Greets,
I ask someone to correct structure of my text - important announce. Good english.
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* VERY IMPORTANT *Hi,
it has been noticed on this forum that most users encountered some problems with 4images MODs. Lately, PHP manufacturer has officially announced
PHP v5.2 as stable from their website (to be released on January 2008). Support for PHP v4.x will no longer be available in about 5 months. Right now, several thousands of users might still be using PHP v4.x - using 4images v1.7.x. Starting from PHP v4.4.6 release, issues started to bounced on this solid gallery.
During the past year, V@no posted patches for PHP v5.x (and mySQL v5.x). Since then, things started to run normally.
Solution: Ask your web hosting service provider to install PHP v5.2x (minimum) as quickly as possible. Security issues are very important to consider as for the safety of your gallery (especially for users who asked for adding their galleries on the showcase of this site). According to PHP manufacturer, several tests has been done with PHP v5.2x and should be prior with 4images starting to v1.7.4 release.
For the upgrade operation, only web hosting services can execute this task. Backup your
entire gallery before submitting a support ticket to partys. Make a good backup of your mySQL database in case of any failure that might be encountered during the upgrade operation. Hosts will certainly ignore their actions for targeting your site (if they fail).
If succeeded, you should receive an update email message - mentioning the success of the upgrade operation.
This step can no longer be ignored. PHP v5.2x has been known so far as the most stable and solid version of it's kind and must be used with this unique product of:
4images. Jan has done very good work on this product as, for sure, none of us would want to loose what has been accomplished so far.
In January 2008, everyone will see the result (for the good or for the bad).
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This is note. Only 4 month before change to PHP v5.2x. No miss.
