Need help on the new installation!!

[bebe25]

Hi all,

When I've got to step 2 of installation the osCommerce, the page doesn't finish loading at all. I've read several topic about the same problem, some ppl said need to set register_long_arrays =on in php.ini. I've tried to look for php.ini, still couldn't find it. There one topic said php.ini is same as .htaccess, but i wasn't sure how to set this thing up. Please help anyone, I'm so frustrating about this over 24 hrs....

[MikOn]

Hi all,

When I've got to step 2 of installation the osCommerce, the page doesn't finish loading at all. I've read several topic about the same problem, some ppl said need to set register_long_arrays =on in php.ini. I've tried to look for php.ini, still couldn't find it. There one topic said php.ini is same as .htaccess, but i wasn't sure how to set this thing up. Please help anyone, I'm so frustrating about this over 24 hrs....

Hi,

I had the same problem yesterday when I tried to install OsCommerce for the first time ever.

I looked at trying to hack this manually but there were too many files involved.

I have written a script that sorted me out and I have uploaded it as a contribution to this site.

It is called "Install with register_long_arrays set to OFF" under the Other category.

The script edits every .php file that contains the older predefined variables, ($HTTP_*_VARS) and replaces them with the corresponding superglobals.

My web host has register_long_arrays set to OFF, and I could not get past step2 of the install until I ran this script.

Now everything works, I can install, open the catalog, and run admin.

Although I am an experienced programmer, I only started learning PHP about 24 hours ago, so the script could probably be improved, and I would recommend that you back up the site files before you run it.

Hopefully this will sort you out!