Migrating Servers - Parse errors

[jluciani]

I'm migrating a forum that has been active for a few years to a new server. The current forum resides at www.self-coaching.net/discussions/

I've backed-up the DB and upgraded to the most recent version of vbulletin that my license (expired) allows - 3.8.4. I've turned off all plugins using the define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); variable in my config file.

When installing on the new server I'm receiving the errors below:

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what is going on here?

Thanks Much!
Justin

(you can see them live at: http://self-coaching.net.previewdns.com/discussions/)

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/content/27/9506527/html/discussions/global.php(833) : eval()'d code on line 6

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/content/27/9506527/html/discussions/global.php(834) : eval()'d code on line 36

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/27/9506527/html/discussions/includes/functions.php(3531) : eval()'d code on line 3

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '=' in /home/content/27/9506527/html/discussions/includes/functions.php(2948) : eval()'d code on line 13

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/27/9506527/html/discussions/includes/functions.php(2970) : eval()'d code on line 50

[kh99]

That seems to have something to do with templates, but I don't know why that would happen. Maybe a problem with the database getting transfered? (I know this isn't a very good answer, but maybe it will give someone else an idea).

[jluciani]

Thanks Kh99 ...

Well ... the remedy was that I needed to upgrade to version 4.x -- the version of vb I was using (3.8.4) doesn't seem compatible with the newer (5.3) version of php being run on the new server.

Solved.

[kh99]

Oh...that occurred to me, but I had seen version problems cause warnings before but not errors like that. Good to know, thanks for the update.