PHP update has broken my site

EvolveWebHosting wrote:Hi,

When you upgrade, you will not be manually adding your products, orders, categories, etc back into the system. All of this is carried over through the database upgrade so this process is much faster than you're probably thinking it will be.

The 2.x checkout does use 'steps' but you can easily change is with a mod similar to this one: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=7382

Just wanted to pass it along.

I definitely don't like the checkout steps. However, I could work with them. I'm accustomed to OpenCart now, and I could probably customize it to my satisfaction. However, the overall appearance is very industrial. 95% of my customers are women making lovely jewelry, and there is nothing lovely in the default appearance of version 2.0.

I know that I can try to adapt my current database to the new cart, but the fields wouldn't all match, and it would be a lot of work.

It's hard to see how that module would look in actual use since all I can see are screen shots.

Victorj set up a test site for me, and I've noticed that the cart has a short time-out (meaning that items disappear from the cart within an hour or so). Can that be changed?

The things that I want in a new cart, and which I don't have now, are (1) a better search function, (2) a wish list, (3) pictures of the products in the cart. Those are the only things that I am lacking from my current installation. Does OC 2.0 have those things? I'll be experimenting with Victorj's dummy cart this evening, so I guess I can get those answers myself.

By the way, is OpenCart still free, or do I have to pay for it now? (I'm asking you questions as if you were the developer. I can find the answers myself, but I thought you might know them off the top of your head.)

Purebeads wrote: I definitely don't like the checkout steps. However, I could work with them. I'm accustomed to OpenCart now, and I could probably customize it to my satisfaction. However, the overall appearance is very industrial. 95% of my customers are women making lovely jewelry, and there is nothing lovely in the default appearance of version 2.0.

I know that I can try to adapt my current database to the new cart, but the fields wouldn't all match, and it would be a lot of work.

It's hard to see how that module would look in actual use since all I can see are screen shots.

Victorj set up a test site for me, and I've noticed that the cart has a short time-out (meaning that items disappear from the cart within an hour or so). Can that be changed?

The things that I want in a new cart, and which I don't have now, are (1) a better search function, (2) a wish list, (3) pictures of the products in the cart. Those are the only things that I am lacking from my current installation. Does OC 2.0 have those things? I'll be experimenting with Victorj's dummy cart this evening, so I guess I can get those answers myself.

By the way, is OpenCart still free, or do I have to pay for it now? (I'm asking you questions as if you were the developer. I can find the answers myself, but I thought you might know them off the top of your head.)

Opencart is still free. Some extensions are free and some aren't. The upgrade scripts will take care of the database changes as you go through the versions.

As far as a short 'time out' that you're seeing with the site victorj setup, I'm guessing it's a server configuration issue. Once items are in the cart, they stay unless they're manually removed or cookies are deleted.

A better search function is available with an extension. I personally don't think the default search is that great.

A wishlist is standard in newer versions of Opencart.

Images in the main cart and mini cart appear by default.

Sessiontime is set short on that domain.
Use this domain for testing purposes, so short session comes in handy

victorj wrote:Sessiontime is set short on that domain.
Use this domain for testing purposes, so short session comes in handy

Victor, I haven't looked at the site in depth yet. I haven't been feeling well, and my workload also increased. If the site is still up, I will look at it soon. Sorry.

take your time, it sitting there for me as well tot do all sorts off testing.

uksitebuilder wrote:I believe the error you need to solve is the deprecated mysql error.

As of php 5.5 although you can still use the mysql DB driver, it has been deprecated.

Unfortunately I don’t have OC 1.4.x on our system, but I am guessing it is similar to 1.5.x

You will need to use the mysqli Db driver to get rid of this error message, which should in turn get rid of the session_start() errors as they are only caused by the deprecated mysql error being output before the session starts.

Please download the attached file and upload to your system/database folder

mmysqli.php

After uploading the file, you then need to edit your config.php file and admin/config.php file

In that file, hopefully it will say:

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define('DB_DRIVER', 'mysql');

You should change this to

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define('DB_DRIVER', 'mmysqli');

Thanks for the solution UKSiteBuilder. A lot of people are going to need this as hosting companies upgrade their PHP versions.