[E's Lil Theorem]

I have a couple of PHP scripts that work fine in Safari, but fail to work in Firefox (Mac and PC) and IE (Mac and PC). I'm not aware of any differences between coding PHP for any of these browsers (e.g., the way you would code htlm/css specifically for one of these browsers), but right now it certainly seems that some exist.

Can anyone shed any light?

[skalie]

Can't really blame the php as it's server side, maybe the html/css it's producing, but not the php itself.

Yes I know that wasn't very helpful.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally Posted by skalie

Can't really blame the php as it's server side, maybe the html/css it's producing, but not the php itself.

Yes I know that wasn't very helpful.

Thanks! I'll take a look at that though given the way it's working (or not working), I don't see how this could be the problem.

[justinkim]

I agree with skalie. Assuming all the browsers are being served off the same server, it's almost certainly the html being generated by the php. And there are very real differences in how all those browsers render html and css (though in my experience, html and css that render well in Safari usually renders well in Firefox).

What are the pages supposed to do?

[Chuckit]

PHP is the same in any browser, because no browser sees the PHP code anyway. PHP is a preprocessor, which means it is already done executing and all you have left is the generated HTML by the time the server sends any data to the browser.

[E's Lil Theorem]

Well, if it's the code being generated, I can't figure it out. Maybe I need to step away from it for a few days

Originally Posted by justinkim

...

What are the pages supposed to do?

It's an image rating script I got from SourceForge.net.

You can see my implementation of it here: http://www.sexytummies.com/sexytummyornot/. Check it out with Safari to see how it's suppose to work. It used to work well with all browsers until I added the "rate all, just girls or just guys" feature. After I added this feature, IE and Firefox stopped working properly. A shame, really.

[Millennium]

Actually, it's theoretically possible to get a browser-specific error in PHP, but only if you depend on the headers which the browser sends, as that's the only real communication between PHP and the browser. The most common way to get an error like this is to try and sniff the user's browser through the User-Agent string and then break on some specific case. You can also get into trouble if you depend on one of the more obscure headers, and some browser or other either doesn't send it or sends it in a format you didn't expect, but few scripts out there today do anything like that anyway.

This said, it's very unusual for badly-written browser sniffers to work on Safari but not anything else. Usually it goes the other way around; they code only for IE and/or Netscape, and fail to handle other browsers. More likely this is an HTML or CSS issue, as the others have mentioned.

[skalie]

Originally Posted by Millennium

Actually, it's theoretically possible to get a browser-specific error in PHP

....just not very easy to do

[E's Lil Theorem]

Well, I can't figure it out

If any of you have the time to help me out, here is the code.

Thanks in advance.

[ctlq]

where specifically are the errors because the page looked the same in all browsers to me

[E's Lil Theorem]

Originally Posted by ctlq

where specifically are the errors because the page looked the same in all browsers to me

Well, I've been trying different things, so right now it's broken for all browsers. But, ideally, you should be able to rate all images, only males, or only females. Also, when you rate an image, a new one should load.

EDIT:

It looks like the problem is with the getRandomUser($geekcategory, $geeksex) function. This is the function that needed to be modified to allow users to rate all, femmes or guys. If I use the old version of the function getRandomUser(), the script works fine.

Here they both are:

[PHP]
<?
function getRandomUser($geekcategory, $geeksex)

...

function getRandomUserOLD()

?>
[/PHP]

EDIT 2: I found a workaround. Thanks to all who gave it a shot.