Blank Page all of a sudden

[gabstero]

Hi Gang!

Everything was working just fine till today when I discovered that every page in my zencart gives a blank page (www.gabkits.com)
I found these errors in the php error logs:

[19-Feb-2014 09:51:23 America/Denver] PHP Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /home2/photogab/public_html/gabkits/includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php on line 177
[19-Feb-2014 09:51:23 America/Denver] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare date_diff() in /home2/photogab/public_html/gabkits/includes/functions/functions_general.php on line 1455

Also my server upgraded to php version 5.4 (from 5.2). But I asked them to downgrade so we can check if the site works but it didn't.

Can you please give me some clue on where to start poking?

thanks a lot!
gabstero

[lat9]

You should start by seriously considering upgrading your site from Zen Cart v1.3.8a to v1.5.1 (or later).

[gabstero]

that's what I fear from :-)

[lat9]

When your webhost restores your site to use PHP 5.2, what messages are logged?

[gabstero]

Thanks -

Looks like the same ones when I switch back to php 5.2. I checked those error lines and this is what they show:

1. includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php on line 177:

175 if ($zp_result_array) {
176          while (list($key, $value) = each($zp_result_array)) {
177            if (!ereg('^[0-9]', $key)) {
178              $obj->fields[$key] = $value;
179            }
180          }

2. includes/functions/functions_general.php on line 1455:

1454    return(round(($date2_set-$date1_set)/(60*60*24)));
1455  }

thanks!

[lat9]

That shouldn't be, since ereg wasn't deprecated for PHP 5.2. Create a file with a secret name (with file extension .php) that contains:

phpinfo();

Copy that file to your root, open your browser and go to www.gabkits.com/<secret name>.php. Towards the top of the display, you should see what PHP version is actually being used; I'm guessing that it's not really PHP 5.2. When you've created the output, delete the file.

[gabstero]

It turns out that indeed the php 5.4 upgrade was the issue. When I tried previously to revert to 5.2 it didn't work because for some reason the .htaccess had the following line up top (possibly added by the host when they automatically upgraded to 5.4):

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php54 .php


All well now. At least for a while since they will be phasing out 5.2. This might be a good time to upgrade the site :-)

thanks a lot for help!
g

[lat9]

No problem, I'm glad you got it sorted out ... and thanks for letting us know what the issue was.

[gabstero]

Sure - no problem - thanks for help!