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Call to undefined function: message_die() in /var/www/html/db/db.php

Hi all, I am fairly new to PHP, everyone I know that uses it says it is realy easy to do and even easier to get going, I am running Mandrake Linux 9.1 and PHP version 4.3.0, I installed php-Nuke to aid in publishing and get this error when I try to access my page, the line in that file says something about unable to connect to database, but this is what i get on my screen, Fatal error: Call to undefined function: message_die() in /var/www/html/db/db.php on line 88.

line 86-88 in the db.php file is, }

$db = new sql_db($dbhost, $dbuname, $dbpass, $dbname, false);
if(!$db->db_connect_id) {
message_die(CRITICAL_ERROR, "Could not connect to the database");
}

how can I fix this problem?

any help I can get will be awesome! thanks in advance.

Rootman 103

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VGR

don't use message_dir() - I never saw it - use die(message)

$db = new sql_db($dbhost, $dbuname, $dbpass, $dbname, false);
$dbLinkID=$db->db_connect_id or die("Could not connect to the database");

ladwein

Somewhere in PHP-Nuke Code there has to be code like 'function message_die (...'
where message_die is defined. I guess that it is just some kind of advanced die() function.
Simpy try to replace it by

die "Could not connect to database";

You could also try to find out where message_die is defined.

Richard Quadling

What is the include path defined as?

Does PHPNuke require an additional path?

(What exactly IS PHP Nuke?)

Richard.

VGR

PHP Nuke is a portal generating system, AFAIK

A kind of site template