URGENT HELP! - oscommerce and 4.4.5 support

my host has upgraded to PHP 4.4.5 and broken my site

[marcus76]

The site is offline! Does anyone know what i need to do to get the site up and running under this version?

Thanks

Marcus

[cameraman]

They may have taken the opportunity to trun register_globals off. If that's it, as a quick fix to get back online you can do this at the top of each script:
foreach($_POST as $vbl => $val)
$$vbl = $val;

Then repeat as necessary for $_GET, $_SERVER, $_COOKIE...
Afterward, you can start going through each script and fixing them.

[eelixduppy]

Also remember to check your error logs as it will provide some information as to what is going on so you can make necessary changes to configuration settings, etc...

[marcus76]

The webhost has said php safe mode has also been turned on.

Any ideas what oscommerce files / config or otherwise i need to make these changes to?

thanks for your posts

Marcus

[henry0]

There are a few fixes about it available all over the place.

Years ago I used it

do a search with global and oscomm
also the fix is somewhere discussed on their forum.

search with exactly "oscommerce register globals patch"

[marcus76]

hi, so are we saying this is 100% to do with the register_globals? i see there is a contrib available for register globals, i just want to be sure that since my host has upgraded to PHP 4.4.5 applying the register global fix will help me?

Is there anyone with 1st hand knowledge of this?

excuse my ignorance but how long has PHP version 4.4.5 been around?

[jatar_k]

do you know what version of php they upgraded from?

you could check the docs on the version of oscommerce you use to see if it relies on register_globals being on.

you could pick through the code to find out but that may take forever.