Msg from host tech:
Thank you for your email. I am actually seeing that an upgrade to your
server was made just today, and is now running PHP 5.6, so this would not be
the same issue as the weekend. However, I think I know what the issue is.
PHP developers removed support for the mysql_connect function in PHP 5.6,
either as a bug, or they no longer cared for it. The legacy mysql_*
functions are deprecated, but it seems that we can still get them to connect
by passing an extra flag. Apparently, the PHP function is trying to pass an
empty database name, without setting the flag to indicate it's trying to do
that.
Please refer to "htdocs/dk3jas8d.php" within oakmediacreations.com to see an
example of the modified mysql_connect function. If this doesn't take care
of the problem, you will need to convert the code to use one of the modern
connection frameworks, I'm really sorry. But PHP is moving away from those
functions, and are subject to stop working at any time.
We will be upgrading our version of MySQL in the near future (5.5 to 5.7),
which could make things better or worse, but since we are expecting that
customers are not using mysql_* functions, we will not be testing code
written with that when performing the upgrade. I sincerely apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Their reply seems as though they are a bit confused.
Either I am reading their message wrong, or they are confused in mixing up the discussion between PHP and MySQL:
"PHP developers removed support for the mysql_connect function in PHP 5.6"This is not true. It has a depreciation notice, but is not removed.
UBB.threads 7.5.x and 7.6.x run just fine on PHP 5.6"We will be upgrading our version of MySQL in the near future (5.5 to 5.7)"This is unrelated to PHP.
It also doesnt help by the fact that they reference a website which forwards instead to a car website (oakmediacreations.com =>
http://firstgenfirebird.org) and I am unable to find anything related to "htdocs/dk3jas8d.php" on their pages. They also seem to be running UBB.threads 7.5.9 without problems.
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As of today, There is no such thing as PHP 5.7. While in its alpha stages, 5.7 was likely used as just a placeholder. In 2015, The version number of PHP "5.7" has been downvoted in favor of moving directly to "7".
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmin...ka_phpng_is_now_nearly_twice_as_fast_as/Current versions of PHP:
http://php.net/downloads.phpPHP Release history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#Release_historyTo review; PHP developers removed support for the mysql_connect function in PHP 7.0.
It is still available in PHP 5.6, but with depreciation notice.Any solutions until 7.6 released?
UBB.threads 7.6.0 does not contain any changes in the way the mysql_connect function is used. It continues to use the same function calls. I have looked at upgrading the scripts to PHP 7.0. Its a huge undertaking to do. It will be done eventually, PHP 5.6 is still supported officially until at least December 31, 2018.
