Running Facebook Connect on PHP 5.0

[justlukeyou]

Hi,

 

I am trying to use Facebook Connect which requires PHP 5.0, my host tells me that my MySQL is running on PHP 5.0 but Facebook Connect wont work.

 

Is there anything specific I need to do to operate Facebook Connect on PHP 5.0 or do I need to add a file to the server to run PHP5.0?

[cssfreakie]

add the following to a simple php file and run it. Not sure what mysql is doing in the story btw.

<?php
  echo phpinfo();   
?>

That should indicate what version you have. if not, you either failed to name the file .php or your host is not running php which i doubt.

 

Also a nice thing to do is to enable error reporting. so if something is not working you got something to work with. Besides that I assume that facebook connect has a pretty nice documentation about this, not to mention its a third party software.

[justlukeyou]

Thanks,

 

I miss read it, my server runs on MySQL 5.0.  (it was late)

 

How can I upgrade to PHP5.0.  I currently have PHP 4.4.9

[cssfreakie]

I am pretty sure you can't upgrade it at your host yourself (i assume you have a shared host). I would ask your host to upgrade though.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The end of life of php4 was over 4 years ago.

 

Your web host should have provided a way of upgrading your account to the latest php5 version, either through a control panel choice, a setting in a .htaccess file, through the use of a specific file extension, or by emailing them and asking that your account be upgraded/moved to a php5 server.