[INTEL]

Hello,

Thank you for reading this thread. Here is my code:

PHP Code:

function apply_vote(){



    $prosecc=$_GET['section'];

    $item_id=$_GET['item_id'];

 

    try {



        switch ($prosecc) {

            case 'down':     

            $vote = -1; 

            break;

            case 'up':        

            $vote = 1; 

            break;

            

            default:        

            throw new Exception('Wrong Param!');

        }

        

        $query = "INSERT INTO

                `links_x_users`

            SET

                `vote` = '%d',

                `uid` = '%d',

                `lid` = '%d'

        ";

    

        if (!@dbquery(sprintf($query, $vote, get_uid(), $item_id)))

            throw new Exception('You already have voted for this item!');            

        

         // Intended denormalization

         

        $query="

            UPDATE 

                 me_users_links 

            SET  

                link_votes = link_votes + %d

            WHERE 

                link_id = %d

        ";

    

    dbquery(sprintf($query, $vote, $item_id));        

    

    } catch (Exception $e) {

        die($e->getMessage());

    }

    

    

    

    if (isset($_GET['cat'])){

        header("Location:../?task=links&section=".$_GET['cat']);     

        exit();

    }

    header("Location:../?task=frontpage");





    

} 

It works on PHP 5 but not PHP 4, if you could tell me how I can fix this, it would be very much appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

[Keith]

First thing I notice: PHP4 doesn't handle exceptions.

[phpdoctor]

Why are you using PHP4 anyways?
Yep as Keith said... Exceptions dont work in PHP4

[INTEL]

because i wrote this code for someone and they are hosting with Yahoo which has PHP 4, i dont know how much of the code has to be re-written...i didnt think Yahoo would be so behind on technology (explains why they are beginning to suck on the market)..

thanks. i will try the exception thing.

[phpdoctor]

Wow! I didnt know that the big Yahoo used PHP4! Dang...

[Keith]

Originally Posted by phpdoctor

Wow! I didnt know that the big Yahoo used PHP4! Dang...

HAHAHA... if you only knew.

Do not be so surprised. I work with Yahoo hosting all the time at the company for which I am employed. The last time we talked with them about it, they had no foreseeable plans of upgrading to PHP5. They have so many servers it'd no doubt be an extremely daunting undertaking.

It'd also end up breaking a LOT of currently utilized code.

There is a lot about Yahoo that would surprise you. Their Merchant Solutions hosting is basically Geocities.

They're also still using MySQL 3.

Think of used chewing gum, fishing line, scotch tape... now you're starting to get a good idea of what holds Yahoo's hosting together.

[Jay6390]

Originally Posted by Keith

Think of used chewing gum, fishing line, scotch tape... now you're starting to get a good idea of what holds Yahoo's hosting together.

V Nice analogy

[phpdoctor]

hehe, didnt know that about Yahoo... I understand now, they have some much servers ect... that it would be crazy to convert everything...

[DAL]

My hosting provided me with PHP4 of which I was annoyed at because all my scripts used PHP5 functions (or some of atleast) I had to go changing them all and reducing some of my website features!

I just found out a few days ago that they had PHP5 already to go... just needed to change something in the .htaccess! DOH!

Yahoo not got any options like that? (Does google not supply free hosting?)

[Keith]

Yahoo does not support PHP5, and they have disallowed use of .htaccess files. If you upload a .htaccess file to Yahoo it is ignored.

As far as I know, Google has googlepages.com, but there is no server side language support the last I'd checked. Everything is edited through a web interface.