cant access ACP, need to change default style

[NeXuM]

I installed a new style but i messed up my forum... I put the new style as default style for all users and now i cant access forum and i cant access ACP

How can i set back my old style as default, without access to ACP ?

[NeXuM]

help?

[Lynne]

Try adding "&styleid=1" to your url? (I see both the forums in your sig just fine.)

Why don't you just go directly to your admincp? The style shouldn't affect it.

[NeXuM]

The forum that have this problem isnt in my sig, its this one:

http://forums.resistance.tk/index2.php

3 days ago my webhost upgraded to php5.3 and since 3 days my forum is displaying errors and wont show up...

2 days ago my admincp still worked even if the main forum wouldnt show up. i thought that maybe the problem was my style, so i uploaded a new style and set it as default (i used chestnut style). Then after that i couldnt access my admincp anymore, thats why i wanted to try resetting the default style

As you can see here:
http://forums.resistance.tk/padmincp/index.php
my admincp will not work, even with the styleid parameter in the url

[Lynne]

You cannot get rid of those errors by using a different style. Those are php errors.

You cannot use PHP 5.3 on any version of vBulletin that is less than 3.8.5 or you will get those errors. vB3.8.4 and below are not supported to work with PHP5.3. You will need to ask your host to move you to a server that is using PHP5.2

[kh99]

You should use a supported version of php like Lynne says, but there's another way to stop seeing those errors: find every file that contains

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

and change it to

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~8192);

If I remember correctly there was also a few other errors that involved removing a '&' from some function calls.

[Paul M]

It would be quicker to just upgrade then edit every file.

[kh99]

Originally Posted by Paul M

It would be quicker to just upgrade then edit every file.

I agree that the best thing to do would be to have the latest PHP and vB (or rather a supported PHP version for your vB version), but sometimes that's easier said than done. Changing the files took a very short time when I did it, using global search and replace, but I understand that not everyone is set up to be able to do that.

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by kh99

Changing the files took a very short time when I did it, using global search and replace, but I understand that not everyone is set up to be able to do that.

You'd be amazed at how many people do not use a text editor that can do search and/or replace in several files in a directory. I couldn't live without an editor that did that.

[NeXuM]

You cannot get rid of those errors by using a different style. Those are php errors.

I know, but before i changed the style i could access my AdminCP.

You cannot use PHP 5.3 on any version of vBulletin that is less than 3.8.5 or you will get those errors. vB3.8.4 and below are not supported to work with PHP5.3. You will need to ask your host to move you to a server that is using PHP5.2

You cannot use PHP 5.3 on any version of vBulletin that is less than 3.8.5 or you will get those errors. vB3.8.4 and below are not supported to work with PHP5.3. You will need to ask your host to move you to a server that is using PHP5.2

My other website http://www.pirate-punk.net use the same vBulletin version (v3.6.4) under PHP 5.3 and works perfectly.

I have the same errors, but i just turned off error display in a .htaccess file and everything seems to be working alright. That's why i don't understand why my other forum (under same 3.6.4 version) won't work under PHP 5.3

It would be quicker to just upgrade then edit every file.

No, and that's why i would prefer NOT to upgrade at any cost.... Half of my forum is based on mods that wasn't updated for versions superior to 3.6.4
Also, i have custom themes, custom mods, and a lot of things that i will loose after upgrading.

To me, upgrading represents hours and hours and hours of work to get everything compatible with the new version

You'd be amazed at how many people do not use a text editor that can do search and/or replace in several files in a directory. I couldn't live without an editor that did that.

Just wondering, what editor do you use ?