My Website not Loading!!

[status]

Hello,
My site has not been loading since past 2 days. On contacting the Hosting Customer care they provided with the following error report:
PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '(', expecting ',' or ';' in ./admin/includes/classes/sessions.php on line 44
The Line is :

var $cookie_path = substr(DIR_WS_ADMIN, 0, -1);

Part code of the site:

/
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// |zen-cart Open Source E-commerce                                       |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | Copyright (c) 2003 The zen-cart developers                           |
// |                                                                      |   
// | http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php                                    |   
// |                                                                      |   
// | Portions Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce                               |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
// | This source file is subject to version 2.0 of the GPL license,       |
// | that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE, and is        |
// | available through the world-wide-web at the following url:           |
// | http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt.                             |
// | If you did not receive a copy of the zen-cart license and are unable |
// | to obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send a note to       |
// | [email protected] so we can mail you a copy immediately.          |
// +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
//  $Id: sessions.php 1969 2005-09-13 06:57:21Z drbyte $
//
/*
  Original source from Web Application Development with PHP (Tobias Ratschiller, Till Gerken)
  Copyright (c) 2000, New Riders Publishing
*/

  $SID = '';

  class php3session {
    var $name = PHP_SESSION_NAME;
    var $auto_start = false;
    var $referer_check = false;

    var $save_path = PHP_SESSION_SAVE_PATH;
    var $save_handler = 'php3session_files';

    var $lifetime = 0;

    var $cache_limiter = 'nocache';
    var $cache_expire = 180;

    var $use_cookies = true;
    var $cookie_lifetime = 0;
    var $cookie_path = substr(DIR_WS_ADMIN, 0, -1);
    var $cookie_domain = '';

    var $gc_probability = 1;
    var $gc_maxlifetime = 0;

    var $serialize_handler = 'php';
    var $ID;

    var $nr_open_sessions = 0;
    var $mod_name = '';
    var $id;
    var $delimiter = "\n";
    var $delimiter_value = '[==]';

    function php3session() {
      $this->mod_name = $this->save_handler;
    }
  }

  class php3session_user {
    var $open_func, $close_func, $read_func, $write_func, $destroy_func, $gc_func;

    function open($save_path, $sess_name) {
      $func = $this->open_func;
      if (function_exists($func)) {
        return $func($save_path, $sess_name);
      }

      return true;
    }

    function close($save_path, $sess_name) {
      $func = $this->close_func;
      if (function_exists($func)) {
        return $func();
      }

      return true;
    }

    function read($sess_id) {
      $func = $this->read_func;

      return $func($sess_id);
    }

    function write($sess_id, $val) {
      $func = $this->write_func;

      return $func($sess_id, $val);
    }

    function destroy($sess_id) {
      $func = $this->destroy_func;
      if (function_exists($func)) {
        return $func($sess_id);
      }

      return true;
    }

    function gc($max_lifetime) {
      $func = $this->gc_func;
      if (function_exists($func)) {
        return $func($max_lifetime);
      }

      return true;
    }
  }

  class php3session_files {
    function open($save_path, $sess_name) {
      return true;
    }

    function close() {
      return true;
    }

    function read($sess_id) {
      global $session;

// Open, read in, close file with session data
      $file = $session->save_path . '/sess_' . $sess_id;
      if (!file_exists($file)) {
// Create it
        touch($file);
      }
      $fp = fopen($file, 'r') or die('Could not open session file (' . $file . ').');
      $val = fread($fp, filesize($file));
      fclose($fp);

      return $val;
    }

    function write($sess_id, $val) {
      global $session;

Please help regarding the same.
If any more details are needed let me know.

Regards,
Aakash Shah
www.spectglasses.com

[yellow1912]

No idea how you get that file, but it doesnt seem to be in the default zencart.

[status]

Yes, I had installed it through Fantastico

[yellow1912]

DrByte will be able to answer your question in more details, but it is confirmed that the file is NOT in zencart default 1.3.8, or at least it does not exist at that specific location.
Perhaps you have a very old version of Zencart, since it says php3 there? And now your host may have just upgraded their php version, which explains why you suddenly get the error.

[DrByte]

I do not recall Zen Cart ever having a php3session class.
Someone has changed the contents of that file, because it's not part of any current version of Zen Cart. While they have a typical (older) Zen Cart copyright header in the top of the file, the rest of the file comes from something published by someone else, apparently New Riders Publishing.

I recommend that you upgrade your site (manually) or delete the files you're presently using and install the current version ... manually, not using Fantastico.

Naturally, make a backup of everything (files and database) first.

And, as yellow said, talk to your hosting company about what THEY have changed on your server in the last 2 days.