Contribute2 and PHP

[tradem]

Hello...

I have a very big Problem Contribute 2.
One of our Customer is using Contribute 2 and has the following problems:
A part of the website is protected with a PHP Passwort and PHP files.
(The website is established in Dreamweaver MX / MX2004 /8)
When they make changes on the php files the php header is gone when they safe
and load it up. So everybody can get to the proteced sites. The same problem we
have with a formular. There is a formular used which contains php and when they
work on it (may be only to change a little text somewhere else), every php
phrase is gone completely.

I really need your help
Thanks a lot!

[woodardj]

We've found that on pages that have JavaScript or Lasso code in their
templates, Contribute just breaks it. Is your PHP code simply gone? Or is it
still there, just non-functional?

We're planning on doing some more of our own investigation soon... the
standing theory is that it's a string parsing/doctype encoding issue with
Contribute.

[tradem]

I just found out, that there is PHP and JavaScript as well which runs this
Page...

Everything is simply gone!
There are numbers that get field in with functions. These functions are gone
but filled in with the last numbers wich where on the page.
The numbers are also given to a PHP Script...

[woodardj]

Actually, thinking about it, this makes perfect sense. When Contribute
displays the site in it's browser view, the page has already been "rendered" by
the PHP script. So, because PHP is executed on the server before anything at
all gets served, this will continue to happen. Perhaps fire up the site in
Dreamweaver and put the PHP code in a Template which is applied to the pages,
(and your contribute users cannot edit the template...) that probably won't
work either, though... might be SOL.

[HdotNET]

beware of php code getting rewritten by Contribute and causing errors, specifically when using the include() tag.