Sameer Dhoot
http://intellects.in

Just need to get our host to upgrade to PHP5 now.

My solution is quiet the same.

-Look for the following line:

$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option(’blog_charset’));

-Replace the line with the following:

$text = utf8_decode($text);

Regards,
Björn

What was the problem?

The problem was that GoDaddy runs php version 4 and version 5 concurrently with the Linux hosting configuration 2.0 . Facebook applications only run on php version 5. When checking the version of php, the script indicates that GoDaddy is running php version 4.3.

How to fix this?

Well, there are a lot of proposed fixes out there. Difficult to find and GoDaddy documentation and customer service is unclear and muddled. The simple fix, include a .htaccess file in the root directory with the following line below:

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

ps - if I may be so bold, you may want to add a warning in your docs about that requirement. I googled for the error and found hundreds of sites.

I’ll admit maybe I missed something, but to say “just upgrade to php 5″ is a little out of touch with reality and a bit junior. I’m a huge advocate of php 5 and it powers most of the sites i run professionally, but php5 adoption is still lagging behind.

This would work fine only if your blog is utf8 encoded, but the error only hapens (as i could see from the php bug page) when you try to decode utf8 text, and it is default to Wordpress anyway.

eg: for the post rating plugin, replace the line 573 from wp-postratings.php from:

$text=html_entity_decode($text,ENT_QUOTES,get_option(’blog_charset’));

to:

$text = utf8_decode($text);

Of course, you should check if the blog really is utf8 before doing so.

Best Regards,
Guilherme Silva, PMP
http://www.gerenciamentoeconomico.com.br