The below message is pasted from a notice sent by the SMF dev team. Please take note if you run an SMF forum. If you don't run an SMF forum, please ignore.At the moment, this won't impact you until we upgrade our php version, however, it would be to everyone's advantage to upgrade at their
soonest convenience as your SMF forum will cease to work without this simple fix once the servers are upgraded.
Thanks,
Jason
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Simple Machines is happy to release a compatibility update to Simple Machines Forum 1.0.5. This release addresses a backward compatibility issue with the new release of PHP, 4.4.0, which causes SMF to stop working entirely.
You can easily upgrade in one of the following ways:
Use the package manager in your administration center - one click, and you're done.
Download the update archive file, and upload all of the files from it.
Download the modification file, attached to this message, and modify the files manually according to it.
Download the Subs.php file attached to this mesage, and upload it to your Sources directory (if you have no modifications installed.) Find the following in Sources/Subs.php:
= &mysql_query
And remove the & (ampersand.) How do I modify files?
You should install this update as soon as possible if you wish to install it via the package manager, as your forum will become inaccessible if your host upgrades to PHP 4.4.0 without this change, and you will not be able to access the package manager.
If you are using SMF 1.1 Beta 3 Public, you do not need to make any changes. That version is already compatible with PHP 4.4.0.
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You can view the full announcement by following this link:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=41955.0
Regards,
The Simple Machines Community Forum Team.
Done. :D
I would like to emphasize the "Use the package manager in your administration center - one click, and you're done." part of this e-mail. It is so easy ANYONE can do it. Just click Admin > Package Manager > PHP 4.4.0 Compatibility upgrade, and you're done!
Also remember if you are using SMF 1.1 Beta 3 Public, you do not need to make any changes. That version is already compatible with PHP 4.4.0. SMF team has had a lot of members asking that question, I guess it's easily over looked :P