[SPTUsers] RE: Running SPT on Windows 2000 - CSS

[Edward Almasy]

On Thu, Jun 12, at 02:37:34AM, Arbit 1202 wrote:
> Any ideas on what could cause this from the SPT
> development team?
> 
> PC
> --- "Topete, Sergio USA"
> <stopete at monterey.nps.navy.mil> wrote:
> > following error message:
> > 
> > Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class user in
> > c:\program files\apache
> > group\apache\htdocs\spt\Axis--User.php on line 22

   This indicates that a PHP class named "User" is being declared twice
   in the code.  That shouldn't happen with just the standard SPT code,
   because every instance of SPT where Axis--User.php is loaded uses the
   "require_once()" PHP construct, which is specifically intended to
   prevent this from happening.

   So...my best guess is that either  1) you've added some code that has
   a class named "User" (or reloads Axis--User.php without using a *_once()
   call), or  2) something has gone astray with the PHP require_once()
   construct, or  3) there's some behavior with PHP under MS Windows that
   is very unexpected.  Offhand, I'd guess #2, because Windows doesn't
   support soft links in the same fashion as Linux, and the Axis--User.php
   file in the MetadataTool subdirectory is (under Linux) just a soft link
   to the copy of Axis--User.php one level up.  So PHP under Windows may
   not recognize they're both the same file when loaded with require_once(),
   and try to load the file twice.

   If that's the case, I'm not sure what to do about it, other than maybe
   to make the copy of Axis--User.php a Windows "shortcut" to the file in
   the directory above, and configure your web server to respect shortcuts.

   Ed


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