[Biborb-general] Install help: add window empty

[Paul Johnson]

Greetings:

I installed biborb on a system that uses cgiwrap.  There is sometimes 
some funny business because of that, and so I have to fix programs for 
our special needs.  biborb looks neat enough to be worth the effort.

I'm good at Perl/CGI, but not experienced in PHP

$ /usr/local/bin/php --version
PHP 4.3.9 (cgi) (built: Oct  1 2004 15:54:38)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies



I don't want to type the full url here where robots will find it,
but if you take out the spaces, it will show:

www.ku.edu/ cgiwrap/ pauljohn/ biborb/ index.php


Many of the elements of biborg work great.  Thanks a lot. I can add a 
new bibliography, do searches, but I cannot add entries.

 I've experimented with authentication and found that I can log on and 
I don't think that's related to the problem I have.

I get a blank screen if I try to import a bib file.  I get a blank 
screen when trying to do an add entry, and I link the problem back to 
the fifth line in the snippit below from php/interface.php.



function bibindex_entry_to_add(){
    $html = bibheader();
    $html .= bibindex_menu($_SESSION['bibdb']->name());

    $title = msg("BIBINDEX_SELECT_NEW_ENTRY_TITLE");
/*following line cause script to return empty */
    $types = xhtml_select('type',1,$_SESSION['bibdb']->entry_types(),"");


If I comment out that line, it doesn't die.


I don't know why the xhtml_select function would fail and make the whole 
thing go empty. Do you?  I've found that if I comment that out, then the 
function does return some stuff, if I put some content in for $title and 
$content at the top of the function.


In the install I had to run the pear install in my user account and so 
at the top of a php  file, I have to add

ini_set('include_path', '~/pear/lib' . PATH_SEPARATOR . 
ini_get('include_path'));

I don't know if that links to the trouble I have, but figure you need to 
know that.

Oh, one other thing.  I do not know how to tell the environment that it 
should use my pear, from ~/pear, rather than the one it finds in 
/usr/local/bin.  Is that related to the trouble?

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