PHP error - desperate for help | MODX Community Forums

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pugs2411 Reply #1, 12 years ago

Hi,

I am using an old version of Modx Revolution (1.0.4) and suddenly today my hosting company have upgraded their servers and am I now getting the error

« MODx Parse Error »

MODx encountered the following error while attempting to parse the requested resource:
« PHP Parse Error »
 
PHP error debug
  Error:	mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead	 
  Error type/ Nr.:	 - 8192	 
  File:	/web2/user22089/website/manager/includes/extenders/dbapi.mysql.class.inc.php	 
  Line:	89	 
  Line 89 source:	 if (!$this->conn = ($persist ? mysql_pconnect($host, $uid, $pwd) : mysql_connect($host, $uid, $pwd, true))) {

I am not an advanced user of Modx so any help is much appreciated. this is a business site and it has been down all day.

Thank you!

Lisa

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Mathias Dannevang Reply #2, 12 years ago

Hi Lisa,

I think you are using modx evolution (based on the version number).

Is it a possibility for you to update to the latest version: http://modx.com/download/evolution/ ?

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pugs2411 Reply #3, 12 years ago

thank you for your reply. how is the best way to install an update without losing anything?

thanks

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Mathias Dannevang Reply #4, 12 years ago

There is a guide here: http://rtfm.modx.com/evolution/1.0/administration/upgrading

Mathias Dannevang | Webdesigner at dannevang.org | Tweets @dannevang

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pugs2411 Reply #5, 12 years ago

Quote from: MathiasD at Sep 27, 2014, 11:31 AM

There is a guide here: http://rtfm.modx.com/evolution/1.0/administration/upgrading

I've been told its because i need to use SQli or PDO so dont know if an upgrade will resolve the issue

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sottwell Reply #6, 12 years ago

That is an old version of Evolution. You will need to upgrade to Evolution 1.0.15 (I believe that's the latest version at this time). You cannot upgrade to Revolution (2.2 or 2.3). If I understand correctly, this issue was corrected as of Evo 1.0.12.

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jisaac Reply #7, 12 years ago

For a temporary fix, do you have a control panel that allows you to run an old version of php?

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sottwell Reply #8, 12 years ago

You can actually go to the offending files and simply change all of the mysql_ to mysqli_, I did that a couple of times a few years ago when this first began to show up.

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pugs2411 Reply #9, 12 years ago

Thank you everyone for your help.

I've tried going into the file mentioned in the error and changing MySQL_ to MySQLi_ but no success. I'm guessing other files are affected sad

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pugs2411 Reply #10, 12 years ago

I can still access the Modx manager, that seems unaffected. The error I get is from http://www.brexworthyfarm.net.

Because I'm not really familiar with PHP I'm not really sure what and where I should be making changes.