On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:49 PM, agallagher wrote:
Hi Walter
Thanks for the help. I’m a little confused, if PHP5 has been out for
years, do you think the problem could be something other than this
upgrade?
I suspect that the change to PHP5 was made by your host some time ago,
but PHP4 was left in place as an “optional” system for people who had
production code that wasn’t PHP5-safe. At some point, your host
decided enough was enough and force-upgraded everyone, perhaps because
one of their servers got hacked or some scary security alert finally
convinced them.
Are people still using the PHP feedback form action or have I been
left behind without realising it?
Nope, and it’s a great system with loads of applications. There are
always many other ways to do things, but it remains the go-to method
for building interactive forms in Freeway.
From what the host (heartinternet.com) tell me I have to add some
code to the root telling it to use PHP4. This sounds a bit crazy as
it will mean me updating every site I have built with a form or they
won’t work. Have I got this right do you think.
Here’s what the support team said
“Thanks for contacting us. This may be related to a HP upgrade we
made. We have updated our version of php so the default used is
php5 rather than php4. If you were previously using php4 and the
upgrade has caused you problems then adding the following line to
your .htaccess file in the root of your site and renaming php.ini
files to php4.ini will revert it to the old version.”
Well sure, you can do it, but I think the better thing would be to
work with Tim Plumb to see if he can update the Action. PHP5 is head,
shoulders, and knees above PHP4, so it’s worthwhile to get your
application to work with it, rather than to go back to PHP4. There
will come a time when you can’t find 4 any more anywhere.
Walter
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