Great – here's the update for PHP 5.5

  • With PHP 5.5+ you can’t upload any files properly, or do various other things. It’s because a function used by the script produces an error…

    Here’s how to update it – and I’m sorry that this is a direct hack of files.
    There are (at least) two files to change, both in this directory:
    wp-content/plugins/sermon-browser/sb-includes

    The files are: admin.php and ajax.php

    You have to replace every occurence of mysql_real_escape_string with esc_sql

    So, for example, line 437:
    $name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST[‘name’]);
    becomes:
    $name = esc_sql($_POST[‘name’]);

    Why?
    Because the mysql_… function is deprecated and produces an error, stopping the script from working. WordPress provides the esc_sql function, and it is up to date.

    Really there should be a whole re-write of the scripts to use $wpdb->prepare, but that’s another story.

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