Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_fill()

[cmulliss]

I have installed Zoom and indexed my site, then uploaded the generated files to the server (which is running php4). However, on attempting a search via search.php I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_fill() in /home/httpd/vhosts/regulationshop.info/httpdocs/search.php on line 683

Is this a limitation of the version of PHP on the web server, or is there some other cause?

Would be grateful for some help with this

TIA

Cherry Mulliss

[David]

The array_fill function is only available in PHP V4.2 or greater. See the PHP documentation.
http://au3.php.net/manual/en/function.array-fill.php
So you are probably running an old version of PHP on your server.

You can check your PHP version using the phpinfo command.

e.g. make a new PHP page on your web site with just this code in it.
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

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David

[cmulliss]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: array_fill()

Hi

Thanks for that (feeling a bit silly, for some reason although I always use phpinfo() when I am installing php / mysql locally, I hadnt thought to use it to check my web hosts server <g>).

Its running PHP 4.1.2, so that explains it. I will see if they can be persuaded to update it - last time I asked for something similar they said it wasnt possible, so may have to find a work around or move

Again, thanks for the speedy reply!

Regards

Cherry Mulliss

[Ray]

We'll fix this in the next build so that it will work with older versions of PHP4. It has been some time since we tested on such an old version of PHP (PHP 4.1 was released back in 2001).

In the meantime, a quick fix would be to replace the following line in search.php:

$sw_results = array_fill(0, $numwords, 0);

with the following:

$sw_results = array();
for &#40;$i = 0; $i < $numwords; $i++&#41;
    $sw_results&#91;$i&#93; = 0;

Note that this will no longer be necessary in the next build (4.2.1002).