Zencart V2.6 & php5 problems

Hi.

I have ben unable to find a thread that refers to php5 and V2.6 zencart.

I have a site running zencart V2.6 (from the version.php file). Everything was running fine until the server was upgraded to run php5. Since then there are on-going problems.

You are unable to log into admin. When you try you get the login window refreshed with no error.

When you try ot add products to the shopping cart, nothing is updated.

Should V2.6 run with php5? Or should I be looking to update the site to the latest version?

Or is there some setting for php that is likely to be causing this issue?

Many thanks for your help

There isn't a v2.6 of Zen Cart ... could you peek again, perhaps? :smile:

If that is v1.2.6 then no, you will have an even harder time trying to get that version to run under php v5.x ...

Zen Cart v1.3.7.1 works with php 5.x ...
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69769

I suspected what you say was the case. Hence my question.

The 2.6 comes from the version.php file on the site. I will look at what I am going to have to do to upgrade.

Thanks for the guidance.

Cheers

for clarification the Major version is 1 the minor version is 2.6

so you get 1.2.6

So, there's absolutely no way to patch a 1.2.6 zc to run on php5?

I have been able to find relatively minor search/replaces to get a couple old OSC's and a popular CMS running under php5. Zen-cart remains my last hurdle to drop php4 altogether.

With other apps I've had to tweak to get to run on php5 it's been a bit of work, but not that difficult. Usually a matter of changing things like $HTTP_GET_VARS to $_GET and $this = something(); to something else, and so on. Any tips for trying that sort of thing with an older zen-cart?

easier to upgrade than to rewrite all of the code

You really should upgrade rather than continue using old code.
However, with that said, there are probably only very minor issues with using PHP5.
The biggest problem is that most folks using PHP5 are also using MySQL 5 ... which has much bigger incompatibility issues with the v1.2.x code (which was written for PHP4 and MySQL 3.23/4.1).

my last hurdle to drop php4 altogether
Zen Cart v1.2.6 which you mention, was released in August 2005. This is the end of October 2007, more than 2 years later. Probably time to upgrade, esp if your goal is to get past the programs which are, as you say, holding you back to php4.

Yep. Am in the process of upgrading to latest version. Sad, but true, I tend to only go back and upgrade to newer versions when there are issues. Comes from having heaps of sites. Keeping them all up to date becomes a nightmare. Trust me

Many thanks for all your help

Thanks folks,

I appreciate the input. The decision to upgrade or not, is up to my client(s). These are not my businesses. Yes I host the sites, and yes I installed/themed/customized them in the first place, but, I'm not going to give days of free time to update them :) Even only giving half an hour per client, with 100+ domains on a server, well you do the math.

I have about 4 or 5 older zencarts on the server. I agree they should just be brought to current versions. We'll see what the clients have to say. Sooner or later, they'll have no choice but to update, whether it's to remain on my server, or someone else's.

we anounced back in July that we were upgrading software and that clients need to make sure that their software was upto date,

we announced that this change was taking place on November 1st, and it will go as planned, I think 3 months is enough lead time to give folks,

Merlinpa1969:

we anounced back in July that we were upgrading software and that clients need to make sure that their software was upto date,

we announced that this change was taking place on November 1st, and it will go as planned, I think 3 months is enough lead time to give folks,That's pretty much what I am doing. I am running php 4/5 concurrently with 4 as default and have been moving clients from 4 to 5 one at a time. For the most part, it's taking me 10-20 minutes per domain to make sure everything is running right. Fortunately, most clients are running 1 of 5 or 6 CMS's and similar web apps, well known to me. Once I identified a few issues and fixes in each, it's been going pretty quick.

Now I'm left with the older zencarts and an ancient cobbling together of old versions of phpwebsite and menalto's gallery. I want to get php 4 off my server altogether by Feb or so, so I can offer a few months notice, now that I know what I'm dealing with.

FYI - Zen Cart will be PHP5-only starting with the v1.4 release, as announced here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72869