuration and in the .htaccess file, so that the file is only accessible through a viewing (PHP) script, which will determine whether the access is allowed or not depending on several factors.

What is the actual code I need to give access?

Thanks!

Hey gang,

Is there any way to view the apache error.log file in PHP?

So I've got a simple news script that pulls the last 5 posts in a specific phpbb3 forum but I'm getting errors on the front page whenever they don't at least open the forums before. There errors:

To narrow it down a little more for everyone, When they visit the home page( http://im.deathwillow.com ) before visiting the forums they receive the following errors.  Once they have at least visited, not requiring a log in, the forums ( http://im.deathwillow.com/forums ) the errors disappear.  Any ideas?

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/session.php on line 1024: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hermes/web03/b36/pow.deathwillow21/IM/index.php:8)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/session.php on line 1024: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hermes/web03/b36/pow.deathwillow21/IM/index.php:8)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /includes/session.php on line 1024: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hermes/web03/b36/pow.deathwillow21/IM/index.php:8)

The script:

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<?php
define('FORUM_ID', 6);                    // Forum ID to get data from
define('POST_LIMIT', 5);                  // How many to get
define('PHPBB_ROOT_PATH', './forums/');   // Path to phpBB (including trailing /)

define('PRINT_TO_SCREEN', true);         
         // If set to true, it will print the posts out
         // If set to false it will create an array $news[] with all the following info
         //
         //   'topic_id'         eg. 119
         //   
         //   'topic_time'      eg. 06 June, 07 (uses board default)
         //   'topic_replies'      eg. 26
         //   
         //   'username'         eg. chAos
         //   'topic_title'      eg. "News Post"
         //   
         //   'post_text'         eg. just the text (formatted w/ smilies, bbcode, etc)

define('IN_PHPBB', true);
$phpbb_root_path = PHPBB_ROOT_PATH;
$phpEx = substr(strrchr(__FILE__, '.'), 1);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/functions_display.' . $phpEx);
include($phpbb_root_path . 'includes/bbcode.' . $phpEx);

// Start session management
$user->session_begin(false);
$auth->acl($user->data);

// Grab user preferences
$user->setup();

$query = 
"SELECT u.user_id, u.username, t.topic_title, t.topic_poster, t.forum_id, t.topic_id, t.topic_time, t.topic_replies, t.topic_first_post_id, p.poster_id, p.topic_id, p.post_id, p.post_text, p.bbcode_bitfield, p.bbcode_uid 
FROM ".USERS_TABLE." u, ".TOPICS_TABLE." t, ".POSTS_TABLE." p 
WHERE u.user_id = t.topic_poster 
AND u.user_id = p.poster_id 
AND t.topic_id = p.topic_id 
AND p.post_id = t.topic_first_post_id 
AND t.forum_id = ".FORUM_ID." 
ORDER BY t.topic_time DESC";

$result = $db->sql_query_limit($query, POST_LIMIT);
$posts = array();
$news = array();
$bbcode_bitfield = '';
$message = '';
$poster_id = 0;

while ($r = $db->sql_fetchrow($result))
{
   $posts[] = array(
         'topic_id' => $r['topic_id'],
         'topic_time' => $r['topic_time'], 
         'username' => $r['username'], 
         'topic_title' => $r['topic_title'], 
         'post_text' => $r['post_text'],
         'bbcode_uid' => $r['bbcode_uid'],
         'bbcode_bitfield' => $r['bbcode_bitfield'],
         'topic_replies' => $r['topic_replies'],
         );
   $bbcode_bitfield = $bbcode_bitfield | base64_decode($r['bbcode_bitfield']);
}


// Instantiate BBCode
if ($bbcode_bitfield !== '')
{
   $bbcode = new bbcode(base64_encode($bbcode_bitfield));
}

// Output the posts
foreach($posts as $m)
{
   $poster_id = $m['user_id'];
   
   $message = $m['post_text'];
   if($m['bbcode_bitfield'])
   {
      $bbcode->bbcode_second_pass($message, $m['bbcode_uid'], $m['bbcode_bitfield']);
   }

   $message = str_replace("\n", '<br />', $message);
   $message = smiley_text($message);

   $comment = ($m['topic_replies']==1) ? 'comment' : 'comments';
   
   if( PRINT_TO_SCREEN )
   {
      /* Output is in the following format
       *
       * <h3>Thread Title</h3>
       ^ <h4 class="postinfo">date // 5 comments // poster</h4>
       * <p>First post test</p>
       * 
       */
  
  echo "<div class=\"newsPost\">
   <h1><span class=\"topic\"><a href=\"".PHPBB_ROOT_PATH."viewtopic.php?f=".FORUM_ID."&amp;t={$m['topic_id']}\">{$m['topic_title']}</a></span></h1>
<p>{$message}</p>
<div class=\"newsPost_footer\">
<span class=\"newsPost_comments\">Comments: <a href=\"".PHPBB_ROOT_PATH."viewtopic.php?f=".FORUM_ID."&amp;t={$m['topic_id']}\">{$m['topic_replies']}</a></span><span class=\"newsPost_author\">Posted by <i><font color=\"#CCCCCC\">{$m['username']} </font>on " . $user->format_date($m['topic_time']) . "</i></span>
</div>
</div>";
   }
   else
   { 
      $news[] = array(
            'topic_id' => $m['topic_id'], // eg: 119
            
            'topic_time' => $user->format_date($m['topic_time']), // eg: 06 June, 07 (uses board default)
            'topic_replies' => $m['topic_replies'], // eg: 26
            
            'username' => $m['username'], // eg: chAos
            'topic_title' => $m['topic_title'], // eg: "News Post"
            
            'post_text' => $message, // just the text         
            );
   }
   
   unset($message,$poster_id);
}

?>

i want a script which should be easily integrated with the website and should fully customizable like cutephp.. the problem with cutephp is that it can't handle large data since it stores all the news articles in one .txt file on the server.. as the number of articles grow.. the size of .txt file increases and it becomes impossible for the server to handle the script.. i want a script which should be easily integrated into the website and should have the following features.

- article categories
- admin panel to add news
- should use mySQL to store articles or it should create .htm files for articles..

i hope you get the point..

by the way if i want to write my own script.. what is the easiest way to write a script which should have categories, show news on webpages, have admin password protected add news area.. should create seperate files on the server or use mysql..nothing complicated.. simple news posting script..

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