php 5.3.6 problem

[minadreapta]

hi guys,

i have this problem, not really related to WHMCS but i tought i should ask here:

in my website's index page (non-whmcs page) i have a small script which pulls out the last 5 announcements from the database and echoes them on that page.

 

when i run this page on php 5.2.17 it works just fine.

but when i upgrade the php to 5.3.6 it doesn't work anymore, the page hangs up and doesn't load at all.

 

of course on php 5.3.6 if i take out that script from the page, then it loads jsut fine.

 

i will attach that piece of coding here, maybe someone will tell me what am i doing wrong:

 

require("whmcs/dbconnect.php");
require("whmcs/includes/functions.php");
require("whmcs/init.php");

$x=1;

// truncate the text to only 65 chars, add ... to the end
function truncate($text) {
   $text = substr($text,0,100);
   $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
   return $text;
}

// format the date to mm/dd/yyyy

function formatdate($date) {
   $year = substr ($date, 0, 4);
   $month = substr ($date, 5, 2);
   $day = substr ($date, 8, 2);
   return $day.'.'.$month.'.'.$year;
}


$query = "SELECT * FROM tblannouncements WHERE published='on' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 0,5"; 
$result = mysql_query($query);
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {

$id = $data["id"];
$date = $data["date"];
$title = $data["title"];
$announcement = truncate($data['announcement']);
$date = formatdate($date);
 echo ('<p>'.$date.' - <strong>'.$title.'</strong> - '.strip_tags($announcement).'... <a href="/whmcs/announcements.php?id='.$id.'" title="'.$title.'">read more...</a></p>');
  $x=false;

}
if(!$x) echo '';
if($x) echo '<p>There are no announcements in this moment.</p>';

[minadreapta]

anybody?

sorry to bump...

[sparky]

You have 3 requires at the top of the file (init.php is no longer used by the way)

after the 3rd one add

ini_set('display_errors', 'on');

error_reporting(E_ALL);

 

that should then show you the errors or rather the incompatibilities with php 5.3.6

[minadreapta]

thanks sparky, the init.php was the culprit, no errors thrown thou, just a hanging process...but as soon as i commented out that line it started working again.

 

thanks again.