Yikes! Deprecation!!

[Inziladun]

Well, I asked our IT guy at work about this. Unfortunately, website design is not his forte, so he was pretty much at a loss.

I know hardly anything about the matter myself, but I guess it's not as simple as looking at the indicated lines and examining them for errors.

[Aganzir]

Actually, the only avatar I can't see is Rumil's.

The forum looks normal to me, apart from the deprecation messages.

[Aganzir]

Sorry for the double post, I submitted before thinking of trying to find a solution myself. I'm not familiar with php and you may already have found all this, but here are some links (in chronological order from newest to oldest) just in case they're any help.

http://php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/f...-is-deprecated

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...d-in-home-car?

[Inziladun]

Some of those lines appear to affect color, so that could account for the changed backgrounds and so forth.

[Aiwendil]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I know hardly anything about the matter myself, but I guess it's not as simple as looking at the indicated lines and examining them for errors.

I think the problem is larger than those lines. It looks to me like the server has been upgraded to PHP5, while the version of vBulletin we're running was written for PHP4. The 'deprecated' warnings just mean that at those lines, there is a PHP4 usage (in this case, an ampersand for passing a reference) that - while it still works in PHP5 - is no longer recommended (and may be unsupported in future revisions of PHP). The other problems (missing avatars, etc.) are probably due to code that is actually no longer compatible with PHP5, rather than just being deprecated.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

I think the problem is larger than those lines. It looks to me like the server has been upgraded to PHP5, while the version of vBulletin we're running was written for PHP4. The 'deprecated' warnings just mean that at those lines, there is a PHP4 usage (in this case, an ampersand for passing a reference) that - while it still works in PHP5 - is no longer recommended (and may be unsupported in future revisions of PHP). The other problems (missing avatars, etc.) are probably due to code that is actually no longer compatible with PHP5, rather than just being deprecated.

That would make sense. Can we upgrade to the new version? I'll be happy to contribute.

[The Barrow-Wight]

Upgrading is the likely solution to this problem. I'll see what that would cost and what steps would need to be taken to do it and reply here. In the meantime, I hope everyone will have patience.