I'm running version ZC ver 1.3.8a patched to 1.3.9f. Original official download and upgrade. The site has been running perfectly for the last year until my ISP upgraded their servers from PHP 5.3.3 to 5.4.4.

Everything seemed fine until I needed to edit the product description of an existing product. After saving the change, I found that the product description was now blank. I ran a few tests and it seems to accept short simple text entries, but as soon as I enter long descriptions, the field goes blank. Rolling the server back to PHP 5.3.3 immediately resolves the problem. My ISP tells me that PHP 5.4.4 no longer supports "register_globals" and they suspect this may be the problem. Does anyone know if there is a quick fix for ZC 1.3.9 to allow for PHP 5.4.4 or should I just bite the bullet and upgrade my site to the latest ZC version?