PHP - Php4 To Php5 Conversion: Cannot Re-assign $this

Hi...

I could really do with some help, I have some form code I have been using for a very long time.
how every my server company will not install php4 anymore 

Can someone have a look at this code and let me know why its not php5 compatible.

Thanks




<?php



/* $sendto is the email where form results are sent to */
   $sendto = "........";

/* $ccto is the email where form results can be carbon copied to */
   $ccto = "...........";

/*
         O P T I O N A L   V A R I A B L E S 
*/


/*
TO POST PHP ERRORS TO PAGE FOR DEBUGING SET:

$report_errors = "ALL";


TO REMOVE PHP ERRORS FROM POSTING TO THE PAGE FOR USE SET:

$report_errors = "NONE";

*/
$report_errors = "NONE";


$setokurl = "1";

$okurls = "http://www.dwcontractors.com";



if ($report_errors == "NONE") {
error_reporting(0);
}else{
error_reporting(E_ALL);
}


/* --- I F   S E T   O K   U R L   = 1  ----- */

if ($setokurl == "1"){

  $found_url = "0";
  $referer =$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
  $referer = str_replace("://", "[CS]", $referer);
  $referer_sp = explode("/", $referer);
  $referer = "$referer_sp[0]";
  $referer .= "/";
  $referer = str_replace("[CS]", "://", $referer);
  $referer = strtolower($referer);

  $okurls = split(",", $okurls);

foreach ($okurls as $myokurls) {

$myokurls = strtolower($myokurls);

     if ($referer == strtolower($myokurls)) { 
      $found_url = "1"; 
      }

  }

  if ($found_url == "0") {
  $ERROR_action = "bad_okurl";
  include("$PATH_error$PAGE_error");
  }

}
/* --- E N D   I F   S E T   O K   U R L   = 1  --- */



/* check to see if posted */
if ($HTTP_GET_VARS || ! $HTTP_POST_VARS || $_GET || ! $_POST) {
include("nverror.php4");
no_pst();

}else{


 /* IF OLDER VERSION OF PHP CONVERT TO NEWER VARIABLES */

if (! $_POST) {

$_POST = "$HTTP_POST_VARS";

}

if (! $_SERVER) {

$_SERVER = "$HTTP_SERVER_VARS";

}


$year = date("Y");
$month = date("m");
$day = date("d");
$hour = date("h");
$min = date("i");
$tod = date("a");


$ip=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];

$SEND_prnt = "The form below was submited by " . $_POST{"email"} . " from Ip address: $ip on $monthnameactual $month/$day/$year at $hour:$min $tod \n";
$SEND_prnt .= "--- DW Contractors ---\n\n";


/* CHECK TO SEE IF $_POST{"required"} IS SET */
if ($_POST{"required"}){


  $post_required = $_POST{"required"};
  $required = split(",", $post_required);
  $reqnum = count($required);

for ($req=0; $req < $reqnum; $req++) {

$REQ_name = $required[$req];

$REQ_value = $POST{"$REQ_name"};


  if ($REQ_name == "email") {
     $goodem = ereg("^[^@ ]+@[^@ ]+\.[^@ \.]+$", $_POST{"email"}, $trashed);

        if (! $goodem) {

include("nverror.php4");

msng_email();
        }  /* end ! $goodem */

  }
  elseif (! $_POST{"$REQ_name"}) {
 

 $isreqe = "1";
 

 $REQ_error .= "<li> $REQ_name ";
  

 } /* end ! req val */

          } /* end REQ for loop  */


                /* IF THERE ARE ANY REQUIRED FIELDS NOT FILLED IN */

if ($isreqe == "1") {

include("nverror.php4");

msng_required();

}


} /* END CHECK TO SEE IF $_POST{"required"} IS SET */


/* END IF THERE ARE ANY REQUIRED FIELDS NOT FILLED IN */


/* GET POSTED VARIABLES */


foreach ($_POST as $NVPOST_name => $NVPOST_value) {

$NVPOST_value = str_replace("\n", "", $NVPOST_value);
$NVPOST_value = str_replace("\r", "", $NVPOST_value);

$NVPOST_value = preg_replace("'\cc:'si", "Cc ", $NVPOST_value);
$NVPOST_value = preg_replace("'\bcc:'si", "bcc ", $NVPOST_value);
$NVPOST_value = preg_replace("'\to:'si", "to ", $NVPOST_value);
$NVPOST_value = preg_replace("'\bc:'si", "bc ", $NVPOST_value);

if (strtolower($NVPOST_name) == "subject") {

$NVPOST_value = str_replace(":", ";", $NVPOST_value);

}


            /* G E T   E M A I L */
       
            if (strtolower($NVPOST_name) == "email") {
            $SEND_email = "$NVPOST_value";

    $SEND_email = str_replace(":", "", $SEND_email);

    $SEND_email = str_replace(" ", "", $SEND_email);
            }

            /* END GET LEADS EMAIL */
 
   if (! $_POST{"sort"}) {


                            /* CHECK TO SEE IF CONFIG FIELD */
                            if ($NVPOST_name == "subject" || $NVPOST_name == "sort" || $NVPOST_name == "required" || $NVPOST_name == "success_page"){}else{
                            $SEND_prnt .= "$NVPOST_name:  $NVPOST_value \n\n";
                            }
   } /* end ! sort */
  

} /* end foreach */


  /* END GET POSTED VARIABLES */




  if ($_POST{"sort"}) {

  /* SORT VARIABLES */

$sortvars = split(",", $_POST{"sort"});

$sortnum = count($sortvars);

               for ($num=0; $num < $sortnum; $num++) {

       $SEND_prnt .= "$sortvars[$num]: " . $_POST{"$sortvars[$num]"} . " \n\n";

       }

  }   /* END SORT VARIABLES */




/* send mail */


if (! $ccto) {
$header = "From: $SEND_email\r\nReply-to: $SEND_email";
}else{
$header = "From: $SEND_email\r\nReply-to: $SEND_email\r\nCc: $ccto";
}


mail($sendto, $_POST{"subject"}, $SEND_prnt, $header);

/* END sendmail */

     /* CHECK TO SEE IF FORM SPECIFYS A SUCCESS PAGE */
     if (! $_POST{"success_page"}) {

include("nverror.php4");
default_success();

     }else{
     $successpage=$_POST{"success_page"};
     header("Location: $successpage");  /* redirect */  
     exit;
     }



} /* END IF POSTED */


?>


 

I just finished (or so I thought) a project. But my client's server runs PHP4, so I need to adapt my code. Here's what stopped working:

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$localClasses = new DOMDocument;
$localClasses -> load("file.xml");
$localClasses -> get_elements_by_tagname('Title') -> item(0) -> firstChild -> nodeValue

Here's my petty attempt at trying to adapt this code to run in PHP4:

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$file = file_get_contents("localClasses.xml");
$localClasses = new DOMDocument($file);

$test = $localClasses -> get_elements_by_tagname('Title');
$testText = $test -> item[0] -> firstChild -> nodeValue;
print $testText;


This doesn't give me any errors, but nothing shows up. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for reading!

I have had a problem with some scripts I wrote (Screenscrapers) that worked great in PHP4, but stopped working the minute I upgraded to PHP5.

I can change all of my filenames to have the .PHP4 extension and this solves the problem, but since this encompasses a number of sites, internal links and hundreds of files, this is not my first choice solution.

Here is the scraper, what it does, is it takes items from the zazzle Results Page by category, strips out the formatting, adds my affiliate ID and then I can present these items on my page.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Test of scrape</title>

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/scraper.css" />
<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.zazzle.com/js/logging/omniture/s_code.zjs/r-52.78223/site-zazzle.js'></script>

</head>

<body>

<div class="gridCell " id="page_productsGrid_assetCell1">

<?php 
$page = file_get_contents("http://www.zazzle.com/cool+smiley+gifts");

//comment out the <span> tags completely
$page = preg_replace('/<span/', "<!-- <span", $page);
$page = preg_replace('/<\/span>/', "<\/span> -->", $page);
$page = preg_replace('/<a /', "<a rel=\"nofollow\" ", $page);


$rf_id="238219236805025733";
// Regular expression to parse "&rf=" and the $rf_id into the existing link
$page=preg_replace("/(.*?)(href\s*=+\s*[\"\'])(.*?)([\"\'])(.*?)/is","$1$2$3?rf=$rf_id$4$5",$page); 


$test = explode('<div style="position:relative" class="clearfix">',$page);
for($t=1;$t<=count($test)-2;$t++){
 print "<div class=\"gridCellInfo\" id=\"page_products\">";
 print $test[$t];
}
?>
</body>
</html>


This works find in PHP4; not at all in PHP5.

My ideal solution would be an .htaccess file that I could put in any directory under PHP5 to make it default to php4.
I have tried this, to no avail (.htaccess):
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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    AddType text/html .php4
    AddHandler php4-script .php .html php5
</IfModule>


I have also tried a few alternatives... this appears to be a common problem and I have scoured the web and found no solution.


Here are the two pages in PHP4 and PHP5:
php4: http://www.killersmiley.com/test/cool-smiley.php4
php5: http://www.killersmiley.com/test/cool-smiley.php

I have an application that was written back in PHP4 days and has ceased development ever since. PHP 4 is basically gone, i can't get it to install on any of my machines now and what i use on my windows boxes (XAMPP) doesn't include PHP4 anymore.

When i set everything up, i get ~50 of these:
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in....

and on every line it looks like:
$var =& _____ or $var = &something... yada-yada

and removing the & symbol removes the error message. Using editplus i removed all the "=&" and "= &" and just replaced the & with space, i  had read on google PHP5 doesn't need it anymore so that should've worked.

But as my luck would have it, the server errors out with 500 code until i replace all the &'s back, and then the errors show up yet again.


Is there anyway to force php5 to run this program despite having php4 things in it?