version changes 4.4.2 to 5.0.4

BEFOR

apparantly my host has secretly decided to change versions.

can anyone tell me basic differences?

(some scripts not acting completely now)

laserlight

hmm... and they changed to 5.0.4 instead of 5.2.2 or 5.2.3? Weird.

I guess you can look at the changelog for PHP 5.0.4 and earlier versions. The main changes that come to mind are that of the increased support for OOP, and PHP5 specific extensions such as simplexml and PDO, but these are not so likely to be the ones to blame for incompatibility with your current scripts.

Any idea what are the scripts that are acting strangely?

BEFOR

just noticed it doing a mysql backup.

(even though Host claim they notify clients first, it just never happens)

Which scripts? don't know off-hand (hundreds of pages) other than custom insert script (runs through third party includes file) is not inserting, etc. I've just seen it running incomplete.

If I could target what has been changed in php first, it might be easier to identify.

bradgrafelman

Do you have error logging enabled?

Enabling error logging and increasing the error reporting level to E_ALL would probably help track down misbehaving scripts.

BEFOR

Do you have error logging enabled?

don't beleive so.
in fact, nothing shows now with phpinfo.php

Weedpacket

Moving to the appropriate forum.

BEFOR

Please hold off on any replies.

phpmyadmin states my version to be 5.0.4 while phpinfo.php now working says 4.4

('error log' is set to 'no value' which I cannot change)

so there seems to be some conflict in the setup.

ShawnK

are you using $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or $PHP_SELF anywhere? youmay wanna swap those that may affect the includes file