can't log in to admin

[earmsby]

Hi,

I am currently unable to log into my client's admin and am getting the error below:

"Warning: strtotime(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected the timezone 'UTC' for now, but please set date.timezone to select your timezone. in [path to store]/login.php on line 13"

This error appears on the login screen but does show the log in form. When I enter my credentials and click login, however, just the error appears and I cannot access anything in admin.

As far as I'm aware no changes have been made to any of the php files (only I would have done that - my client does not know how to download or edit any php files). Does anyone have any idea why this would suddenly arise?

Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this.

[earmsby]

Doing a little digging I think maybe this is related to a change on the server in PHP version (?) I checked to see if maybe whatever issue is causing this error has been addressed in v. 1.5.4 but it looks like the line of code in question is the same for both version 1.5.2 and 1.5.4

define('ADMIN_PASSWORD_EXPIRES_INTERVAL', strtotime('- 90 day'));

[Ajeh]

You might see if this helps:
https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....05#post1270805

[earmsby]

Thanks. That was helpful. It didn't solve the problem, though, so off to contact the hosting company! :)

[earmsby]

Interesting. This same error occurs when I run a test php page with nothing but:

phpinfo(); 

Must be something on the host's end, I think.

[earmsby]

So, the hosting company "fixed" it by rolling back from PHP version 5.6 to version 5.4.4. They said "Our system automatically upgraded you to use php5.6, and your site wasn't ready for it, so I rolled it back"

Does this get sorted out in a higher level of ZenCart or should I keep the site on PHP 5.4.4 until a newer version of ZenCart comes out?

[carlwhat]

if

phpinfo();

causes an error, i find it hard to imagine that there is a problem on the zen-cart side of things.

to me, it still sounds like a problem on the hosts side; despite what the hosting company may say.