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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22449 Location: UK
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:15 am Post subject: Admin things |
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Hi,
The forum software is quite old, as you probably can tell. It uses a fairly old version of PHP code behind the scenes and support for this old version with the hosting company is only available if I continue to pay a monthly fee, which is increasing noticeably from April onwards. The main site uses a little PHP behind the scenes, but the forum is much more reliant on it.
I have the option of upgrading to a much more recent version of PHP to avoid paying for legacy support of the old version, which is what I'm going to do. It may well be that shifting to a newer version of PHP at the server side causes no issues with the old code that keeps the forum going, but it may knock something out, I really don't know.
This is really just a heads-up in case things fall over once the switch to a current version of PHP is activated. I'll continue to research this a little more, but like I say, this is just advanced notice that if something starts going wrong, this is the reason!!!
If it all goes wrong then re-coding the entire forum, or installing a much newer version of the forum (and starting over effectively, new logins, old posts lost etc as I doubt they'd transfer over given how old this version is) isn't an option due to the time it'd take, but hopefully it won't come to that.
But like I say, it may not affect anything.
RJ _________________ Rick - Admin
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COMMAD
Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 176 Location: Gold Coast. Australia
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the update. Rick. _________________ Current cars
1964 Humber Vogue Sedan. |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4761 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Just a thought, would the Wayback Machine or similar archive site be able to archive the present forum just in case? _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10 |
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